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Canada’s Hottest Ads – A frenzy of animation

Let's get serious for a moment... what's the deal with all the mobile game ads?

It’s not easy to make an ad that becomes a part of culture. Taxi 2’s executive creative director Jeff MacEachern takes a look at the handful of ads and content pieces that resonated on YouTube and became something bigger than just a brand spot… but then gets distracted by a lot of exploding cartoons.

To see all of this month’s 10 most-watched ads on YouTube in Canada, check out our playlist.

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Note: This ranking indicates which ads were most watched within Canada. To be included on this ranking, a video must be listed as an ad on YouTube. While Google does not make Canadian viewer statistics available, it determines this ranking with a process that accounts for paid and organic views and how much of a given video viewers watch.

YouTube Canada Ads Leaderboard
• April 2015 (with John Farquhar)
March 2015 (with Joshua Stein and Diego Bertagni)
February 2015 (with Jane Murray and Mark Mason)
January 2015 (with Jamie King)
December 2014 (with Denise Rossetto and Todd Mackie)

Host: Jeff MacEachern, Taxi2
Production: Notch Video
Producer: Leah Ruehlicke

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