Hasta La Creative!

NEW YORK (AdAge.com) — CW is set to announce that it is turning over its Sunday-night air to Media Rights Capital, an independent company that finances TV programs and movies, according to people familiar with the situation.

(TrendHunter.com) Designer Betsey Johnson put out this handbag collection called “Call Me, Betsey.”

Obviously the eccentric Betsey got her inspiration from retro rotary phones. You can see this motif all over the colorful, juvenile-oriented products. I favor the little blue plastic hand bag because it reminds me of…

(TrendHunter.com) My favorite TrendHunter, Lourdes recently shared a truly disgusting and troubling (for anyone with insect phobia) campaign with us that illustrated the importance of hand sanitizers through the use of insects. These new print ads for Carre Fresh follow a similarly disgusting, but less creepy formula…

You’d think with $25,000 up for grabs and with industry creatives having a “leg up” on the competition, there’d be a flood of industry types entering Budget’s Flip for Budget video contest.

(TrendHunter.com) Godfrey Deeny, the blossoming talent behind the Givenchy label, found divine inspiration for his fall/winter 2008 collection after spending several months in South America.

Based on the repetitive use of hexagons, filigree details, and architectural lines, Trendinista found striking resemblances t…

(TrendHunter.com) Some people might say encasing a bird in glass is an act of cruelty to animals, but others would argue that this very unique, circular, hand-blown glass home further helps to enhance the beauty of the creature that it houses.

No matter what your view point, the $625 Bird House by Esque Studio is “…

(TrendHunter.com) I am a great believer in education, but sometimes I question whether it is necessary to teach skills to creatures other than humans. Dogs are trained to find drugs or chase criminals, so I guess that’s fine, but goldfish? Now, thats a stretch….

The R2 Fishschool provides a training kit that is fa…

One need only look at Google’s $182 billion market cap to know search remains hot. While Microsoft is trying to figure out a strategy to compete with Google, another rival has slipped under the radar: Ted Nugent. The Motor City Madman is fronting SearchWithTedNugent.com, one of a series of incentivized search engines being developed by a company called Prodedge. The idea is that each time you use SearchwithTedNugent.com, which returns results from Google and Ask, you get a chance to win prizes like an autographed guitar or “the ultimate experience — a hunting trip with Uncle Ted!” Incentivizing people to search is not a bad idea, although nothing new. Heck, after Bill Gates suggested it three years ago, Microsoft played around with the concept. And let’s not forget that Nugent isn’t the first quasi-celebrity to go this route. Mr. Britney Spears himself was recruited for a Yahoo-powered search engine called SearchWithKevin.com.

—Posted by Brian Morrissey

Gawker’s Nick Douglas has a nice round up of the recent Levi’s guys-jump-into-jeans viral video that scored 1.5 million views in a few days and how very similar it is to the Ray Ban vid that got 3 million views last year.

NEW YORK (AdAge.com) — Just weeks after David Verklin announced his departure from Aegis Media, the network is facing another major management shakeup: global CEO Mainardo de Nardis is stepping down.