In Today’s Climate, All Financial Firms Are Challenger Brands


Research reveals that when all companies within an industry are being tarred with the same brush, people tune out. For the financial-services industry, this can be a hidden opportunity because every brand has become, of sorts, a challenger brand. Everyone is equal.

Agency Jobs: Where to Find One in the Recovery

NEW YORK (AdAge.com) — If you're an out-of-work advertising professional waiting for the economy to turn around, there's one thing agencies will be looking for when things start picking up: traditional advertising skills.

New Creative Order Emerges in Minneapolis


MINNEAPOLIS (AdAge.com) — If you haven't visited the creative-advertising hamlet of Minneapolis in recent years, you might not recognize it.

Beam Marketing Chief on Making His Brands Heard


CHICAGO (AdAge.com) — Rory Finlay, senior VP-chief marketing officer of Beam Global Spirits & Wine, recently sat down for an interview with Ad Age to discuss his move to put the spirits company's entire budget behind word-of-mouth marketing.

Forget Twitter; Your Best Marketing Tool Is the Humble Product Review

NEW YORK (AdAge.com) — For all the ink spilled on the importance of Twitter and Facebook as feedback and customer-service channels, there's another social-media tool marketers are increasingly finding useful, not just as an online-shopping tool but as an internal, culturally changing consumer-criticism channel: the humble product review.

How Would You Rebrand Yahoo?


If you had been given the task, how would you, as Carol Bartz said, get Yahoo's "mojo back in the marketplace"?

Quantcast Upends Online-Ad Targeting by Giving Marketers Control

NEW YORK (AdAge.com) — What if a marketer could define its own audience — not constricted to what a particular network or portal is selling — and buy it wherever it happens to be? The most ambitious attempt at shifting the online ad business in this direction is coming from Quantcast.

New Formats Give Online Video Ads Potential


NEW YORK (AdAge.com) — With the TV-upfront market frozen and advertisers looking for lower-cost means to reach consumers, a push is on to try formats that could finally realize some of the potential of online video with targeted ads that engage with real interactivity.

How to Make Your Employees the Voice of Your Brand Online


CHICAGO (AdAge.com) — While many marketers are starting to understand that their employees can be their greatest asset, one small barbecue chain has taken it to an entirely new level.

AOL Cracks Web Publishing — Sans Time Warner

NEW YORK (AdAge.com) — Just as Time Warner is unwinding that mistake, AOL is figuring out the future of magazine publishing on the web. And it's doing so without Time Warner's content assets.

Why the New York Times Co. Will Be in Business Until at Least 2012


Can the New York Times Co. last through 2011? As it turns out, we think the answer is yes, and then some.

Top 50 Bizarre Trends in 2009

(TrendHunter.com) This peculiar countdown is a celebration of all things uniquely bizarre…. The report is a crowd-filtered ranking based on TrendHunter.com monthly traffic (roughly 10 million monthly views) and our bizarre…

Top 50 Tech Trends in H1 2009

(TrendHunter.com) This micro tech trend report features the top tech trends in 2009… so far! The report is a crowd-filtered ranking based on TrendHunter.com monthly traffic (several million monthly views) and our tech…

Top 50 Celebs Trends in 2009

(TrendHunter.com) Rihanna, Lady Gaga, Megan Fox and Susan Boyle are just a few of the characters that drove the world’s celebrity obsession in the first half of 2009.

This mini celeb countdown features the top 50 celebrity…

Top 50 Eco Trends in H1 2009

(TrendHunter.com) This countdown features the latest eco trends, which include everything from the latest recycled garbage as art to photosets that celebrate nature in a modern way.

This ranking is a crowd-filtered based…

Top 50 Fashion Trends in H1 2009

(TrendHunter.com) From scandalous photoshoots to hip fashion, this countdown features the top fashion trends so far in 2009. The report is a crowd-filtered ranking based on TrendHunter.com monthly traffic (nearly 10 million…

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Advertising Agency: Art Link Advertising, Cairo, Egypt
Creative Director: Omar Rashad
Art Director: Omar Rashad
Illustrator: Ahmed El Habashi

The KDU is back online

After a long time in the making, The KDU is finally back online and bigger than ever. We now hold a collective website to showcase the very best of the KDU’s work in a well balanced, beautifully planned and direct way.

It’s been 5 long years put together in one place for you to see the highlights of what’s been going down in the KDU trenches. HOTTTTT STUFF!

We’ll also be having our own personal blogs soon so keep your eyes open for any new intel.

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Super-Sized Swimmers – Discovery Unveils Giant Tattooed Statues for ‘London Ink’ (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) This super-sized swimmer is a part of an unusual publicity stunt for ‘London Ink,’ a new Discovery Channel reality series. The Discovery Channel placed two giant statues in London to promote the series;…

Daimlerstrasse 38 or How to get a fox to shoot portrait of itself

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Danish artist and environmentalist Tue Greenfort’s photo series, Daimlerstrasse 38 lured foxes living in the industrial area in eastern Frankfurt with frankfurter sausages towards a hidden camera continue