Hasta La Creative!

Advertising Agency: ID Branding, Portland, USA
Creative Director: Doug Lowell
Art Director: Jared Milam
Copywriters: Doug Lowell, Charla Adams
Photographer: Steve Bonini
Published: January 2008

LONDON – TBWA/London is following up last year’s viral campaign for the Nissan Qashqai, which showed the cars performing stunts, with an equally dangerous-looking series of online films.

Things seem smaller when you have 8GB.

Advertising Agency: Babel, Brazil
Creative Director: Ricardo Chester
Art Director: Pedro Henrique Fernandes
Copywriter: Artur Lipori
Illustrator: Fabio Martins
Photographer: Luiz Moretti
Published: April 2008

Because we’d like you adgrunts to vote, so that we get a good idea of what should end up on the “best” and “worst” lists at the end of the year, all adgrunts now earn one brownie point for each vote. (Voting is so easy, and in theory you could earn over fourtythousand if you took a voting walk through the archives).

So go ahead and make your vote count both for you and for all of us. See a great ad, rate it five hearts. See a bad one, give it just one.

Gripping performance.

Advertising Agency: GMASCO, Dubai, UAE
Creative Director: Khalid Radwan
Art Director: Harshad Badbe
Copywriter: Shantesh Rao
Illustrators: Akbar Ibrahim, Kruti Soni
Photographer: Kundan Raut
Client Servicing: Lester Fernandes
Account Planner: Anish Pandit
Published: March 2008

Do you really know how your English sounds to others?

Advertising Agency: Kolle Rebbe, Hamburg, Germany
Creative Director: Ulrich Zünkeler
Art Director: Benjamin Allwardt
Copywriters: Sascha Petersen, Thomas Rendel
Photographer: Image Refinery
Published: April 2008

LONDON – The boards of market research giants TNS and GfK have announced they are in merger discussions to create the world’s second-largest market information group.

LONDON – Intel has awarded its $300m (£149m) global media account to Omnicom’s OMD, following a competitive pitch.

PARIS – Publicis Groupe, owner of agencies Saatchi & Saatchi and Starcom MediaVest, has reported revenue growth of 8.2% for the first quarter of the year to €1.06bn (£830m).

LONDON – Gucci is to promote goods with lower price tags as part of its strategy to boost sales. The decision is a sign that the expected consumer slowdown has started to bite and follows a decline in sales at the fashion house.