Aviva pushes retirement products with ad campaign

LONDON – Aviva is to push its retirement products in the latest phase of its ongoing ad campaign fronted by TV comic Paul Whitehouse.

UK creative team triumphs in European ad awards

LONDON – Gavin Johnson and Julia Earthrowl, a creative team on placement at MuirHoward, have triumphed in the pan-European Best YET creative competition.

Resident Evil: Thabo, Aziz, Jackie

“Resident Evil. You are on the menu.”

Advertising Agency: Y&R, Dubai, United Arab Emirates
Group Creative Director: Michael Blore
Creatives: Shahir Zag, Komal Bedi Sohal
Photographer: Clive Stewart
Illustrator: Andrew Newman
Illustrator: Wayne @ Dxf
Senior Account Director: Nadine Ghossoub


Bounce: Scented Garment Tree

Leo Burnett Melbourne, working on an international Procter & Gamble brief, brought springtime early to a grey and gloomy Toronto park. Taking socks, t-shirts and other items of clean laundry we fashioned them into colourful flowers and scented them with Bounce. We then used them to help a leafless tree blossom back into life. Passersby could pick the fabric flowers, smell them and unravel them to discover the source of the spring fresh scent was something that they could bring to their own laundry with Bounce dryer sheets.

Advertising Agency: Leo Burnett, Melbourne, Australia
Executive Creative Director: Jason Williams
Art Director: Lauren Doolan
Copywriters: Eamonn Dixon, Andrew Woodhead


Nestlé Fast: Bike, Girl, Music, Poster

“Three flavours to go. Go where? Well… I don´t know. Where are you going now?”

“How are you going? Going fine? OK? Going back? Or just going away?”

“Wanna go where? Away? Out? Or just wanna go crazy about?”

“Should I go or should I go?”

Advertising Agency: W/McCann, São Paulo, Brazil
Creative Directors: Milton Mastrocessario, Fabio Matiazzi
Art Director: Fabiano de Queiroz “Tatu”
Copywriter: Ana Dolabela
Illustrator: Mulheres Barbadas
Published: April 2010


Protex Antibacterial Soap: Sneakers, Dogs

“The Things You Touch Stay With You.”

Advertising Agency: Young & Rubicam, New York, USA
Executive Creative Officers: Scott Vitrone, Ian Reichenthal
Creative Directors: Guillermo Vega, Icaro Doria, Meg Rogers
Art Director: Kleber Menezes
Copywriter: Corey Rakowsky
Producer: Helen O’Neil
Account Executives: Mary Ellen Kenney, Jennifer Li, Karine Nguyen Huu
Photographer/Designer: Jamie Chung
Digital Artist: Raul Pardo


Claro TV: Hulk, Police, Spiderman

Advertising Agency: Cazar DDB, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic
Creative Director: Salvador Lister
Art Director: Kriss Suarez
Copywriter: Salvador Lister, Manuela Rondon
Illustrator: Kriss Suarez
Additional credits: Hans Daniel, Tonny Molina
Published: May 2010


Absolute winds the clock back for 90s station

LONDON – Absolute Radio is to launch a new digital station, Absolute 90s, on London DAB in June and transmit Absolute 80s, currently on London DAB, on national DAB from today (14 May).

Costa Coffee develops new city format

LONDON – Costa Coffee is to make a concerted push to increase its presence in metropolitan areas with the launch of a series of ‘metro’ style specialist stores.

Absolute Radio winds the clock back again with new station

LONDON – Absolute Radio is to launch a new digital station, Absolute 90s, on London DAB in June and transmit Absolute 80s, currently on London DAB, on national DAB from today (14 May).

Viral flop: Nesquik chocolate dick for kids?

For Nesquik, when the chocolate is melting, the marketing concept is turning bad!

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Advertiser: Nesquik

Hipsteriffic Slogan Tees – Girl Power Rules the Married to the MOB Summer 2010 Line (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) The Married to the Mob Summer 2010 collection is all about girl power. It is led by a whole host of spunky tees, adorned with sayings that only the most confident of ladies could carry off.

The model…

PC Pet Beds – The Computer Monitor Cat Bed is Too Cute to Power Off (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) This Computer Monitor Cat Bed proves that the Internet really is made of cats. This cat bed is perfect for the LOLcat in your life. Here’s lookin’ at you, Keyboard Cat.

The Computer Monitor Cat Bed is…

Top 20 Trends of the Day (May 13) – From Casual Creamy Fashions to Onesies for Adults (COUNTDOWN)

(TrendHunter.com) For the day of May 13th, these are the Top 20 trends, which include Casual Creamy Fashions, Multipurpose SUVs and Synchronized Surrealism. The rankings are based on hundreds of thousands of views and 92…

PETA Warns PR Firms to Steer Clear of Ringling Brothers

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Using a photo from former Ringling Brothers elephant trainer Sam Haddock, PETA ran an ad in this week’s edition of PR News urging public relations agencies to stay away.
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JWT Gives Us Mustache Trash Talk

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JWT New York created Mustrash Talk with with Keith Hernandez to promote Bloomberg Sports fantasy baseball package
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Geeky Fashion Editorials – The Popeye 2010 Spring/Summer Line Focuses on Nerd Style (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) The Popeye 2010 Spring/Summer collection further proves the theory that the coolest thing someone can be these days is a nerd. The geeky fashion editorial may make the teacher’s pets more popular than…

One Club Staffer Goes Missing

NEW YORK (AdAge.com) — On the eve of the 2010 One Show awards, the nonprofit organization that runs the ad competition is grappling with the mysterious disappearance of one of its top staffers, China regional manager, Fengquan Guan.

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Advertising Agency: Grey, Bucharest, Romania
Creative Director: Claudiu Dobrita
Art Director: Bob Toma
Copywriter: Alex Strimbeanu
Producer: Mihai Draghici, Eugen Alexe
Account manager: Roxana Matasel