Hasta La Creative!

This Guinness commercial from Saatchi & Saatchi London, starring spoken-word artist Ainsley Burrows, might seem pretty far afield from the product, but it’s not. Lots of Guinness drinkers walk around counting out loud. Police are usually making them do it, but that’s beside the point. Even all the New Agey stuff about journeys is relevant, although that usually occurs when they’re still in the bar. Read move over at Adland.

—Posted by David Kiefaber

Gary Busey, the Oscar-winner and born-again Christian whose career has seen a revival since his wacked-out appearance on Celebrity Fit Club, has a new title: business advisor. Go inside his entrepreneurial…

(TrendHunter.com) I tried and tried to think of the next hot bod mod and just couldn’t come up with a body part that had not already been pierced, but my brain wasn’t working right. So I twirled the little piercing in my…

What better way to leverage your semi-celebrity status than by becoming a spokesperson! We know that if given the chance, we’d extol the benefits of some crappy (or maybe even good) product for an easy buck.

We’d pitch Trojan for such a project &#151 but only if they’d run a spot about not letting yet another blogger enter the world &#151 something where my parents are sitting in the background shaking their heads as they read this blog (as many of you do). Then you see me, holding a box of ‘Ribbed, For Her Pleasures’ and I say, “Don’t let this happen to you…use Trojans.”

That’s what ‘The Biggest Loser’ coach Jillian Michaels is doing (for Oral-B), thereby catapulting herself into the highly lucrative world of product representation (or as we call it, spokeswhoring).

According to the release, Michaels (a health and wellness coach) wants “to challenge Americans to think about their oral health as a long term investment and make one small change today that will improve the health of their mouths.”

Speaking of mouthing off, as SuperSpy mentioned in the wee hours of the morning, you can now post comments without registering. Check it out &#151 it’s easy as hell. Go ahead, hit us up.

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Three new Minnesota Lottery spots from Colle + McVoy (see them here, here and here) tout a new long-playing game, and show people expressing their jubilation in … agonizingly … super … slow … motion. The librarian’s swingin’ earrings are cool, though. They go back … and … forth … and … back … and … forth … and … back … and … actually, they’re not so cool. These ads are pretty tiresome, in fact (kind of like this post). The Xbox ads we posted yesterday had super-slo-mo footage, too. Is it making a comeback? Let’sspeedthingsup,ok?

—Posted by David Gianatasio

LONDON – Proximity London has appointed RG/A’s Jana Geary as head of production, in addition to a number of senior digital hirings.

(TrendHunter.com) Who is Bacon Man? I think it’s Sixty. This series of new viral videos has popped up on YouTube, but so far there is no word about who is behind them.

These videos are brilliantly random and totally surreal.…

LONDON – Virgin Trains has appointed MCBD to handle its £6m ad business.

LONDON – McCann Erickson Communication House, Manchester, has been appointed digital media agency for Flying Brands.

(TrendHunter.com) This creative ‘Don’t drink and drive’ campaign by the Sao Paulo State Government shows you that there is something much worse than a hangover on the following morning after a wild night–regret.

While…