Fancy a Spanking? Don’t Forget Your Pink RAZR!

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Just more contextual ad placement awkwardness, except this one gives us an unpleasant “ick” feeling.

Design Pumps Life Into Flowers – Heart Vase by Esque Design

(TrendHunter.com) Where else can flowers fit perfectly into, but in an anatomically-correct heart?

This organ-inspired vase was created by Esque Design. The two-toned technical design of the vase seems to pump new life to your expensive flowers.

The heart vase is of the 200 numbered and signed vases by Esque Desig…

Somehow, Ringo Has More Love to Spare

Following in the paths of British newspapers, The New York Daily News has decided to try out the music giveaway idea themselves. And, because EMI is the label they're working with or maybe just because they want to keep it as English as possible, the paper is featuring an unreleased Ringo Starr track among the 120,000 other songs available for download.

Teen Designer Makes It Big – Kira Plastinina Pays Paris $2M To Endorse Brand (VIDEO)

(TrendHunter.com) A 15 year old fashion designer is making waves globally for her incredible designing capabilities.

She did however have a boost when launching her brand. Backed by her millionaire father, Sergei Plastinina, the co-founder of Wimm-Bill-Dann, Russia’s largest dairy and juice producer, Kira Plastinin…

Teen Designer Makes It Big – Kira Plastinina Pays Paris $2M To Endorse Brand

A 15 year old fashion designer is making waves globally for her incredible designing capabilities.

She did however have a boost when launching her brand. Backed by her millionaire father, Sergei Plastinina, the co-founder of Wimm-Bill-Dann, Russia’s largest dairy and juice producer, Kira Plastinin…

Dickens Shop Houses Hip Japanese Shoes – Old Curiosity Shop

(TrendHunter.com) What the Dickens? If that’s what you said when you entered the Old Curiosity Shop in London, you probably wouldn’t be the first.

From the exterior, the Old Curiosity Shop is a gorgeously crafted 16th century piece of architecture. Legend has it, the 1567 building was actually the source of ins…

Fiorana Launches Line of Latino-Cut Bootylicious Jeans

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Fiorana launches line on Latino-cut jeans because, well, all Latinos have big butts.

Piggly Wiggly: Why Diamonds? Slide Some Beef On ‘Er

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For Valentine’s Day, grocery chain Piggly Wiggly is offering a $5,000 diamond necklace to its Angus beef buyers. The winner will be selected on February 11.

What’s that Big Dome? Oh, it’s Canada

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With the help of DDB Canada, Inside Live! and Fuse OMD, the Canadian Tourism Commission erected a big dome thingy at the Canary Wharf in London. (Very Epcot.)

Sanders/Wingo Wins African-American Duties for Chevy

DETROIT (AdAge.com) — General Motors Corp. started out with a review for the $35 million African-American account for Chevrolet, and ended up making several multicultural agency realignments.

Playboy Collects 21 Sexiest Commercials of All Time

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Playboy has collected a treasure trove of sexy commercial and ranked the top 21 in it’s February 2008 issue.

‘Be Kind’ trailer gets a low-budget remake

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So, let’s say you’re Michel Gondry, and you’ve directed a surreal movie about two guys re-creating movies on the cheap after a video store’s tapes are mysteriously erased. Why not crank the absurdist dial up to 11 and promote the film by re-creating its trailer on the cheap? In what has to be one of the strangest previews of all time, Gondry does just that with a shot-for-shot remake of this trailer for Be Kind Rewind. With his nearly indecipherable French accent, Gondry is so endearingly geeky, you just want to give him a big hug. Via Cinematical.

—Posted by David Griner

Because Arturo Fuente Cigars Has So Much to Gain from the Everyday Man

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Duardo’s Brand,” which has a UGC feel to it (don’t tell Subway!) is Raging Artists’ attempt to (possibly) accomplish two things for its client:

1. Associate Arturo Fuente Cigars with the elite Cuban crowd through its choice of talent, Duardo Cantana
2. Put cigars back in the domestic space — into the mouths of men sitting around playing guitars, and men whose wives batter them senseless for smoking indoors

Do Hispanic Marketers Have to Be Hispanic?


Just in case you're saying to yourself "oh no he didn't!" let me reiterate: I believe that you don't have to be Hispanic to be an effective Hispanic Marketer. There, I said it.

Svedka Fembot to Launch Presidential Bid on Super Tuesday

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Damn. Everyone’s getting in on this presidential election thing.

Gap Unveils Nationwide Casting Call Contest Winners

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Get ready for an explosion of cute. Yes, GAP has announced the winners of its casting call contest which selected four kids from a pool of 20 finalists which were selected from a pool of 800,000.

YouBama Loves Barak Obama

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If you’re into Barak Obama, you owe it to yourself to head over to YouBama and create a video in support of the candidate.

Gates predicts unified communication tool

LONDON – Computers and the internet have led to a huge democratisation of the world, according to Microsoft founder Bill Gates, who was speaking in London today.

Wendy’s Leaves Behind Fun For Food Porn

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Removing every last bit of fun and entertainment of Red Wig dude (love him or hate him) come two new spots (one, two) from Kirshenbaum Bond.

Soup wins BMI Healthcare digital account

LONDON – BMI Healthcare, the private hospital division of the General Healthcare Group, has awarded Soup its digital marketing account.