Hasta La Creative!

From SelectNY and Anonymous Content comes this new commercial for Giorgio Armani’s Diamonds for Men.

Citibank is pissed yo. The bank was all set to take over Wachovia when Wells Fargo muscled in on the deal. Over night Well Fargo, whose agency of record is DDB, agreed to pay $15bn for the entirety of Wachovia over the $2.16bn from Citi. The bank has called their rivals move “tortious interference.”

Maybe Ogilvy still has a shot?

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Wired asked Antony Young, president, and Greg Kahn, senior VP of Publicis Groupe media agency Optimedia US to talk about Mad Men since they’ve been around the block. I can’t figure out why they didn’t ring up our favorite silverback adgrunt, George Parker of adscam instead…. Unless it was because they were afraid that they’d have to censor every second word from the damn answers. 😉

In the end, it’s nice to know that I’m not the only one rooting like mad for Peggy. (But I might be one of the few who has a raging faghag/ad-assitant crush on Salvatore):

Antony and Greg: The character we’re most fond of (and rooting for) is Peggy Olson (Elisabeth Moss), the aspiring junior copywriter who is determined to rise above the sexism exercised by both the male and female characters of this fictional agency. She faces a lot of obstacles from both the men and the women in the office. Hopefully, she’ll succeed in her ambitions, and maybe join the ranks of some of the talented females who are now the heads of real agencies — Shelly Lazarus, Susan Gianinno and Renetta McCann, to name just a few.

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Is there anything more boring than insurance?

(TrendHunter.com) Swedish publication Dagens Industri capitalizes on the financial troubles of AIG, Wachovia and the fragile market suffering from the credit crisis with this tongue in cheek ad campaign.

Learning a lesson…

Oh look! It’s another video contest! Calling Julia Roy! Calling all art directors, copywriters and other people who just…HAVE TO EXPRESS THEMSELVES or die.

LONDON – The launch of video-on-demand service Kangaroo will be delayed until at least next February after the Competition Commission moved back the publication of its final report on the service.

Welcome to part three of our digital conversation series!

Digital agency Sarkissian Mason is one of those 21st Century type of shops that is making up new rules as they go along. The New-York based agency, with offices in Los Angeles and Phoenix with a staff of about 50, holds clients such as ESPN, Boeing and Imax.

We thought that we would talk to the very sharp Richie Grantham who has recently been hired at Sarkissian Mason as VP strategy and invention, to find out what the shop is all about.

In this part of our digital conversation series, we tackle what Sarkissian Mason is all about and get to the nitty-gritty of digital ideation, as well as the hot topic of intellectual property. Without further adieu…

Sarkissian Mason covers so many bases as and seems to be a mash-up of several models. How would you describe your shop’s practice?

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LONDON – MediaCom, Mindshare and Universal McCann were honoured for their use of consumer magazines at PPA Marketing’s Magazine Advertising Conference and Awards yesterday.

Kristen Bell, along with Mark Cuban, Olivia Munn, John Picard, Minka Kelly, Bill Maher, Matt White, Norman Lear, Perez Hilton and others are part of GAP’s Vote For campaign.