(TrendHunter.com) No, your eyes are not deceiving you. These are Krispy Kreme Bacon Cheddar Cheeseburgers. Google employees decided to celebrate the birthday of the head of the cafe staff by adding just a little bit more…
– iCrossing is the fastest growing company in Arizona. I point this out only to ask: Need we send a press release for every tiny, little thing? (link)
– The AAAAs are now accepting applications for their Executive Leadership Program. (link)
– In an internal memo, SVP Bill Veghte clears up what the new “about nothing” Microsoft ad starring Seinfeld is all about. (link)
– Consumers love their 3G phone. Sales are way up. (link)
– Need a spokesperson? Tyra Banks is now the top earning woman in prime time television. (link)
– Digital advertising executive Sean Finnegan has left ad network Vibrant Media after just seven months to join Starcom MediaVest. (link)
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(TrendHunter.com) Seasonal affective disorder (SAD) is a mood disorder whose sufferers get deeply depressed in the winter. It is believed that light has something to do with this disorder.
This belief was the reason…
James Bond is changing his drink of choice from the famous vodka martini (shaken, not stirred) to Coca-Cola Zero. But don’t worry, the tech-savvy spy is not a recovering alcoholic now. Coca-Cola UK has…
The election rolls on and as the mud continues to fly, we thought it was worth noting that as an industry, advertising donations have swung blue. You aren’t surprised are you?
According to Open Secrets, in 2008, advertising folk gave $3,249,948 to Dems and $1,908,833 to Republicans. In 2004, the cash gifts were much closer with Dems receiving 59% to the Republicans 40%.
While advertising trends blue overall, the last time it was a 50/50 split was in 1996, Bill Clinton Vs. Bob Dole.
More: Which Advertising Big Deals Gave To What Party
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(TrendHunter.com) This cute little marketing trick would be memorable in any deli or butcher shop! The face-bearing pork is fun, and might even be delicious.
Who wouldn’t pay attention to the smiling character who becomes…
Jerry Seinfeld and Bill Gates are working together to promote Microsoft.
This 90 second commercial aired on network TV and is the work of French Director Michel Gondry. In the commercial, Seinfeld and…
NEW YORK (AdAge.com) — The Ladies Professional Golf Association is taking a mulligan. The league, obviously feeling the mounting pressure from sponsors, its own players, fans, politicians and community groups, issued a statement today announcing that it was taking another shot at its English-proficiency policy issued earlier this week. The group has amended the policy by rescinding the penalty provisions.
When the above ad is a real sample of your print work, you better put your creative account up for review! Pitching shops include Kirshenbaum Bond + Partners, Cossette Communications, KraftWorks and Agency Sacks. There may be more. A little help? (superspyin at gmail dot com)
Chillingworth/Radding is responsible for their current work and they won’t be defending.
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NEW YORK (AdAge.com) — Burger King is getting fired up for football season. The Miami-based burger chain is launching a series of clever efforts with WPP Group's MindShare North America and News Corp.'s Fox that call for Burger King to sponsor a segment of the network's pre-game program as well as have its "King" mascot interact with an animated Fox robot.
A 15 meter tall mechanical spider has been spotted on the side of an unused office block in Liverpool, England. The 37 tonne robot is a character in a five day street theatre that is believed to start…
(TrendHunter.com) A tribute to a Hells Angels leader, Mark “Papa” Guardado, has been created, mere hours after his death in San Francisco.
As a tribute to the Hells Angels leader who was shot, mourners created a make-shift…
– Amalgamated clears air over “Virtual Drinking Buddy” rip.
Since I suck at live blogging, allow me to offer a selection of Tweets from attendees at InVerge 2008 at the Armory in NW Portland, yesterday and today.
Amy Goodman: “when was the last time an art director really cared to make a sale” #inverge
Dan Harbison: Lots of graphs and talking print ad layouts… Hmmm interactive folk glassing over. #inverge
Joshua Green: coming down from #inverge presentation. Went well. Very tired. Thanks to the crowd
PDX Tweet: Now, it’s about building networks.. content is still king, but now context is also king. Two kings, one internet. #di #inverge
Bram Pitoyo: Large media corporations used to be able to set their own ad rates, now they’re finding themselves as just *one* of the participants.
Carri Bugbee: #inverge It’s happeneing; culture is like a glacier. Takes forever to move, but once it gets going, it’s unstoppable. Myth: media moves fast
Gaia Borgias Brown: Cooperation meets competition = “coopetition” #inverge
yogacowgirls: #inverge engage your customers BEFORE your product launch, great idea! wanna buy a yoga video? not edited yet!
(me): the pool of #inverge tweets is here >> http://tinyurl.com/5r48ms
(TrendHunter.com) James Bond is changing his drink of choice from the famous vodka martini (shaken, not stirred) to Coca-Cola Zero. But don’t worry, the tech-savvy spy is not a recovering alcoholic now. Coca-Cola UK has…
Maurizio Cattelan‘s taxidermic horse which i saw yesterday at the New Museum as part of the After Nature exhibition is the photo pretext i’ll use to tell readers and friends that this year, for the first time, i won’t be at ars electronica. I asked my friend Jan to post a couple of stories about the festival if he ever feels like it but that should be something very light.
Maurizio Cattelan, “Untitled” 2007, Taxidermic horse. Natural dimensions
Instead, i’ll be at Pictoplasma NYc, then in Korea for Media City Seoul which both have programmes i couldn’t resist to. Then back again in New York for the Conflux festival.
If any of you plans to be in Seoul next week please do come and say hi at Media City. And if you have any tip about places to check out, exhibitions to see and people to meet over there, i’d love you to share them with me, cuz it’s going to be my first visit in South Korea and i’m already feeling a bit lost. Please send your suggestions via the comments on this post or by email. Thanks!
Oh! and one last thing, After Nature is a show you should run to. There’s the much talked about replica of the Unabomber cabin by Robert Kusmirowski, some sculptures made of skin by Pawe? Althamer, photographies by Roger Ballen, Zoe Leonard’s amazing Tree but i’d better let you watch the exhibition online.
(TrendHunter.com) Jerry Seinfeld and Bill Gates are working together to promote Microsoft.
This 90 second commercial aired on network TV and is the work of French Director Michel Gondry. In the commercial, Seinfeld and…
(TrendHunter.com) With the National Hurricane Center naming an onslaught of natural dangers, from Hurricane Ike to Hurricane Hannah to Hurricane Gustav, disaster is starting to prove an unusual source of inspiration to…
As aspirational messages go, it’s hard to beat the headline, “Tail today. Feet tomorrow.” That’s one of the snappy lines from the poster campaign for Spore, the new videogame in which players try to direct a new species from primordial ooze to galaxy-touring super race. “Tail today. Feet tomorrow” would actually be a decent Campaign ’08 poster, too. See a bunch more ads from the campaign on this page.
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