36 Freaky Robots With Human Jobs

(TrendHunter.com) Trend Hunter’s robot section features several hundred robots, but none are more freaky than these 36, which each have human jobs. Having said that, I did cheat a little on this list, adding some unemployed robots that are simply human-like and freaky. Enjoy!

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IHG picks The Marketing Store for regional creative

SINGAPORE – The InterContinental Hotels Group (IHG) has selected The Marketing Store to handle its regional creative business, following a review that included DDB, McCann Erickson and Arc Worldwide.

Samsung selects Weber Shandwick in Australia

SYDNEY – Samsung has handed its entire consumer electronics account to Weber Shandwick following a competitive pitch.

Samsung picks Weber Shandwick in Australia

SYDNEY – Samsung has handed its entire consumer electronics account to Weber Shandwick following a competitive pitch.

Vitacimin re-appoints Saatchis Indonesia

JAKARTA – Saatchi & Saatchi Indonesia has successfully defended its hold on Vitacimin, Indonesia’s bestselling vitamin C supplement, following a four-way creative shootout with Dentsu, Hakuhodo and BBDO.

Vitacimin re-appoints Saatchi Indonesia

JAKARTA – Saatchi & Saatchi Indonesia has successfully defended its hold on Vitacimin, Indonesia’s bestselling vitamin C supplement, following a four-way creative shootout with Dentsu, Hakuhodo and BBDO.

‘Prosumers’ the next wave of advertising in China: study

SHANGHAI – An influential social group defined as ‘prosumers’, a blend of producers and consumers, is playing an instrumental role in driving the success of brands in China, a new study by Discovery, Ogilvy & Mather’s consumer insight and trends function, suggests.

Prosumers the next wave of advertising in China: study

SHANGHAI – An influential social group defined as ‘prosumers’, a blend of producers and consumers, is playing an instrumental role in driving the success of brands in China, a new study by Discovery, Ogilvy & Mather’s consumer insight and trends function, suggests.

KazInvestBank (КазИнвестБанк): About Face

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A reader-friend from Kazakhstan (where’s that) sends in this link to KazInvestBank that has this picture of the AdLab editor (me! me!) working as a skate guard all over its site and most prominently on the About page. Unexpected and unauthorized, but I like.

Let’s see now if this post gets to Google’s top for the bank’s name.

Earlier:
Can you use Flickr pics in ads?

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AMC Launching Behavior-Based Ads in Upfront

NEW YORK (AdAge.com) — Forget commercial ratings. This year's upfront metrics are getting a whole lot more granular. Witness Rainbow Media's AMC, which aims to introduce behavioral targeting characteristics to its upfront sales via a new measurement system developed with Nielsen. Dubbed the Audience Identity Metric, or AIM, the new measurement tool will help advertisers align brands to psychographic categories of AMC viewers.

ANA: Yellow Pages Neglects Advertisers’ Needs

NEW YORK (AdAge.com) — The ANA Telephone Directory Committee is fed up with the Yellow Pages industry, and it's going public with its gripes. Among its complaints are the association's failure to provide syndicated audience measurement and circulation auditing, as well as its billing practices.

Give Gen Y-ers a Reason to Stay at Your Agency


Agencies need to find a new employment model that better caters to Gen Y's 21st-century skill set, enviable ambition and vibrant desire for recognition. If we don't, rest assured we will continue to lose smart and driven people to other, more-Gen-Y-friendly industries.

Telemundo Gets Platform for Programming in Mexico


NEW YORK (AdAge.com) — This week three Telemundo telenovelas start airing in Mexico, an unusual twist in an industry that usually exports novelas from Mexico's Grupo Televisa to the U.S.

What Shaky Economy? Hispanic Nets Bet Ad Growth Will Continue


NEW YORK (AdAge.com) — This year there will be new faces in the Hispanic TV upfront, including young channels Mega TV and V-me, and a few absentees, such as No. 2 Spanish-language network Telemundo. Then there's market leader Univision, roaring into the upfront to lure marketers in a shaky economy with the confident theme "Univision equals your growth engine."

Consumers Are Watching You


Today's CMO needs to recognize both the extent to which consumers have gained power over the past decade and the broader social role corporations are being asked to play. Both of these shifts have significant implications for corporations and corporate branding — and, as a direct result, corporate profits.

Actions Speak Louder Than Words on Social Networks

NEW YORK (AdAge.com) — Could it be that it's not who you are but what you do on social networks that's most valuable? As the quest to find better ways to monetize these elusive sites continues, one start-up thinks marketers should be looking at the verbs — what people are doing on the sites — instead of just who people say they are.

Yahoo’s New Ad Platform Lets Newspapers Sell Its Inventory

NEW YORK (AdAge.com) — As Yahoo faces increasing pressure from an unsolicited Microsoft takeover bid and a volatile stock market, it's turning to an old-media ally: newspapers. Despite the uncertainty over its future, Yahoo and its newspaper consortium are betting on a new ad platform the portal is set to announce today.

Transitions Lead to Troubled Times for Carat

NEW YORK (AdAge.com) — Conventional wisdom holds that in today's marketing world, an agency can't be too focused on digital. It's where consumers — and marketing budgets — are going, after all. So why is the media agency that's arguably been most aggressive about demonstrating its digital chops having trouble winning and retaining business?

P&G Taps Oprah, Salma Hayek for Global Vaccination Push


BATAVIA, Ohio (AdAge.com) — Pampers is harnessing the star power of both Oprah Winfrey and Salma Hayek for a global giveaway that also benefits a cause. Today on "Oprah," the pair endorses a linkup with UNICEF in which the brand will donate one tetanus shot to an expectant mom for every pack of specially marked diapers sold through August.