Vortex Art Homes – The Inversion House (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) This artful architecture can look either like a brilliant museum display or a run-down shack depending on your perspective.

Dan Havel and Dean Ruck of Art League Houston created this “Inversion” in 2005,…

Mobile MP3 Docks – iBikeConsole (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) iBikeConsole is a new iPod accessory geared towards bicyclists who have grown tired of using arm straps to hold their iPods. It is a special docking station for an iPod nano that is securely set in a bicycle’s…

Preseason Promotion Buzzkills – Acclaimed TV Shows Still Cancelled

TV shows that get a lot of preseason buzz often become buzz bombs, according to research company Magna.

Magna followed programs for 10 seasons and found that just 11 out of 39 shows with big preseason…

Preseason Buzzkills – Acclaimed TV Shows Still Cancelled

TV shows that get a lot of preseason buzz often become buzz bombs, according to research company Magna.

Magna followed programs for 10 seasons and found that just 11 out of 39 shows with big preseason…

USB Bottle Openers – The TrekStor Thumb Drive (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) USB thumb drives are inherently useful, but multitasking thumb drives are far cooler. TrekStor is known for their USB drives, and this USB thumb drive has another crucial function besides data storage–opening…

Sports Fan Cemeteries – The Hamburg SV Cemetery (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) Hamburg SV’s lifetime devoted football fans never have to worry about missing a single game–even in the afterlife.  The club has just opened a fan cemetery just next to the stadium that can hold around…

Bavarian Chic – Philosophy Spring 2009 at New York Fashion Week (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) Philosophy catapulted New York Fashion week show goers with old European romance with a stunning Spring 2009 collection.

Heavy on the paisley, gold and flowing frocks cinched at the waist, Philosophy’s…

Teen Icons To Entice Voters – Jessica Alba for Declare Yourself

Down, boys, down—although Jessica Alba in bondage may send the hormones of red-blooded men (and women, in some cases) soaring, that was not the intention of Declare Yourself, a national nonpartisan, nonprofit…

Teen Icons To Entice Youth Voters – Jessica Alba for Declare Yourself

Down, boys, down—although Jessica Alba in bondage may send the hormones of red-blooded men (and women, in some cases) soaring, that was not the intention of Declare Yourself, a national nonpartisan, nonprofit…

Eccentric Designer Dolls – Hello Kitty’s Tarina Taratino As A Barbie (VIDEO)

(TrendHunter.com) Tarina Tarantino is a designer so eccentric, they’ve created a Barbie doll in her likeness, complete with hot pink hair. Tarantino was an accessory designer with some success until she hit on the singular…

Oats Lost, Fringe Lacks Luster, Cartoons on AdSense

– StopandVote.org launched today. Produced by 10 college interns at Concept Farm, the site urges users to craft political messages for dissemination. See it put the stops on knee-jerk topics like religion (represented by Jesus), sex, abortion, 9/11, McCain…

Preseason Buzzkills – Acclaimed TV Shows Still Cancelled (VIDEO)

(TrendHunter.com) TV shows that get a lot of preseason buzz often become buzz bombs, according to research company Magna.

Magna followed programs for 10 seasons and found that just 11 out of 39 shows with big preseason…

VP Exclusive Interviews – Sarah Palin Speaks with Charlie Gibson (VIDEO)

(TrendHunter.com) The world has been watching for Sarah Palin’s first official interview since the GOP Convention; it finally took place on September 11 with Charlie Gibson, anchor of “World News” on ABC.

In the interview,…

Teen Icons To Entice Voters – Jessica Alba for Declare Yourself (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) Down, boys, down—although Jessica Alba in bondage may send the hormones of red-blooded men (and women, in some cases) soaring, that was not the intention of Declare Yourself, a national nonpartisan, nonprofit…

Poshly Conservative Dresses – Victoria Beckham’s 2009 Fashion Line (VIDEO)

(TrendHunter.com) Victoria Beckham’s fashion collection has finally made its debut at New York Fashion Week. She talked to a select group of fashion press including the Telegraph’s Hilary Alexander about her “dream of a…

Wendy’s Goes Viral. Just Kidding.

wendys-crazy-lettuce.jpg

Wendy’s joins the amateur video club with “Crazy Lettuce.”

Personalized Genealogy Maps – Worldnames by Public Profiler (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) Ever wondered where your extended kinfolk might be?  Try out this nifty website, Public Profiler/Worldnames by entering your surname and see where people who share your surname are located by country and…

Fox, NBC Tie With Top Ratings for Night

MINNEAPOLIS (AdAge.com) — The weekend's gridiron and the workweek's grind of work or school indicate it's early fall. But on TV, it seems like Indian summer, as the low ratings and high rate of repeats seem more indicative of the last three months than the next three.

Exclusive: GM/OnStar to Campbell Ewald; XM in Review (Our Spy Says They Already Lost)

u_xm_lrg.jpg

An XM Satellite Radio spokesperson has confirmed that the brand is in review at the behest of GM/OnStar, whose AoR (Campbell Ewald) has been working on integrating the XM brand into GM’s model.

Per spokesperson:

“GM/OnStar is conducting an ad agency review to select an agency to help them integrate the XM brand into GM vehicle and dealership marketing &#151 across all GM divisions. This business had been with Campbell-Ewald since 2001, and Campbell-Ewald is participating in the review.

XM Radio is working with GM to evaluate agencies, but this is not a review of XM’s agencies of record, which remain Mullen (for Media) and Lowe New York (for Creative).”

Word from inside CE is XM notified CE that they’d already lost the account, and that as of yesterday a speedy pull out was under way. Learn more about that, and the fallout, after the jump.

More: Campbell-Ewald: What A Hot Mess Looks Like

continued…

Comments (View)

function() {
links = document.getElementsByTagName(‘a’);
query = ‘?’;
for(var i = 0; i = 0) {
query += ‘url’ + i + ‘=’ + encodeURIComponent(links[i].href) + ‘&’;
}
}
document.write(”);
})();

New Career Opportunities Daily: The best jobs in media

GM/OnStar to Campbell Ewald: XM in Review (Our Spy Says They Already Lost)

u_xm_lrg.jpg

An XM Satellite Radio spokesperson has confirmed that the brand is in review at the behest of GM/OnStar, whose AoR (Campbell Ewald) has been working on integrating the XM brand into GM’s model.

Per spokesperson:

“GM/OnStar is conducting an ad agency review to select an agency to help them integrate the XM brand into GM vehicle and dealership marketing &#151 across all GM divisions. This business had been with Campbell-Ewald since 2001, and Campbell-Ewald is participating in the review.

XM Radio is working with GM to evaluate agencies, but this is not a review of XM’s agencies of record, which remain Mullen (for Media) and Lowe New York (for Creative).”

Word from inside CE is XM notified CE that they’d already lost the account, and that as of yesterday a speedy pull out was under way. Learn more about that, and the fallout, after the jump.

More: Campbell-Ewald: What A Hot Mess Looks Like

continued…

Comments (View)

function() {
links = document.getElementsByTagName(‘a’);
query = ‘?’;
for(var i = 0; i = 0) {
query += ‘url’ + i + ‘=’ + encodeURIComponent(links[i].href) + ‘&’;
}
}
document.write(”);
})();

New Career Opportunities Daily: The best jobs in media