(TrendHunter.com) If an old VW Westfalia pops into your mind when you think RV, prepare to reset your camping stereotypes.
The following campers, RVs and caravans illustrate the type of fantastic mobile living innovations…
Some people who use Twitter, the social messaging Web site, are taking things a step further, posing as characters in their favorite shows.
– The new Dentyne paste-ups are truly bad. (link)
– Pfizer brand Lipitor is to run those ads from Robert Jarvik again despite that whole congressional inquiry thing. (link)
– The ad campaign for hot game, Spore, has launched. I’m so excited I could pee. Watch the trailer above. (link)
– Fallon Planning wonders about the rise in sex ads during the DNC. (link)
– The Denver Egotist interviews Felix Sockwell of BIG of DDB of everywhere. (link)
– Mobile searches show strong demand for pizza. (link)
– According to PEW, podcast downloading is up. Finally! The format will have its day. (link)
– The cops have discovered Twitter. (link)
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(TrendHunter.com) Corners of the internet have been turned into online kitchens where people from across the globe have been cooking up virtual storms.
The web is a big stewing pot of niche innovations, and the culinary…
(TrendHunter.com) Napa is renowned for the exquisite beauty and rolling hills of its vineyards; the tasting room at Flora Springs Winery takes terroir one step further with its cave-inspired tasting room. Dubbed simply…
Psst, have you heard? Gossip Girl is back! The popular TV show about rich New York high school students comes back just as real life students return to their lockers.
Like last seasons, Gossip Girl is…
Psst, have you heard? Gossip Girl is back! The popular TV show about rich New York high school students comes back just as real life students return to their lockers.
Like last seasons, Gossip Girl is…
(TrendHunter.com) For years after Gianni Versace’s death, Casa Casurina, the demigod fashion designer’s Miami estate, has served as a private hotel club. The house is being opened for the first time to the public for $50…
(TrendHunter.com) Louis XIII Black Pearl cognac is Rémy Martin’s most luxurious cognac. Its bottle is designed by Baccarat and hand-blown from black crystal; the limited-edition bottle retails in stores for between $31,000…
LONDON – Google could extend its influence over the shape of internet advertising through its new web browser, according to a leading UK search and digital marketing expert.
(TrendHunter.com) Trish Stratus, the Canadian pro wrestler and sometime model has launched her own travel show, Stratusphere.
Whether its “glima wrestling in Iceland, muay thai boxing in Thailand, reindeer racing in…
Damn…
‘King of Voiceovers’ Don LaFontaine Dies at 68
If I smoked 2 packs a day I could sound like that, too…VO work is such a cushy gig.
Get Ready. We’re Recruiting.
Every year Allan Gray hosts a graduate recruitment campaign on campuses around South Africa. We handed out flyers which doubled as ties that students could wear. All the relevant information regarding the recruitment drive was printed on the reverse of the tie.
Advertising Agency: King James, Cape Town, South Africa
Creative Director: Devin Kennedy
Art Director: Christiaan Conradie
Copywriter: Bianca Brandi
Released: March 2008
NEW YORK (AdAge.com) — Well-off readers say they read print publications just as much now as they did five years ago, according to the latest survey of affluent readers by Ipsos Mendelsohn. Respondents making more than $100,000 annually said they're regularly reading an average of 15.3 print publications, a notch above 15.1 five years earlier. Readers making more than $250,000 said they read just as many publications, 23.8 now, as they did in 2003.
(TrendHunter.com) Takashi Itoh is an amazing and prolific watermelon carving artist. He can carve just about anything from portraits (Van Gogh) to intricate flowers, various sports like skiing, animals both real and fantasy.…
It’s not often online banners excite. Gone are the days a banner would evoke anything other than “Will that friggin’ thing stop flashing?!”
Don’t miss a prayer for work.
Advertising Agency: DDB, Cairo, Egypt
Art Director: Muhammad Salah
Copywriter: Malek Sherif
NEW YORK (AdAge.com) — Nielsen is out to count all the people in office cubicles, bars and other people's houses watching TV, and the media-measurement company on Sept. 2 moved closer to that goal by unveiling its first daily all-electronic national-TV ratings of viewing that occurs outside the home.
Every country, every state, every city, every company should consider the long-term potential of sponsoring events that generate PR. They need not be particularly expensive, either. Since 1933, Rockefeller Center in New York has sponsored its annual Christmas tree lighting, which always generates a raft of favorable stories. In 1964, the tree-lighting ceremony became an annual TV special.
What’s grosser than gross? Thomas Riccio (pictured above) is a witness in the upcoming O.J. Simpson trial. Right. You do remember that the deeply soiled football star was recently accused of robbery and kidnapping, yeah?
Riccio, who co-owns the auction house Universal Rarities, was with Simpson when they confronted a dealer who was supposedly selling ill-gotten O.J. memorabilia. Then the guns came out. Then the violence. You know how O.J. can get.
So, this dude Riccio is a key witness in the case and he wants to charge brands $7,000 for a magnetic ad on his limo or S6,000 for logo placement on his hat. Check this out (you can see Riccio being innovative here) for $5K he’ll dine at your restaurant on the night that he testifies.
What’s even grosser than that? There’s a real live advertising and marketing executive involved in selling this nasty-ass idea. Jon Fondy was once an actor himself, which explains how he’s willing to take on Riccio. Anything to stay in the spotlight, right? He told the press that:
“The attention is enormous. We’ve been approached now by online gaming companies, clubs – it’s a little more enticing for them.”
Uh-huh. Just because something might make you cash, doesn’t mean you do it. Did we learn nothing from the Judith Regan/”If I Did It” book boondoggle?
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