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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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The 96th Percentile Is Getting Crowded
Indie Spin: The one with fourteen Adweek entries, a pizza built for one, and a brand memorability score.
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Every Brand Is Either a Tim Curry Role or a Dolly Parton Song
Indie Spin: The one with the Whopper's comeback, seashells finding their way home, and a bodega in Queens.
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Grocery Store Receipts, a Rain-Soaked Sword Fight, and the Case for Being a Shark
Indie Spin: The one with an 83% valuation jump, a DP who jumped into Lake Arrowhead, and the ballot that…
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A Flying Suitcase, a Beer Named After an Album, and the Weekend the Ballot Closes
Indie Spin: The one with Wrong Guard, a 42% CPM drop, and a hot air balloon shaped like luggage.
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Prince Wasn’t on the List, and Other Lessons in Being Impossible to Forget
Indie Spin: The one with a Marilyn Monroe short film, a 13-week AI shelf life, and Korean fried chicken shot…
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The Night the Indies Cleaned Up (and a Jeep for Anyone Named George Washington)
Indie Spin: The one with a National Hot Dog Day trophy, a curl crush that broke 4.8 million views, and…
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A Glacier You Can Play, a Fish You Can Mourn, and a Museum of Everything Left in Ubers
Indie Spin: The one with the ice vinyl, the Lizzo jingle, and 23 awards in China.
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One Show Pencils, a Whisky With No Tasting Notes, and a Coalition Heading to Cannes
Indie Spin: The one with Rethink's 29 Pencils, Willem Dafoe picking whisky on feeling alone, and Indie at Large launching…
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Venus Has a Frequency, Heinz Has a Napkin Gag, and Boring Ads Have a $228 Billion Bill
Indie Spin: The one with a Madden mod that simulates concussions, an agency born from an organ-donor soccer campaign, and…
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Don’t Chase the Future. Shape It. – The Rise of Mid-America
Zac Pritchett, TRG's Chief Development Officer makes the case for mid-market, and middle America as a marketing growth area.
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Back-to-Back Iridium, a Coffee Truck That Recruited 500 Doctors, and the Quiet Death of the 80/20 Rule
Indie Spin: The one with the seven-meter chili pepper, Mike Perez's million-citation analysis, and a vinyl record about a faucet…
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Sky Bunk Beds, Maya Angelou’s Confession, and the 47% Loyalty Cliff
Indie Spin: The one with Air New Zealand's NYC stunt, two Webbys for an AR project, and a $420M gaming…
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Step-Counting Chickens, Rethink at the Top of the A-List, and an Honest Earth Day
Indie Spin: The one with Webby sweeps, 21,000 chicken steps, and a 25-year exit interview.
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Privacy Premiums, Emmy Nods, and the Agency That Opened a Flower Shop
Indie Spin: The one with Response Media's HBR data, Colossus's Jon Stewart moment, and SuperBloom's retail experiment.
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Horse-Powered Travel Planners and Other Reasons the Indie World Doesn’t Do Boring
Indie Spin: The one with predictive creator math, a Kentucky Fried three-peat, and a zombie game announcement nobody saw coming.
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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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Nightmare Fuel, Starling Physics, and the Ongoing Death of the Keyword
Indie Spin: The one with beer Russian roulette, brand murmuration, and the answer economy eating your lunch.
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Root Beer Cologne and the Death of Guessing: When Indies Get Real About What’s Working
Indie Spin: The one with fragrance stunts, attention economics, and marketing's least favorite truth