Hasta La Creative!

Advertising Agency: DDB New Zealand
Executive Creative Director: Toby Talbot
Art Director: Karen Maurice
Photographer: Chris Lewis
Copywriter: Verity Butt
Retoucher: The Lounge

Advertising Agency: Saatchi & Saatchi, Los Angles, USA
ECD: Harvey Marco
CD: Felipe Bascope
ACD/Copywriter: Raymond Hwang
Producer: Chris Halstead
Director of Integrated Production/Multimedia: Damian Stevens
Art Director: Juan Bobillo
Account Director: Paul Goncalves
Production Company: Tool of North America
Director: Erich Joiner
Producer: Joby Ochsner
Edit: Rob Watzke/Beast Editorial
Editorial producer: Ashley Hydrick
Special effects: Mass Market LA
Sound design/Mix: Zac Fisher/POP Sound LA

Advertising Agency: Saatchi & Saatchi, Los Angles, USA
ECD: Harvey Marco
CD: Felipe Bascope
ACD/ Copywriter: Raymond Hwang
Art Director: Juan Bobillo
Producer: Beth Noll
Director of Integrated Production/Multimedia: Damian Stevens
Account Director: Paul Goncalves
Released: March 2008

To put beach pollution into perspective, trash was collected from various beaches, packaged it to look like seafood and displayed it at local farmers’ markets. This is the print extension for those who couldn’t actually make it to the market.

Advertising Agency: Saatchi & Saatchi, Los Angles, USA
ECD: Harvey Marco
CD: Felipe Bascope
ACD/Copywriter: Raymond Hwang
Art Director: Juan Bobillo
Producer: Chris Halstead
Director of Integrated Production/Multimedia: Damian Stevens
Account Director: Paul Goncalves
Photographer: Matt Cobleigh
Art Producer: Angee Murray
Print Producer: Beth Noll
Project Manager: Shelby Yates
Retoucher: Rocket Studios

To put beach pollution into perspective, trash was collected from various beaches, packaged it to look like seafood and displayed it at local farmers’ markets. This is the print extension for those who couldn’t actually make it to the market.

Advertising Agency: Saatchi & Saatchi, Los Angles, USA
ECD: Harvey Marco
CD: Felipe Bascope
ACD/Copywriter: Raymond Hwang
Art Director: Juan Bobillo
Producer: Chris Halstead
Director of Integrated Production/Multimedia: Damian Stevens
Account Director: Paul Goncalves
Photographer: Matt Cobleigh
Art Producer: Angee Murray
Print Producer: Beth Noll
Project Manager: Shelby Yates
Retoucher: Rocket Studios

To put beach pollution into perspective, trash was collected from various beaches, packaged it to look like seafood and displayed it at local farmers’ markets. This is the print extension for those who couldn’t actually make it to the market.

Advertising Agency: Saatchi & Saatchi, Los Angles, USA
ECD: Harvey Marco
CD: Felipe Bascope
ACD/Copywriter: Raymond Hwang
Art Director: Juan Bobillo
Producer: Chris Halstead
Director of Integrated Production/Multimedia: Damian Stevens
Account Director: Paul Goncalves
Photographer: Matt Cobleigh
Art Producer: Angee Murray
Print Producer: Beth Noll
Project Manager: Shelby Yates
Retoucher: Rocket Studios

I don’t know about you, but I have some clients that love to put trademarks, copyrights, and service marks on anything they can. It’s obnoxious. So I had to laugh when I saw this press release:

‘got House?®’ Launches New Real Estate Advertising Network Website

The “got House?®” Real Estate Network offers a new forum for advertising real estate for sale by agents, brokers, developers, investors and private property owners. Buyers can search for properties listed for sale Nationwide for free, without being required to enter personal information with a login.

I only wish Goodby could’ve gotten royalties on the thousands of people who’ve used “got ______?” in some form.

DETROIT (AdAge.com) — Talk about auto incentives: American Suzuki Motor Corp. is giving buyers free gasoline for the summer. Of course, there's a catch.

I’m a creative. Accounting might as well be rocket science, because that’s about how familiar I am with it. Despite this personal inadequacy, I bring you this from Ad Age, a story on accounting practices gone wrong at McCann.

Interpublic Group of Cos. and its global agency network McCann Erickson Worldwide today said it will pay $12 million to end a longtime accounting probe by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.

Resolution of the charges, while anticipated, brings to a close a long-running federal investigation into the company’s accounting practices that began in the fall of 2002 and prompted turmoil including a slew of financial restatements to fix its improper bookkeeping and a revolving door of senior leadership.

“We are very pleased to have settled with the SEC and we believe this matter is now behind us,” said Interpublic Chairman-CEO Michael I. Roth.

Okay, now back to our regularly scheduled programming…

There’s nothing particularly funny about this commercial for the acid reflux drug Aciphex. Unless someone tells you they’re saying “ass effects,” and then you’ll never watch it the same way again. Via @parrotheader on Twitter.

—Posted by David Griner