Hasta La Creative!

WASHINGTON (AdAge.com) — More than 100 college coaches are making a new appeal to NCAA President Myles Brand to eliminate alcohol advertising in telecasts of college sports as the NCAA's Division 1 executive committee readies to meet Aug. 7 in Indianapolis.

Chicago ad:tech is, by far, a smaller show than either new York or San Francisco. THough that doesn’t stop vendors and attendees from mingling en mass in the exhibit hall.

Circuit City lost its sense of humor, but just for a short few hours. Mad Magazine did a parody of Circuit City “located just across the street from Best Buy” and the corporation demanded the magazine…

The economic downturn has to hurt the ad business at some point. According to the Los Angeles Times, certain sectors-like online display advertising–are already feeling the pain.

In one ominous example, Lee Enterprises Inc., which owns 54 newspapers including the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, said in its most recent earnings report that its online ad revenue had dropped 9.1% while print ad revenue fell 10.1%.

Analysts say companies tend to cut back first on display advertising, which generated 21% of online ad revenue in 2007, because they see it as a way to improve their image rather than generate direct sales as search ads do.

Search-engine advertising, which constituted 41% of all online ad revenue last year, is expected to remain strong. Although, this Ad Age article about poaching trademarked search terms makes one question.

David Hallerman, an analyst with EMarketer Inc., figures online publishers have little to worry about. “Complaining about an online-ad slowdown is like griping about a slugger who is on pace for 40 home runs after hitting 50 last year,” he said.

Online advertising is “not going to grow as much as expected, but it’s still going to be growing more than other media,” Hallerman said.

Keeps you snug.

Advertising Agency: DDB New Zealand
Executive Creative Director: Toby Talbot
Art Director: James Conner
Copywriter: Christie Cooper
Photographer: Rory Carter
Retoucher: Gordon Moir, The Lounge

Advertising Agency: Saatchi & Saatchi, Dubai, UAE
Creative Director: Ed Jones
Art Directors / Copywriters: Neeraj Sabharwal, Anjum Shaikh
Photographer: Candy Kennedy

Advertising Agency: Y&R Advertising, Irvine, USA
Creative Director / Copywriter: Craig Evans
Art Director: Mike Stivers
Photographer: John Schulz

Advertising Agency: Scala JWT, Bucharest, Romania
Executive Creative Director: Mihai Cojocaru
Art Director: Virgiliu Andone
Photographer: Andrei Orcula
Creative Catalysts: Angela Teodorescu, Alexandra Cantor
Copywriter: Andreea Dragomir
Via: Bestadsontv

Creative Director: Stefan Poulos
Associate Art Director: Alison Medland
Associate Creative Director: Andrew Heckel
Photographer: Jill Greenberg
Via: Directdaily

Advertising Agency: Callegari Berville Grey, Paris, France
Executive Creative Director: Andrea Stillacci
Creative Directors: Giovanni Settesoldi, Luissandro Del Gobbo
Art Director: Giovanni Settesoldi
Copywriter: Luissandro Del Gobbo
Illustrator: Claudio Luparelli, Artout
Photographer: Riccardo Bagnoli