Morning Update: You Can Drive a Mercedez-Benz in Mario Kart 8; Team behind Dove Real Beauty Sketches join digital agency; Ad Agency creates jewellery meant to combat sexual assault

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Creativity-Online: You Can Drive a Mercedez-Benz in Mario Kart 8

From Japan, home of the wacky, the weird and the downright innovative, comes this commercial for Mercedes-Benz, which promotes a new tie-up between the automaker and Nintendo’s Mario Kart 8. The spot inserts a Mercedes GLA into old-school game footage of Super Mario Brothers, then segues into a live action sequence featuring a real-life GLA, driven by an extraordinarily buff “Mario” with muscles bulging under his denim overalls.”

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