(TrendHunter.com) Body modifications are increasing in popularity, but there are some cases that go wrong. Zygzag, also known as Fishmouth, had plates inserted into his cheeks, among his many other body mods.
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LONDON – US gold trading firm and self-styled ‘UK’s biggest direct response advertiser’ Cash4Gold has hired former eBay senior marketer David Knight to lead its expansion abroad.
(TrendHunter.com) Who would have thought Penelope Cruz would make such a great vintage pin-up girl? These pictures of faux vintage celebrities are a fascinating juxtaposition of portrayals of beauty in the past and now.…
NEW YORK (AdAge.com) — The cable industry's plan to get viewers to pay for TV on the web is getting a powerful new ally. But it's not cable. DirecTV, the nation's largest satellite TV operator and second-largest pay-TV provider to Comcast, is in talks with cable networks to launch its own web video service under standards known in the industry as "TV Everywhere," according to executives with knowledge of the talks.
Right in the middle of all those silly local ads during a recent Yankees game came maybe the worst ad I've seen in a long time, though obviously it was meant to be a bad ad — oh, man, don't I love that kind of cleverness.
LONDON – The Department of Health (DH) and the Department for Children, Schools and Families (DCSF) have retained Naked Communications to handle communications planning for the Government’s sexual health portfolio.
LONDON – Twitter has been down for at least two hours and everyone is asking why. Co-founder Biz Stone, has got a message out to users explaining that the micrblogging service has suffered its first major outage.
LONDON – Twitter has been down for at least two hours and everyone is asking why. Biz Stone, co-founder of Twitter has got a message out to fans explaining why the social media craze has suffered its first major outage.
LONDON – The School Food Trust is trialling Twitter as a means of telling the parents of school children what they are eating during their school day.
LONDON – Twitter was down for several hours yesterday leaving everyone asking why. Co-founder Biz Stone, got a message out to users explaining that the microblogging service had suffered its first major outage.
Every summer, Discovery puts its usual mix of zen sunsets and varmint copulation on the shelf and turns over a full week of prime-time programming to the ultimate predators, the sharks. True Darwinian delight ensues. Sadly, this year Shark Week finally got caught up in its own hype.
Is it just me, or is the title "creative director" an impossible catch-all? Doesn't it simply encompass too much real estate for any one person to preside over? At one extreme, there's the skill set required to create an overarching idea covering every possible aspect of a marketing or business problem through all channels and media etc. At the other, the skill set required to execute brilliantly.
LONDON – The Department of Health (DH) and Department for Children, Schools and Families (DCSF) has reappointed Naked to manage the communications planning activity for its sexual health campaigns.
LONDON – Pay-TV has been hailed as the driving force behind the increase in UK TV revenue in the first half of 2009, according to Ofcom.
LONDON – Little Chef has created a promotion on free maps handed out in its restaurants detailing family days out in Britain.
LONDON – Google has called it quits in the broadcast radio ad business by selling its automated technology for radio ad placement to WideOrbit.
LONDON – The Department for Children, Schools and Families has appointed Manning Gottlieb OMD to handle a campaign strategy that forms part of its Youth Alcohol Action Plan.
LONDON – Yahoo!’s book-marking service Delicious has integrated Twitter to compile a list of the most popular web links as part of a revamp.
LONDON – Ad sales house IDS has secured LighterLife, the franchised weight-loss programme, as a sponsor across Virgin Media-owned Living and Living2.
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