(TrendHunter.com) Family Guy video ads can now show up on any website or blog that uses Google AdSense (including Trend Hunter). The Google TV ads require no special action by the website or blog owner. Thousands of websites…
(TrendHunter.com) “Phone Racing”, a new mobile phone craze, is sweeping Sweden. It’s stupid, yet fascinating. Swedish cell phone owners are putting their mobile devices to the test by participating in cell phone races.…
This is the latest poster for the The Dark Knight movie due for theatrical release in the USA on July 18th. The amount of viral publicity created for this film in the form of posters, trailers, videos,…
It worked in the music industry for Radiohead, but can the pay-what-you-want concept work in the food industry too? A innovative London restaurant is ready to make a bold move by offering a “pay what you…
(TrendHunter.com) Australia has been busy creating a pair of the world’s most round objects, ever. Made from silicon, these two spheres measure exactly 93.75 millimeters (about 3.7 inches) in diameter. It’s taken months…
NEW YORK (AdAge.com) — Kekst and Co., an independent corporate and financial PR firm and one of the biggest players in the mergers-and-acquisitions space, announced Thursday it's selling to Publicis Groupe. Kekst will keep its name and operate autonomously as a member of the holding company's specialized agencies and marketing services division.
(TrendHunter.com) This is the latest poster for the The Dark Knight movie due for theatrical release in the USA on July 18th. The amount of viral publicity created for this film in the form of posters, trailers, videos,…
I would file this alcoholic beverage under H for “Hype.” It boasts a purification process that uses 600 cut diamonds of UP TO one carat in size. I’m not a Vodka expert but, I would think that in order…
(TrendHunter.com) It appears that Fox News may be using Photoshop for evil. In this morning’s Fox & Friends morning show, the co-hosts labeled two NY Times reporters “attack dogs.” Furthermore, they featured these ‘lovely’…
(TrendHunter.com) Why the hell hasn’t this been thought of before? Seriously! Frequent party-throwers will want to invest in one of these: The Kegstand. Designed by Kaleidoscope, a product development consultancy in Cincinnati,…
MINNEAPOLIS (AdAge.com) — Two sets of numbers were especially scrutinized for transcendent trends within the last day. The news was grim in Motown, where the automotive industry reeled after the Japanese models performed much better than the American ones. Things (as usual) were much sunnier in L.A., as the audience industry saw ABC's Japanese model, "Wipeout," hold its own, while NBC's American model, "America's Got Talent," enjoyed a slight increase.
NEW YORK (AdAge.com) — Adidas has handed more work to Montreal shop Sid Lee, naming the shop global creative agency of record for the Adidas Originals streetwear brand after a review.
(TrendHunter.com) Oil prices seem to be traveling down a one way street, and it is directed upward. To cope with the costs, people are looking for alternatives to conventional transportation methods.
Damien Cally is an…
(TrendHunter.com) Gaming fans, brace yourselves, because your addiction is about the get much worse. Blizzard announced the release of Diablo 3 today. The first trailer, which can be seen above, was released at the Worldwide…
(TrendHunter.com) Quality Standard Beef and Lamb has just launched a new Facebook application (and digital campaign) to get people barbecuing this summer.
The application is really easy to use and allows Facebook users…
David Griner of AdFreak fame has convinced his agency, Luckie & Co, to launch The Social Path. It’s a clean, uncomplicated and sane place for learning about social media.
Omnicom is forming a new consultancy to help marketers reach women. The new unit is named G23 — G as in Group, 23 as in the pair of chromosomes that carries the sex differences between women and men.
The power of women in the marketplace is undisputed. Surveys indicate that female consumers in the United States buy or influence the buying of more than 75 percent of all goods.
“Targeting women is something that is at the core†of the industry, said John D. Wren, president and chief executive at Omnicom, but at the same time “the need has always existed to do it in a fashion that adds value.â€
According to Internetnews.com, Google and Yahoo spiders will begin to crawl sites built with Adobe’s Flash.
“Improving how we crawl dynamic content will ultimately enhance the search experience for our users,” said Bill Coughran, senior vice president of engineering at Google.
Google will be going live with the new SWF indexing technology this week, while Yahoo plans to release it at an undetermined point in the future.
Gone are the days when earnest, slightly manipulative letters to the North Pole get lost in the USPS ether. Now you can join Santa’s social network and hit him up whenever.
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