Hasta La Creative!

Hereis a video presentation of Google Instant search with Bob Dylan…

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(TrendHunter.com) Although this year has seen fashion getting back to basics, perhaps you’ll want to experiment a little more come the new year, particularly with the Prabal Gurung Spring 2011 collection. Bold, brilliant…

Tim Burton, the Exhibition, was opening at the Australian Centre for the Moving Image (ACMI), in Melbourne. The landmark exhibition shows Burton’s creative vision and process from his earliest work to the spectacular Alice in Wonderful. To drum-up some extra publicity ACMI put on free carriage rides from the city centre to the exhibition, only with a twist.

Advertising Agency: DDB Group, Melbourne, Australia
Executive Creative Director: Grant Rutherford
Creative Directors: Glen Dickson, Ruben Cirugeda
Senior Art Directors: Ben Green, Lee Sunter
Senior Copywriters: Pat Lennox, Andre Hull
Producer: Robin Bowles
Account manager: Matthew Dickinson

SHANGHAI (AdAge.com) — Faced with limited and pricey TV options, multinational marketers are flocking to popular online video sites to develop branded entertainment series for China, a market in which the most desirable consumers are likely to be online searching for content rather than watching the communal family TV set.

NEW YORK (AdAge.com) — The next mobile frontier will find our wallets at home and smartphones taking the lead at registers. But right now in the U.S., cellphones trumping plastic at the point of purchase is still far off.

Mobile is a confusing marketing space, and we're in the midst of a hype cycle perhaps equaled only by the dot-com frenzy of years past. And whenever there's hype, misconceptions aren't far behind. Here's a look at four of them — and a reminder why you shouldn't believe everything the soothsayers say.

NEW YORK (AdAge.com) — Spike TV has turned the venerable commercial break into a commercial marathon. During certain broadcasts of "Entourage," the Viacom cable channel has quietly run ad breaks ranging anywhere from six minutes in length to something approaching an eyebrow-raising 10 minutes in total. In some cases, the ad breaks are longer than segments of the show, episodes of which have in recent weeks taken as long as 48 minutes to run.

NEW YORK (AdAge.com) In the entertainment industry, there are a few properties legendary for cost overruns and lengthy delays — among them "Waterworld" in 1995 and Guns N' Roses' "Chinese Democracy," which was finally released in 2008 after a 15-year gestation period. Now add to those one of the gaming world's most-anticipated titles, "Duke Nukem Forever," which might actually be coming to market after an apocryphal 13 years in development.

Kanye's belated arrival on Twitter has had me thinking about how, increasingly, the news media has a nifty new way of "reporting" entertainment news: regurgitating celebrity tweets.

(TrendHunter.com) The Hi-design Thais Art Tub from BluBleu features an acrylic jet-fitted tub finished in a teak enclosure. The luxury bath includes a lot of book storage and can be customized to fit individual space requirements.…