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NEW YORK (AdAge.com) — The $5 billion-plus that pharmaceutical advertisers spend advertising to consumers may have less of an impact than believed, according to a joint U.S. and Canadian study released this week.

(TrendHunter.com) Through the use of Photoshop, some clever artists created these images that integrated cheeky commentary on people’s tattoos, adding statements that the artists feels appropriately reveal the character…

MINNEAPOLIS (AdAge.com) — Scandal! Gossip! Fresh faces! And we're not talking about the Palin family, who'll take center stage tonight at the Republican National Convention, where Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin will accept her party's nomination for vice president. Rather, it's the return of Beverly Hills teens growing up too fast in the CW's "90210," which gave the struggling network its highest scripted-series ratings ever and a rare win in the ad-centric 18-to-49 demographic with a 2.6/7 rating and share.

(TrendHunter.com) The Carlyle on Wilshire is being developed by Elad, the same company responsible for refurbishing the Plaza in NYC.

For those who don’t know, the Wilshire corridor in LA is called the Golden Mile because…

Valdimir Putin saved a TV crew from being eaten up by a Siberian Tiger. The Russian prime minister was on a trip to a national park when a gigantic tiger escaped from a trap and charged a camera crew.…

Vanilla Star Jeans has scored Nastia Liukin as the star of its back-to-school campaign for tweens. (Getting a little late for back-to-school ads, doncha think?) With their slogan “Smart girls rock,” you might think they’d choose someone known for … oh, I dunno, being smart? But apparently the Vanilla Star definition of intelligence means having the “ambition” to “live the dream.” It’s one of the most delightfully vague girl-power statements I’ve heard in ages, and I have no doubt that tweens adore it. Vanilla Star’s president, Mark Levy, claims that in these ads, VSJ “is proud to embrace an ‘anti-jean’ company philosophy by opposing the trend of exploiting young teens’ bodies in its ads.” You get that? They’re against jeans, and Liukin’s body is not being exploited. (Just ignore the impressive splits in those second-skin jeans.) You can check out the posters on the Liukin-filled Web site, but be warned, there’s about five different nasty, scripty fonts on there, and you can’t stop the music from looping. You can also watch a short video (under “Scholarship”) that proves Liukin doesn’t have a future in acting.

—Posted by Rebecca Cullers

Jennifer Lyon Bell at Interesting2007 from russelldavies on Vimeo.

Advertising can take over your life. Maybe it’s time you met some people who didn’t want to talk to you about ROIs, RFPs and their bosses penchant for not knowing a good idea if it bit him in the ass.

Luckily, if you live in New York, Interesting is waiting for you. The event invites “people to get on stage and share their passions, curiosities, obsessions, but mostly, what they’re interested in.”

Topics range from poetry to erotic film (see above). Maybe you have something interesting to say?

The event is run by a gaggle of creative thinkers at the Open Intelligence Agency. Now, they seem pretty darn interesting. Get more information and tickets here.

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Today is all about scandal. There was the Carat email screw-up and Obama Vs. Wal-Mart and now, TBWA has been stripped of their Lion for their work on Amnesty International. Why? Not because it only ran once in some small outlet, but because the entry did not appear in media between the required deadline of 1 March 2007 and 30 April 2008 and so is ineligible. No shit.

Naturally, the Cannes Festival took action after the fact. Terry Savage, chairman of the festival, said

“To be clear, some ads were withdrawn during the judging process whilst other entries are going through a similar checking process. It is important for the advertising and the awards industry that entries made comply fully with the rules and spirit of the Festival.”

Ha. Ha. Ahahahahahaha. Please Savage. Save the drivel. Everyone knows you guys check that stuff after someone else makes a big stink about it. You guys are working after the fact all the time. No pre-festival vetting of ads, means “post mortem” action is their only option and gosh darn it, they are sticking to that policy.

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