Like that commercial years ago where the runway model, while wearing a fur coat, suddenly began spewing blood all over the audience, this new game from PETA lets you pick and animal, run around a Burberry store spray painting mannequins wearing fur while security guards attempt to hunt you down.
NEW YORK – Rupert Murdoch and Mort Zuckerman, who between them already own The New York Post and the New York Daily News, are vying for the city’s other daily tabloid, Newsday, which is being sold off by Tribune Company.
LONDON – BBC Worldwide America has streamlined its sales and production operations under the direction of Paul Telegdy, executive vice-president of content and production.
(TrendHunter.com) Now, this is really a boombox! Actually, retro boombox would be more apt due to the fact that this gadget has been actualized with up to the second tech. This is in fact an iPod Boombox from Urban Outfitters! Its design, shape and color are very similar to the annoying boomboxes of yesteryears but t…
Every business requires some significant risk, whether it's cash or years of product development. For the agency business that risk comes in the form of the pitch. So quit whining about it.
LONDON – Fairtrade company Equal Exchange has redesigned its packaging and corporate logo to unite its large range of products.
LONDON – Scottish soup brand Baxters has extended its sponsorship of the Loch Ness Marathon by another three years.
(TrendHunter.com) This home furniture was created with waste wood that was grabbed, so to speak, by two guys, Bart Bettencourt and Carlos Salgado, who turned it into really nice pieces of work.
Bettencourt and Salgado, whose shop called Scrapile is located in Brooklyn NY, have developed a unique method of collectin…
Last year Google turned your love life into an algorithmically solvable search problem. This year it’s teamed up with Virgin to give us Virgle: the adventure of not one, but many lifetimes.
(TrendHunter.com) What looks like an innocent normal analog watch actually has a small built-in spy camera and microphone that is very hard to detect.
The camera is positioned so that the captured image is correctly oriented when the watch is upside down, since that is the common position of the watch in most natur…
LONDON – German luxury car marque BMW, which has history of launching new product features on 1 April, has unveiled the Canine Repellent Alloy Protection, which uses an electric shock to ward off a dog from relieving itself on the car.
(TrendHunter.com) Charity Hop is a sports marketing organization that helps athletes raise money for their favorite charities and in that regard, Charity Wines’ Longball Cellars brand was created to enable baseball players to market a selection of wines, donating a portion of each sale to the player’s charity of choi…
Hi, my name is Dee and I am a…gasp.. a chocolate freak. Now I have to work twice as hard at Trend Hunter to get $2,400 for a box of chocolates. Not just any chocolate mind you. The Bespoke Chocolates service from Sir Hans Sloane Chocolate and Champagne House is about mixing and making personalized…
According to The Wall Street Journal, Woody Allen filed a lawsuit Monday seeking more than $10 million from clothier American Apparel Inc. over unauthorized billboard and online advertisements featuring the actor and director dressed as a rabbi.
image courtesy of Curbed
The lawsuit, filed in U.S. District Court in Manhattan, alleges the Los Angeles clothing maker and retailer, without his permission, put up billboards in New York and in Hollywood, Calif., in May 2007 that featured an image of Mr. Allen, who is Jewish, dressed as a rabbi from one of his films.
The images also were displayed in advertising on American Apparel’s Web site and in sponsored advertisements on other Web sites, the complaint said.
The complaint said the unlawful use of Allen’s image for commercial advertising was “especially egregious and damaging because Allen does not commercially endorse any products in the United States of America.”
Forbes tried an experiment and it seems to be paying off. Forbes Life Executive Woman published once last year and their most recent issue announces a commitment to 4 issues in 2009. The target audience is senior-level businesswomen. As you can imagine the content takes a very sophisticated female v…
Hi welcome to my Mypace page. But I’m not here! I’m at thisis50.com! That’s what users are greeted to when they visit 50 Cent’s Myspace page.
While Thisis50.com would be renamed thisisshitty.com as it looks even worse than his Myspace page it’s sending out a big message to other bands and artists. Why are the big players leaving Myspace? What does this mean to his 1 million friends. How many will follow to the new site, how many even noticed. Is a friend just a badge like a sticker on your school book or is it something more meaningful like having them on speed dial. I know personally I only added friends as a way to say “yeah I like The Simpsons” I never actually returned to their profile.
I can see labels now asking their marketing teams why their band doesn’t have their own social network?!? Do smaller bands without a huge fan base like 50, Pussy Cat Dolls or Kylie will still need the large social network audience? Or does it make it more special that you become part of a small niche “fan club” that reall means something.
More on fiddy’s move here
How’s this for a pop-cultural meta-meta-meta-meta April Fools joke: Youtube has Rickrolled all the featured videos on their homepage.
No wai? Yes, wai! Srsly. Hat tip to adgrunt Brandon.
And somewhere in Denmark, Rick is laughing really loud.
Police have been called in to CHI & Partners to investigate how an email with employees’ contract and salary details was sent to all its staff.
Woody Allen isn’t happy about being featured in American Apparel’s latest ads, and is suing them for more than $10 million. Allen, best known for movies he made 30 years ago, claims he was not contacted about, or compensated for, the use of his image, and the lawsuit asserts that he “does not engage in the commercial endorsement of products or services in the United States.†So, if anyone reading this wants to slap Allen’s face on their product, try it in Europe or Canada. Also, this being American Apparel, the ads could have been worse.
—Posted by David Kiefaber
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