When cakes have kids.
Advertising Agency: Woodruff Sweitzer, USA
Creative Director: Steve Sweitzer
Art Director: Michele Underwood
Copywriter: Greg Beers
Photographer: Gabe Hopkins/Stock
Retoucher: Alice Blue
Released: November 2008
(TrendHunter.com) Eating your favorite finger foods used to be messy. Not any more with Trongs, a new rubber utensil which lets you grip food easily with your fingers but keeps them clean. All the better to keep your beer…
LONDON – Geronimo is launching a brand awareness campaign for Puresse, Ambi Pur’s first allergen-reduced air freshener, based on the tagline “Let us take care of your air”.
LONDON – RDF Media’s executive directors and Cyrte Investment, ‘Big Brother’ founder John de Mol’s investment vehicle, have made a £50m offer for the company to its independent directors.
LONDON – The Daily Mirror has launched an affiliate marketing scheme called MirrorCashback, giving shoppers a choice of 1,400 retailers including high-street names such as Tesco, WH Smith and Boots.
LONDON – The Advertising Standards Authority has slammed a TV ad for a plane company which wrongly claimed that it flew to Turkey.
LONDON – Bartle Bogle Hegarty has been handed a place on the £40 million global Heineken roster.
LONDON – Heineken has appointed Bartle Bogle Hegarty (BBH) to its £40m global creative account, but will retain incumbent The Red Brick Road on its roster.
LONDON – Martina Navratilova, the tennis champion, former Met Police deputy Brian Paddick and MEP and former television presenter Robert Kilroy-Silk are all to appear in the new series of ‘I’m A Celebrity… Get Me Out Of Here’.
LONDON – British shoppers are planning to spend on average 7% less this Christmas than last year — although around 19% of people have said that they plan to spend more, in spite of the economic situation.
TOKYO – Japan’s largest advertising group Dentsu has cut its full-year profits outlook by 19.5% and is acquiring independent US ad agency McGarry Bowen.
LONDON – JWT has appointed Lowe Latina’s chairman and top Unilever creative, Fernando Vega Olmos, as creative chairman of continental Europe and Latin America.
LONDON – Ferne Cotton and Holly Willoughby get to create their dream wedding in the latest ad for the Ima-gine range of games for the Nintendo DS.
LONDON – Unemployment soars, Virgin and Yell lead job losses and US car giants plead for financial bailout money.
LONDON – Fernando Vega Olmos has been appointed creative chairman of JWT for continental Europe and Latin America.
Have you ever thought about what McDonald’s would look and feel like without all the branding gimmicks? Well, if you live in Tokyo, Japan, you might be able to experience a de-branded McDonald’s first…
The British cable TV operator Virgin Media said it would reduce its work force by about 2,200 by 2012 as part of a reorganization.
Gamers are worried that the president-elect’s positions on video games may signal new regulations or restrictions on the industry.
A new commercial for the cable channel has stirred fresh complaints from the network’s critics.
Marketers of financial services are still planning ad campaigns during what is being described as the worst crisis for Wall Street since the Great Depression.
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