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(TrendHunter.com) The big building competition in the Arabian Peninsula is really heating up with a really ginormous tower just announced for Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. Although we revealed this project would be under construction, we didn’t know where it would be built.

The plans show it will be twice as big as the alre…

Management at a North Dakota television network affiliate are at a loss to explain how and why a commercial for a local car dealership featuring three seconds of male genitalia was broadcast during the ten o’clock news Monday night.

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(TrendHunter.com) It took me a few a seconds to ‘get’ these Jocky Underwear ads, then I just couldn’t stop laughing.

As women appreciate the help of a sports bra while doing physical activities, guys also need an appropriate protection to prevent their family jewels from popping up.

The ‘Stay Put’ campaign shows yo…

Toys R Us is taking a greener approach to appeal to environmentally conscious customers with a launch of a new eco-friendly line of toys. To mark their Earth Day launch, they’ve also recreated their logo.

The line will include items like unprocessed wood toy and dolls made of untreated organic cott…

Like a mother walking in on her son in the middle of a masturbation session, this M&M commercial…

Modernista! deservedly won praise for its innovative and shockingly unsucky Web site. Let’s face it, the bar wasn’t high. But just how ahead of the curve is Modernista! is when it comes to new forms of communication? After all, it committed a big Wikipedia no-no by steering its own entry. Chris Grayson, an amateur sleuth, points out on Modernista!’s Facebook fan page that the agency’s founding partners, Lance Jensen and Gary Koepke, are hardly poster boys for trying out new things. Jensen doesn’t have a Facebook page, and Koepke hasn’t uploaded a photo and doesn’t appear to have any friends. Even on LinkedIn, they leave a small footprint, Grayson notes. Neither one blogs. “This ‘company website as 2.0 filter’ looks a lot more like a stunt, than like an agency that ‘get’s it’ [sic] or is involved in Web 2.0 technology in any real way,” Grayson writes. The question comes down to whether it matters if top agency people do any of this new stuff. On the one hand, you’d think agency people have more important things to do than blog and Twitter. Then again, people like Ian Schafer of Deep Focus and Scott Goodson of StrawberryFrog are hip deep in social media stuff.

—Posted by Brian Morrissey

LONDON – Wieden & Kennedy Amsterdam has appointed Jeff Kling, previously creative director of Euro RSCG New York, as its executive creative director.

There’s a detail in this Brandweek story about the “chocolate wars” that really stands out. It seems Hershey is seeking to “recruit hosts for 10,000 chocolate parties during the April 25 weekend.” Chocolate parties!? That’s also part of my utopian vision, and needless to say, I volunteer as a host. (Back of the line, Griner!) The lead agency on Hershey’s Bliss is Havas’s Arnold, aka Adland’s Party Machine, so anything could happen at these bashes. (There might even be chocolate wrestling. Well, probably just chocolate sampling. But that’s still pretty good.) Just don’t invite that M&Ms guy. He’s got issues.

—Posted by David Gianatasio

(TrendHunter.com) Pay-per-view funerals will start in Britain soon. If you can’t make the services, for a fee, you can log on and mourn. Wesley Music will offer the service to funeral parlors around the country for a one time payment of $150 for access to a funeral webcast. If the eulogy is half as good as John Clees…

(TrendHunter.com) Here it is Jaegermeister fans, your very own home tap that dispenses the lovely brew at the perfect zero degrees Fahrenheit.

When the three liter bottles get low, an energy-saving shut-off kicks in to help reduce your carbon footprint. Also featured is a low level signal, and LED lights. The break…