Hasta La Creative!

(TrendHunter.com) The tough economic times have produced a market in which a typical 18-pound keg is worth about $35. It’s not the stale beer but, the stainless steel that boosts the price.

To combat would-be thieves…

CHICAGO (AdAge.com) — Now here's a novel brief: A trade group has hired advertising and media agencies to make the point that its products are less durable than consumers think. The International Sleep Products Association, which represents mattress makers, has tapped Publicis Groupe's Leo Burnett and Starcom as its creative and media agencies of record in a bid to get consumers to buy new mattresses more often.

I love jewelry from New Zealand designer, Karen Walker, but I love the way taxidermy animals are used to display her products even more. They are used both in store and in a series of print adverts. The…

Spywriter reported last week that Dash GPS fired the small San Francisco agency Buder Engel, at which point one of its partners unhinged him/herself from the shop.

Today we hear that Grey SF won a small project for Dash, but did so poorly on it that the agency won’t be working for the GPS start-up…ever…again. DAMN!

So following that, Dash fired their head of marketing dude and is apparently now looking for a new VP of marketing &#151 someone who won’t make similar missteps in finding ad shops.

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(TrendHunter.com) It sounds too good to be true — the gas-saving Blade. It’s a little device that screws onto the end of your tailpipe and in extensive testing, has shown anywhere from 16-34% savings on gas! That’s an average…

LONDON (AdAge.com) — Historic St. Mark's Square in Venice could soon look more like New York's Times Square when giant electronic advertising billboards appear for the first time in the piazza's 900-year history.

(TrendHunter.com) This counterfeit crochet project is a very tongue in cheek statement about the counterfeit of goods. The designers claim this is a critique of a political economy.

It looks like some awesome arsing around…

This spot for prosthesis maker Smith and Nephew has sweet written all over it. It immediately reminded us of The Six Million Dollar Man, and makes us wonder if we should purposefully take a sledge hammer to our crappy knees. No. No that’s not a good idea. Check out the creds, after the jump.

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Wal-Mart, like many a big brand, uses third party advertising systems such as LinkShare to make placements on smaller media entities like blogs. It seems that kind of hands off a approach is biting them in the ass. The company’s banner ad is currently riding high on a a white supremacist’s blog. I refuse to link to it. If you want to see it, go to the source of this major media snafu here.

And this is where advertising agencies can now make a big play. The new pitch to brands: let us handle all your buying chores or end up like Wal-Mart – paying for a terrified white supremacist to spread his message of filth. Makes me want to puke all over my desk.

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(TrendHunter.com) As Malaysia celebrated its 51st anniversary of independence this past weekend, news has emerged of the government blocking Malaysia Today, a very popular and controversial political news site.

Malaysia…