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Filterbuy’s Air Filter Ad Starts Normal. Then It Gets Gloriously Unhinged
PDA's national push for the brand opens as a tidy home-care ad. By the end there's a moose in the doorway and some amorous bunnies in the bedroom
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IndieHQ Members Show Up Big Across the 2026 Small Agency Awards
31 IAN members are among Ad Age's 2026 winners — a category-by-category roll call.
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The World Cup Ate Everyone’s Marketing Plan (and Google Ate Their Search Traffic)
Indie Spin: The one with a barbell strategy, a fuzzy yellow insurance puppet, and 16,231 comments run through an AI.
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Fifty Submarine Spots, One Yellow Pencil, and a Camcorder Full of BuzzBallz
Indie Spin: The one with humor pencils, human taxidermy, and Tim and Eric in a basement.
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Brainrot, Dead Campaigns, and the Radical Candor That Moved PG&E’s Trust Score 17 Points
Indie Spin: The one with uncomfortable client meetings, AI-invisible brands, and a creative director who learns more from dead campaigns…
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The Ad Age A-List Just Became an Indie Affair — and a Golden Retriever Is Helping Close Brand Deals
Indie Spin: The one with three "Agency of the Year" designations, a road safety campaign from Northern Ireland that lands…
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Animation Wishes, Spaghetti Westerns, and the New Math on Customer Loyalty
Indie Spin: The one with creative ambition meeting smart platforms, cultural participation that actually works, and some genuinely impressive data…
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PrizePicks Puts AI on Your Team. Literally
Preacher paired Allen Iverson and Candace Parker with comedy for the perfect group chat dynamic
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Data Points and Golden Retrievers: When Numbers Tell Stories and Campaigns Get Creative
Indie Spin: The one with explosive social AOR growth, humor math, and tactical stress balls
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When Fake Cookbooks and Real Rankings Collide
Indie Spin: The one with Inc. 5000 #1s, elaborate product failures, and creator audience supremacy
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CEO Transformation Tales and Product Marketing Powerhouses
Indie Spin: The one with podcast case studies, ESPN partnerships and the Year of the Indie
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The Toronto Report: A Big Week at Ad Age Small Agency
Ad Age's Small Agency Conference wrapped up in Toronto with IAN members claiming 40% of all awards
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When Gen Z Gets $100 for “Fun Purchases Only” (Spoiler: It’s Clothes)
Indie Spin: The one with Baby Boomer trillions, static billboard love letters, and hot honey that makes you question reality
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IndieWork Weekly: Come for the Monarch Milkshake, stay for the Rumpumpum Punch
Another week of lovely stuff
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#4: Preacher for Tecovas
Don't Go Gently
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#6: Preacher for Wealthsimple
Martin Short's Short Day at Work
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#30: Preacher for Meow Wolf
Come Find Yourselfs
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IndieWork Weekly: An Airheads-Scented Foot Odor Antidote
Plus: Indies get real (and a little cheeky) about young athletes’ mental health
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Ad Age’s Small Agency Awards Winners: In Their Words
It was a live party and celebration of excellence