Hasta La Creative!

Good morning ad-world, and welcome back to the last remaining days before Christmas, Hanukkah and overweight relatives shove you an inch or so closer to that coronary you’ve been asking for all year. Who could ask for more? Not we. Here’s a spot that one reader thought was worse than ‘Saved by Zero,’ but what do you think?

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Ad Age probably realizes that only the still-employed get the copy of Ad Age that’s being routed in the office, so they’re trying to feel the pain of management:

Already beset with worries over flagging income and burdensome expenses, those in the top roles face the unenviable task of letting staff go. And while the holidays may be a time of forgiveness and harmony, this year there will be little empathy for the person who just laid off hundreds or even thousands of employees.

“I’ve been involved in many, many layoffs and no one has ever asked me what it’s like to be on the other side,” said John Sullivan, professor of management at San Francisco State University and a human resources consultant. “It’s 10 times worse to do it than to have it done to you. … Surviving is not the best thing to happen after a layoff. There’s plenty of actual research that shows their lives are miserable.”

Yeah, right. Just exactly what qualifications do you need to be a “human resources consultant”?

The article did get one thing right: I have little empathy for these people. They have their duties in life and I have mine.

LONDON – WWF UK is promoting its latest fund-raising scheme with an online acquisition campaign created by Kitcatt Nohr Alexander Shaw.

NEW YORK (AdAge.com) — Wracked by recession, high-end brand retail chains have been forced to offer some of the steepest pre-Christmas discounts they've ever had to suffer. Ad Age retail reporter Natalie Zmuda and Brand Experience Lab chief David Polinchock take a tour of New York's swankiest Fifth Avenue stores. And what they find portends badly for the future of high-end retailing.

div xmlns=”http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml”pa href=”http://adweek.blogs.com/adfreak/the-32-freakiest-ads-of-2008.html”Thirty-two ads/a, one dream: to be named AdFreak’s a href=”http://adweek.blogs.com/adfreak/freakiest-ads-of-2008/”Freakiest Ad of 2008/a. After four votes last week, we’ve narrowed the field to the Final Four contenders, posted below: emEvil Dead the Musical/em, Doritos, Converse and the Dutch Socialist Party. Vote at the bottom of this post for the freakiest of the four. We’ll declare a winner on Wednesday afternoon. /ppem—Posted by Tim Nudd/em/p

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pThis promo encouraged viewers to attend the musical, but maybe not linger beneath the marquee. [a href=”http://adweek.blogs.com/adfreak/2008/12/heads-off-to-this-evil-dead-the-musical-spot.html” target=”_blank”Read more/a]/p

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pA wayward spicy tongue ruined a young couple’s date in this Doritos commercial. [a href=”http://adweek.blogs.com/adfreak/2008/03/helpless-tongue.html” target=”_blank”Read more/a]/p

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pstrongspan style=”font-size: 15px; color: #ff0000; font-family: Arial;”Converse | KissingWithRoss.com/span/strong/p
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pRoss taught many a lonely Web surfer a href=”http://www.kissingwithross.com/”how to kiss/a, with gusto, on his very own Converse-branded Web site. [a href=”http://adweek.blogs.com/adfreak/2008/07/ross-knows-how.html” target=”_blank”Read more/a]/p

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NEW YORK (AdAge.com) — One of the biggest beneficiaries of the auto bailout won't see a dime of that money: Ford.

DETROIT (AdAge.com) — General Motors Corp. may finally be getting its loan from the federal government, but that doesn't mean it's going to resume its former marketing-spending levels.

NEW YORK (AdAge.com) — JetBlue's Terminal Five at New York's JFK has already garnered plenty of attention, and now it's looking to let advertisers in on the action.

NEW YORK (AdAge.com) — Edelman is beefing up its public-affairs division by bringing in two Washington heavyweights, Bob Shrum, manager of John Kerry's 2004 presidential bid, and Doug Schoen, a founding member of the now WPP-owned Penn, Schoen, and Berland polling firm. The moves are effective Jan. 1.

a href=”http://adage.com/talentworks/article.php?article_id=133435″/aNEW YORK (AdAge.com) — Ad Age checked in with some career gurus and employment strategists for five of the most common cues of an imminent round of cuts.
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