Hasta La Creative!

Creative agency, commercial and branded content production company Stun Creative appointed Galen Newton as its first director of digital and social media. In the newly-created position, Newton will report directly to Stun founding partners/principals Brad Roth and Mark Feldstein.

“Galen will give Stun the opportunity to greatly expand it’s services in the social marketing and digital space,” said Feldstein. “He’s an experienced digital and social pro who will work with the Stun team to guarantee that our content thrives in a multi-platform world, as we continue to expand and enrich our capabilities.”

“With Galen back on our Stun team look forward to him taking our ideation and execution further into the digital and social space,” Roth added.

Newton joins Stun following nearly three and a half years as producer, content strategy with Fox. Before that he served as Bravo digital video producer/editor with NBC Universal for nearly seven years. Prior to joining NBC Universal he served a brief stint as freelance post production coordinator, 2006 TV Land Awards with Michael Levitt Productions. Before that he actually served an earlier stint with Stun Creative, as a freelance project coordinator.

“I could not be more proud and excited to return to a company that has brought to life some of the sharpest and ground-breaking marketing campaigns,” said Newton.  

If you can dream it, someone can steal it.

That could be the moral of the story of Stun Fone, a fictitious attachment that turned your smartphone into a stun gun, devised a few years back by Los Angeles ad agency and production studio Stun Creative. A video demo of this 90,000-volt fake gadget went viral (the original clip was pulled off YouTube, but a copy is posted below), racked up millions of tweets and won an "experimental and weird" Webby honor. Sadistic folks all over the world clamored for one.

Well, the wait's over, and the real version, made by a company called Yellow Jacket, is significantly more muscular than the one cooked up by Stun Creative's Brad Roth and Mark Feldstein as a quirky promotion for their business. Yellow Jacket will sell you a detachable stun-gun case for the iPhone 5 that can shoot 650,000 volts of electricity into a would-be predator (or unfortunate butt-dialer?) for just $149. Bonus: It doubles as a battery charger and makes a noise that's "throaty and intimidating," according to CNET.

The device, launched at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, will be available next month, complete with safety switches so you don't fry your ears off. No word on revenue splits or a licensing fee to the original "creators," although they don't seem overly bothered by the new product. In fact, it was Stun Creative's PR team that pointed us to it.