Hasta La Creative!

Advertising Agency: DGWB, USA
Partner/ECD: Jon Gothold
ACD/Writer: Steve Harbour
ACD/Art Director: Joe Cladis
Agency Producer: Scott Seltzer
Prod Company: DUCK
Directors: Docter Twins
Director of Photography: Simon Thirlaway
Animation Directors: Lane & Jan
Executive Producer: Mark Medernach
Producer: Jim O’donnell
Production Designer: Justin Trask
Editor: Melissa Timme
Animators: Jim Richardson, Tom Roth, Eric Molina, Jan Chen, Lane Nakamura, Dony Permedi
Modeling and Rigging: Brandon Perlow
Lighting & Texturing: Huyen Dang, Stephen Hensley
Compositing and FX: Joe Kim
Aired: August 2008

Advertising Agency: e21, Brazil
Creative Director: Ricardo tronquini
Art Directors: Ricardo Tronquini, Tiago Junqueira
Copywriter: Matheus Lehembauer
Illustrator: GRB
Photographer: Fabian Gloeden
Production: Mariza Finck
Published: July 2008

Advertising Agency: e21, Brazil
Creative Director: Ricardo tronquini
Art Directors: Ricardo Tronquini, Tiago Junqueira
Copywriter: Matheus Lehembauer
Illustrator: GRB
Photographer: Fabian Gloeden
Production: Mariza Finck
Published: July 2008

LONDON – Staples is encouraging children to stock up their pencil cases before they go back to school in a new TV commercial, which breaks today.

LONDON – Consumer electronics giant Samsung has teamed up with Yahoo! to provide an integrated internet service in its television sets.

LONDON – Marmite is continuing its “love/hate” strategy in a new print campaign created by DDB London.

LONDON – Talksport-owner UTV Radio has enjoyed a 15% increase in revenues for the first half of 2008, up £4.9m to £36.4m year on year, with its UK stations showing 5% revenue growth.

LONDON – WPP is in discussions with Microsoft regarding the possibility of buying the latter’s digital ad agency Avenue A/Razorfish, according to reports in the US.

LONDON – The BBC is to keep some of its top shows online for longer with the launch of so-called series stacking to the BBC iPlayer from next month.

Oh Noes! The Mad Men tweets, where most of the Sterling Cooper possy where going about their day in public tweets was not created by AMC, in fact the AMC sent Twitter a DMCA complaint about the accounts, and several are already pulled including @don_draper & @peggyolson. Philmang has the scoop. Phil rightly reckons that this is an “epic FAIL on the part of AMC”, meanwhile I wonder what I’ll do all day now that I can’t hit on Salvator Romano and befriend fellow redhead Joan Holloway. I was having lots of fun with the characters over at twitter, and their tweets showed me the Playboy spread which I would have never found otherwise, since we all know I don’t read that for the articles. I guess I’ll just get back to work now. *sigh*

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