NEW YORK (AdAge.com) — NBC said Monday it would continue the practice of informing advertisers and media buyers about its programming schedule in April, a month before most major broadcast networks traditionally make that sort of information available.
(TrendHunter.com) Katherine Heigl, 29, says she withdrew herself from receiving an Emmy her Grey’s Anatomy role because she doesn’t feel she deserves it.
“I did not feel that I was given the material this season to warrant…
Washington Post business section editors thought it might be fun to gather some present day ad people in a room and ask them about AMC’s “Mad Men” while taking their photos.
The writer on the job also had a good time, as evidenced by this nostalgia-laden missive.
In 1960, the ad industry was a Gotham-based priesthood. Advertisers bowed before the adman’s implied knowledge of consumer desire, bolstered by his expertly delivered rap, peppered with trendy pseudo-psychology.
Today, improved consumer research — including instant and deep feedback on the Internet — has sapped much of the priesthood’s power. Advertisers and consumers are both savvier, the Washington ad execs said.
That damn internet screws everything up. Someone pull the plug.
(TrendHunter.com) Iran has a lot of fascinating architecture, and many of these unique buildings are overlooked by the rest of the world. Iran has a lot to offer in terms of design, as we pointed out in an earlier article…
(TrendHunter.com) Constantinos Economides believes he can help save old chairs including favourite ones by repurposing them into rockers. He has designed curved wooden platforms where the chairs can be strapped on. There…
(TrendHunter.com) The BBC is set to air House Of Saddam, a compelling drama for BBC Two, which follows the rise and fall of a dictator and a dynasty.
The four part miniseries dives into the intimate world of Saddam Hussein…
LONDON – Carat has promoted Richard Morris to the newly created role of head of planning.
With our resident Gossip Girl fan, Dave Kiefaber, on vacation this week, the task falls to me to ruminate on the show’s latest advertising, which features mildly racy photos of the cast along with disapproving quotes from stodgy critics. But as Crime Scene Improvisation points out, the ads appear to be racier than the show. In the banner above, for example, Blair Waldorf has somehow lost the bikini she wore in the actual scene from last season. That kind of deception will surely anger the Parents Television Council, which will already be upset to see that its own assessment of the show, as “mind-blowingly inappropriate,” is used as the headline in another of the ads. Read more at Gawker and Adrants.
—Posted by Tim Nudd
(TrendHunter.com) It’s no easy feat to make Victoria Beckham, not only smile, but right out laugh in public. However, Justin Timberlake was able to do just that as the host of the 2008 ESPY Awards. No, it wasn’t because…
If you carry a knife, you risked being stabbed by your own blade. Most likely wielded by Evil You from Mirror World.
Chuck McCarthy has a few ideas for those of us in advertising.
Antiperspirant company Mitchum is using space on dry cleaner hangers to offer $1 coupons to potential customers.
The newly fashionable way to create ads in middle America? By chopping huge swaths through the native vegetation! Papa John’s is doing it with crop circles in a Colorado wheat field. And now it appears McDonald’s has carved a giant maze into a cornfield in Nebraska to advertise its coffee. (Click the image to see a larger version.) A reader informs us that “the 42.6-acre maze, located in Denton, NE—just outside Lincoln, NE—will potentially be the world’s largest. The 2008 Guinness World Book record is 40 acres. Most visitors will take 45 to 90 minutes to navigate each phase of the maze; and of course, will leave with a courtesy coupon for a free latte, mocha or cappuccino specialty coffee from McDonald’s.” What other kinds of crop-based advertising exist out there?
—Posted by Tim Nudd
(TrendHunter.com) This item is just plain silly. The wallet resembling a buttered piece of toast is rather realistic, or at least more so than the uncooked bacon wallet.
Regardless of this, the $9.95 price tag for this…
(TrendHunter.com) Pardon me, can you spare a five billion for lunch? In Zimbabwe the government is issuing a note worth 100 billion . z$100,000,000,000 because inflation is humming along at over 2 million percent annually.…
AMV BBDO, those apparently horrible people who Bob Garfield hates for making a Snicker’s commercial that, OMFG, is homophobic, or so he says, have created two commercials for Wrigley’s Extra gum.
This guy definitely deserves a break today. From The South Florida Sun-Sentinel:
A man who held up a McDonald’s at gunpoint when he was 14 is one of two South Florida finalists in a contest to mix a new jingle for the fast-food giant.
Tamien Bain served 12 years in prison for the crime.
Now 29 and known in hip-hop circles as “BAiNG The Locksmith,” Bain, of Miami, learned this week he’s made the top five in McDonald’s BIG MAC chant competition.
On Memorial Day 1994, Bain and two other young men were thinking of robbing a bank, when they decided at the last minute to hold up a Miami McDonald’s instead.
No shots were fired during the robbery. But Bain, the youngest of the three defendants, was caught on the spot and later charged as an adult.
Do you think they’ll change the contest rules from now on? Maybe, “Employees, their families, and folks who once held up a McDonald’s are not eligible to win.”
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