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Amazing adhoax, Global and Transport for London (TfL) denies that Gymbox bus-top ad exists.

Well, it seems someone has been fibbing.

Aerial classes at Gymbox are being promoted through bus-top ads. They're not the first bus-top ads.

Gymbox's latest out-of-home campaign is advertising its aerial gym classes on the roofs of London buses, rather than on their sides.

Michelob ULTRA Organic Seltzer - All-Star Cast / Don Cheadle (2021) :60 (USA)

Michelob ULTRA Organic Seltzer & the All-Star Cast make their Super Bowl debut!
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Google's ad traffic is like the news: Fake.

The WSJ is reporting that Google is issuing refunds to advertisers over "fake traffic," and are now working on new safeguards against the is
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Stevie Wonder never did an Atari ad - you've been had

If you stumbled upon that Stevie Wonder ad where our great musician proclaims "If I could play video game, you bet it would be ATARI", and t
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The red light district "Stop Traffik" stunt wasn't done in the red light district.

Is a good idea still a good idea when it falls in the woods and nobody can hear it scream?
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The Excorcist in Cannes Lions - not signed off by the client? Seems not... yet.

You have to read this in the voice of Peter Falk (may he R.I.P) as I watched too much Columbo as a kid.
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Jung von Matt explain the Lullaland screenshots: Art Director mistake. Okay....

There's an update to Faking it in social media = youtube hits? Jung von Matt has replied to Ivan : "Finally, we never intended to initiat
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Faking it in social media = the new way to get lots of youtube visits?

Here's an idea that's so halfbaked it couldn't stand on its own even if it tried. So how do you get it out to the adblogs?

Lullaland - Goodnight hashtag Case Study - (2011)

This video goes with this story: Faking it in social media = the new way to get youtube visits?
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The Alpha-1 fake wrapping of the statue of Liberty

So the story goes "12 rolls of industrial shrink wrap, 8 messengers, 1 mission", and the mission is to wrap the statue of liberties head in
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Neo Sports Cannes Lion winning film is a rip-off and a scam ad to boot.

The silver Lion winning has turned out to be yet another scam ad in the prestigious Cannes award.
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Highlighters vs Blacking out text.

Remember the Luxor Highlighters campaign from Leo Burnett Mumbai? Yes, it even won a nice shiny Gold Lion at the Cannes awards in press.
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JC Penney dresses down Saatchi for fake speed dressing ad

Saatchi & Saatchi won a Cannes Bronze Lion over the weekend for their racy JC Penney Speed Dressing commercial.
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Spec work going around the web as real ads - is there any way to stop that? Should we even try?

Remember that Toyota Prius campaign that Well, at least he drives a prius, right?

Mythbusters tried "dynamite surfing" just like in that viral ad.

Politiken.dk tells Danish viewers to catch the Mythbusters episode "lead ballon" on the Discovery Channel on Sunday, as the mythbusters team
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The Attention Economy and Hoax Marketing

The information age has become an attention economy. Michael H.

PETA milk gone wild - / women flashing udders (2006)

I think PETA just called all women cows. Or sluts. Or both.
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PETA's latest: Milk Gone Wild

PETA lets us know that their latest effort to convince people that milk doesn't do a body good is a spoof of all those girls gone wild videos.
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Mini Cooper - Counterfeit Mini Coopers (2005) 0:60 (USA)

AKA the CCC - Counter Counterfeit Commission
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Nokia Says Nope, That Kitty Bashing Spot Ain't Ours

Somebody else has pulled a puma (referring to the feline, not the recently and unfairly beleaguered sports brand) and released a pseudvert a la viral
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flirt, squirt and sex sells?

... OR does it? Is this a case of dupliclaims - or are these just wet dreams of creatives?
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Circuit City - Computer Dating (2000) - 0:30 (USA)

Online dating is full of traps, and photoshop cheats.
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