Hasta La Creative!

(TrendHunter.com) If you realize you’ve been Rick Rolled on YouTube, when do you click away? Or let’s say you’ve launched a channel, say, TrendHunter TV, on YouTube, and you were interested in knowing if people watched…

Advertising Agency: THEY, Amsterdam, Netherlands

Advertising Agency: McCann, Malmoe, Sweden
Creative Director: Albin Wendel
Art Director: Björn Lindén
Copywriter: Lars Larsson
Photographer: Maserati
Other additional credits: Autoropa, Official Maserati Dealer
Released: August 2008

Be there when the market turns.

Advertising Agency: Storåkers McCann, Stockholm, Sweden
Art Directors: Patrik Reuterskiöld, Mitte Blomqvist
Copywriters: Martin Johansen, Mia Cederberg
Photographer: Petrus Olsson
Production Company: Adamsky
Published: August 2008

Advertising Agency: Storåkers McCann, Stockholm, Sweden
Art Director: Storåkers
Copywriter: Storakers
Photographer: Emil Larsson
Production Company: Adamsky
Published: July 2008

Over a leisurely lunch at a Sellwood Public House yesterday, Tom Bennett, Digital Strategy Director for The New Group in Portland, said blogging is a selfish act. That got my attention.

I babbled defensively for a moment before proposing that we debate the proposition on our respective blahgs.

Last night, Tom typed his opening salvo. It’s well written and disarming, but for the sake of argument, I’ll see what I can do with his main premise.

A couple of years ago I impulsively blurted out the fact that Blogging is an inherently selfish act. This occured about 2 feet in front of James Keller, who at the time was working at YRG. This elicited a shrug and perhaps a bit of a sneer, because this of course could have been construed as a criticism of a sort.

Things have changed for everyone in the last couple of years. Blogging is ever more prevalent and an accepted outlet for many. But I still feel we are all in some way “selfish” in what we are doing. It now just becomes a matter of defining selfish, as it may mean vastly different things depending on who you ask.

Oddly enough, it’s the word “selfless” that comes to mind when I think of all the content being created by bloggers for FREE. Granted not all of it’s worth paying for, much less reading. Yet, there are now tens of thousands of blogs that do provide excellent FREE content.

Global focus on local mobile search and advertising

Copenhagen, London – mobilePeople, the world leading local mobile search company, has today received $8million USD investment from Nordic based venture capitalist firm Via Venture Partners. The funding means that mobilePeople has the ability to expand its international reach and concentrate on affirming its leadership position within the global mobile search and advertising space.

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Obama Girl does Sarah Palin.

DETROIT (AdAge.com) — The rich may be different, but maybe not all that different in the current economic climate. Sales of new vehicles in the $100,000 range are skidding, for reasons "more psychological than practical," said Susan Jacobs, president of auto consultant Jacobs & Associates. She said wealthy Americans are losing "that splurge mentality" in today's souring economic climate and predicted the top of the market will remain weak for some time.

When it come to conference booth babes, usually the rule is the more curvaceous the better.