Catch Up Lady let us in on the conception of Will Ferrell’s Funny or Die Facebook app.
The school with the most downloads wins a visit from the Funny or Die comedy tour and a hammerhead shark, possibly autographed by Ferrell and the cast of The Golden Girls…?
Clipcaster.TV, which did that funky videoke thing for Pisang Ambon’s Rock the Palace campaign, is now available for digital howlers Stateside.
CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AdAge.com) — Merck & Co. and Schering-Plough Corp., co-marketers of embattled cholesterol drug Vytorin, have gone into damage-control mode, taking out newspaper ads assuring the public that the drug they market is safe.
Industree, a communications agency out of Reggio Emilia and Milan, put together this cute ad for the ’07/’08 Panini Footballers.
In our year-end summary of the best brand-music partnerships, we predicted that 2008 would be a year of innovative deals for artists in the struggling music industry. Well, straight out of the box is a partnership between CMT and Harrah's Horseshoe casino in Bossier City, La., where the first ever CMT "Crossroads Bar" is currently under construction.
(TrendHunter.com) As a backlash to the ultra sleek, sophistication of corporate web pages, young creative web designers are returning to a more primitive web era. The 1996 aesthetics are popping up on art, photography, fashion and music sites.
Good examples can be found at :
http://www.maiuk.com
http://www.bad.bornbrightdesigns…
In another nod to the “invisible” cause of domestic abuse and violence against women, this National Center for Domestic Violence commercial highlights the fact that, in the U.K., 330,000 injuries per year are blamed on kitchen cupboard doors.
DETROIT (AdAge.com) — PHD's Fred Sattler will join Initiative as managing director on the newly won Hyundai and Kia accounts, he told Advertising Age at the Detroit auto show this week. Mr. Sattler, 51, said he'll be moving back to the Los Angeles area from his native Detroit, where he had been exec VP-general manager of Omnicom Group's PHD, Troy, Mich., working on Chrysler's account from 2004 until recently.
Vaseline has a little Web game going, where you guess the identity of its celebrity spokespersons based on pics of them naked. Past “mystery†Vaseline celebs include John Leguizamo and Amanda Bynes. The latest naked endorser is shown here. According to the Web site, she has “starred opposite an Angel.†Also, her career â€began when she was just 5 years old and over the years she’s become a superstar of the small and big screen.“ And she used to do Burger King ads.
—Posted by Tim Nudd
For Allstate, Cutters and Burrell, Chicago bleep the f-word with a carload of cool black guys.
CHICAGO (AdAge.com) — While six of the game-high seven spots in Anheuser-Busch's 2008 Super Bowl lineup are dedicated to Bud Light, the Budweiser brand's lone 60-second spot may score the biggest points with viewers if A-B's extensive pre-game testing is any indication, said Bob Lachky, the brewer's exec VP-global industry development.
(TrendHunter.com) If you’re running away from the winter and fleeing to St. Barts, or perhaps you’re just thinking of the coming summer weather, this little number will tie your guy in knots.
It’s a once piece with knot details as a part of the design. The bottom provides “moderate” coverage, but I guess the makers…
Advertising Age just named Tribal DDB Worldwide (the Quintippio guys!) Global Agency Network of the Year.
It’s unclear whether or not this Bud Light Ability to Talk to Animals spot will make an appearance during the Super Bowl but if it does, there could be a lot of sausage talk at the office the next day.
Duncan Watts is causing a ruckus. Just as Madison Avenue gets its head around niche marketing on a macro scale, Watts says marketing to so-called Influentials doesn’t work. He says the whole idea is bunk and that he has the data to prove it.
Watts has performed a series of controversial, barn-burning experiments challenging the whole Influentials thesis. He has analyzed email patterns and found that highly connected people are not, in fact, crucial social hubs. He has written computer models of rumor spreading and found that your average slob is just as likely as a well-connected person to start a huge new trend. And last year, Watts demonstrated that even the breakout success of a hot new pop band might be nearly random. Any attempt to engineer success through Influentials, he argues, is almost certainly doomed to failure.
[via Fast Company]
Last week at Heathrow Airport we saw this thirst-inciting ad that read, “Fly with everything you buy from the departure lounge.”
NEW YORK (AdAge.com) — Sean Finnegan, who was tapped less than a year ago as CEO of Omnicom Media Group Digital, is leaving to assume the role of chief media officer at Vibrant Media.
LONDON – Strange has won the brief for a large slice of Leger Holidays’ online marketing spend for 2008.
To help increase its membership, someone presumably behind the lesbian site BestforLESBIANS (NSFW) has created several humorous images (some NSFW) made up of random racy shots coupled with a MySpace avatar who comments on the imagery.
LONDON – Gambling.com, a global portal for gaming enthusiasts, has re-launched, moving from a search site to a content-rich online community for gambling enthusiasts.
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