Hasta La Creative!

(TrendHunter.com) This has got to be the ultimate geek dream! If not, it is high on the list.

This personal flight simulator has a “built-in custom PC [that] gives you the feeling of flying as it displays virtual skies on the trio of 22-inch LCD monitors in front of the seat – creating a 66-inch panoramic view”…

Google Analytics have released the beta of Benchmarking reports. See the full article here. You’ll need to Opt in to share your data anonymously though, which is a fair trade.

So now you can compare your travel site with the industry average. Sadly no way to compare via country, only “Category” but it’s nice to compare. The more sites that opt in the better the results will be. Give it a few months for all the major players to opt in before you start to use the benchmarking as gospel.

Radio, like newspapers, is being hit with body blows from the internet.

Here’s the latest round:

iLike, a social network for music fans, is scoring big today with the pre-release of R.E.M.’s new album.

The roll-out, the first of its kind for a major act, will allow fans to stream and share Accelerate in its entirety beginning March 24, a week ahead of the album’s April 1 release date.

“It was one of those ideas that was presented to us and it seemed like a good one so we ran for it,” R.E.M. frontman Michael Stipe tells Billboard.com. He also noted that the way people embrace music “has certainly changed in the last 5 or 10 years. I think you can either go with it or sit back and watch it happen, and I would rather be out on the field than in the bleachers.”

Sexy Camera is a new erotic candid camera TV show on air on March 2008 on FX channel in Italy. To promote the show, AM-NEWTON21 ad agency, Italy came up with this creative guerrilla campaign that reaches the target male audience in their public toilets at pubs and gyms.

The campaign uses soap dispe…

Advertising Agency: Liwa Advertising, Dubai, UAE
Creative Directors: Vijay Kumar, Suhas Rege
Art Director: Sajeev Nair
Copywriter: Vijay Kumar
Photographer: Manish Kosambia
Other additional credits: Tarun Ghosh, Sagar Rege
Published: February 2008

Advertising Agency: Liwa Advertising, Dubai, UAE
Creative Directors: Vijay Kumar, Suhas Rege
Art Director: Sajeev Nair
Copywriter: Vijay Kumar
Photographer: Manish Kosambia
Other additional credits: Tarun Ghosh, Sagar Rege
Published: February 2008

Advertising Agency: Liwa Advertising, Dubai, UAE
Creative Directors: Vijay Kumar, Suhas Rege
Art Director: Sajeev Nair
Copywriter: Vijay Kumar
Photographer: Manish Kosambia
Other additional credits: Tarun Ghosh, Sagar Rege
Published: February 2008

(TrendHunter.com) A company says it will make ethanol for the U.S. at less than a buck a gallon. They will refine what’s known as biomass which is available for 65 cents per gallon. The technology uses low energy to make it efficient to produce the biomass which can be used to produce ethanol.

Ethanol currently use…

Advertising Agency: TBWA/MAP, Paris, France
Creative Director: Sébastien Vacherot & Manoelle van der Vaeren
Art Director / Copywriter: Julien Boissinot & Nicolas Pontacq
Photographer: Laurent Séroussi
Published: February 2008

(TrendHunter.com) Sexy Camera is a new erotic candid camera TV show on air on March 2008 on FX channel in Italy. To promote the show, AM-NEWTON21 ad agency, Italy came up with this creative guerrilla campaign that reaches the target male audience in their public toilets at pubs and gyms.

The campaign uses soap dispe…