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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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Only 5% of Travelers Book What the AI Told Them To
Indie Spin: The one with a 33% disagreement, a four-day comeback ad, and an agency backing a fat bear.
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A Pontiac Fry-ero, a Ten-Foot Fridge, and the Question Holdcos Keep Getting Asked
Indie Spin: The one with Yung Gravy, a pickleball hype tunnel, and 82% of physicians saying they're overworked.
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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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Nobody Wants to Pay a Stranger a Lot of Money Right Now
Indie Spin: The one with the trust recession, Dolly Parton's airport, and a pizza built for exactly one person.
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Spider-Man’s Rooftop Stakeout, a Lab Coat Trophy, and the DevOps Rookie Who Beat the Clock
Indie Spin: The one with the human-in-the-loop reality check, creators-as-media, and a golf prize you can actually wear.
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The Most Normal Midwesterners in the Room: Inside Young & Laramore’s 43-year Indie Streak
How an Indianapolis creative shop built a national practice on decades-long relationships, behavioral science and a permanent underdog chip
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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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Cerulean’s Second Coming, Bruce the Goat, and a Mountain of Pencils
Indie Spin: The one with a Green Mountain goat, CMOs as first responders, and Gen Z's split verdict on kids.
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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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Balls for Balls, Brain Surgery, and the Business of Being Funny
Indie Spin: The one with testicular health at a German football stadium, two decades of bath faucet loyalty, and a…
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The Prodigal Account Director Returns to Young & Laramore
Adrienne Strange returns as first SVP, Chief Client Officer after a decade building national brands at GSD&M
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Shortlists, Survival Strategies and the Comedy Business Case
Indie Spin: The one with agency recognition, CMO pressure points, and why laughter is a differentiator
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Search Evolution and Creative Culture Wars: When Indies Question Everything
Indie Spin: The one with AI-SEO bubble warnings, animated taco partnerships, and culture shift strategies
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Bean Bag Chairs and Eight-Week Campaign Turnarounds
Indie Spin: The one with Chipotle-branded furniture, press card rejections, and AI-generated human stories
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Why Academics Queue Up to Speak at This Marketing Conference
Young & Laramore built the bridge between research institutions and practicing marketers that nobody else wanted to build
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When 8 Slices of Pizza Beat 8 Slices of Burger (And Other Indie Math That Adds Up)
Indie Spin: The one with Domino's dismembering burgers, indies calling BS on sacred cows, and 400 million people learning about…
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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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When Bad Bunny Wears Your Brand and Colonels Stop Smiling
Indie Spin: The one with serious chicken, fake crises, and lemur-safe AI