Glam Media faces legal battle following French launch

LONDON – The launch of Glam Media’s French operation, announced in Media Week yesterday, has landed the women’s ad network in a legal wrangle with a French social media site called Glam One.

Paper Round (17 March) – a look at the day’s newspapers

LONDON – Universities are short of both places and funds, The Times and The Daily Telegraph warn today, while two teenage deaths attributed to the legal plant food meow meow stir emotions at The Sun, which demands ‘Ban Drug Now’.

Ofcom introduces tougher rules for telecoms

LONDON – Ofcom has introduced tough new rules that could see telecom companies fined up to 10% of their turnover for mis-selling services.

Five HD to launch on Sky

LONDON – Five’s high definition channel Five HD will launch on Sky in July this year.

Blackboard Combats – The Best Chalkboard Game Since Hangman (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) What is the best chalkboard game since hangman, you ask? It’s this creative chalkboard game where whoever can draw the best move, gets their picture taken defeating their foe. Unlike other games like hangman,…

Initiative wins Iberostar hotels group global media

LONDON – Iberostar, the Spanish hotels group, has awarded its global media planning and buying account to Initiative.

Facebook overtakes Google to become the most visited website in the US

LONDON – Social network Facebook has overtaken search giant Google to become the most visited website in the US for the week ending 13 March.

Barclaycard rolls out Freedom rewards programme

LONDON – Barclaycard has today officially launched its Freedom customer rewards programme.

Brands clamber on board for St Patrick’s Day

LONDON – Aer Lingus, Jameson and O’Neill’s are among the brands marking St Patrick’s Day through Irish-themed campaigns.

Kraft to keep Cadbury’s UK marketing operations

LONDON – Kraft, the US food giant, has given firm indications that it will continue to manufacture Cadbury’s key brands and maintain the company’s marketing and sales operations in the UK.

Npower launches brand awareness ads

LONDON – Npower is rolling out a print ad campaign to drive awareness in the brand, following the launch of a new visual identity.

Visa Pompeii ambient media: lava airport conveyor belt

Really good ambient media campaign for Visa Pompeii which has used the airport conveyor belt as a lava flow.

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Advertiser:
Agency: TBWA\Tequila, New Zealand
Executive Creative Director: Andy Blood
Creative Director: Guy Roberts
Art Director: Tamryn Kerr
Copywriter: Michael Goldthorpe

Old fashion viral video campaign for Muscle Milk

Old fashion viral video campaign with 3 viral videos for Muscle Milk

Katie, first viral video with a nice babe running

Dave, the second viral video with a guy on a boat dragging 3 hot babes skiing

Chet, the third viral video with a guy on a bike with 3 cute babes behind him

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Feel At Home

Agency: Makani Creatives, Mumbai, India
Creative Directors: Sameer Makani, Ashish Makani
Art Directors: Sachin Padave, Prasad Rao
Copywriter: Sachin Padave
Photographer: Jitu and Kinnari / Studio 127

ASA bans ad for offensive racial stereotype

LONDON – The ASA has banned a Tombola bingo ad featuring a black man repeating in song everything a white man says, ruling that it breached the advertising code on using harmful or negative stereotypes.

Top 20 Trends of the Day (Mar 16) – From Sleek Modular Beach Homes to Heartbreaktography (COUNTDOWN)

(TrendHunter.com) For the day of March 16th, these are the Top 20 trends, which include Sleek Modular Beach Homes, Sketched Supermodels and Curve-Loving Swimwear. The rankings are based on hundreds of thousands of views…

SXSW Buries Adrants. But We’re Slowly Crawling Out From Under

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While I dig myself out from under the onslaught of digiliciousness otherwise known as SXSW, the least I can do is share with you the images from the conferences I’ve taken to date.
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Ultrasound.. clean as new

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Advertising Agency: Saatchi & Saatchi, Dubai
Regional Executive Creative Director: Sion Scott-Wilson
Chief Creative Officer: Maru Kopelowicz
Art Director: Christopher Jones, Mark Hendy
Copywriter: William Goh
Producer: Leah Gacal
Photographer: Tariq Dajani
Retoucher: Mirage Imaging
Account manager: Heidi Afifi
Senior Account Director: Joanne Miserandino, Stephane Wahlen, Hamid Naqvi
Other Credits: Muhammed Jifri, Amr Elkashashi
Via [I Believe in Advertising]

Structural Animal Masks – The DIY Geometric Work of Michael Schoner (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) German architect Micheal Schoner has designed a series of paper masks entitled A3 Animals. These A3 Animals masks are DIY face covers that can be downloaded off his website and duplicated as many times…

Syfy Edges Further From Science Fiction Roots


LOS ANGELES (AdAge.com) — A year after the Sci-Fi Channel replaced its name with the more vague and therefore less limiting "Syfy," the network is also broadening its pitch to advertisers.