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Just like Team USA, Nike has LeBron James. And when Lebron gets the rock anywhere inside the three point line, you can't stop him from scoring. In this newest spot from Wieden+Kennedy for Zoom, LeBron VI kicks, he drives inside the lane of our basketball-loving hearts hard and slams down the Nike love with aggression. Check it:

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As General Motors and its US competitors slide closer to oblivion, GM, the leader of the domestic auto-making pack, still fails to understand that survival in the post-advertising age demands that it tell an authentic story with all its words, images and actions.

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YouTube has launched its YouTube Sponsored Videos advertising program. Like Google Ads but with featured video. And guess what! To promote the program YouTube is using…YouTube! Practicing what it preaches. (Sort of reminds me of a little initiative at an ad agency that started six months ago.)

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Just like in Lord of the Rings, where the One True Ring needed to be unforged in the fires of Mount Doom, the horror that has been "fun with faces" must end where it began: Office Max's "Elf Yourself" campaign, which is now in its third year. Today, agencies argue over who should get credit. Tomorrow, they will each be blaming each other for the debacle. Let's discuss:

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For the second time now, Dell has joined forces with a team of graffiti artists to tag the sh*t out of a Volkswagen. Last time it was a Vanagon, this time it's an old-school Beetle. For some reason, Dell thinks that sponsoring some graffiti will cool up its Dell Studio laptops and that they should give VW some free juice in the process. Does it work?

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The new social media brand, Twitter, is notorious for giving people something they didn't know they wanted and now can't live without, while also having terrible customer service. Yet, it grows and grows. Here at PostAdvertising.com, Twitter has become a large part of what we do. It's a great way to talk with our friends in the ad community. Something tells me that when the service is back up, we're going to see a deluge of anti-Twitter tweets. Click here to follow ours.

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People say that talking to your plants helps them grow. To test this theory, Heinz, the massive ketchup company and benefactor to John Kerry's chin, set up two tomato plants in two rooms in the UK. In one room sits a computer, a speaker and a microphone. In the other, the plant is alone...impossibly alone in this big world.

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Last month, the Iraq Veterans Against the War (IVAW) waged a guerilla-advertising war against what they call an illegal one in Iraq. Early on October 11, a seven-member brigade from its LA chapter formed Operation W.A.N.T. (We Are Not Toys) and set a dramatic stage for early-morning customers at a local gas station.

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This commercial came out in the summer of 2007, but I think it's worth a look today because of the sorry state of both our nation's waistline and its economy. If you're like me, you love things that can do two things at one, and that's why I love my Treadmobile: Helps me lose weight and solves the financial crisis at the same time! Roll tape:

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Warning: This 60-second spot from UK department store Marks & Spencer is NOT SAFE FOR WORK. The people in it are HOT. This has gotta be the hottest British family in existence. (And I love, by the way, how it's truly a multicultural patchwork quilt, just like the UK; makes it feel real, y'know?) Let's watch:

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To display the power and quality of its video display and production equipment, Toshiba did what it says it does best: Produce aweseome video. There's more, but for now, roll tape:

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What on earth is MTV Switch? Some international campaign with a green thumb. They also turn out some Amster-gosh-damn clever advertising.

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