Hasta La Creative!

DETROIT (AdAge.com) — American Suzuki Motor Corp. has tapped independent agency Siltanen & Partners Advertising, Marina del Rey, Calif., to handle two vehicle projects later this year.

NEW YORK (AdAge.com) — You can't say that word on TV — or can you? No one on broadcast TV is supposed to be able to use the four-letter profanity that starts with the letter F and signifies sexual intercourse. Even on basic cable, the word is often edited out of movies and usually not inserted into original scripts. In short, when it comes to that word and TV companies who wish to court mainstream advertisers and audiences, healthy distance is usually helpful. Some networks, however, are cleverly dodging the issue.

NEW YORK – Omnicom Group, the world’s largest marketing services company, has reported better-than-expected first-quarter results, with net income up 14% to $208.7m (£104.8m) year on year.

The Barbarian Group launched a new self-promo site. It’s good.

Rick Webb, Co-Founder and COO, explains:

Taking six months to make a website is pretty ridiculous, but we were doing several things during that time. building a whole publishing platform. This site has a full, rails-based custom, multi-level blogging platform. Each employee has a blog, and then posts are bubbled-up to the Barbarian Blog, and the most important information is elevated to the Barbarian Homepage. We’ve also introduced a whole topical-taxonomy thing, aggregating content around various topics to give many different windows into our content. Finally, the site is fully integrated into our sales, production and staging systems. Finally, finally, after six years, no more entering the same data into multiple databases. We are now running on a fully-integrated, custom-built project management platform.

Webb also says he almost cried when he saw Modernita’s new minimalist “site,” but that approach would not have worked for Barbarian. “We’re more than an idea shop, more than a branding shop, we actually have to execute some pretty serious stuff, so our website needs to be representative of that.”

[via Ken Wheaton]

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LONDON – Information commissioner Richard Thomas has urged organisations to see the importance of protecting staff and customers’ personal data after continued ‘unacceptable’ security breaches since the Revenue’s loss of child benefit data.

Coinciding with the release of the much awaited movie version of Sex And The City, Bare Necessities has created the Cosabella Lingerie Collection ($22-$162), inspired by the fearsome foursome. Each of the characters Carrie, Samantha, Charlotte or Miranda, has their own collection. So you can choose …

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LONDON – The UK voucher industry is in danger of limiting the growth of pre-pay gift cards by making them too complicated, according to manager for Sainsbury’s business direct Yvonne West.

According to this site, AC has only 12% more cussing than other blogs that took the same test. While I think that’s a respectable mark, I fucking know we can do better people.

Tip o’ the hat to Jaffe Juice