LONDON – Customer publisher Redwood has strengthened its digital media capabilities with the appointment of two senior staff, including Wayne Holder as digital design director.
LONDON – Affiliate Window has launched a Facebook application called Wishlist, which aims to help retailers trading online turn users into potential affiliates.
Great movies at 35,000 feet. New TAM onboard entertainment.
Advertising Agency: Y&R Brazil
Creative Directors: Tomas Lorente, Cássio Zanatta
Art Director: Daniel Salles
Copywriter: Toni Fernandes
Illustrator: Ricardo Salamanca
Great movies at 35,000 feet. New TAM onboard entertainment.
Advertising Agency: Y&R Brazil
Creative Directors: Tomas Lorente, Cássio Zanatta
Art Director: Daniel Salles
Copywriter: Toni Fernandes
Illustrator: Ricardo Salamanca
LONDON – TradeDoubler has appointed Ben Wood from Aegis Media as managing director.
LONDON – IPC Media women’s weekly Look has launched its own website, which will feature a mix of fashion and beauty news, advice and online shopping.
Advertising Agency: Jung von Matt / Spree, Berlin, Germany
Creative Directors: Wolfang Schneider, Mathias Stiller, David Mously, Jan Harbeck
Art Directors: Duc Nguyen, Oskar Strauß
Via: Coloribus
So, a little birdie sent me an email forward which showed Bogusky and Sherpa talking, about The Israeli submissions to Cannes 2008 which have their own little place on the web at “creativevalley”.
Now, forgive me if I don’t for a nano-second believe that Sherpa and Bogusky were talking about this, or even at all. And I really really doubt that Bogusky would say things like “Say, you don’t think it’s too innovative?” There are no headers in the forwarded email so I can’t pick it apart and see where the supposed forwarded chat really did come from. But OK, fine, so someone likely connected to creativevalley thought up that little conversation just so that we’d talk about it too. Consider me suckered, then.
Advertising Agency: Jung von Matt/Donau, Vienna, Austria
Creative Directors: Andreas Putz, Volkmar Weiss
Art Director: Volkmar Weiss
Copywriter: Thomas Niederdorfer
Illustrator: Dian Warsosumarto
Concept: Dian Warsosumarto
Account Supervisor: Catharina Winding
Published: December 2007
Advertising Agency: VGC, Mumbai, India
Executive Creative Directors: Ryan Menezes, Sanjay Sipahimalani
Art Director: Sandip Gaikwad
Copywriter: Ryan Menezes
Here’s a digest of what’s been sent to us recently.
Advertising Agency: Lowe, Athens, Greece
Creative Director: Yanna Polydouri
Copywriter: Rena Hrysoulaki
Group Account Director: Triantafilli Kaldiri
Account Manager: Michael Paredrakos
The hottest new massively multiplayer video game, Age of Conan: Hyborian Adventures, seems to have suffered an overnight epidemic of breast reduction. After a software patch was released to help fix gameplay issues, some players in the mildly racy (18-and-over) game noticed their bountiful female characters suddenly had less stack in their rack, according to Ars Technica. We pieced together the image above from a player who threatened to quit the pay-per-month game “if this isn’t fixed in a reasonable amount of time, i.e., a day or two.†Facing an exodus of its horny-goon demographic, game publisher Funcom issued a damage-control statement saying that the change was unintentional. The company also told gamers it was “working on a fix for this, and your breasts should be back to normal soon.”
—Posted by David Griner
Advertising Agency: Lowe, Athens, Greece
Creative Director: Yanna Polydouri
Copywriter: Rena Hrysoulaki
Group Account Director: Triantafilli Kaldiri
Account Manager: Michael Paredrakos
Simon Lewis, one of the most influential PR professionals in the UK, is to chair the judging for the 2008 PRWeek Awards.
Demonic dolls, thumb penises, spanking machines—it’s amazing what Sony has worked into its PlayStation ads over the past few years. The PSP Fanboy blog has cobbled many of them together with its picks for the 10 worst PlayStation ads, although I think “worst†is pretty subjective. Only a few are earnestly bad (in particular, a certain notorious blog). The rest, like the creepy baby above and TBWA’s cinematic “Head,†are probably just guilty of being a bit … indulgent.
—Posted by David Griner
Advertising Agency: Lowe, Athens, Greece
Creative Director: Yanna Polydouri
Copywriter: Rena Hrysoulaki
Group Account Director: Triantafilli Kaldiri
Account Manager: Michael Paredrakos
Earlier, we saw how Jawbone wants to make the annoying Bluetooth ear thing safe for the fashion conscious. Now, Solo is looking to do the same for the prosaic laptop bag. Yet again, I have to question whether they’re barking up the wrong tree with their choice of model. Where to start with this guy—the turtle, the tweed, the fedora? The bags actually look OK, but I’d want a guarantee that I don’t turn into this guy if I get one.
—Posted by Brian Morrissey
From CNN: “The man who designed the Pringles potato chip packaging system was so proud of his accomplishment that a portion of his ashes has been buried in one of the iconic cans.” Yes, Fred Baur, who died last month at age 89, had some of his remains placed in a Pringles can at his gravesite. Let’s hope they made it inside the vault. Those Pringles BBQ chips I had at lunch tasted a little … off. Baur, who specialized in research and development and quality control for Procter & Gamble, filed for a patent for the familiar Pringles container in 1966. It was granted in 1970. The can shown here is from 1970, courtesy of Flickr’s Roadsidepictures.
—Posted by David Gianatasio
The first ad in Barker/DZP’s new global print campaign for Hästens beds shows a nude beauty suspended a few feet above one of the company’s products. (See the full ad here.) Is she fondling her left breast? I’ll download the screen-saver, study the artwork closely and let you know. There’s lots more about the ad campaign, including a making-of video (how did they get her to levitate, anyway?), over on the Hästens Web site. I’ve had the dream pictured above more often than I can recall, though not on a Hästens bed. It usually ends with the woman transforming into a fanged, slug-like creature that chases me into a classroom on the day of a big exam for which I haven’t studied and forgot to wear pants. Hästens beds sell for up to $65,000(!), so I assume the target audience can afford plenty of psychotherapy. I’ll just grab some some Corn Flakes and put on some Moby to help me fall back to sleep.
—Posted by David Gianatasio
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