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Article: P&G uses Cannes Lions as launching pad for Super Bowl ads; Crest 'Smile' campaign follows in footsteps of Tide's 'talking stain'.(News)(Procter & Gamble Co.)
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- Advertising Age
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- July 7, 2008
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Byline: JACK NEFF
If you're looking for a Super Bowl winner, check out Buffalo. Not the Bills-the TV market.
Procter & Gamble Co. appears to have found a way to prequalify Super Bowl ads creatively on a road that runs from Buffalo to Cannes.
For the second year in a row, P&G won film Lions at Cannes for U.S. ads that hadn't run outside a small test market. And for the second consecutive year, that work could end up on the Super Bowl, long after its debut with International Advertising Festival juries.
According to a person close to P&G, one or more of the Gold-Lion-winning "You can say anything with a smile'' ads for Crest, which got ...
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