Hasta La Creative!

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Granted, telling the story of the downtrodden rising above odds to regain control of life usually goes in a similar path. The Loss. The Anger. The Introspection. The Rebirth. Etc. But the similarities in tone between the two are striking.
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Way to capitalize on a big advertising event, Deutsch!
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It’s not only boobs that cause ads to get banned. Butts do too. According to the Russian Office of Federal Antimonopoly Service “indecent image of a woman’s body cannot be placed in a public place.”
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“Winter weather makes poverty even harder.”

Advertising Agency: PublicisMojo, Auckland, New Zealand
Creatives: Guy Denniston, Lachlan McPherson, Stephen McKenzie
Photographer: Charles Howells
Retoucher: The Lounge
Account manager: Sally Willis

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Squarely in the category of Why Didn’t We Think of This First comes Advertising Hotties, a site which hopes to build a collection of the hottest people working in advertising.
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In this new weekly chart — a collaboration between Advertising Age and real-time buzz tracker OneRiot — we monitor discussions on Twitter, Facebook, MySpace and Digg, and present the good news and the bad news for big brands with current social-media buzz.

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Antonio Federici ice cream, which had its pregnant nun ad banned by the UK’s Advertising Standards authority for making a mockery of Roman Catholic beliefs isn’t taking the ban laying down.
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Kraft has promised to boost its global marketing spend to increase its share of the FMCG market.

CiCi's Pizza has named Nancy Hampton chief marketing officer. Ms. Hampton is a restaurant brand strategy, innovation and marketing veteran with more than 20 years of experience growing brands such as Chili's and Corner Bakery Cafe.

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While we’re not all that excited about it – which is odd because, well, we’re usually very easy to excite – the new Megan Fox commercial for Armani is out and the internet is slathering all over it.
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