Hasta La Creative!

The Advertising Standards Authority has received a complaint that the poster campaign for Tim Burton’s new film, Sweeney Todd, glorifies violence.

Aaaaages ago, when the ‘pc on every desktop’ meme still had to be dreamed of and DOS wasn’t coded yet, a company named the Philco-Ford Corporation launched a pretty foreseeing prototype video of the technology they would see arrive in the homes of people. Philco-Ford was funny enough an aeronautical company, but the devices they’ve placed in the living room or in dad’s home office look a lot like the ones you’d see in the early Bond movies. Despite the age of the movie, things like online shopping, home surveillance, automated backups and online payments were already being discussed. The movie is estimated to be of 1967. Enjoy the flashback.

Video: Digital Life in 1967

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LONDON – Homebase is to review its £27m advertising account, currently held by Abbott Mead Vickers BBDO, as it battles with a consumer slowdown on the high street.

LONDON – Egg’s decision to withdraw its credit cards from 161,000 customers whose credit profiles it claims have deteriorated is likely to devastate the brand’s reputation.

LONDON – The Department for Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) aims to raise £100m in private investment to support elite British sport. The move could involve the sponsorship of Olympic hopefuls by consumer brands.

LONDON – The Advertising Standards Authority’s decision not to invoke its ultimate sanction and refer Ryanair to the Office of Fair Trading (OFT), despite repeated breaches of ASA regulations, has raised questions about whether self-regulation in advertising is really working.

LONDON – News Corporation has registered second-quarter pre-tax profits of $1.39bn (£705m), up 9.2% year on year, despite taking a $50m hit because of BSkyB’s investment in ITV.

NEW YORK – The New York Giants’ dramatic last-minute win over the New England Patriots pulled in 97.5m viewers and $250m in ad dollars, giving TV network Fox and advertisers such as Budweiser, Audi and Pepsi the second biggest event in US television history.

Most people will have heard of brands trade marking their colours but have we gone too far? Should anyone actually own a colour in their brand category?
Deutsche Telekom, mother company for T-Mobile in Holland, has registered magenta to prevent other companies in Holland from using this colour for their communication devices, logos or stationary. […]

For 3 days now I’ve been out of a computer. The ingrate little prick just decided to stop working and now I’m hoping to be able to recover what I had in the hard disk, ’cause if I lost it, it would mean lots of years of hard work being flushed down the toilet.
 
It’s been days of a lot of events on my end and also on the internet, so I’ll try to keep up with them from my non-internet position and post from time to time.
 
So this doesn’t by any means mean that the website is going offline. Only that the posting frequency won’t be as often as I’d like it to be.
 
Hope I can fix the PC soon. If anyone has some knowledge on PC’s and wants to give a hand. I’d be more than happy to get an email from you.
 
Greetings.