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Ikea's Amazing RGB Billboard Is One of the Coolest Ads It's Ever Made

Outdoor ad geeks, here's your latest bit of brilliance, courtesy of Ikea. German ad agency Thjnk and production studio I Made This teamed up to create Ikea's "RGB billboard," which—much like Ikea furniture itself—makes the most of some very limited space. The board features three different headlines superimposed on each other in different colors—cyan, magenta and yellow. At night, the board shines red, green and blue (RGB) lightbulbs on the board, revealing, in turn, the different headlines.

Domino's Calmly Deals With Twitter Customer Who Says He Burned His Junk on a Pizza

Here's a pretty good example of a brand dealing well with a troll on Twitter—mostly by sticking to the script, with a few flourishes along the way. On Monday, Domino's Pizza in the U.K. had to deal with a customer who claimed to have burned his penis while "making love" to one of its pizzas. You can see the whole exchange below. Even as @ITK_AGENT_VIGO's tweets get increasingly irate and obscene, @Dominos_UK remains calm—amusingly nonchalant, in fact.

Small Agency's Devious Recruiting Ads Invite You to Apply to Droga500 and MMMMother

Droga5 is great and all, but it stands to reason, mathematically, that Droga500 would be one hundred times as awesome. Nail, a small agency in Providence, R.I., invokes the hallowed names of Droga, Mother and Goodby, Silverstein & Partners in a series of cheeky new recruitment ads that acknowledge the greatness of those agencies—and then invite you to apply to better versions of them.

Legacy Shifts Its Creative Account to 72andSunny

The Legacy Foundation has shifted its creative business to 72andSunny. The shift came after a review in which there were four other finalists: Droga5, 180LA, Anomaly and BBDO. Annual media spending on the business is estimated at $50 million. "Legacy is known for its brave campaigns and creative ambition,” said Glenn Cole, co-founder and chief creative officer of 72andSunny.

Can't Wait for Mad Men's April 13 Return? Watch Don's Entire Journey So Far in 2 Minutes

How many times can a two-minute recap of Don Draper's six-season-long journey on Mad Men capture the off-the-rails boozer puking into a potted plant? Zero. But the rest of his repertoire is nicely represented in this short promo video ahead of the Season 7 premiere. There are the suave drags on cigarettes, highball in hand, the prolific womanizing, the creative genius. AMC, as usual, has been stingy in releasing new material for the upcoming, final season.

Ad of the Day: Charity Airs Shock Ad With Real Footage of a Woman Giving Birth

In what's being called a first for British television, charity organization Save the Children will air a PSA beginning Tuesday night that includes actual footage of a woman giving birth—and it opens with a stark advisory about the shocking content. You can see the ad, titled "First Day" and created by London agency adam&eveDDB, below.

Honda Goes Inside the Civic Tourer, and Everything Else, in Brilliantly Constructed Ad

IDEA: You hear it often—it's what's inside that counts. That's especially true for an automaker touting a roomy vehicle, like Honda has with its new Civic Tourer wagon in Europe. To advertise it, Wieden + Kennedy focused on all kinds of interiors in an amazing 60-second spot called "Inner Beauty." The quirky, charming, exquisitely crafted ad takes the viewer, in a first-person view, zooming across a desert and through all sorts of objects—from a golf ball to a suitcase to the Civic Tourer itself—revealing their curious innards.

The World's Weirdest Supermarket Ad Is Both Super Cool and Super Crazy

This wonderfully warped three-minute music-video commercial for Germany's Edeka supermarket chain certainly lives up to its title, "Supergeil," which can mean both "super cool" and "super sexy" (or "horny") in German. Paunchy middle-aged crooner Friedrich Liechtenstein bathes in milk and cereal, boogies in the aisles, fondles sausages, cavorts with a dude dressed like a battery and reels off naughty double entendres to a techno beat. At one point, he rhymes "muschi" (German for "cat," or "pussy") with "sushi," while a woman slurps raw fish nearby.