Hasta La Creative!

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Last night, I was part of this week’s Beancast with Bob Knorpp. Along with Adland’s Ask Wappling, make the Logo Bigger’s Bill Green and AdScam’s George Parker we skewered this year’s Super Bowl commercials
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LONDON – Target Media, the specialist media agency, has appointed All Response Media founding partner Cathy McPherson as business development director, as part of the agency’s planned expansion.

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The Olympics have begun and all eyes are on Vancouver. Canadian marketers are leveraging all the attention and one, The Royal Canadian Mint, has launched Face of the Games.
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LONDON – Former managing director of Digital Media Sales, John de Napoli, and former commercial director at Turner Networks, Damon Letzer have set up a media sales house, Mean Broadcast.

Advertising Agency: Saatchi&SaatchiX, Frankfurt, Germany
Creative Director: Mark Karatas
Art Directors: Rod Henriques, Elena Sautner, Manuela Schwarz
Photographers: Georg Dörr, Martin Joppich
Account: Marc Brücher
Published: October/November 2009

LONDON – The Financial Services Compensation Scheme (FSCS) has hired McCann Erickson Manchester to develop a consumer awareness ad campaign.

Une collaboration entre les trois photographes Egor Bashakov, Karina Eibatova et The Dopludo Collective formant le “Public Poster Project”. Un mélange d’illustrations et de messages impactant, sous la forme de posters ou d’affiches collés dans la rue.

Previously on Fubiz

• What Goes Up (The Desert)
• Tinie Tempah – Pass Out
• Nike Human Chain

LONDON – The Conservative Party has launched an ad campaign which attempts to appeal to disillusioned Labour voters.

LOS ANGELES (AdAge.com) — No one has seen more changes to the MTV brand than Judy McGrath, started with the network in 1981 as a copywriter and is now CEO of MTV Networks. Ad Age caught up with Ms. McGrath for an exclusive Q&A about the future of the MTV brand, why the company's won't make any digital acquisitions in 2010 and the Catch-22 of "Jersey Shore."

LOS ANGELES (AdAge.com) — Ad Age caught up with Mr. Mechanic just days after this year's nominations were announced to get some insight into his plans to reach younger viewers, why 2010 won't be the year for a Twitter integration at the Oscars and why advertisers should bank on a big audience for this year's show.