Emoting Critters – Collection of Animals Making OMG Faces Goes Viral (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) These pictures were found in an article titled “Animals Making OMG Faces.” While I do believe that animals are bright, I’m not convinced that they are capable of OMG faces. I’m not sure what the photographer…

The Geely Panda

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Advertising Agency: Media Marquee, Egypt
Creative Director: Shady Saqary
Art Director, Illustrator and Copywriter: Ahmed Wahid

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Media Companies Roll Out Efforts to Improve Audience Measurement

NEW YORK (AdAge.com) — Despite the difficulty in wrapping up this year's protracted TV upfront ad market, networks and media agencies still took time to deliver on one promise they made to each other going into the marketplace: premium pricing for better audience measurement.

Reality Bites Back

MINNEAPOLIS (AdAge.com) — The lure of low costs and high ratings has made reality TV the decade's defining genre. And who can blame the networks? After all, each of the Big Four has undergirded its schedule grid with transformative reality shows.

Cardboard Coitus – Mode 2 Unveils Naughty Urban Artwork (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) Mode 2 has captured the physical intimacy found in human sexuality and artfully reproduced it in a way that is simultaneously naughty and sensual. 

Perhaps to articulate the basic and primal aspect of…

Man Dies During Taping of Unilever-Sponsored Reality Program

BATAVIA, Ohio (AdAge.com) — A Pakistani man has died in Thailand during the taping of a reality show for Unilever's Clear dandruff shampoo, the company said, though the cause of death remains unclear pending completion of an autopsy.

Converse Scenes

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Para quem acompanha o blog, sabe que eu já falei algumas vezes (aqui e aqui) sobre o posicionamento da Converse.

Totalmente conectada aos seus consumidores mais jovens, a marca sempre cria iniciativas ligadas à arte, à música e ao entretenimento em geral.

Em seu novo site, criado pela sueca Perfect Fools, podem ser vistas várias fotos de festivais, concertos e eventos por toda a Europa. Ao som de bandas mais independentes, a navegação pelo site proporciona uma boa interatividade, e os visitantes podem fazer upload de suas fotografias, bem como procurar imagens deste grande mural virtual através de uma filtragem por localização, tribos comportamentais e modelos de calçados da Converse. Vale a visita ;-)

:: http://converse-eu.com/

Sears Does Geek Squad/Real-Time Price Match Thing

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Ho there. Know what we never get tired of? That retail-superhero crap that Best Buy did with Geek Squad and Dell tried doing with Nerd Buddy.

Univision to Launch Musical Talent Competition of Its Own


Colorado Students to Learn Digital From Alex Bogusky


NEW YORK (AdAge.com) — Boulder Digital Works, a new digital graduate program starting this fall at the University of Colorado at Boulder, will give students a chance to have ad celeb Alex Bogusky as a teacher and get a taste of progressive interactive schooling imported from Sweden.

Discover Gives Cash Back, Advocates Buying More

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…I guess that makes sense, although the five spots featured for Discover’s new “Get Back” campaign do occasionally, if feebly, try suggesting you can also “get back” buddy time and family time and youth.

Wearing Fangs in Public – Lady Gaga’s Fangs Make Waves at Heathrow Airport (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) Vampires aren’t just for the movies or graphic novels anymore. According to The Sun, Lady Gaga was sporting her own fangs as she traveled through Heathrow Airport.

Lady Gaga is definitely controversial,…

‘Sometimes I Think the Polar Bear … is Just a Myth.’

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The Toronto Zoo has completed a brand-new habitat to accommodate the return of its polar bears.

Publishers, Advertisers React to Group M Merger

NEW YORK (AdAge.com) — Print publishers and advertisers are taking a pretty sanguine view of the consolidation of four big media agencies' print operations, predicting that client conflicts can be handled and that smaller, independent publishers won't necessarily suffer. They seem willing, at a minimum, to wait and see.

Choice Hotels Chooses Leo Burnett, Doner for Advertising, Promotions

NEW YORK (AdAge.com) — Choice Hotels has hired Publicis Groupe's Leo Burnett USA and independent Doner to help it better differentiate its hotel-chain brands — a welcome boost for two agencies that have struggled to land business of late.

Campaign video – RKCR/Y&R Local opens its doors to small businesses

LONDON – Ad agency RKCR/Y&R is sharing its marketing expertise with small businesses in its local neighbourhood – watch Campaign’s video about its first day of operations.

Bud Drinkers, Not Agency, Will Be Behind the Next Chinese New Year Campaign


SHANGHAI (AdAgeChina.com) — Anheuser-Busch InBev is the latest marketer in China to invite consumers to create an ad campaign, but the brewer has one rule: The commercial must feature ants.

In Slim Month for Rag Mags, Style Site Builds Buzz With Nike, Gap


NEW YORK (AdAge.com) — Ad-emaciated fashion magazines are hitting newsstands this month, but in the online space, Polyvore, a Mountain View, Calif.-based startup, is gaining momentum with a user-generated-content play targeting fashionistas.

Death by SMS, ABSOLUT Toasts Boston, MSFT Race-Swaps

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– Twitter’s new It Guy: “Tennessee is nice. The first time I vomited was in tennessee, I think.” The author — allegedly a 28-year-old loafer just writing down whatever his 73-year-old dad says — won over 40,000 followers since yesterday. We smell a deeper story.

You Got ‘Mad Men’ in My Coffee!


Eight O'Clock Coffee is offering fans of "Mad Men" a line of e-cards with which they can annoy their friends.