(TrendHunter.com) At 89 7th Avenue between West 4th and Bleeker Street in the West Village of New York City, a pet shop opened four days ago without much fanfare. But after a closer look, this definitely isn’t your normal…
(TrendHunter.com) When you thought Obama merchandise couldn’t get any stranger, we bring you the Barack Obama Hand Silk Screened Necktie in… “Retro Yellow.”
Artists around the world have been having a ball creating…
Despite this crap economy, GM’s stock price nosediving 22% in early trades today and the companies cut backs on spending, Mullen has been tapped to handle its customer relationship management programs along with Campbell-Ewald. Yes, customer relations are important for GM. You gotta keep the few customers ya’ got left. Especially in the face of recalls and bad experiences taking up tons of code across the internet.
Mullen also just snagged the SunTrust business. Mullen recently added some high level folks to their roster in August: Stephen Hahn-Griffiths Executive Vice President, Director of Brand Planning and Matt Fischvogt as Creative Director, Innovation and Integration. Looks like it’s paying off. They’ve got the team buzzing and nailing some nice sized wins.
Okay, okay… Mullen gets its own category on the left hand side bar as of right this second.
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Apparently, Coke explodes sperm. No joke. A scientist was even awarded the Ig Nobel Prize for the discovery. Apparently, the little guys soak up the sugary liquid, and become so filled with that they literally explode.
But don’t go dousing your genitals in the sticky stuff (the soda or otherwise) just yet, cuz apparently sperm swim much too quickly for the product to be used as an affective contraceptive. We’ll skip the other jokes about sticky substances and male/female fun parts we came up with…but it was fun spending our lunch thinking them up. OK here’s a couple of new slogans for Coke.
“Fizzy Enough to End the Human Race”
“Really Enjoy.”
“Is that a bottle of Coke in your pocket? If so, let’s have sex.”
“Coke: Killing Teeth and Babies since 1886.”
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(TrendHunter.com) As the temperatures dip and the colors begin to change, my Canadian mind is on acorn nuts, chestnuts and fall colours, and the seasonal crafts I might be able to make with them.
Having grown up in Canada,…
Several projects have popped up lately that got me to thinking about Q scores. The folks at Marketing Evaluations are in the process of launching their first Q study that focuses on the U.S. Hispanic consumer's perception of celebrities in terms of the two important scores — awareness and likeability.
The annual IMEA (Innovation Music and Entertainment Awards) are held at the Popkomm in Berlin. The whole music industry is looking for new ways to cover the financial damage caused by illegal music downloads.…
(TrendHunter.com) An alliance of German newspapers have initiated a creative news project that involves 1600 blank diary-style books. Each reader cuts and pastes a news article of their choice into a book. They can comment…
Advertising execs are known for their hard partying. Entertaining those CMOs can give one a bad drinking problem and fast. Lets not even get on the stories of CEOs wandering around Cannes with a bump of coke stuck to the tip of their nose.
However, Australia’s ad biz is taking the cake. A fifth of people who work in Australia’s advertising industry are using and heavy. When asked if they knew co-workers with a drinking problem, only 7 per cent of those working in media agencies were able to answer “No”. According to reports, agency staff are using drugs and alcohol to cope with the long ass hours and creative that gets nixed at the last second. I’m sure you can relate.
In fact, you’re probably thinking just what Matt Baxter founding partner of Naked Communications said:
“I’m surprised the results are as low as they are.”
Still, doesn’t it help explain the wacky and sometimes thoughtless advertising coming out of Australia? Actually, we need to include New Zealand. Remember that whole Flickr dust-up involving Australian agency Host? Or, what about New Zealand agency, Cinderella’s, ode to Hitler? Yeah. Those were classic.
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(TrendHunter.com) The Smart Globe Deluxe makes learning fun for kids who want to learn more about the geography, culture and history of the world. Smart Globe Deluxe is an improved version of the world globes we’re used…
Commenter Sparky points us to an article in Valley PR Blog from yesterday, Oct. 8, which merrily hums about the new hires made at R&R Partners in pa-ho-nix (Phoenix). Remember way back when to this past Tuesday, as in Oct. 7, when we posted in “Raw and UnCut” a rumor that the agency had laid off 12-15 people?
Well the very next day, the agency announced via Valley PR blog, the hiring/advancement of some new/existing employees. Yippee! Everything’s fine! See, we just hired some folks.
Btw, we e-mailed the agency (press@rrpartners dot com) on Tuesday (and again today) to confer on the issue of said layoffs, but they never got back to us. But according to VPB, the agency just hired a super-fresh PR coordinator (among others) — so we’re guessing the last person was among those laid off? Just a hypothesis, really. Here’s wondering if the post on VPB was her idea…
We’ll go easy since the aforementioned PR coordinator just graduated from ASU in May. Nothing like cutting your teeth on the still-warm bodies of a bunch of people you don’t even know. Damn, that’s a long row to how the fuck are they going to recover from this one? See how I just changed subjects mid-sentence there? I took the cue from R&R, which went from laying off a bunch of their staff to shouting about their new hires in one short, smoke-filled breath.
We hate layoffs, you hate layoffs, and so the merriment goes. But for whoever’s sake, don’t spin death with birth. Just don’t. Good luck Ms. Coordinator — we are honestly pulling for your agency — and every other agency that’s had to let people go, and for the people that were let go, and for the economy and bla bla bla bla bla. Is the week over yet? E-mail me when it ends; matt@mediabistro dot com.
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NEW YORK (AdAge.com) — Ben Silverman, NBC's co-head of programming, changed TV's traditional upfront ad-sales model this year by soliciting advertisers to be part of the development process, integrating their brands into scripted shows from the get-go. Now Cameron Death, Mr. Silverman's digital counterpart and former Reveille colleague, is hoping to do the same for NBC.com.
According to Fortune, the mobile ad market is expected to grow to $12 billion by 2013, up from an estimated $1.72 billion this year.
Sweet. Count me in.
Fortune also mentions that 100 million apps have been downloaded on the iPhone since July. Many of these apps are free, but others are worth paying for.
I’d love to see a branded app that’s so valuable, people are willing to pay for it. That way the brand has not only an “ad,” but a revenue stream from the “ad.”
For some strange reason, Vodafone thinks it’s the only company that can make things that fit properly.
(TrendHunter.com) I hope these images are the work of a Photoshopping genius, but somehow I don’t think they are.
Sphinx cats have no fur, so if you were messed up or stupid enough to want to inflict pain on your pet…
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(TrendHunter.com) Solaleya wowed the public when they showed off their designs of homes at West Coast Green recently. One of the most striking designs was their eco-friendly rotating all-wood dome house. The architecture…
According to Ad Age, Mother, has sold a majority stake in its Dogmatic Gourmet Sausage System to Blum Enterprises, a developer and operator of restaurant brands.
Until now, Dogmatic has been a seasonally run street-food cart that peddles gourmet sausage sandwiches to patrons on New York’s Bleecker Street. With Blum’s help, Dogmatic opens its first restaurant on East 17th Street in Manhattan nest week.
Over the years Mother has been one of the most proactive agencies in the realm of product development, ownership of intellectual property and the general push to prove that agencies can do more than just create communications collateral. The shop has churned out candles, books, comics and flasks and has even opened a newsstand in London.
BTW, Ad Age doesn’t mention chef Jeremy Spector’s role in Dogmatic, but NY Magazine does.
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