(TrendHunter.com) Last week a group of Bigfoot hunters at ‘Searching for Bigfoot Inc.’ announced that they discovered the real Bigfoot and released a photo of it. It turned out to be a plastic gorilla suit. Now, the internet…
Last week a group of Bigfoot hunters at ‘Searching for Bigfoot Inc.’ announced that they discovered the real Bigfoot and released a photo of it. It turned out to be a plastic gorilla suit. Now, the internet…
California and Massachusetts both recognize gay marriage and now so does the nation’s largest greeting card company does too. An AP report says that Hallmark is introducing a new line of same-sex wedding greeting cards. Although the language is neutral, with no mention of wedding or marriage, the message is clear. Apparently these kinds of cards were in high demand which prompted the decision by Hallmark to create them. Good old supply and demand. The cards are being slowly released and are expected to be widely available by next year. Hallmark has always had those very touching commercials and more recently those really funny ones. I wonder if they will shy away from producing commercials to promote their new efforts. Hallmark says this move was not motivated by political pressure. But really aren’t they all?
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(TrendHunter.com) 100 years ago, people did manual labor, and the lack of a tan was the sign of a person of leisure. Today, a good tan lets people know you have either the time or the money to earn it.
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(TrendHunter.com) Today’s top 20 ranges from same-sex wedding cards to a viral regular, Katy Perry, responding to parental criticism. Katy Perry also happens to be the news of the day, largely because the “I kissed a girl”…
The latest pitchman for the Nationwide Insurance “Life Comes At You Fast” campaign is a real hair raiser. American Idol’s Sanjaya Malakar will be featured in the latest commercial. This is the newest spot in a series of spots that have featured celebs including MC Hammer and K-Fed and accurately point out the need to be mindful that you never know what will happen in your life financially and for that reason you need insurance. But let’s be honest, life came at the child long before American Idol ended.
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It’s about time.This sort-of-but-not-really recession has had everyone talking for, well, years, it seems. Today, we have some meat on the subject.
(TrendHunter.com) Several news reports are emerging after four horses in equestrian events were tested positive for doping. The shocker is the Norwegian team pictured now stands to lose their bronze medal. The horse caught…
David Barton Gym is back with more advertising encouraging rampant nakedness. Its new campaign uses the tagline, “I’d pay to see you sweat,” superimposed on images like this one, showing a nude, shaved-headed model being sketched by two art-school dudes. Presumably the model has sculpted her body at the gym; the dudes may be the ones who would shell out the bucks to get her to perspire. It’s all a bit unclear, and it’s not clarified much on the Web site, LookBetterNaked.com. The one saving grace: David himself is nowhere to be seen.
—Posted by Tim Nudd
It’s probably a bit cruel to point this out but it’s the sort of thing we’re supposed to do here at Adrants.
(TrendHunter.com) Actress Megan Fox plays a very attractive and sexy Mother Teresa in the new movie “Teresa: The Making of a Saint.” Actually, Megan Fox’s character in the movie ‘How To Lose Friends And Alienate People’…
John Battelle, CEO of Battelle Media, a company that sells advertising for a group of high profile blogs, is now venturing into experiential marketing.
According to Ad Age, Battelle organized what he’s calling CrowdFire at this weekend’s Outside Lands music festival in San Francisco.
CrowdFire is an attempt to bring a mash-up of the thousands of camera-phone pictures, hand-held digital-video recordings, blog posts and “tweets” generated at the event. He said the idea is to create a type of organized framework — a “database of experiences” — combining varied media generated at live shows.
“We want to get a cloud of media to become something fungible that people can see and work with to create new things,” Battelle said. “I want the performance to go from one-to-many to many-to-many.”
Microsoft and Intel are underwriting the endeavor. Microsoft will be promoting Windows Live products, including Live Messenger, Live Earth and Live Spaces, as well as its Zune and Xbox products.
NEW YORK (AdAge.com) — Gap Inc. continues to take a hard line when it comes to marketing budgets. During the retailer's second-quarter conference call, Glenn Murphy, chairman-CEO, reiterated that the company would not be spending to support its retail brands until other issues were addressed, including reversing store-traffic trends.
The historic performance of Michael Phelps in the Beijing Olympic 2008 Games in China has helped NBC to record ratings. Not wanting to wait 4 more years to ride on Michael Phelps’s wave again in the 2010…
(TrendHunter.com) The historic performance of Michael Phelps in the Beijing Olympic 2008 Games in China has helped NBC to record ratings. Not wanting to wait 4 more years to ride on Michael Phelps’s wave again in the 2010…
The “Imagine No Possessions” version of the Monopoly board game submitted to the Cracked.com contest “What If the Other Side Had Won“.
LONDON – Mother will launch the fourth in its series of Cactus Kid ads tonight, encouraging viewers to vote on what will happen in the final part.
Watch out, Red Bull, Mountain Dew has beaten you out of the gate. Sprouting from its Green Label Art initiative, the Pepsi brand has launched a virtual record label dedicated to digital singles.
Remember the Typo Eradication Advancement League (TEAL), who are on a mission to correct America?
They’re gone one typo too far: AZ central – Typo vigilantes answer to letter of the law
Two self-anointed “grammar vigilantes” who toured the nation removing typos from public signs have been banned from national parks after vandalizing a historic marker at the Grand Canyon.
Jeff Michael Deck, 28, of Somerville, Mass., and Benjamin Douglas Herson, 28, of Virginia Beach, Va., pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court in Flagstaff after damaging a rare, hand-painted sign in Grand Canyon National Park. They were sentenced to a year’s probation, during which they cannot enter any national park, and were ordered to pay restitution.
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Deck’s diary account of the Grand Canyon incident was submitted as evidence in court. It says the two men climbed Desert View Watchtower while on holiday from their typo-enforcement duties “and discovered a hand-rendered sign inside that, I regret to report, had a few errors. I know today was supposed to be my day off from typo-hunting, but if I may be permitted to quote that most revered of android law enforcers, Inspector Gadget, ‘Always on duty!’ I can’t shut it off. . . . Will we never be free from the shackles of apostrophic misunderstanding, even in a place surrounded by natural beauty?”
After correcting a misplaced apostrophe and comma, Deck reported, he was aghast to discover what he described as a made-up word: “emense.”
“I was reluctant to disfigure the sign any further, so we had to let the other typo stand. Still, I think I shall be haunted by that perversity.”
TEAL’s official site now only carries the statement: “Statement on the signage of our National Parks and public lands to come.”
LONDON – Comparison site uSwitch.com has appointed Essence to handle its online advertising account, following a three-way pitch.
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