Hasta La Creative!

Flickr user brandongenera captured a few pictures of the Pepsi Monster which made its debut in Times Square yesterday to promote the brand’s music giveaway on Amazon MP3 which will offer 3.25 million DRM-free songs for download.

The New York Times is running an interesting piece on MySpace, which receives more than 1.3 billion page views a day and has 110 million members.

For instance, I now know that Chris DeWolfe, the business face of the company, and co-founder Tom Anderson, 37, the product specialist, both recently signed new contracts reported to be worth $7.5 million a year.

But the thing that stands out for me is the realization that soc nets like MyFaceSpace ostensibly function as portals today.

“Some people still perceive MySpace like it was in early 2004, as a niche place for scenesters in New York and Los Angeles. That’s how it started, but it’s become very mainstream,” Mr. DeWolfe, 41, said. “It’s about consuming content and discovering pop culture.”

As a result, the MySpace site resembles a portal like Yahoo or AOL as much as a social networking site. Peter F. Chernin, the president and chief operating officer of the News Corporation, called MySpace a “contemporary media platform” and said the site existed to “create content and connect people to one another.”

Fox Interactive “clearly envisioned them as a portal,” said Alan Rambam, a senior vice president at the ad agency Fleishman Hillard.

(TrendHunter.com) Famous actor Heath Ledger was found dead in an apartment somewhere in Manhattan last Tuesday. Police are considering it may have been a suicide attempt because the body was found naked and surrounded by pills.

“NYPD spokesman Paul Browne said Ledger had an appointment for a massage at the apartmen…

Oh ha, ha, ha. We get it. How could we not? Why don’t you just get a toilet plunger and shove your witty little double entendre down our throat to make sure we really, really understood the oh-so-witty joke you were trying to make

Mamas & Papas, the global designer nursery brand from the UK, launched their new consumer catalogue for Spring Summer 2008 this week with a fresh new look and click and flick version online.

It’s one thing for a marketer to claim, say, its product will mow your lawn better than any other lawn mower but it’s clearly another when a drug maker claims its product will cure certain ills and then cause a heart attack.

LONDON – News service Reuters is to aggregate content from small- and medium-sized publishers on its website, and sell the ad space around it using vertical advertising created by Adify Corporation.

LONDON – VisitBritain, the national tourism agency, has appointed Grafenstein in Berlin, Lifelike in Stockholm and CDP in London to its European advertising roster.

For a woman, not being able to see her feet without leaning over her protruding breasts could, by some, be considered a good thing. For a man with man boobs, not so much.

It is not easy to pick the top five worst superbowl commercials of all time.

There’s bad, like those mens razors ads which make my teeth hurt every year, then there’s really really bad like backfiring (literally) jokes, and then there’s so bad that masses of people protest and your company sues the ad agency who created the ad bad. With that said, here’s Adland’s pick of the top five worst super bowl ads of all time. We’ve combed through the 35 years of Super bowl ads in The Super Bowl Commercials archive to bring you these fantastic turds.

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