(TrendHunter.com) Facebook will soon be launching its new look with a much more user-friendly interface.
It will be much easier to navigate as the main page will have just two columns and the profile page, all with customizable…
(TrendHunter.com) Miley Cyrus is ready to ditch her goody-goody Disney image on her new CD, Breakout, in a hope to make the public transition from tween to teen idol. The Breakout CD is under “Miley Cyrus” instead of the…
(TrendHunter.com) Nice is debuting its new plug-in electric city car, the MyCar, at the British Motor Show in London on July 23. The two-seater, eco-fun car with zero emissions be available in the U.K. this fall, with prices…
Font conferance – “This video wasn’t long enough, so we made it double-spaced.” Tee hee hee.
warning – Comic sans is (gasp!) The Hero. This is way funnier than I thought it would be.
(TrendHunter.com) A neo-romantic, post-punk, dream-film called “Nirvana,” directed by Igor Voloshin, made its debut in July 2008. Some fame was already brought to the creators earlier this year at the Berlin Film Festival…
Looks like CP+B’s finally doing something with the $300 million in ad money Microsoft gave it. The divine task: reposition Vista.
(TrendHunter.com) Bulletproofbaby.net is a fun site originally set up to promote the movie “Shoot ‘Em Up”. The site looks just like an ordinary online store, complete with payment symbols and shopping carts. They even added…
(TrendHunter.com) By 2012, BT Telecom aims to release its fastest broadband ever, following a projected investment of £1.5 billion which will reach up to 10 million users. This is great news for computer lovers, but it…
Lately I can’t turn the TV on without running into an ad for the Pickens Plan, T. Boone Pickens’ $58 million attempt to liberate the US from its sordid addiction to foreign oil.
Right Guard is testing a dubious new advertising tactic in London that tries to get people to look into other people’s armpits. “Pitvertising,” as it’s known, involves sewing tiny TVs into shirts worn by hired guerrilla teams, who swarm the subways and shove their armpits in everyone’s face, in the hopes that they’ll watch a Right Guard commercial on the screen. The whole thing, of course, is the pits (even Axe’s legendary Pitman would probably disapprove), and is rivaled in its distastefulness only by that other burgeoning bodily ad medium: crotchvertising. Via Gizmodo.
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(TrendHunter.com) Esquire magazine will use honest-to-goodness ePaper to commemorate their 75th year. The high tech cover will flash “the 21st Century Begins Now” when it’s on the newsstands. Esquire hopes it will make…
(TrendHunter.com) This classic trend made gizmodo.com’s top 10 list of reasons our society is doomed.
The less-embellished description of the combination Hot Dog Grill and Bun Warmer, is that it just combines the microwave…
LONDON – John Wren, global chief executive of Omnicom Group, hinted the company is on the lookout for acquisitions as it unveiled its Q2 2008 results today.
What? You thought it would never happen? Oh please. Of course you did.
(TrendHunter.com) If you are one of those people that finds it impossible to wake up in the morning, you might want to try the Rocket Alarm. Not only does it play the usual annoying beep that only die-hards can sleep through,…
So we do a lot of ad critique around here at Adrants. Sometimes our critique is worthy. Other times it’s the digital equivalent of a newspaper used for dog defecation.
LONDON – Lego has partnered with Viacom Brand Solutions (VBS), the sales house for Nickelodeon, MTV, VH1 and Paramount Comedy, to launch a nationwide search for two kids to appear in a new ad on Nickelodeon to promote Lego City.
(TrendHunter.com) Today we revisit Cosplay (or Cos-Play), which is short for “costume play” in Japan. An entire subculture centers around dressing up like anime and video game characters, or from live action television,…
NEW YORK (AdAge.com) — The world's largest ad conglomerate, Omnicom Group, sees an upside to the sagging economy: a chance to get off the sidelines and become a bigger player in the acquisition game.
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