…and Would You Like Sprinkles on that Star-Spangled Animal Fat?

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“Muscovites have been puzzling over a series of vaguely Warhollian posters appearing in subway stations.

IPT Holdings hires chief executive for Directinet

LONDON – IPT Holdings, the troubled former parent company of Interactive Prospect Targeting, has appointed a new chief executive at its French digital direct company Directinet.

SEAT launches new campaign with Auto Trader

LONDON – SEAT Approved Used Cars has launched a new advertising campaign across Auto Trader, the Trader Media Group-owned motoring magazine and website.

HarperColllins looks to Bebo to find top teenage slang words

LONDON – Publisher HarperCollins has asked social networking site Bebo to help find the most commonly used teenage slang words in the UK for a 30th anniversary edition of the Collins English Dictionary.

Google ends broadcast radio advertising

LONDON – Google plans to pull out of the broadcast radio advertising market to focus on streaming audio, less than a month after it scrapped efforts to sell ads for newspapers.

John West innovates with ‘No Drain’ tuna

LONDON – John West, the canned fish brand, is launching a new TV ad campaign to support what it claims is the category’s most significant innovation, No Drain Tuna.

Epsom Downs Racecourse seeks sponsor for The Derby

LONDON – Epsom Downs Racecourse is offering stand-alone sponsorship for the Epsom Derby for the first time, as it struggles to secure a backer for the entire two-day horseracing festival.

BBC One’s Hustle goes out on a high with 5.7m viewers

LONDON – BBC One’s ‘Hustle’ beat off the competition with 5.7m viewers tuning in for the final episode of the fifth series, 200,000 more than tuned in last week, according to unofficial overnight figures.

Making Waves by Vincent Laforet

Impressionné par le travail du photographe Vincent Laforet, avec ce nouveau teaser intitulé “Making Waves: The 14 Days”. Un prélude au documentaire sur une star du monde du surf : Jamie O’Brien. Des images somptueuses d’Hawaii, filmés en Canon 5D Mk II, associé à la caméra RED.

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Music : Beck – Heaven’s Hammer

Wieden & Kennedy unveils latest Lurpak ad

LONDON – Lurpak is imploring the nation to use their Saturday mornings to stay home and make wonderful breakfasts in its latest TV work by Wieden & Kennedy.

Real Tax Payers of Genius Don’t Squander on Ad Divas.

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It isn’t immediately clear whether the Maryland Comptroller has an ingenious sense of humor or just really low standards, but “Real Tax Payers of Genius” — a video effort to get taxpayers to e-file — definitely left us with a queasy “What hath YouTube wrought” sensation.

FirstBank Makes Ski Mask Joke. Oh, How Gauche!

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Colorado’s FirstBank hopes to nail younger customers by pushing its mobile banking product.

Fernando Torres helps out his mates?

LONDON – Hot on the heels of erstwhile Liverpool colleague Peter Crouch’s viral sellout for T-Mobile comes some bizarre and cheesy internet clips of super striker Fernando Torres advertising dog schools, tennis lessons and hairdresser’s in his native Spain.

Microsoft takes on Apple with branded retail stores plan

LONDON – Microsoft is seeking to open a series of branded retail stores, following in the footsteps of rival Apple.

Man and Robot Have Earnest but Unconvincing Pizza Debate

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Not completely sure what to make of this one. For pizza franchise Mr. Jim’s, AdWise put together this weird ad where founder Mr. Jim goes head-to-head with “Doughby,” his dough-making robot.

Facebook paid up to $65m to settle dispute over origins

LONDON – Facebook paid up to $65m (£44.9m) in a legal settlement with three men who had accused founder Mark Zuckerberg of stealing the idea for the site from them, it has emerged.

Blood-curdling Friday the 13th viral warns ‘Yur Nexxt’

LONDON – Digital creative agency Ralph has created a gruesome viral campaign which shows a murder via a webcam and a warning to viewers that they are next, to mark the launch of Paramount Pictures’ remake of the classic horror film ‘Friday the 13th’.

Wannabe Furniture

Autour de l’univers du déménagement, ce concept intéressant et bien développé a été pensé par le designer Llotllov. Grâce à un simple ajout, les cartons prennent une allure de tables design.

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Disponibles en vert, orange ou blanc, et construites en acier.

Starbucks brews instant coffee for cash strapped customers

NEW YORK – Starbucks, which built its business on selling $4 cups of coffee, is to offer customers instant or soluble coffee for less than $1, which it claims tastes as good as the real thing.

Collins English Dictionary turns to Bebo for new teen slang

LONDON – Publisher HarperCollins has tied up with teen social networking site Bebo to carry out a poll to identify the most widely used slang words for inclusion in the Collins English Dictionary.