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'Walking Dead' Billboard Unwelcome Next to Funeral Home
Clear Channel has been forced to apologize after placing a billboard for The Walking Dead right next to a funeral home in England. As is often the case with these types of stories (particularly ones...
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Honda Civic Perfect for Zombies and Other Freaks
It doesn't matter who you are—there's a Honda Civic for you. That's the message of RPA's entertaining new ads for Honda, which broke Wednesday. To prove the point, they've assembled the most motley...
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CDC's Blog Post About Zombies Proves Apocalyptic to Website
Yesterday afternoon, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention tweeted out a link to a new blog post on their website called "Preparedness 101: Zombie Apocalypse." A great marketing idea, we must...
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Ad of the Day: Getafe (NSFW)
Looking to boost your pro soccer team's attendance levels? It's as easy as one, two, three: 1) Film an X-rated movie about horny zombie women and include lots of your team's paraphernalia in it. 2)...
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Zombies Now Being Cast in Commercials for Yoga Centers
I must admit, my first thought while watching this ad for a Vancouver yoga center was: "Oh great, more f*cking zombies." Well, ad agency John St. must have seen that kind of snark coming, because they...
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Zombies in Advertising: Oh, the Horror!
When it comes to scare tactics, advertisers are fond of one rotting, shuffling, foul-smelling, flesh-eating monster in particular: the zombie. In this, they're simply mimicking consumers, who've had...
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Don't Text and Drive, You Mindless Moaning Zombie
People who text while driving are on par with flesh-eating zombies, according to a new PSA from California's Office of Traffic Safety. The spot below, created by Glass Agency and Bully Pictures, is...
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Ad of the Day: New York Lottery
Shaun of the Dead has a lot to answer for, culturally speaking, but every now and then it births a shambling, mumbling, flesh-starved horror it should be proud of. Among them is DDB New York's...
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Dropped by Dish, AMC's Zombies Invade NYC
When there's no more room in hell, the dead will walk the earth. And when there's no more AMC on Dish Network, the dead will walk New York City. Viral marketing agency Thinkmodo recently unleashed a...
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AMC Continues Zombie Attack on Dish With Undead Presidential Candidate
Depending on your ideological leanings, a viable third-party presidential candidate may sound like a good thing right about now. Even if he's undead. A pasty-faced decaying dude named A. Zombie,...
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The Spot: Heart of Darkness
IDEA: Zombies crave braaaains, but they're also fond of heaaaarts. Your heart keeps you alive, after all, and zombies need you alive to devour you. So, it stands to reason zombies know CPR—to...
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Is This Zombie Ad Too Violent for Prime-Time TV?
Norwegian sporting goods retailer XXL has agreed to stop running its new zombie-themed ad during family-oriented TV programs, a decision reached after a flurry of viewer complaints that the spot was...
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Top 10 Commercials of the Week: Nov. 30 - Dec. 7
This week, Bing bashed Google for "Scroogling" your holiday shopping searches, StubHub's ticket tree mourned its piney and formerly ornamented cousin, and Expedia unleashed a rare commercial that will...
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The Walking Dumb: A 'Dumb Ways to Die' Parody With Zombies
Zombies have been done to death. But that didn't deter Teddie Films and the crew from Utah's Rocky Point Haunted House from creating an undead-themed parody of McCann Australia's much-praised "Dumb...
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Giant Rotting Fingers Count Down to Walking Dead's Return
Toronto's Union Station has been graced by this cool "zombie hands" installation for The Walking Dead that loses a finger every day until this Sunday, when Season 3 returns to the air. I wonder who's...
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Zombies Swarm Around Infected Hashtag in Clever Campaign for Walking Dead
Whenever I write about zombies, I tend to bury the lead. That's a grave mistake. Anyway, here's a case study about how the Darewin Agency used social media to make The Walking Dead a hit on France's...
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Agency to Prospective Clients: Call Us or We'll Send a Drunken Zombie After You
This self-promotional clip from The Ungar Group, a boutique agency in Chicago, shows what might happen if you crossed Mad Men with The Walking Dead. You'd get a dapper, cigar-smoking, brandy-sipping,...
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Does the American Shopping Mall Have a Second Life?
Here’s how to have a good time at the local shopping mall,” a reviewer called Bunny E. posted on Yelp this past February. “Load the ‘Dawn of the Dead’ soundtrack on your MP3 player and go to the mall...
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Ad of the Day: DieHard Batteries Prove There's Life in Zombie Ads Yet
The scary strong ratings for AMC's The Walking Dead—we'll surely see killer numbers shortly for Sunday night's season-four premiere [UPDATE: Yep]—suggests there's very little zombie fatigue out there...
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Hyundai Giving Away Another Zombie-Proof Survival Machine in Latest Walking...
The new ad in Hyundai's ongoing tie-in with AMC megahit series The Walking Dead features a scruffy bunch of zombiepocalyse survivors who could pass for Woodbury refugees taking shelter with Sheriff...
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