Oct
24
Great Milk Comes from Happy Cows. And the Happy Cows are Casting!
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The California Milk Advisory Board is screening for its next bovine star. And guess who gets to pick her? You!
Oct
24
Dr Pepper admits defeat with GNR stunt
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Hey, remember when Dr Pepper jokingly offered everyone in America a free bottle of soda if Guns ‘N Roses released Chinese Democracy in 2008? Well, the album is indeed about to drop, and Dr Pepper is prepared to honor its pledge. Wired.com says that “those who want to claim a free soda can go to the Dr Pepper Web site on November 23, enter some personal information and get a coupon for one 20-ounce drink that should arrive within the following 4 to 6 weeks.” The offer doesn’t extend to anyone named Slash or Buckethead, but they’re certainly rich enough to buy their own damn soda. And Axl Rose told the press that he’d spot Buckethead, anyway. Slash will just have to make do with what he usually drinks.
—Posted by David Kiefaber
Oct
24
Air-Powered Watches – The Urwerk UR 202 Turbine Timepiece (VIDEO)
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(TrendHunter.com) This watch has the potential to outlast anybody who owns it. The Urwerk UR 202 Turbine Automatic uses compressed air to regulate how it is wound. The Urwerk’s ‘Revolving Satellite Complication’ face is…
Oct
24
Scene suggestions for the next DirecTV ads
Posted in: Uncategorized For a blog that hates DirecTV, Tirico Suave is sure offering the satellite-TV company a lot of help with its list of suggested scenes for the next round of DirecTV ads. Sure, they’re all sarcastic ideas from mostly gruesome movies (A Clockwork Orange, Goodfellas, The Silence of the Lambs), but Tirico’s argument is that after its Poltergeist spot, DirecTV can’t be expected to display any taste whatsoever. A real suggestion might involve switching up the Deutsch campaign to something else before it’s beaten totally into the ground.
—Posted by David Kiefaber
Oct
24
Now You Don’t Have to Wonder What the Mirror Thinks
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I can’t help thinking Snow White’s childhood would have been less tragic if her evil stepmother was fed marketing propaganda, and not beauty validation, from her enchanted mirror.
Oct
24
Frozen Facials – Stem Cell Face Massage to Rejuvenate Damaged Skin (VIDEO)
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(TrendHunter.com) TriBeCa MedSpa is now offering a break-through therapy that regenerates damaged skin using frozen stem cells. The technique is called ‘Frozen in Time,’
Frozen stem cells are created by the injection…
Oct
24
Personal Rocket Rides – The Hybrid Exo Atmospheric Transporter (VIDEO)
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(TrendHunter.com) I have a few nominations to test out this single-person rocket into space. A company is designing a teeny rocket that will fire the rider into the wild blue yonder and (hopefully) back again.
Copenhagen…
Oct
24
Mullen guy’s wedding-ring story a PR stunt?
Posted in: UncategorizedMullen says one of its staffers, Bob Pirrmann, lost his wedding ring in a four-story, 200,000-gallon ocean tank during a public dive in July at the New England Aquarium. The ring was recovered a few days ago, and now the tear-jerk/feel-good local-media barrage is on. Dare I say, the whole story sounds a bit … fishy? (I dare. And I’m sorry.) The tale has generated lots of free publicity for the aquarium, a Mullen client. Pirrmann’s dive was itself part of a marketing campaign he helped create. So, in a sense, there was gold in that tank whether a ring was lost there or not. Look, if you’re going to make up a story about where you lost your wedding ring, “in the giant ocean tank at the aquarium” is a fib of Homer Simpson-esque proportions. Stick to the tried and true like, “I was mugged,” “The dog ate it” or “It slipped off in a singles bar.” The wife will love the last one in particular, if you say it kinda off-handed and sarcastic. What? It could work.
—Posted by David Gianatasio
Oct
24
Mid-Career Name Changes – Beyonce is Now “Sasha Fierce” (GALLERY)
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(TrendHunter.com) Beyonce Knowles now joins an ever-growing list of singers who have changed their names; she is going from Beyonce to Sasha Fierce. Coincidentally, this move coincides with her new album, ‘I Am…Sasha…
Oct
24
Wendy’s: Grand reopening
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Celebrate our Cambie St. restaurant Grand Reopening.
Advertising Agency: Saatchi & Saatchi, Toronto, Canada
Creative Director: Brett Channer
Art Director: Marc Melanson
Copywriter: Tal Wagman
Illustrator: Tom Nanos
Studio: Umbrella
Published: September 2008
Oct
24
Gilde Hot Dog: Wet
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Advertising Agency: Bates United, Oslo, Norway
Copywriter: Petter Andersen
Art Director: Lars Holt
Account managers: Paul Rigault, Pål Trælvik
Agency Producer: Steve St. Peter
Oct
24
Inquizitive Bible Quiz / Dosti Terminus: Plead for mercy
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Advertising Agency: Mindset JWT Advertising, Hyderabad, India
Creative Director / Copywriter: Mark Samuel
Art Director: E. Sudhakar
Published: September 2008
Oct
24
Inquizitive Bible Quiz / Dosti Terminus: Pray for strength
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Advertising Agency: Mindset JWT Advertising, Hyderabad, India
Creative Director / Copywriter: Mark Samuel
Art Director: E. Sudhakar
Published: September 2008
Oct
24
Cow Contests – Spokesmodels Getting Ugly as California Cow Vies for Pageant Title
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Milk consumption has fallen every year since 1945, but the farmers still keep plowing moola into advertising that cows are cute and milk mustaches are cute. So here we go again.
The California Milk Board…
Oct
24
Creative Crime Stoppers – Trading Guns for Cameras (GALLERY)
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(TrendHunter.com) Pixels for Pistols is a gun trade program launched in Toronto to get stolen guns off the street. It’s targeted at people who have guns in their homes illegally. These are the guns that are stolen and end…
Oct
24
Car Magazine: The Challenge
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Advertising Agency: Ogilvy Cape Town, South Africa
Creative Director: Chris Gotz
Copywriters: Cuanan Cronwright, Jennifer Macfarlane
Oct
24
Myokul: For all kinds of pain
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Advertising Agency: Bhadra Communications, Bangalore, India
Art Director/ Copywriter: Siju S Nair
Published: June 2008
Oct
24
Ministry of Social Affairs: TV
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Advertising Agency: Rich, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Creative Director: Joeri Jansen
Art Directors: Jurgen Flick, Joeri Jansen
Copywriter: David Cohen de Lara
Director: Toon Aerts
Production: Czar
Aired: September 2008
Oct
24
Ministry of Social Affairs: Shoes
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Advertising Agency: Rich, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Creative Director: Joeri Jansen
Art Directors: Jurgen Flick, Joeri Jansen
Copywriter: David Cohen de Lara
Director: Toon Aerts
Production: Czar
Aired: September 2008
Oct
24
Santafe Zoo: Rhino
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Night guided tours.
Advertising Agency: TBWA Colombia
Creative Directors / Art Directors: Javier Bernal, Felipe Hernández
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