When Words Fail Just Invent New Ones

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When you’ve spent hours in a conference room concepting a campaign and you can’t come up with a thing or the client has shot down everything you’ve proposed to them, this is the result.

Hide and seek with an invisible man

It does help to be invisible sometimes like in this video The unknow is closer than you think Advertiser: SciFi Channel Agency: Saatchi & Saatchi, Milan, Italy Creative Directors: Agostino Toscana, Alessandro Orlandi Art Director: Luca Pannese Copywriter: Luca Lorenzini Production Company: The […]

Dolphins’ Monday Night Fiesta Was Hispanic Done Right


You can define "sidelines" in the old-school way and just keep letting opportunities to engage with Hispanic consumers go by because of (fill in your favorite Hispanic marketing phobia here) or you can define sidelines the way the Dolphins have and make them the hottest standing-room area in town

Advertising Association launches £2m appeal to fund foundation to promote communications industry

LONDON – The Advertising Association’s chief executive Tim Lefroy has made a one-off appeal to members to raise £2m in funding.

Ofgem forces energy suppliers to update customer marketing

LONDON – Energy suppliers are being forced to update their marketing practices after a probe of the sector by energy regulator Ofgem.

Blogworld Hikes Up its Skirt in Disneyland For Adults

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So the Blogworld Conference and Expo happened last week in Las Vegas.

Virgin Media sponsors Jenson Button to race around Bluewater

LONDON – World Champion racer Jenson Button will race around a specially-designated circuit at Bluewater shopping centre tomorrow in a promotion sponsored by Virgin Media.

Advertising Association to launch foundation to fight negative image

LONDON – The Advertising Association is setting up a foundation to rebuild the industry’s confidence and fight the prospect of tighter regulations.

Why MySpace’s Heidi Browning Returned to the Agency World


NEW YORK (AdAge.com) — After getting a taste of all three sides — agency, client and publisher — Heidi Browning has returned to the agency world and landed at Interpublic Group of Cos.' Universal McCann as global digital officer, another newly created role by Universal McCann global CEO Matt Seiler. In between her recent jaunts to Redmond, Wash., to visit Microsoft, one of the agency's biggest clients and her primary assignment for now, Ms. Browning spoke with Ad Age about what her role will entail aside from working with Microsoft, the challenges media shops face in the digital space, what brought her back to agency life and why she left MySpace to come back.

Newsquest’s ad revenue falls 28.7%

LONDON – Newsquest’s ad revenues were down 28.7% year on year in Q3.

CNBC strikes ad deal with Erste Group Bank

LONDON – CNBC has secured an advertising deal with Austrian retail bank Erste Group , around new programming about financial business in Eastern Europe, called Emerging Europe.

We’ve Fetched Up Some More Marketing Dogs


Dogs are an unpredictable bunch. You'd think a pooch dressing up like a rapper would go for Snoop Dogg, but seems Flava Flav might be a favorite among the canine set. (Or maybe the costume's just easier to pull off.) Have another scroll through our slide show, where you'll see hard(ly) working dogs and three hotties going topless

Adidas : It’s on Me for We

Une superbe publicité pour l’équipementier Adidas Basketball qui lance la saison 2010 de NBA, avec les joueurs Dwight Howard, Derrick Rose, Kevin Garnett ou encore Josh Smith. Le spot a été dirigé par Patrick Murphy sur une production du studio Elastic. A découvrir dans la suite.



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William Hill promotional ads for ‘free £100 bets’ axed by the ASA

LONDON – Bookmaker William Hill has been slammed by the Advertising Standards Authority over a press ads offering £100-worth of free bets to consumers who open a telephone account.

Augmented reality turns breakfast cereal into a 3D games console

LONDON – A breakfast cereal box is transformed in to a three-dimensional games console in the latest augmented reality campaign, to promote the animated film ‘Arthur and the Revenge of Maltazard’.

Audience Conference Aims to Eliminate Bullshit

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Perhaps we should call this conference The No Bullshit Conference because the man behind it, Loren Feldman, never bullshits.

Ink to publish Spanish airline magazine

LONDON – Ink Publishing has been chosen by Spanish airline Vueling to publish its in-flight magazine, Ling Magazine.

COI shortlists three agency groups to pitch for £250m media buying

LONDON – COI has shortlisted three agency groups to compete for its £250 million media buying account.

What Direct Marketing Needs Now: A New Shot of Creativity


As The DMA dissects the state of direct marketing in San Diego this week, Mat Zucker, the executive creative director of OgilvyOne, offers a solution behind which the industry can rally right now: re-inject creativity. He updates five principles from David Ogilvy to help direct marketers rethink and redirect their business to better connect with consumers.

Gothic Nightmare Illustrations – Greg Simkins’ Macabre Paintings Leave You Wanting More (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) The best kind of artist is the one who spontaneously does something really messed up and then everyone recognizes it as genius, the artist just kinda goes “Well, duh!” Greg Simkins’ macabre paintings do…