LONDON – The Daily Mail is to raise the cover price of its Saturday edition for the first time in five years, from 70p to 80p, making it 20p more expensive than its mid-market rival The Daily Express.
An article from last February in Chicago Business News with some details about Obama’s campaign logo, created by Sender: “Sender LLC landed the logo project through mo/de, a Chicago design firm working with AKP Message & Media of Chicago. Political consultant David Axelrod, who is working on Obama’s campaign and worked on his 2004 U.S. Senate campaign, is a partner with AKP Message & Media.”
Also, check out Logobama , a fan site where you can create your very own version of the logo. Here’s also a DIY tutorial .
Widely praised, but not without it’s share of controversy, of course: “Kind of amusing that Barack Hussein Obama’s campaign logo can be seen to feature both a crescent and a curved Islamic scimitar:”
Earlier:
Stage Design Magic as Propaganda Tool
LONDON – Jean-Charles Decaux, joint chief executive of JCDecaux and chairman of the executive board, has said the current economic crisis will not affect the company’s bid to buy Rupert Murdoch’s News Outdoor company.
(TrendHunter.com) Statuephilia is a collection of contemporary statue pieces on show at the British Museum featuring artists such as Antony Gormley, Damien Hirst, Ron Mueck, Noble & Webster and Marc Quinn.
The British…
Sometimes we have to push away life’s mundane, trivial, unimportant and, in the greater scheme of things, entirely pointless aspects of daily life in order to truly appreciate life and all the beautiful things in it.
I was talking with two of our spies over the weekend about the impact AgencySpy has inside agencies, specifically on the matter of internal secrets. Both spies were from different prominent agencies that have been the subject of posts here on AgencySpy. The spy who worked for a WPP agency said there had been a meeting during which employees were told not to talk to me, and managers did a lot to assure them that things were indeed OK.
The other spy, from a smaller shop, told me that just a few hours after I posted an article about said company, the CEO had posted an article on the agency’s internal-eyes-only blog, essentially rebuking what had been written. Funny that their PR department hadn’t done the same when I contacted them.
Nonetheless, with your help, AgencySpy’s infamy continues to grow, which we feel pretty darn good about. So keep e-mailing us tips at matt@mediabistro dot com, tweeting/IMing us at AgencySpy and of course using the anonymous tips box. Cheers!
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(TrendHunter.com) Wish your body was as buff as Barack’s?
Well if you are interested in getting fit and directly benefiting the Obama campaign at the same time, Obamaerobics may be just what you need.
Obamaerobics…
NEW YORK (AdAge.com) — Retailers today reported grim September sales figures, while doing their best to temper expectations for the coming months. Across channels, companies saw precipitous sales declines at stores open at least a year. That led many to either lower expectations for the third quarter or note that results would be at the low end of their guidance.
LONDON – The original James Bond Sir Sean Connery has been photographed by Annie Leibovitz posing on a beach in the Bahamas for Louis Vuitton’s Core Values advertising campaign.
LONDON – Tullo Marshall Warren is to launch a presence in Dubai to help service the needs of its clients that operate in the region.
LONDON – MySpace, the social networking website owned by News Corp, has partnered with technology and printing specialist HP in a move that will offer users the ability to print any photos stored in their profiles.
LONDON – The Department of Communities and Local Government has approached agencies to pitch for its £3.4 million fire safety account.
We found the above ad in this month’s Road & Track, which mysteriously started showing up in our mailbox a few weeks ago. Ever-hungry to see how vehicle marketing has changed given fuel prices, we paged through it — and were shocked to see the copy, “…doesn’t guzzle, but rather sips politely” on the ad you see above.
What? Did some copywriter not realize that he/she was piggybacking on Mini’s “Let’s Sip, Not Guzzle”??? If MG ran a campaign in 1962 that showed a picture of their “Midget” model, and ran the word “Poopy.” beneath it; well you get the picture. The point is, Mini’s been “sipping” since like 2002. This sucks, thanks for ruining my day.
Check out which car company was associated with the hacked copy, after the jump.
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It’s almost here. Flash 10 loaded with all the eyecandy features that you never asked for but now you see are pretty awesome. 3D transform, IK (bones) and a motion editor will make stuff much easier to animate and work with. See full feature list here.
Flash versions always seem to go in cycles.
Flash 6 – 7 was all functionality and no eyecandy.
Flash 7 – 8 was pretty much all eyecandy
Flash 8 – 9 was just for AS3 which is not exactly eyecandy but made flash run fast.
Now the release of Flash CS4 (or flash 10) is here and it’s loaded with eyecandy!
make sure to register for the free events happening around Australia too. Click the promo image below for more info and to RSVP.
Bring on Flash 10 banners I say!
LONDON – The rebrand of Pizza Hut to Pasta Hut has fallen victim to opportunistic cybersquatters according to domain name specialists NetNames, which manages the domain name portfolios for a third of the FTSE 100 companies.
LONDON – Cybersquatters have been quick to register key domain names relating to Pasta Hut, following the news of Pizza Hut’s rebrand.
How to create a campaign projecting confidence in Washington Mutual, to be remembered as having suffered the largest bank failure of its time?
LONDON – Keynote speakers at the upcoming Thinkbox forum on the future of television will include Andy Duncan, the chief executive of Channel 4, Peter Fincham, ITV’s director of television, and the media consultant Peter Bazalgette.
(TrendHunter.com) After reading about how the global financial meltdown is affecting Iceland and causing an unprecedented banking failure that has driven the UK into threatening to take legal action against Iceland to recover…
NEW YORK (AdAge.com) — YouTube is diversifying its revenue model. The latest plan to milk cash from the world's most popular video-sharing site? E-commerce. The website is working with Amazon and iTunes to let users buy and download music, games and other products when they watch a video featuring a particular song or item.
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