Hasta La Creative!

According to Associated Press, AOL is paying $850 million for an online hangout popular in Europe.

Bebo is one of the largest social networks in Britain, is ranked No. 1 in Ireland and New Zealand and has a global membership of more than 40 million. In the United States, however, it ranks third behind MySpace and Facebook.

Ron Grant, AOL’s president and chief operating officer, said the deal should help AOL expand internationally and Bebo grow in the United States. The all-cash deal, expected to close in a month, also should give AOL an engaged audience from which it can generate additional advertising revenue.

Yes, but the engagement factor isn’t with advertising, it’s with one’s friends.

LONDON – ITV has secured rights to show the upcoming Formula One season online at itv.com, ahead of the new season that begins this weekend.

Deep bass. No matter how hard you play it.

Advertising Agency: Jung von Matt / Elbe, Germany
Creative Directors: Sascha Hanke, Timm Hanebeck
Copywriter: Sascha Hanke
Art Director: Patrik Hartmann
Illustrators: Mathieu Mazzotti Colombo, Moritz Grub

LONDON -The deadline for submissions to the Thinkbox TV Planning Awards is approaching, with entrants being given until this Friday (14 March) to lodge applications.

(TrendHunter.com) Playing Nintendo Wii is more enjoyable when you’re standing up swinging and poking the remote. That’s why a Tokyo firm, Thanko, came up with an expensive, adjustable TV platform, the Electric Up and Down Big TV Stand. It has a built-in wired controller for pumping TV screen vertically up to 130 cm…

Poor Under Armour. You have stock-price issues when you announce you're buying a spot in this year's Super Bowl. Many wonder if it was the right thing to do. The problem is, from a marketing standpoint, the reason many may have worried about you blowing your ad budget on a Super Bowl spot is, frankly, who are you kidding?

LONDON – Digital entertainment firm MoMedia International has hired former Eurosport executive Alex Grahame as head of its EMEA region.

(TrendHunter.com) In our material world, surely there are a lot of things you wish you had, but can’t afford, or perhaps don’t have room for in your home. To solve that problem, there’s the *can’t have it? stick it* decals, a collection of stickers for your wall that resemble luxury goods, large pieces of furniture a…

A commercial from Eliot Spitzer’s 2006 campaign for New York governor. If only Spitzer had gone to the same elementary school as his running mate, David Paterson.

—Posted by Tim Nudd

(TrendHunter.com) Not available until the end of March, these Rotating speakers are for 5th generation iPod users. The lithium battery will give you 8 hours of continuous music. Not too shabby.