LONDON – Sony Ericsson is mounting a global digital-led marketing campaign to launch its X1 smart-phone, which it hopes will challenge the market dominated by the iPhone and Blackberry.
(TrendHunter.com) Daniel Radcliffe is not your average teenage idol. While he’s not playing the beloved boy-wizard Harry Potter, he’s prancing around the stage naked in a play about a young guy in love with a horse. Now…
Anyone who thinks the wording of the erroneously sent Carat documents about impending layoffs was, in any way, different from other agencies’ documents on the same topic is an idiot.
(TrendHunter.com) Long ago, Trend Hunter introduced you to Ugly Modeling Agency, but today we are updating with a video and sample models.
Ugly was founded in 1969. No, it’s not that before that people weren’t ugly……
W+K ECD Tony Davidson’s book “One-Track Mind” has hit store shelves this week. Apparently, Tony has spent years taking photos of things that remind him of breasts. When I say years, I mean TEN. Ten years of breast imagery from pancakes to traffic cones. Perhaps Tony and David Duchovny should have a little chat?
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(TrendHunter.com) Jessica Simpson made her debut as a member of the Grand Old Opry wearing a very short dress with a deep neckline that had camera operators waiting for a wardrobe malfunction. Simspon made her debut Saturday…
Starbucks will begin offering a free paper from the magazine Good that will tackle one election topic a week, like carbon emissions, health care and education.
The collaboration between Prevention magazine and NBC’s hit weight-loss show has grown beyond mutual promotion to best-selling books, specialty magazines and an online club.
As advertising spending in magazines continues to decline, publishers are intensifying their search for revenue from marketers.
It must be incredibly hard to launch an advertising agency. The cost. Getting the clients. The competitors, etc. However, that is no excuse for the sci-fi angled approach of New Zealand’s latest shop, Running With Scissors. Now, I know that New Zealand agencies are a bit off center, but come on. Go to the website and just let it play. Please, please, because I couldn’t possibly explain the men in cloaks, the replicant, the goat in all their glory.
Let me just say that there are a few things one should NOT do when launching an advertising agency:
1. Don’t let your love of Babylon 5 seep over into your website’s
concept.
2. Don’t proclaim that your agency is seminal, before you actually
prove it.
3. Don’t dress the owners in gold jump suits.
4. Don’t say that you created solutions based advertising. You
didn’t.
The website is all in good fun and maybe the kids down under will totes love it. As a blogger on the other side of the world? I’m just agog and aghast.
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Here’s an intriguing bit of information provided to us by Adrants reader Don Russell.
BATAVIA, Ohio (AdAge.com) — Alberto-Culver Co. has agreed to buy worldwide rights and trademarks for the Noxzema skin-care brand from Procter & Gamble Co. for an undisclosed amount, the company said today.
(TrendHunter.com) The Gucci ready-to-wear collection for Fall 2008 is in a virtual store near you now. If you love the bohemian, rock ‘n roll look this Italian fashion house is currently famed for, you are going to love…
In yet another “homage” if you will, a brand has “borrowed” the imagery of an artist for commercial gain
LONDON – Hovis today released a video which goes behind the scenes of its latest TV ad, which skips through British history over the past 122 years.
– Missed the VMA’s? Watch the two minute re-cap above or just know that Brit Brit won like nine hundred awards. It’s all about ratings kids. (link)
– Who will be Microsoft’s new head of advertising? Adage makes some guesses. (link)
– Madison Ave. is a bit nervous about Google’s browser, Chrome. (link)
– Surprise! Advertisers told Donald Trump that having Girls Gone Wild CEO Joe Francis on Celebrity Apprentice was a deal breaker. (link)
– Fame, a unit of Omnicom Group’s TBWA, has landed creative duties on grocery chain SuperValu’s $85 million account, the client confirmed last week. (link)
– Get ready for a lot more food advertising. (link)
– New York Times writer, Clive Thomspon, gets deep about social media’s effect on intimacy. (link)
– Twitad is trying to help you sell products via Twitter. Well, someone had to do it. (link)
– Wallpaper magazine’s October issue of design and fashion magazine will be guest edited by three legendary women creatives and will go on sale with three individually designed covers. Cool. (link)
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(TrendHunter.com) Beverly St. Clair’s Genome Quilt designs took quite a bit of processing for me to fully appreciate their beauty. Inspired at Wesleyan College by Anni Albers’ serigraphs of triangles arranged in a grid–which…
We’re so damn sick of Web sites that waste our time with kitchy little games like “dodge the fruit” and a “break dancing with robot.” Someone sent us a link to this FiveAlive page called SuperCrazyAlive.
Apparently, Leo Burnett is behind it. We, on the other hand, are wholeheartedly against it (and most other sites like it). The reason? It’s completely pointless. And pointless is not OK. There are sites that do UX much better, such as T3’s Script Your Trip and Virtual Office, and another of my favs, YearbookYourself.
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Portland get your forks and knives ready! Almost legendary W+K branding man, John C. Jay has gone into the restaurant business. Jay and his wife Janet along with restaurateur Andy Ricker will open the restaurant, called Ping, in winter 2008-2009.
It will be a “cross between a izakaya (Japanese pub) and a Southeast Asian cafe and coffeehouse” located at the bottom floor of the Hung Far Low Building. Jay will design the space.
You see – Jay is on a mission to single handely revamp Portland’s Chinatown. Dude is a baller. Here’s here there and taking over a part of the city. Sexy. Portland mayor-elect Sam Adams said:
“Portland uber creative guy John C. Jay thinks Portland’s Old Town/Chinatown can be the North American hot spot for Asian contemporary culture and art, i.e. a modern Chinatown. To get a sense of what he was talking about, John suggested I check out Beijing’s 798 Art District.”
Adams actually blogged that from Beijing, so you know… Jay’s got some serious influence.
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