iTunes feed fixed. Mea Culpa.

Peeps:

We, uh, uploaded the wrong file to iTunes. So, Episode 58 sounds a lot like Episode 48. Sethy G. has since corrected, however, it takes Steve Jobs a day or so to get that fixed up on iTunes. In the meantime, the file in the upper right hand corner of this blog is correct. Have at it.

Mercedes-Benz SLK Passion 08: The Driver

Mercedes-Benz SLK Passion 08: The Driver

Advertising Agency: Ogilvy Beijing, China
Group Executive Creative Director: Nils Andersson
Creative Director/ Copywriter: Doug Schiff
Creative Director/ Art Director: Michael Wong
Agency Producer: Jeff Wong, Catherine Law
Film Director: Marcus Nispel
Executive Producer: Jaclyn Lee
Producer: Daniel Yu, CC Mak
Director Producer: Vincent Oster
Director of Photography: Phil Meheux
Stunt Coordinator: Kenny Bates
Production House: Saville Production, USA
Production House: October Pictures Ltd, China
Post Production: Union Editorial, LA
Editor: Jay Friedkin
Senior Producer: Megan Dahlman
Telecine Editor: Rob Scirata (Company 3)
VFX: Evan Guidera (Dominik Bauch)
Audio Mixer: Mike Feldman
Music Composers: Mophonics, LA/NY
Account Service: Raymond Tao, Ronald Sun, Terence Lin, Crystal Chen, Fan Yang

Animal Liberation: Compact

Animal Liberation: Compact

Every year 6 million animals are killed from cosmetic testing. Please boycott animal-tested products.

Advertising Agency: Ideaworks, Australia
Art Director / Copywriter: Kevin Bathman
Photographer: Cris Cordeiro
Retoucher: Andre Matkovic
Published: April 2008

Where the Digitally Savvy Things Are


NEW YORK (AdAge.com) — To find the biggest concentration of digitally savvy consumers, you have to head to Texas, it turns out. Austin, to be exact. The ranking comes from Scarborough Research, which identified a 6% segment of the population as high scorers in traits such as owning electronic gadgets and using blogs, mobile video, e-mail and text messaging.

Changing Billboards Cause Traffic

Secret Diary of a Call Girl

We are all aware that billboard advertising is a good way to get attention. For soap operas like Secret Diary of a Call Girl, added exposure to inform viewers of this TV series will really help them in terms of ratings and all.

But what is controversial about this billboard ad for this soap series is its changing design which has caused some drivers to stop to this unique style of design and change in billboard advertising approach today.

Apparently, the change is from decent to salacious and with that in mind, the public are sure to react towards this different advertising approach.

A spokeswoman for Prime Television, Lisa Franklin, said back-lighting on the boards came up after dark to reveal sexy lingerie on the “call girl”.

Franklin said she was not sure whether the changeover occurred before the “watershed” time of 8:30pm, when adult content is allowed to appear on television.

“That depends on what time it gets dark in Christchurch these days,” Franklin said.

Another billboard, on the corner of Christchurch’s Tuam and Madras streets, features a skirt that blows up in the wind to reveal the legs of a “call girl” clad in suspenders.

(Source) Stuff.co.nz

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It Don’t Mean A Thing If It Ain’t Ba-Da Bling

[via Daily Biz, who says he would never stoop to working on a lottery account]

Top 31 Innovations in Photographic Technique (SUPER GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) A lot of photographers were worried that with the dawn of the internet and the ubiquity of digital cameras, that the true art of photography would be lost. Fortunately, the opposite has happened.

There are millions of websites dedicated to showcasing the beauty of photography, from classic black a…

Make the Right Choices for Small Business Advertising Practices

Small Business Advertising

Small businesses do not have the luxury of advertising lackadaisically today. For one thing, budgets are limited and by all means, they have only one shot at making good their advertising opportunities work for their business.

Overall, this may seem easier said than done. There is a gamble and risk in using advertising tools. Being a small business on the rise, proper analysis and deliberation must be done by business managers to make sure that such resorts can indeed be helpful to the company’s cause.

For what it is worth, it would be best to consider everything through analysis and studies. By doing this, the feasibility of using advertising mediums can be justified and lowering the risk of a useless way of helping promote a business and what it has to offer.

“In advertising, large companies can make small mistakes and survive,” notes Mark Preiser of Walter F. Cameron Advertising in Hauppauge. “They can even make large mistakes and survive. Small companies don’t have the same luxury.”

(Source) Newsday.com

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Fuller Steps Down as Editorial Director at American Media


NEW YORK (AdAge.com) — Bonnie Fuller, the editor most responsible for the rise of celebrity weekly magazines, is leaving her position as exec VP-editorial director at American Media, the publisher of magazines including Star and National Enquirer.

Subaru Forester 2009: Car Wash

Subaru Forester 2009: Car Wash

Advertising Agency: DDB Canada, Toronto
Creative Director: Andrew Simon
Copywriter: Matt Antonello
Art Director: Paul Riss
Producer: Andrew Schulze
Production House: The Corner Store, Toronto
Director: Jorn Haagen
Executive Producer: Jennie Montford
Director of Photography: Doug Koch
Steadicam: Bela Trutz
Editorial: Mark Morton, School Editing
Telecine: Gary Chuntz, Notch, Toronto
Post Audio: Paul Seeley, Wanted Post Production, Toronto
Music: Electric Six “Danger! High Voltage”

MUTO

MUTO a wall-painted animation by BLU from blu on Vimeo. Many thanks to Kevin Roddy for the shout out.

Audi A4 Avant: Thermo vision

Audi A4 Avant: Thermo vision

Advertising Agency: DDB Milan, Italy
Creative Director: Vicky Gitto
Art Directors: Gallardo Hugo, Guerrera Francesco
Copywriter: Lampugnani Nicola
Production Company: Movie Magic
Director: Marcus Walter
Post Production Company: La Maison
Aired: May 2008

Audi A4 Avant: Thermo vision, Front

Audi A4 Avant: Thermo vision, Front

New Audi A4 Avant. Turn on your senses.

Advertising Agency: DDB Milan, Italy
Creative Director: Vicky Gitto
Art Directors: Gallardo Hugo, Guerrera Francesco
Copywriter: Lampugnani Nicola
Photographer: Garrigosa Studio
Postproduction: Garrigosa Studio
Published: May 2008

Audi A4 Avant: Thermo vision, Back

Audi A4 Avant: Thermo vision, Back

New Audi A4 Avant. Turn on your senses.

Advertising Agency: DDB Milan, Italy
Creative Director: Vicky Gitto
Art Directors: Gallardo Hugo, Guerrera Francesco
Copywriter: Lampugnani Nicola
Photographer: Garrigosa Studio
Postproduction: Garrigosa Studio
Published: May 2008

Once Again, They Might Be Giants Does It for DD


To get yourself pumped up for free freezing java at Dunkin Donuts this week, here's two new jingles from They Might Be Giants.

Clarity In Clouds

Noah Brier, a strategist at Naked Communications, is up to something.

It looks like this:

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Stroking Glass Cleaner Brings On Hottie’s Burning Desire

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Ladies, when a bartender peers lustfully into your eyes while thrusting a large, stiff brush deep inside a glass, slowing stroking it in and out with commanding determination and urgency while undressing you with his eyes, do you…

Today In Twitterverse: The Blog Block

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Joi Ito is venture capitalist with interest in Creative Commons, Digital Garage, Technorati, WITNESS and Six Apart.

Analyze Your Beauty on Facebook – Nip/Tuck Golden Ratio Application

The popularity of the Nip/Tuck TV series has spread to the web, thanks largely to fantastic online marketing efforts. This time they’re promoting a Facebook application, called the Golden Ratio, that lets people evaluate how close they come to aesthetic perfection.

The Golden Ratio examines your p…

Anonymous Texts at Bus Stops – Big Brother’s Creepy Bluetooth Campaign

To promote popular reality show Big Brother 2008 on Channel TEN in Australia, advertising agency Marketforce in Perth came up with a unique bluetooth SMS campaign that really caught people by surprise. The ads embodied the “Big Brother is watching” slogan, which is the essence of the show.

The camp…