Hasta La Creative!

MINNEAPOLIS (AdAge.com) — Comebacks and givebacks backed up many of the prime-time programs in this week's Top 10.

vitro robertson recently launched this bus shelter campaign for Newcastle. In each of the images, a glass of smooth Newcastle beer is set alongside something prickly, like a blowfish or a cactus. The part nearest to the beer is jarringly barb-free.

Oh good, Gossip Girl is coming back. And with a bang in every sense of the word, as one of its new promos includes an image of two characters doing the do, with the caption “OMFG.” (That F doesn’t stand for fishing, either.) See two more promos here and here. The campaign might be intended to rankle the Parents Television Council, which has targeted the CW for allowing obscured nudity on one of its other shows. We’d advise the CW not to waste time annoying people who get professionally annoyed for a living, but to each his own. On a lighter note, perhaps Gossip Girl can get Hallmark to be a presenting sponsor.

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(TrendHunter.com) These toilet signs are so funny, and so very creative! I particularly like the sign with the underwear and the one made with rope. But I think all five of the toilet signs are very well made. I have a gripe though. I don’t think looking at something I find humorous would help me in the least while I…

(TrendHunter.com) The “Roller Ruby” stroller designed by Valentin Vodev, is a good idea so long as you don’t drink and drive with the baby on board.

Failed attempts at humor aside, this stroller, which comes with brakes, horn and security handlebars, tries to make a fun experience out of taking the cute little spaw…

(TrendHunter.com) The “Signatures” animated PSA for Amnesty International has just won the Grand Prix at the International Advertising Association (IAA)’s first Socially Responsible Communications Awards 2008.

The 140 seconds ad which was created by TBWA ad agency, Paris with the message, “Your signature is more pow…

(TrendHunter.com) These paper wallets made by Tyvek are actually made of “thousands of long plastic fibers creating a surface that is both lightweight and durable yet super thin and tear resistant” says dynomighty. They add, “A secret storage area can be used by pulling out the tucked in flaps from the ends, place yo…

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Today: what’s wrong with the word “analysis” that it had to be partially bleeped out by asterisks into “***ysis”? Or was it “paralysis”? Or “dialysis”? (Found on Webby’s site, People’s Choice voting section).

Tomorrow: cell phone software that bleeps out naughty syllables from conversations in real time.

If there were an award for the most popular PowerPoint graph, it would definitely go to Forrester’s social technographics ladder. Now, two Forrester analysts behind the report have an entire book out, and it’s called Groundswell: Winning in a World Transformed by Social Technologies. You can get a taste of what’s inside from an article the authors wrote for MIT Sloan Management Review in February, or from book blog. I’m looking forward to the wealth of case studies the authors have amassed.

Groundswell is on Amazon for $19.77.

LONDON – Unimpressive results at Vincent Bollore’s Havas will do little to persuade Aegis Group shareholders to vote in favour of his latest proposal for board representation, according to a report.