Creative Manager Pro Gets All Whatchamacallit Whosiwhatsit Workamajig-y

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This has to be a joke. Seriously. Creative Manger Pro, the agency software package that helps manage the creative and billing process, has changed its name to – um yea…this makes a hell of a lot of sense – Workamajig.

Anachronistic Truth Campaign Commercial Gets Blank Stare

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Continuing its illogical idiocy, the Truth campaign has dredged up yet another decades old quote from a “tobacco company executive” who is now likely dead if not certainly retired.

Hillary Gets Support From…Last Surviving Supporter

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So here’s one of those things that’s so bad it’s good or, well, perhaps it’s just so bad it’s just bad.

Next Cockroach You See, Shake the Raid and Think Zoo York

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Ugh. Watch some bad-ass street hoods spray paint Zoo York’s logo on roaches, then shower them onto people in the Manhattan business district.

Google Might Axe 300 DoubleClick Jobs, Mostly Stateside, and Shafts Performics

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With its acquisition of DoubleClick finally secure, Google gets down to the more controversial part of not being evil: axing a shit-ton of jobs.

‘Fetch’ Didn’t Happen. Neither Will ‘Shmmom’

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The movie American Pie made the term MILF famous.

Giant Fake Boobs? Hmm, Must be A Viral

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“Please find the attached viral.” Seriously? Seriously? Could that be any more 2006? Or was it 2005? Wake up people!

Gatorade Dog Ad Most Baffling Super Bowl Ad Ever Created

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After viewing this Arnell-created commercial for the company’s flagship line of drinks, we can, without doubt, say it’s one of the lamest we’ve ever seen.

Face Cream Makes Your Grandma As Hot As Your Girlfriend

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Now here’s an ad that, shall we say, stretches the truth…oh just a wee bit.

Drug Marketers Continue to Hide, Stretch Truth

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It’s one thing for a marketer to claim, say, its product will mow your lawn better than any other lawn mower but it’s clearly another when a drug maker claims its product will cure certain ills and then cause a heart attack.

Ford Slaps Brand Enthusiasts, Returns Love With Legal Punch

While brands certainly don’t want people using their products, logos and other related imagery to create products of their, own, the hammer that Ford legal dropped on the Black Mustang Club seems a bit heavy handed. Recently the club…

Best of the Worst CES Ads Highlighted

Shake Well Before Use points us to Engadget’s collection of the best of the worst ads seen at this week’s CES conference. Predictably, one involves word play on big boobs. Check them all out here….

Baby Dies in Fire, Iomega Says “Burn, Baby, Burn!”

If there’s anything at all you can count on in this business other than the recurring pointless belief people actually want to watch commercials and press releases that insist everything’s a first, best and only, it’s that contextual advertising…