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Rewind: Brooke Shields' Calvin Klein Ads From Back in the Day
Can you contort your body -- roll upside down onto shoulders and tuck in knees -- while solving a math problem? Then, try it in a pair of super tight, high-waisted jeans. Such was the talent of...
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Rewind: When Happy Ho Ho Presided Over Cheerier Times at Hostess
Even Happy Ho Ho couldn't save Hostess.The bankrupt company on Friday said it would sell its assets -- including iconic brands Twinkie, Ding Dong Ho Ho and Wonder Bread -- after failing to reach an...
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Rewind: Sweetness! Walter Payton Croons in Old KFC Ad
A couple weeks back, a young girl named Sam Gordon became an internet sensation after a YouTube video of her dominating the football field went viral. Her speed and fearlessness on the gridiron is...
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Rewind: Watch Heineken's First TV Ad
On New Year's Day in 1968, TV viewers in the Netherlands saw something they had never seen before: a beer commercial.TV ads of any kind had only debuted in the country a year earlier (much later than...
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Rewind: Atari's Totally Tubular Beach Party-Themed '80s Commercial
For much of video-game history, long before Robert Downey Jr. starred in Call of Duty ads, a central assumption was that pale, zit-ridden losers played the games in their parents' darkened basements....
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Rewind: Watch an Adorable Young Jodie Foster Do The 'Viewmaster Jam'
Before Clarice Starling and Nell, before "The Accused" and "Taxi Driver," before all those Oscars and way before her strange, divisive speech at the Golden Globes in which she elliptically confirmed...
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Rewind: When Lance Armstrong Rode in the Super Bowl
Before his doping downfall and confession to Oprah Winfrey, Lance Armstrong was among the most sought-after product endorsers, with deals from Nike, Oakley, Trek, 24-Hour Fitness and more. Those...
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Rewind: The Late Ed Koch's Days as a Snapple Pitchman
Ed Koch, who died today, is rightly being remembered as a great mayor who saved New York City from financial failure. But don't forget he was also an advertising pitchman for brands like Coca-Cola,...
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Rewind: Watch an Adorable Young Jodie Foster Do The 'Viewmaster Jam'
Before Clarice Starling and Nell, before "The Accused" and "Taxi Driver," before all those Oscars and way before her strange, divisive speech at the Golden Globes in which she elliptically confirmed...
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Rewind: When Lance Armstrong Rode in the Super Bowl
Before his doping downfall and confession to Oprah Winfrey, Lance Armstrong was among the most sought-after product endorsers, with deals from Nike, Oakley, Trek, 24-Hour Fitness and more. Those...
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Rewind: The Late Ed Koch's Days as a Snapple Pitchman
Ed Koch, who died today, is rightly being remembered as a great mayor who saved New York City from financial failure. But don't forget he was also an advertising pitchman for brands like Coca-Cola,...
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Rewind: 1979 'This Bud's For You' Commercial Featuring Lou Rawls Voiceover
This week marks the passing of Michael Roarty, the legendary beer marketer and Advertising Hall of Fame member who for four decades oversaw iconic campaigns at Anheuser-Busch. Among them were the...
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Yabba Dabba Cough! Flashback to When The Flintstones Shilled Cigarettes
Among all the cartoon characters that have ever been used to sell products, it's perhaps a bit puzzling that a prehistoric family appears to have been the most popular. So for this edition of our...
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Rewind: Oh Yeah! This Was Kool-Aid Man Back in the Day
A pitcher, personified. The iconic Kool-Aid Man --while contemporary to famous icons like Smokey the Bear, Tony the Tiger and Lucky the Leprachaun -- has always been one of the most literal ad icons....
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Rewind: Catsup vs. Ketchup, And Why Peggy Olson Was On to Something With Heinz
So Sterling Cooper Draper Pryce lost the Heinz ketchup pitch, and the beans account will likely go by the wayside as well.But what exactly did these fictional Mad Men lose? In real-life 1968, H.J....
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Rewind: 1954 Ad Shows M&Ms Characters Go for a Chocolatey Swim
Before they played the piano, sang, danced or appeared in Super Bowl ads, the M&Ms characters went for a little swim.The little guys first made a splash way back in 1954, when Mr. Plain and Mr....
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Rewind: Check Out This Subway Ad from the 70's
These days fast food chains are spending big marketing dollars on trying to convince consumers they've got healthier, fresher options.Subway has long been marketing its "Eat Fresh" tagline (and who...
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Rewind: Young Brad Pitt Stars in 1991 Levi's Ad, Pantless and in the Desert
Advertising Age Playerbrightcove.createExperiences();"Advertising has us chasing cars and clothes, working jobs we hate so we can buy shit we don't need." Continue reading at AdAge.com
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Rewind: Ban de Soleil's Classic 80's Ad Selling Sun-Kissed Skin
Ah, to be carefree back in the '80s, when SPFs maxed out at 15, bikini bottoms ran high-cut and implants weren't a prerequisite in beach-themed ads.That mentality was reflected in this classic piece...
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Rewind: Tampons, You've Come a Long Way, Baby!
That time of the month has truly arrived. The world's been abuzz over HelloFlo's online film about an young, entrepreneurial "Camp Gyno" who wields her status as the first menstruater at her summer...
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