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Via press release: Today, the Human Rights Campaign (HRC), the nation’s largest lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer (LGBTQ) civil rights organization, revealed a new billboard off I-85 calling out disgraced, notoriously anti-LGBTQ Alabama Supreme Court Chief Justice Roy Moore. The billboard, which reads “#NoMoore: Dismiss Alabama Supreme Court Chief Justice Roy Moore” goes up as Moore, suspended from the …

Here’s a recap: “I would feel terrible if Donald Trump gets elected, and terrible if Hillary Clinton gets elected.” Dr. Jill Stein’s new ad equates both Trump and Clinton as being the wrong choice for president. Stein explains that with either of these candidates, America will be in a perpetual state of war, the “social safety net” will be destroyed …

The marketing site Creativity recaps: Ikea’s latest ad imagines what life would have been like if people in the 17th century had felt the need to record their plate of food and get some “likes” before they actually ate it. In other words, before Instagram. The ad, the aim of which is to encourage people to rediscover the simple joy …

This was to be expected: The video, which was released on the first day of the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia, features a mock job application for the Florida congresswoman to work for presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton’s campaign. Clinton’s campaign logo appears in the corner of the mock up. It ticks through her list of experience, which includes: …

Icelandic Water today launched a print and video campaign which gently teases the United States over the possibility of having our first women president. After all, the announcer notes, Iceland elected its first woman president nearly four decades ago. “What is this, 1980?” The print campaign also wryly observes an uptick in Americans who are considering moving overseas. See it …

Mediaite recaps: The political media world is abuzz about Texas Senator and former Republican presidential candidate Ted Cruz‘s failure to endorse nominee Donald Trump during his speech at the Republican National Convention Wednesday night, but presumptive Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton‘s campaign is spending Thursday morning reminding people about someone who did endorse the nominee. Unfortunately for Donald Trump, the nominee …

Attendees of the GOP convention will be confronted by the image of Donald Trump preparing to lay a big wet one on Ted Cruz, courtesy of this billboard erected by Planting Peace, the pro-LGBT group behind the rainbow-hued Equality House across the street from the Westboro Baptist Church. From the Huffington Post: In the eyes of Aaron Jackson, President of …

From the Washington Post: Hillary Clinton released her campaign’s newest attack ad against Donald Trump, a brutal, minute-long reprisal of some of his most controversial statements as seen through the eyes of children. The sharply negative spot comes a day before Trump is expected to announce his vice-presidential running mate and several days before the Republican Party’s convention. In it, …

Ad Age recaps: Think about “The Best a Man Can Get” and you don’t envision a guy hugging the porcelain goddess. But while ads featuring Olympic athletes usually show the glory, Gillette’s anthem video for the Summer Olympics breaking today instead focuses on the gritty, including what appears to be the first razor advertising that shows a guy throwing up. …

The New York Times reports: On the evening that Donald J. Trump is expected to accept the Republican nomination, a coalition of gay rights groups will run a commercial that criticizes laws recently passed in states like North Carolina that limit which public restrooms transgender people can use. The minute-long ad, which will air on Fox News during Mr. Trump’s …

Advertising Age reports: Here’s an Olympics sponsorship with major topical relevance: SC Johnson’s Off! has been named the official mosquito repellent of next month’s Summer Olympics games in Rio de Janeiro. SCJ said in a statement that it will distribute thousands of bottles of repellent to athletes, staff and volunteers at the games, which begin Aug. 5, amid an outbreak …

From Ad Age: “Evidence is mounting that [TV] will gain little headway for ‘the duration,'” Ad Age wrote in June 1941 following the FCC’s approval of commercial TV. The next month, on July 1, Bulova aired what’s considered the first TV commercial. The grainy, shaky, 10-second spot ran during an afternoon Dodgers-Phillies game on NBC-owned WNBT. There’s a simple outline …

The global food giant Mars pulled off an amusing promotion for London Pride over the weekend, temporarily “giving up” the famed Skittles rainbow for all-white packaging, which they coupled with an all-white float. “This Pride, only one rainbow deserves to be the centre of attention — yours. And we’re not going to be the ones to steal your rainbow thunder, …

B-B-B-B-Benghaziiiiiiii! Via Raw Story: The National Rifle Association’s political action committee is set to air $2 million worth of advertising to promote a survivor of the Benghazi attacks in 2012 in efforts to hurt Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton. The Republican House committee on Benghazi released its eighth report Tuesday providing no new information and the Chairman still couldn’t prove …

Via press release: The Freedom From Religion Foundation and its Cleveland chapter are mounting an impressive 14-by-48-foot message to the Republican National Convention: Keep church and state separate. That message on a highway billboard comes from an unexpected source: President Ronald Reagan. “We establish no religion in this country . . . Church and state are, and must remain, separate,” …

The Hill reports: A super-PAC allied with Hillary Clinton is making the case to young voters that Donald Trump is “full of hate.” Priorities USA on Thursday unveiled the new campaign, with two videos and a website called “We Can Stop Hate.” The website’s homepage currently shows a video titled “Donald Trump is full of hate” — a supercut of …

Via Breitbart: The new “Defeat Crooked Hillary PAC,” which was launched by GOP mega-donor Robert Mercer, released its first ad titled, “Gotta Pay the Bills.” The ad mocks Hillary Clinton’s claim that she and her husband former President Bill Clinton “came out of the White House not only dead broke, but in debt.” “The Clintons are worth $200 million, earning …

Via Advertising Week: If you pick up this Sunday’s print edition of The New York Times and thumb through it, you’ll find that it features a couple full-page print ads from American Express that show the brand’s support for gay marriage. It’s no coincidence that the brand is rolling the ads out on Sunday, June 26, since that’s the one …

The Hill reports: A Pro-Hillary Clinton super-PAC released one of its first general election ads on Sunday, hitting presumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump for what it calls “dangerous” policy positions. In the 30-second ad, titled “Presidential,” Priorities USA, the largest super-PAC supporting presumptive Democratic nominee Clinton for president, rehashes controversial statements Trump has made throughout his campaign. “I know …

The Hill reports: A political action committee focused on the size of Donald Trump’s hands is calling on the presumptive Republican presidential nominee to “release the measurements.” A new ad, produced by Americans Against Insecure Billionaires with Tiny Hands PAC, asks viewers to sign a petition calling on Trump to disclose the measurements of his hands. “It’s a dangerous time …