Hasta La Creative!

Whomever is responsible for buying Disney’s online media is – or soon will – be getting an irate phone call from Mickey. Again.

LONDON – An independent audit has found that 32 drinks products, mostly alcopops, have fallen foul of the Portman Group’s code of practice on the naming, packaging and promotion of alcoholic drinks.

LONDON – Following the success of his school dinners and chicken farming campaigns, celebrity chef Jamie Oliver has decided to tackle what Britain eats at home in his latest Channel 4 series.

Metalheads: (the new) AT&T has you covered. As part of a new push to prove its network beats out Verizon's, the telecom giant is employing anthropomorphisized cellphones (or vice versa?) to tell the sad stories of people who missed calls, and, in the process, life.

(TrendHunter.com) As GPS navigation devises come, this one is pretty stacked with special features. The navigation is in 3-D maps which are rendered on a photo-realistic 4.8-inch 800×400 screen resolution. In addition, the gadget has a three axis sensor that provides stable use of navigation and speed in searching fo…

LONDON – Egmont Magazines has revamped two of its websites to attract return visits from its youth audience.

Ah, a nice Friday morning to sit back, sip your coffee, get all caught up on your favorite Twitter feeds. Oh, and maybe get seriously disturbed by this ultra-creepy German ad about the lingering trauma of sexual abuse. It’s safe for work and all, as long as your co-workers don’t mind you randomly shuddering throughout the day. The spot was created by agency Red Rabbit for Dunkelziffer e.V., a group that helps sexually abused children. I’ll go out on a limb and guess that we’ll be seeing this spot again if we do a 2008 version of our Freakiest Ad Moments tournament. Hat tip to Oscocio, where you can find the full credits.

—Posted by David Griner

[Editor’s Note] This text was provided to us by StrawberryFrog. I haven’t changed it or added my thoughts. Although, I imagine I will do so in the comments here, as I hope you will.

Prepared by Chip Walker, Ilana Bryant and Scott Goodson of StrawberryFrog

1. AN INTRODUCTION TO SOCIAL MEDIA AND SOCIAL MEDIA MARKETING

What is social media marketing?

Social Media Marketing is the act of a brand spreading its message through various social technologies. Right now, it’s a failed concept because brands are limited in their approach to social media marketing; they engage in practices that are alienating to users, and do not provide useful services for consumers.

(TrendHunter.com) I always marvel at stuff like this. Even though this knitted Harley Davidson obviously has no functionality that I’m aware of, the tremendous work that went into putting this project together and bringing it to fruition is worthy of admiration. I suppose that the person or persons who did this are d…

It was created in Brazil, more specifically in São Paulo, a new store that works like the standards of the Search Engines algorithms.

Endossa is a new project that functions more like a community of innovation than a regular store. They rent small spaces for entrepreneurs to exhibit and market the…