DDB Tapped to Handle Bud Light Lime


CHICAGO (AdAge.com) — DDB, Chicago, has won creative duties for Anheuser-Busch's Bud Light Lime launch, according to two people familiar with the matter.

RSPCA: Rabbit

RSPCA: Rabbit

Pets aren’t toys. Please think before you buy your child a pet.

Advertising Agency: JWT Sydney, Australia
Executive Creative Directors: Jay Benjamin, Andy DiLallo
Art Director: John Lam
Copywriter: Laurie Geddes
Retoucher: Marcus Thyer
Typographer: Jeffrey Oley
Photographer: Sean Izzard

RSPCA: Kitten

RSPCA: Kitten

Pets aren’t toys. Please think before you buy your child a pet.

Advertising Agency: JWT Sydney, Australia
Executive Creative Directors: Jay Benjamin, Andy DiLallo
Art Director: John Lam
Copywriter: Laurie Geddes
Retoucher: Marcus Thyer
Typographer: Jeffrey Oley
Photographer: Sean Izzard

RSPCA: Puppy

RSPCA: Puppy

Pets aren’t toys. Please think before you buy your child a pet.

Advertising Agency: JWT Sydney, Australia
Executive Creative Directors: Jay Benjamin, Andy DiLallo
Art Director: John Lam
Copywriter: Laurie Geddes
Retoucher: Marcus Thyer
Typographer: Jeffrey Oley
Photographer: Sean Izzard

AOL CEO Randy Falco: Microsoft-Yahoo a Mistake


PHOENIX (AdAge.com) — AOL CEO Randy Falco thinks a potential merger between Microsoft and Yahoo to compete with Google is all about search — and a mistake. But he's happy to watch the spectacle.

Facebook Gets Flashy – Adobe Flash Applications

Facebook, in a bold move to get more market share of the MySpace muffins, will let application developers now use Adobe Flash.

Not familiar with Flash? If you are subject to seizures, don’t look. It’s the application that adds movement to a space. Think glittery, glitzy… oh just go to MySpace a…

Bisolax laxative – fecal softener: Light, 2

Bisolax laxative - fecal softener: Light, 2

See the light.

Advertising Agency: BBDO Bangkok, Thailand
Executive Creative Director: Suthisak Sucharittanonta
Creative Director: Subun Khow
Art Director: Ariyawat Juntaratip
Copywriter: Chanatthapol Tiensri
Photographer: Chub nokkeaw / chubcheevit

Bisolax laxative – fecal softener: Light, 1

Bisolax laxative - fecal softener: Light, 1

See the light.

Advertising Agency: BBDO Bangkok, Thailand
Executive Creative Director: Suthisak Sucharittanonta
Creative Director: Subun Khow
Art Director: Ariyawat Juntaratip
Copywriter: Chanatthapol Tiensri
Photographer: Chub nokkeaw / chubcheevit

McDonald’s to Give Away Breakfast Burritos


CHICAGO (AdAge.com) — McDonalds's will treat Americans to breakfast burritos this week — and might make money doing so. The chain that offered "Free Coffee Mondays" to get consumers to taste its brew will give away more than 2 million McSkillet burritos the morning of Feb. 28 and 29 as part of a national sampling event.

Transient Art Pavilion – Zaha Hadid’s Chanel Design (VIDEO)

(TrendHunter.com) On 28 February, the new Chanel ‘Mobile Art Container’ will be unveiled in Hong Kong, designed by Zaha Hadid, as a transient art pavilion that will roam Tokyo, NYC, London, Moscow and Paris until 2010. According to Hadid, the design is “a celebration of the iconic work of Chanel, unmistakeable for i…

Ministry of Manpower: Late salary

Ministry of Manpower: Late salary

Trapped by late salary payment?
Know your employment rights and responsibilities.

Advertising Agency: CreAds Advertising, Singapore
Art Directors: Helmut Matthijs, Ray Ticsay, Ching Li
Copywriter: Tzang M.
Production Manager: Ronald Seet
Media Planner: Anne Fabregas
Published: February 2008

Ministry of Manpower: Grave

Ministry of Manpower: Grave

Be safe at work or be sorry?
Know your employment rights and responsibilities.

Advertising Agency: CreAds Advertising, Singapore
Art Directors: Helmut Matthijs, Ray Ticsay, Ching Li
Copywriter: Tzang M.
Production Manager: Ronald Seet
Media Planner: Anne Fabregas
Published: February 2008

Ministry of Manpower: Cage

Ministry of Manpower: Cage

Going to work or going to jail?
Know your employment rights and responsibilities.

Advertising Agency: CreAds Advertising, Singapore
Art Directors: Helmut Matthijs, Ray Ticsay, Ching Li
Copywriter: Tzang M.
Production Manager: Ronald Seet
Media Planner: Anne Fabregas
Published: February 2008

Marketers, Agencies Look to End TV Integration Fees

NEW YORK (AdAge.com) — The price of a TV commercial routinely runs into the tens to hundreds of thousands of dollars. And if that wasn't enough, the three oldest broadcast-TV networks have for decades required another fistful of cash known as an "integration fee." Two big ad-industry trade groups are now fighting to keep that money in advertisers' coffers.

Ambi Pur Car: Cigarette

Ambi Pur Car: Cigarette

Advertising Agency: Grey, Bangkok, Thailand

Ambi Pur Car: Hamburger

Ambi Pur Car: Hamburger

Advertising Agency: Grey, Bangkok, Thailand

Ambi Pur Car: Fish

Ambi Pur Car: Fish

Advertising Agency: Grey, Bangkok, Thailand

Ella Bache: Peaches

Ella Bache: Peaches

Skin good enough to eat.

Advertising Agency: BMF, Sydney, Australia
Executive Creative Director: Warren Brown
Art Director: Jun Harada
Copywriter: Tim Wood
Agency Producers: Carla Robertson, Sarah Thompson
Production Company: Studio Kite (Ella), Electric Art (Key Visual)

Profane Umbrella

I admire somebody that can string together creative string of profanity to make a point. Even more I love it when a cute little umbrella is festooned with some of the foulest language in our society. It’s a standard umbrella that would be the perfect graduation or bridal shower gift. Everybody will …

Ad Fraud Claims Leveled at Identity-Theft Company


COLUMBUS, Ohio (AdAge.com) — Credit-reporting agency Experian has filed a lawsuit against identity-theft insurance company Lifelock, charging it with "misleading advertising and fraud."