(TrendHunter.com) Facebook has quite literally changed the world; its popularity was thrust into the stratosphere this week when tabloid magazines reported Luke Worrall revealed his engagement to Kelly Osbourne using the…
To promote Fortify’s enterprise security program, Hanft Raboy and Partners built The Golden Server, a craps-style advergame that compares shoddy security solutions to “gambling with [your] business.”
It’s bloody disgusting. And knowing that, you can probably guess all that paint isn’t coming from a Kelly Moore bucket.
(TrendHunter.com) I’ve seen some pretty fancy Christmas stockings, but never have I seen such an price tag on a piece of holiday fireplace decoration! The description for the brocade stocking is quite elaborate too, as…
Riffing on some vague notion that Australia isn’t sophisticated enough to conceive of “exotic” naturally-grown foods or handbags worth more than cars, the NRMA’s “Unworry” ad invites Aussies to “uncomplicate, unstress and” — naturally — “unworry.”
(TrendHunter.com) If the NBA is boring you, it’s time to get into new extreme sports, like fireball soccer, rocket packs, ostrich racing and flipping wheelchairs. Adrenaline Rush focuses on the top 20 new extreme sports,…
LONDON – The websites of national newspapers in the UK experienced their strongest month in October, attracting more unique users than ever before, according to ABCe results published today.
ABCE ANALYSIS – While British newspapers’ websites posted record global traffic for October, their UK-specific audiences are expanding more modestly, analysis of ABCe data shows.
(TrendHunter.com) Brazilians believe the colour of their underwear worn at midnight on New Year’s Eve will dictate their fortune for the following year. As the colour yellow represents money, yellow underwear has been selling…
Provided with little more than an audio file of the Lexus IS F on the go, production company Crush was asked to visualize what it would look like.
LONDON – Agencies and advertisers raised no complaints over ITV’s compliance with the contract rights renewal mechanism between April and September.
(TrendHunter.com) Burger King’s latest guerrilla marketing campaign involves a cash-stuffed wallet that is meant to reward Good Samaritans. Agents were sent out in Chicago and Orlando to intentionally drop their wallets…
Creatures of the forest don’t get to narrate too many automotive ads, but they do in this Mercedes-Benz campaign from German agency Jung von Matt. See the four ads here. The idea is that the vehicles’ special handling and brake controls have saved these beasts from getting splattered all over the street—a happy development that they discuss in the copy with varying levels of awareness. Of the four creatures, only the pig really gets philosophical about what’s happened. The others are mostly oblivious, embarrassed and, in the case of the squirrel, still thoroughly panicked.
—Posted by Tim Nudd
It doesn’t include any swimsuit pics, but an article about Donny Deutsch in the new issue of Success magazine is revealing in its own way. Among the tidbits: In his current role at Deutsch Inc., he “considers himself more of a ‘spiritual leader’ ” than a “buttoned-up company chairman”; while doling out tough advice to would-be entrepreneurs who watch his CNBC show, The Big Idea, he “believes in being honest, not mean”; his “very specific rituals” include a daily breakfast of six egg whites with American cheese; and he’s an “avid runner” who covers “four to five miles several days a week before meeting a standing 7:30 dinner reservation with friends at one of a dozen top Manhattan bistros.” If you wish to emulate Deutsch, don’t stay up too late reading about him: “He is usually in bed by 11:30 p.m.”
—Posted by Mark Dolliver
LONDON – MailOnline boosted its unique user numbers by more than 18% in October to overtake Times Online for third position amongst the national newspaper websites, as Guardian.co.uk continued to stretch its lead, according to the latest ABCe figures.
(TrendHunter.com) It looks like a flattened space ship, but it’s actually the Honda FC Sport fuel cell, a zero-emission electric concept being officially unveiled at the Los Angeles Auto Show tomorrow.
With the financial…
LONDON – Asda is offering free digital copies of the top 100 consumer magazines to the first 10,000 people to sign up for its online sales partnership with John Menzies Digital.
LONDON – Independent creative agency RPM3:Beechwood has renamed itself as Libertine.
(TrendHunter.com) The modern push is to go-green and live in nature, and 2009 runways will be no different according to Trend de la Creme. Here is a line inspired by Charles Darwin and his “survival of the fittest” ideas,…
(TrendHunter.com) This jaggedly textured gown was a China fashion week highlight this month, combining not only shades that evoke images of China’s beloved panda bear, but also hint at influence from Japanese origami.
When…
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