Rachel Maddow, host of left-leaning chat shows on Air America Radio and MSNBC, both named “The Rachel Maddow Show,” spends downtime in an 1865 house in western Massachusetts.
Viacom said it would end its program to buy Sumner M. Redstone’s shares at the same rate that it repurchased from public shareholders.
New York State and counties on Long Island, facing tax-break competition from states like Connecticut, are enacting their own initiatives to attract television and film productions.
I’d like to start a list of all agencies on Twitter with an “agency” account they post through. I have several now but thought I’d let everyone submit there before I do an article on it.
It doesn’t count if your CEO or CD has an account it has to be under the agencies name.
I’ve also seen a few (well 2) with “fan” pages on Facebook which I thought was interesting. So if you have a “fan” page too let us know.
Sony Ericsson launch a new web series called “Who is Johnny X?” for their Xperia X1 (name sucks) phone.
Web widget below (which had terrible embed code). The full site here
This blog goes into how it’s really just a BMW films sans the big names. Advertainment. With some other examples. I liked Hammer and Coop!
It feels very much like the recent Scarlet promotion for LG (which I cant find a good link for). I guess you must go all serious and action with these brands instead of humour, suspense or any thing else except action.
(TrendHunter.com) The 1.3 Megapixel USB Digital Microscope is a neat gadget for science geeks. Plug the microscope into any USB port to see magnified objects from 10X up to 200X at your desk. According to SourcingMap, the…
(TrendHunter.com) Barack Obama’s image has appeared on a lot of clothing lately. But if you have already built your Obama t-shirt collection and are now on the hunt for some savvy Barack-inspired accessories to further…
The Michelle Williams that Matilda calls Mommy has been making headlines for her new movie ‘Synecdoche’ and romance with Spike Jonze, but there’s another Michelle Williams who’s had a big week.
The former…
(TrendHunter.com) A new Swedish study shows that women who drink lots of coffee may have their breasts shrink in size. Helena Jernström of Lund University carried out a study that showed a strong correlation between drinking…
(TrendHunter.com) John McCain all but promised that Sarah Palin will appear on Saturday Night Live this week. John McCain was doing a make up show on The Late Show with David Letterman. Letterman told John McCain he would…
(TrendHunter.com) These puking pumpkins use much more of the pumpkin than other jack o’ lanterns. To make your own puking pumpkin, just set aside the carved-out insides and after you’ve completed carving your pumpkin, arrange…
People are still talking about the death of something. The 30 second spot, newspapers, magazines. But shit even comics are still going strong and how much competition do they face in today’s digital world?
Here’s a couple of big comic things happening.
The recent spate of GREAT comic book movie adaptations has probably lead to more investment in new IP being developed. And the recent success of Marvel’s Civil War showed that comics can do big cross over blockbusters and excite everyone.
Oh and hats off to Marvel for Marvel Zombies! Who doesn’t like zombies?! All DC can muster is a Mortal Kombat tie in. Yawn
(TrendHunter.com) Woot.com is a shopping site known for the irreverent descriptions of the single product that is on sale for one day at their website. They have taken their wise-guy attitude and applied it to their ad…
(TrendHunter.com) The Michelle Williams that Matilda calls Mommy has been making headlines for her new movie ‘Synecdoche’ and romance with Spike Jonze, but there’s another Michelle Williams who’s had a big week.
The former…
(TrendHunter.com) Though it might look like a medieval torture device, this strange and interesting contraption is actually designed to offer a stimulating head massage.
Need to break your writer’s block? The Head Kenzan’s…
(TrendHunter.com) Google loves to mess with their logo–a move that would be blasphemy for most brands. The Queen of England will be visiting the U.K. headquarters of the Internet giant, so for one day the Google logo has…
It’s almost Halloween time. Think: Oogie-boogie and all that bumping around in the dark, candy, beer, costumes, what fun! But, what about the other side of Halloween? The dark, grisly underbelly of pure evil? Don’t think advertising executives are exempt from doing the unthinkable. Here’s the Agency Spy list of Diabolical Deeds, from bribery to bomb threats and even… murder.
1. Jean Brault was the president of Groupaction, a Montreal advertising firm, when his company was implicated in the Canadian Federal Sponsorship scandal known as AdScam. He was charged with fraud and testified that Groupaction funneled over $1 million to the Quebec wing of the Liberal Party of Canada in exchange for sponsorship contracts.
In early 2005, Brault pleaded not guilty to six charges of fraud. In 2006, Brault changed his mind and pleaded guilty to five charges including paying salaries to Liberal party workers who never did any work for his company. He was sentenced to 30 months in prison.
2. In 1981, Young & Rubicam was charged with bribing Jamaican officials with almost $1 million to land the Jamaica Tourist Board’s advertising account. In the first criminal indictment of an advertising agency under Federal racketeering laws. The execs named in the filing were Arthur R. Klein, president and chief executive of Y&R’s New York office, and Thomas Spangenberg, a former senior vice president at the agency. Steven M. McKenna, the chief financial officer of Wunderman Worldwide, was charged with perjury. All charges were dropped after Young & Rubicam pleaded guilty in February 1990 to one count of conspiring to bribe officials and paid a $500,000 fine.
See the remaining seven after the jump…
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New Career Opportunities Daily: The best jobs in media
(TrendHunter.com) The media attention on Joe the Plumber, AKA Joe Wurzelbacher, inspired the following slide show of incredibly unique toilets and urinals.
As silly as this cluster might seem, the level of innovation…
(TrendHunter.com) John McCain snubbed the wrong talk show host when he canceled an appearance on ‘The Late Show with David Letterman’ to help create legislation for the financial crisis. John McCain made an apologetic appearance…
NEW YORK (AdAge.com) — "Joe the Plumber" was this close to a deal with Roto-Rooter. But alas, it looks like his chance is circling the drain.
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