Hasta La Creative!

Balihoo’s Shane Vaughan writes:

“This week we’re going to depart from our usual posts to reach out to media planners & buyers for feedback on their workflow processes. At Balihoo we think these processes could use a little help. The administrative burden is heavy and inefficiencies abound.

That’s our take, but we’d like to hear from you. So if you are a media planner or buyer please take a few minutes to give us your thoughts via this very short survey.

A completed survey from you equals a $10 Amazon gift certificate from us!

Click here to access the survey.

Next week we’ll return to our series of posts on Balihoo’s suite of media planning software and service tools.

Thanks for your feedback. We are definitely listening.”

SINGAPORE – Global media operation GroupM has forged an alliance with Consilient, a mobile software developer, with a view to developing mobile advertising capabilities in Asia Pacific.

– Milk makes baby-eating witches insecure about their looks. Dude. Did she just try passing her wart off as a mole?

These Raggedy Ann & Andy refugees are characters in a new Zune ad called Piece of Me, Piece of You. Girl bites boy, boy becomes zombie, and together they turn the world into a community of undead extras with jazz hands.

(TrendHunter.com) Trendhunter readers know that tattoos may be able to react to emotions. Now scientists want to find a way to evolve body art from showing only emotional responses, to a display that can be pre-programmed to show a specific display when activated. This concept would be used for nano-medicine, allowin…

(TrendHunter.com) It’s really hard for me to believe that the second house from the top clockwise is not a Photoshop product. The house, which is located in the Ukraine, is being supported by a single cantilever. That is it. The first house meanwhile, is located in Russia according to likecool.com, and it belonged to…

(TrendHunter.com) Absolutely “the beautiful game!” This sculptural version of the classic table football game is a stunner. The stadium effect is conveyed with a matte black shell, white playing field, lighting effects and gleaming chrome footballers, accented by a vivid orange game ball.

Designed by GRO design and …

(TrendHunter.com) Sex will always sell ,but making erotic images with the mundane and ordinary is truly clever.

Geared to the male psyche, these ads invoke images that stir the imagination. They feature optical illusions of desire like beer and sweaty female thighs, inviting you to “Lust for Kingfisher lager”, orang…

(TrendHunter.com) Who knew that barcodes could be so much fun? Barcodes are the machine-readable representation of information most of us are familiar with.

A Japanese firm named D-Barcode has been “decorating” these codes and their products are now used all over Japan. Great, fun concept.

(TrendHunter.com) The Kobe Portliner Monorail in Japan has been decked out in all things Ikea, creating a very Swedish, mobile showroom.

Ikea, known for its affordable, flat-pack furniture, is using the train as an advertising gimmic as the exposure it will get from traveling across Japan will be immense.

It look…