Hasta La Creative!

LONDON – Chime Communications has revealed more details about the digital research business, Caucus, which it is launching in the autumn.

(TrendHunter.com) Shannen Doherty and Jennie Garth are featured in an awkward “we are friends, y’all” shot on the new cover of Entertainment Weekly. The reason? They have to play nice to promote the new spin-off of cult…

LONDON – A survey of marketing professionals has revealed wildly varying salaries for the same jobs.

LONDON – Cadbury is bringing back its drumming gorilla next week, nearly a year on from the original launch.

It’s no secret that baseball’s a slow-moving sport. I’m a fan, and even I can’t sit through an entire game. They tend to run three-hours-plus and contain about 15 seconds of excitement. So, it’s appropriate that McCann Erickson crams about 15 seconds of action footage into each of its new spots promoting Major League Baseball’s postseason. They toss in oddities like insects attacking players and black cats running around the field—that stuff’s actually more lively than the game action itself! There’s also a guy blogging, I guess, but even he seems more interested in the bugs on some pitcher’s neck than the score. I’m skipping the postseason this year. And for those who’d accuse me of sour grapes as the playoff hopes of my beloved Yankees dim with each double play Derek Jeter bounces into, I offer the standard, time-tested reply: Wait until next year!

—Posted by David Gianatasio

Advertising Agency: DDB, Vancouver, Canada

Jalopnik’s list of the 10 Worst Non-Automotive Tie-ins With Automotive Brands actually has a couple of good ideas on it, like the Jeep stroller and the Ducati flash drive (which is the best Sandisk flash drive on the market). Nascar meats are a real downer, though, as we’ve mentioned before; the Ferrari Segway scooter (seen here) is just weird; and wearing Bugatti cologne sends an unmistakable chemical signal that you’re an asshole. But I still say the crystal goblets my dad got with his Lincoln were the worst, because they have no tangible connection to cars, and nothing assumes the buyer wears a top hat and monocle every day like freaking goblets.

—Posted by David Kiefaber

Like having over 200 pets. Only someone else cleans up the poop.

Advertising Agency: Richter7, USA
Creative Directors: Gary Sume, Ryan Anderson
Art Director: Ryan Anderson
Copywriter: Gary Sume
Illustrator: Michael Slack
Executive Creative Director: Dave Newbold
Published: June 2008

If the company’s for real (and I’m praying it isn’t), Jet Angel‘s business model consists in large part of slapping client ad messages on decommissioned military equipment and parking these once-fearsome war machines in front of children’s hospitals. Yeah, that’ll boost a brand’s image. To hype itself in the political season, Jet Angel apparently drove McCain and Obama missiles around Manhattan and Washington, D.C., aimed them at local landmarks and sent the resulting pictures to the press. (See more pics here.) If the whole thing is a joke—i.e., an attempt at ironic humor or satire—it fails to meet the demands of the post-South Park era. (I know the show’s still on, but who watches anymore?) In the illustration on the company’s site, the hospital should be in ruins and the nurses’ hair on fire as they run screaming past the corporate-logo-emblazoned weaponry. The street-campaign should be Photoshopped to show the buildings ablaze—and why not toss in a Flogo Godzilla? My point: Real or not, Jet Angel, you bombed either way.

—Posted by David Gianatasio

LONDON – Publicis has expanded its Phonevalley mobile marketing offering into Russia, which has 80m mobile subscribers.