Celebrity Big Brother goes out on whimper with 3.5m viewers as Ulrika wins

LONDON – ‘Celebrity Big Brother’ pulled in a lowly 3.5m viewers for Friday’s live final, 2m fewer viewers than the last final, as Ulrika Jonsson was the surprise winner.

NBC launches Sci Fi channel in HD

LONDON – NBC Universal will tonight (26 January) launch a high-definition version of its Sci Fi pay-TV channel.

AW Media takes £2m SeaFrance account from Mediaedge:cia

LONDON – SeaFrance, the cross-Channel ferry operator, has moved its £2m media planning and buying duties out of Mediaedge:cia and into independent agency AW Media.

Anti-Valentine’s Day Gifts – Snarky Ideas and Gifts for Single People on 2/14 (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) If you’re in love, you probably know Valentine’s Day is drawing close; if you are out of love and single, then you definitely know the spiteful Cupid’s Day is coming about. This holiday may be far too…

Worldwide bloggers tour / blogger from Belgium

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Future Food Items Might Be a Challenge for Copywriters


Upcoming food trends will bring us delightful new tastes in clever new packaging, along with confusing, contradictory claims as to why we should eat them and not all the other stuff coming soon.

Fading Love Affair: How the Media Will Maul Obama


Given last week's media-fueled Obama mania, I've been thinking about the stages of, well, media euphoria.

Giving Advertisers a Tax Break Could Give Economy a Lift


If we really believe that the great engine of advertising is the most effective stimulus to our economy, then we need to find ways to keep the power of persuasion going strong. How about a stimulus plan for ad spending?

CMOs Stuck Around Even Longer in ’08

NEW YORK (AdAge.com) — For the second consecutive year, the average time in the job for U.S. chief marketing officers has risen, this year hitting 28.4 months, according to executive-search firm Spencer Stuart

Zipcar Finds a Niche in Turbulent Economy


NEW YORK (AdAge.com) — Zipcar's new CMO Victoria Godfrey recently talked with Ad Age about her new role, and what's, well, fueling the car-sharing company's growth.

How to Protect Your Profits


Reducing headcount and cutting marketing expenses will not be enough to weather this recession. By leveraging 10 other strategic profit protectors, CMOs can reduce the effects of the severe economic downturn in ways that go beyond profit-threatening cost cutting.

Online CPM Prices Take Tumble

NEW YORK (AdAge.com) — Cost-per-thousand ad impressions for online publishers are generally off about 20%, according to several people on both the buying and selling side, and sell-through rates are dropping.

Web Series Still Struggle to Hold on to Audiences


NEW YORK (AdAge.com) — MyDamnChannel's "You Suck at Photoshop" is a a near-perfect series for the web. But it's not immune from the one of the most vexing problems facing producers of web video: how to build a loyal audience and keep it coming back.

Mobile Marketers Target Receptive Hispanic Audience

SAN FRANCISCO (AdAge.com) — Hispanics, the country's largest and fastest-growing ethnic minority, are becoming a sought-after target for mobile advertisers as brands connect the dots between the group's receptiveness to advertising and its heavy mobile usage.

Is Conde Nast Finally Fostering Digital?

Reader’s Digest Communes With Rick Warren


NEW YORK (AdAge.com) — Reader's Digest Association today debuts Purpose Driven Connection, a multimedia platform built around the teachings of Rick Warren, pastor of Saddleback Church and best-selling author of "The Purpose Driven Life."

What Does Carlos Slim Want With the NY Times?


NEW YORK (AdAge.com) — Carlos Slim, the second-richest man in the world, threw the New York Times Co. a lifeline last week, lending it $250 million to refinance $400 million in debt coming due in May. What is the Mexican billionaire after?

Light-Up Lingerie – LED Undies Take Unusual Unmentionables to New Heights (UPDATE) (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) Flashy bizarreness goes to a whole new level with these LED-embedded undergarments. There is hardly any reasonable explanation for these unmentionables, but when it comes to spicing things up in the bedroom,…

Edible Human Hybrids – Photoshop Proves Mom Was Right: You Are What You Eat (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) This Worth1000 competition takes the concept of “You are what you eat” literally with these images. Some of them are fairly cute, such as the baby merged with the pear, but others are a bit sick, like…

AA debunks “myth” of toxic childhood

LONDON – The Advertising Association today claimed to have debunked what it calls the “myth” of “toxic childhood”.