Tesco price comparison ads banned by ASA

LONDON – Press and TV ads for Tesco promoting price comparisons between their products and those in Asda stores have been banned by the Advertising Standards Authority.

Watchdog slams E.ON wind farm ads

LONDON – The Advertising Standards Authority has banned a local press ad and promotional material for E.ON’s West Ancroft wind farm.

Apple ad dodges ASA ban

LONDON – A TV ad demonstrating applications for the Apple iPhone has escaped a ban by the Advertising Standards Authority.

Case Study: NAB talks to younger adult audiences via events

Launching this week, is the nab Event-u-lator . The Event-u-lator was conceived as part of a broader campaign with the objective to engage with a younger adult audience and educate them on nab’s transaction account

Gold Leaf Eyelashes – Stunning Ways to Accent Your Peepers at Tokyo Lash Bar 2009 (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) We’ve featured exotic eyelash boutiques before, but the Tokyo Lash Bar 2009 has some beautiful new looks we couldn’t resist showing you.

Tokyo Lash Bar 2009 offered up everything from dramatically feathered…

Passive smoke kills your dearest ones first.

Advertising Agency: DRAFTFCB+ULKA, Mumbai, India
National Creative Director: K S Chakravarthy
Creative Director: Haresh Moorjani
Art Director / Copywriter: Balakrishna Gajelli
Illustrators: Balakrishna Gajelli, Pushpa Gadre

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Phantom Wedding Photos – Images of Terence Koh’s Illegal Wedding to Garrick Gott (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) Terence Koh’s faux wedding photos are humorous and sweet. Recently, the fashionable Terence Koh wed his boyfriend designer Garrick Gott in New York.

Sadly the marriage won’t be recognized since the state…

Uncovered Criminal Mugshots – Photos By Sydney Police From 1912-1930 Found (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) If half the celebrities that get busted these days knew their mugshots would look like these criminals, they probably would get in trouble more often.

This collection of photographs are from 1912-1930.…

Ridiculous Real Estate Photos – Rojkind Arquitectos’ Creations are Beautiful (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) Designed for inner Mongolia, China, is this house based on traditional cave dwellings.

Created by Rojkind Arquitectos, the residence is submerged in the ground, copying a Mexican practice. The basic logic…

Toyota Prius | Solar Powered Ventilation

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Depois do sucesso com as Solar WiFi Flowers, a Toyota apresentou mais uma ação na cidade de Chicago, Estados Unidos. A idéia é novamente divulgar a 3a geração do Prius, o automóvel mais ambientalmente correto da montadora. Só que agora, ao invés de utilizar a energia solar para facilitar as recargas de notebooks e celulares, foram instalados painéis com saídas de ventilação em abrigos de ônibus.

A novidade cai como uma luva, tendo em vista o alto verão que assola os Estados Unidos. Além do mais, todas essas últimas iniciativas de Prius nos Estados Unidos vão de encontro com o posicionamento oficial do produto: “Harmony between man, nature and machine.”
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Gatorade | Michael Jordan Street Art

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Personalidades do esporte, principalmente aquelas que estão em destaque, sempre são convidadas para participar de campanhas criadas para a Gatorade. O que surpreendeu agora é que a marca voltou às raízes e lançou uma campanha para promover uma nova linha limitada de garrafas temáticas do ex-campeão da NBA, Michael Jordan.

Durante 16 horas de muito trabalho, voluntários montaram um painel com mais de 14 mil novas garrafas coloridas.
O resultado, obtido após a inserção de luzes debaixo de cada uma das garrafas, você pode conferir no making of abaixo:

Vale lembrar que Michael Jordan já foi garoto propaganda de Gatorade (de 1991 até 2003). Hoje, o principal esportista aliado da marca é o campeão mundial de golfe, Tiger Woods.

:: Via Yahoo! Sports

Twitter Tips From Downing Street

LONDON (AdAge.com) — The British government wants its many departments to avoid having dry, by-the-numbers Twitter feeds, so it's issued a 20-page internal strategy document to help them best use the microblogging service.

DEVK: Set theory

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At first glance, our diagrams look quite straightforward. But when people look closer, these graphs tell funny and interesting real-life stories. Stories that show your target group why it’s always better to be insured by the DEVK.

Advertising Agency: Grabarz & Partner, Hamburg, Germany
Executive Creative Director: Ralf Heuel,
Group Head Creative Director: Timm Weber
Creative Director: Gösta Diehl, Oliver Heidorn
Art Director: Jan Riggert
Copywriter: Tobias Burger
Grafics: Matthias Khaled Baare
Released: 03/2009

Yahoo to Lead Ad Sales in Microsoft Search Deal


NEW YORK (AdAge.com) — Microsoft and Yahoo on Wednesday are expected to announce the search pact earlier reported by Advertising Age, a deal that will trigger a major re-ordering of the online ad business and create what they hope will be a more-credible competitor to Google.

Fondel is ‘extra cheesy’

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Advertising Agency, City: TBWA\RAAD MIDDLE EAST, Dubai
Advertiser/Client: STCI-TABBARAExecutive
Creative Director: Milos Ilic
Copywriter: Sandeep Fernandes
Art Director: Daniel Djarmati
Art Buyer: Valery Starr
Advertiser’s Supervisor: Rami Tabbara

Chris Anderson Less Intellectually Curious Than George W. Bush

Perhaps if Chris Anderson can't find any words to talk about the media that he doesn't even need to get along, he should shut up about it and to it already.

Summer Loving on TV



MINNEAPOLIS (AdAge.com) — Summer reality TV is the video equivalent of a summer fling: A lot of fun, nothing heavy and a defined break-up date at the end of the season. The formula has worked wonders for NBC's "America's Got Talent," Fox's "So You Think You Can Dance," CBS's "Big Brother" and ABC's "Wipeout." And viewers seem particularly willing to date around with relationship reality, like last night's "The Bachelorette" finale and week two of "Dating in the Dark" on ABC.

TIM | Padrasto

Em sua campanha para o Dia dos Pais, a TIM resolveu homenagear outra pessoa que não um pai, bem, pelo menos não no sentido biológico da palavra. Em quase dois minutos, uma história bem contada.

A criação é da McCann Erickson, com produção da Sentimental.

Emirates Airlines Eyes Global Consolidation of $300M Marketing Biz


NEW YORK (AdAge.com) — Emirates Airlines is embarking on a global consolidation of its marketing account, according to people familiar with the matter, valued at more than $300 million in billings.

Interpublic Profit Dropped Over 70% in Second Quarter

NEW YORK (AdAge.com) — Interpublic Group of Cos. is the latest advertising-agency holding company to report bleak second-quarter earnings due to clients that have sharply curtailed marketing budgets amid the recession.