AdMission

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AdMission episodes

February 09 Super Bowl: The winners of advertising's biggest day of the year
We're back with our hot takes from the Super Bowl and talk about why brands spend millions for 30 seconds on advertising's biggest day of the year.

We watch: 'The Choice' from Pepsi, 'Bananas' from Instacart, 'America Needs Neighbours Like You' from Redfin x Rocket Mortgage & 'American Icons' from Budweiser.

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45 min
December 08, 2025 The Netflix takeover of Hollywood
We watch Droga5’s new 196 campaign & discuss what Netflix’s $83B move to buy Warner Bros means for Hollywood.
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45 min
November 25, 2025 Shania Twain, Uber & the Hollywood marketing crisis
We share our thoughts on the new Uber x Shania Twain spot, Cowboy Colostrum, inside the Hollywood marketing crisis and ask if creativity is dead.
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46 min
November 18, 2025 'The best 20 seconds of advertising produced in the history of advertising'
Russ & Freddie break down IKEA’s new campaign, look at Reuters’ first brand campaign in 175 years, unpack the viral Friend AI pendant takeover of the NYC subway and Heineken’s pitch-perfect parody response.
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42 min
November 10, 2025 Robots, John Lewis & Coca Cola
Christmas campaigns have started, subscription addictions, robots & ads that make you cry.
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46 min
October 27, 2025 How cereal built America
Russ is in Tokyo, a history of cereal advertising and the Apple x Jane Goodall spot.
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50 min
October 20, 2025 Social media ban; 'This campaign has me worried'
Russ & Freddie look at the social media ban, an 'utterly glorious' ad from The Ordinary & why the beauty industry is a fabrication people are happy to go along with.
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48 min
October 13, 2025 De Beers campaign has 'missed the mark'; 7-Eleven nails it
Russ & Freddie discuss De Beers' latest diamond campaign, 7-Eleven as a portrait of modern life and what people are actually looking at on TikTok.
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50 min
October 07, 2025 ChatGPT's latest campaign & 'Va Va Voom' comeback
Russ & Freddie review ChatGPT'S most recent campaign, try to decipher Telstra's new billboards and explain why Renault is Renault is trying to bring back the 'Va Va Voom'.

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45 min
September 22, 2025 Why 'brand purpose' doesn't really matter
Defending simplicity, fun business names, advertising the upside of AI & why we think brand purpose is important (but it’s actually not).
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47 min

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Every week, advertising gurus Russel Howcroft and Freddie Young offer a glimpse behind the curtain of the world’s most talked about marketing campaigns, brands, ideas, advertising news and industry…