Here in the USA, where Regular Gas is $4.00+/gallon (with Premium Gas is $4.50+/gallon) – this could be helpful. 🙂
I’d heard about these ‘billboard’ cars before, but not with free gas.
Well it’s not the Agency.com Subway video, except for the bookends which feature Exaggerated Ad Dude (Charlie Anderson), but it’s still filled with enough bravado to…
LONDON – The International Olympic Committee (IOC) has appointed research consultancy Sponsorship Intelligence to conduct consumer and media research into this year’s Games.
Ah, I do love when banner ads go bad – even in such morbid cases as this one. CNN reports that the Sixth severed foot surfaces off Canadian coast and the banner ad adds some unintentional visual humor to it.
the Guardian channeled the Sun and issued a pun headline: Six feet under.
When it comes to moving and moving companies, big trucks and cardboard boxes are the sort of imagery that usually come to mind.
CANNES (AdAge.com) — Wednesday at Cannes saw presentations for cyber, press and design Lions. But the real fun, as you know, takes place after the ceremonies at the Palais. Ad Age photographer Sam Faulkner has been in the South of France this week snapping away at the after-parties along the Croisette.
LONDON – Sport, the free weekly magazine, has appointed Iain Duffy, the former advertising controller at Express Newspapers, to the newly created role of agency sales director.
LONDON – Mail Online leapfrogged Telegraph.co.uk and Guardian.co.uk to become the UK’s most popular newspaper website last month.
LONDON – Eyeconomy NASH, the online ad provider, is expanding globally with new offices opening in Europe and the US.
Adweek is reporting that the Amsterdam office of StrawberryFrog has “severed ties to he agency’s operations in New York and elsewhere.”
The 40-person group in Holland, led by Brian Elliott, who co-founded StrawberryFrog with Scott Goodson in 1999, has rebranded as Amsterdam Worldwide.
Goodson remains CEO of offices in New York, Sao Paolo, Tokyo and Mumbai. Those operations will keep the StrawberryFrog name.
Goodson, an active blogger, has yet to weigh in on the news.
LONDON – Database Group has set up a dedicated financial services division in response to the worsening economic climate.
LONDON – McDonald’s has signed up Girls Aloud, Sugababes and McFly to lend their music to special Happy Meal toys and perform at one of its Central London restaurants.
Coca-Cola and its design firm Turner Duckworth made their mark on Cannes yesterday, capturing the Grand Prix in the ad festival’s inaugural design Lions.
The majority — about three quarters — of the design Lions winners were from what one would consider ad agencies, rather than from design shops.
Rodney Fitch, head of the design jury and chairman-CEO of Fitch, said “Design companies have never heard of Cannes.” He added: “That will change. The design industry will be rushing to submit work.”
“We live in a in a complicated, integrated world. Design is a thread that runs though everything we do.”
[via Ad Age]
LONDON – Npower has appointed EHS Brann to its direct marketing account following a pitch involving four other agencies.
LONDON – Tri-Direct has won a contract to supply HBOS General Insurance with a bespoke data product.
Can you name all eight players in this ad, starting from the left? Inquiring minds want to know…
According to The New York Times, the ad is part of a $15 million dollar TV, print and digital effort from Grey Atlanta on behalf of Sony Ericsson WTA Tour.
The chairman of RKCR/Y&R takes in the bracing sea breeze on the Riviera.
LONDON – Five is ramping up its factual programming offering with several new commissions, including a batch of new programmes in its successful Extraordinary People strand.
Draft FCB is making strange videos for Claussen’s Pickles. Because, “limp pickles can kill a cookout. OK, well, maybe that’s extreme, but fresh pickles do matter.”
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