Hasta La Creative!

Are you an Iron Maiden fan? Who the hell is Iron Maiden you ask? Well, do your homework or just move on to the next story.

Check out Paw Fun, an Obama pet spoof site which, aside from selling t-shirts, will let you put your pet in the White House. Figuratively speaking, of course.

The first major party during the conference was hosted by Buy.at at Moon Nightclub atop the Palms Casino.

For those not attending Affiliate Summit in Las Vegas Sunday through Tuesday, feel free to skip this piece. Unless you want to know what you’re missing…which is a lot. This year’s West show is the largest Affiliate Summit to date with over 3,000 registered attendees.

Yes, it’s time to pimp ad:tech.

Not that a few won’t end up atop Rock Bottom at the end of the night anyway but it’s nice to know that, for the first time in, like, forever, there will be a party at the Chicago ad:tech…

What do you do when you find yourself in a room full of the people that imagineered your childhood? You lose all social poise and most of your moxie — not on purpose, but inevitably. That’s what it felt…

Can we please retire Fulton’s and Rock Bottom this year? Please? Chicago is a big city. No doubt there are more than two bars at which to hold events. Can we expand our thinking bit here?

The 80-something (?) year old Advertising Age is, apparently, sick of toeing the line, sticking to the straight and narrow and offering up nothing but long-winded dissertations on the business of advertising.

Speaking at the Association of National Advertisers’ Integrated Marketing Conference, Joe Jaffe calls out eight brands for abusing or not taking advantage of the increasingly social nature of media.