Ads of the Week: 13 Campaigns That Caught Our Eye, From Dunkin’ to Apple

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Star power dominates this week: Brad Pitt and a supporting cast of pet dogs for De’Longhi; a Spice Girls reunion for Dunkin’; Rowan Blanchard and Jemima Kirke for Marc Jacobs; Sara Waisglass for e.l.f. Cosmetics; Cam Skattebo and pet dogs for The Farmer’s Dog, and more.

Elsewhere, the Apple Watch Series 12 gets hearts racing, the Primark Form activewear collection launches, Autodesk gets emotional, and Duolingo gears up for New York Fashion Week.

Our Most Effective Ad of the Week, in partnership with EDO, is another adventure with M&M’s spokescandies.

Keep scrolling for the week’s most notable ads.

Duolingo | “The Phonetic Collection”

With New York Fashion Week now underway, Duolingo has teamed up with designer Megan O’Cain, from Netflix’s reality show Next in Fashion, to launch a capsule collection based on the phonetic spellings of fashion houses with notoriously tricky European names.

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