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Legal Sea Foods Is A Safe Harbor for Wayward Stoners

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A new ad campaign from DeVito Verdi for Boston’s Legal Sea Foods celebrates the legalization of marijuana in the Bay State. The TV and print ads play off the restaurant’s baked, fried and smoked menu items. “Baked” and “smoked” makes sense. “Fried” is something that happens when you drink too much, work too much, and […]

Five New Winners of the $10K Helen Lansdowne Resor Scholarship

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Diversity is a talking point. Unless your company is actively doing something about it—then, it’s a universal problem that we’re slowly overcoming. One means of combatting inequality in the ad business is to find talented women, people of color, and people over 40, and help to support their efforts, wherever they happen to be in […]

“Joie de Hooha” Is Utterly Natural and Totally Achievable

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Singing vaginas is not the answer you might expect, no matter the question. Yet, here we are, and in this case, it’s a good answer because the Whole Foods shopper doesn’t want rancid chemical solvents on, in, or near her body. That’s why OrganiCare CEO and serial entrepreneur, Caroline Goodner, is battling industry juggernauts to […]

Thanks to Leo Burnett, Coors Light Is Now “Made To Chill”

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Coors Light is cold. The brewery in Golden, Colorado has spent countless millions to make and remake this point, but mostly failing to explain what cold means to the beer drinker. For what it’s worth, Coors Light is cold-filtered and the beer never gets to room temperature—it’s delivered to the store in refrigerated trucks. Now, […]

I Am An Angler, You Can Be An Angler Too

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Fishing is one of my favorite recreational activities. Leaving the land and my screens behind to focus purely on the water and the fish in it is a physical and mental reprieve. For me and millions of people who love to fish, fishing is good medicine. Take Me Fishing TakeMeFishing.org, the website from Recreational Boating […]

The Denari’s Life-Saving Story Could Be Anyone’s Story

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When the agency truly cares about the client, it shows. Witness the latest pro-bono campaign from Indianapolis-based Young & Laramore, which encourages Indiana driver’s to register as organ donors. This isn’t just any assignment for the agency. It’s personal. Maggie Denari, wife of Y&L’s president Tom Denari is the recent recipient of a heart transplant, […]

Feel A Surge of Personal Empowerment: Only Pay for What You Need

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Goodby Silverstein picked up the Liberty Mutual account in 2017, and now the Boston-based insurance company makes weird commercials. San Francisco creatives will do that to a brand. Here, check out another in a long line of ads that make fun of ads… Over-promise much? Not to worry, we have a disclaimer! Pigeon Man Don’t […]

SeaVees Is California Casual

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Whether you’re headed to a wedding or to an important confrecne call, there’s no need to sweat it. As long as you’re wearing comfortable footwear from SeaVees, any occasion can be casual. ICYMI, SeaVees is a brand reborn. In June of 1964, BF Goodrich launched SeaVees and introduced the shoe brand with a groundbreaking advertising […]

Silence the Drama of Pain with Voltaren’s Pain Relief Gel

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There’s not much great or even good work being done in the pharma category. The category is full of tepid commercials that offer a weak afterglow of what life might be like following a doctor’s office visit. Over-the-counter remedies like Voltaren’s pain relief gel from GSK, on the other hand, can skip the line and […]

Break Free And Do What Moves You

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Rum is an intoxicant that makes people happy, at least for awhile. If you were given the opportunity to promote the product, how would you capture the spirit of the spirit? If you’re like BBDO, you would get people moving to the beat. You would start and party, and keep a party going. “If it’s […]