Hasta La Creative!

OK. What’s up with the whole stop motion thing?

– Fuel loses fuel. – MCD gives those hardworking kids a day off in the city. – Well, that didn’t take long. Long live Teddy’s dead legs. – Fake WWF campaign lands just in time for 9/11! – Where the…

Last week in his monologue, late night host Craig Ferguson went on and on and on and, yea, on about youth and advertising and how marketers all got together in the 50’s and 60’s to “deify” youth, put it up on a pedestal and focus all their advertising on that particular age group.

With the explosion of social media, the direction marketing flows is shifting from outbound to inbound.

Ed:There are those who believe applying old media metrics to new media is like trying to measure water volume with a ruler. Others, such as Adrants guest contributor Lisa Marino, Sr. Director of Sales at RockYou, think standardization across all media is the way to go.

This poll was sparked by an Amnesty International effort where a woman is smushed into transparent luggage to illustrate the cause of sex trafficking.

Yesterday AgencySpy reposted an op-ed by Alan Wolk that generated a shit-ton of loose-cannon commentary.

You know that military recruitment poster with Uncle Sam pointing outward accompanied by the tagline, “I Want You?” Well, a slight modification to that might put and end to the fuckery the ad industry can’t seem to remove itself from of when it comes to diversity.

When Ben Relles created Barely Political and hired Amber Lee Ettinger to play the role of Obama Girl, it was little more than a fun little one-off which no one thought would become the sort of cultural icon it did.

A guy learns the hard way that there are rules about playing Disney characters.

Via LA Mag and Joe.