Hasta La Creative!

SHANGHAI (AdAge.com) — A decision by China's media regulators could derail a major campaign by WPP Group's Ogilvy & Mather for Pond's, one of Unilever's biggest brands in China. The regulators have ordered TV stations and print media to cease running ads featuring Tang Wei, star of Ang Lee's sexually explicit movie "Lust, Caution."

(TrendHunter.com) If you are still planning to buy an Apple iPhone, keep waiting. If you can wait until 2009 or even 2010, you could grab one that it will run the Intel processor like all the iMacs do now when the new phones launch with x86.

According to Charlie Demerjian at The Inquirer, “The iPhone is going to go…

Creative Agency: AKQA
Executive Creative Director: James Hilton
Writer: Colin Bryne
Post Production: Smoke & Mirrors
Director: Dom Bridges
Production Company: Mustard
Media Agency: Cake

(TrendHunter.com) Instant ramen noodles are popular Japanese products and now people all over the world are slurping these down for a quick fix on a daily basis. They came in all sorts of flavors but now a new product from Japan, Cup Nude, would satisfy your appetite… sexually! The package looks like your ordinary…

(TrendHunter.com) Real World – Your House. You’re glued to Idol, Big Brother, March Madness, etc. The television is the center of most homes so why not decorate to highlight it rather than hide it. Ever see an entertainment center with the doors closed? This Art Deco style frames the TV and components. Vismara Design…

LONDON – The Royal Parks Foundation and Limelight Sports have teamed up to host the first half marathon to be held in central London, which takes place in October.

If your brand messaging is clear, the color of the Latino person in the ad should be irrelevant. Your product will sell to the overall Latino market you're targeting because they know it's made for them regardless of skin color.

NEW YORK – Rupert Murdoch has lost a legal fight to claim a domain name for Fox Business Network, News Corporation’s US business news channel.

I’m not a NASCAR fan, but apparently, Goodyear makes all the tires that the drivers use, and of course, in the world of car buffs, that’s a huge coup.

Unless the drivers bitch about the tires. From The Atlanta Journal-Constitution:

On Monday, Goodyear was peddling a feel-good story: “Goodyear tops Fortune magazine’s most-admired list.”

But 24 hours earlier, NASCAR driver Tony Stewart was peddling his own story.

“Goodyear can’t build a tire worth a crap,” said the mouthy fireplug of a man known for saying exactly what’s going on inside his racing helmet. A frustrated Stewart was speaking after a race Sunday at Atlanta Motor Speedway about newly designed tires that forced drivers to drive like grandmas.

But he was just getting started.

“I’m going home and taking everything that has Goodyears off and put Firestones on and feel a lot safer,” Stewart said in another interview.

“It’s a shame these teams that work so hard are being dictated by a company incapable of building tires fit for a street car.”

Ouch. These celebrity endorsements and sponsorships can really boost a brand’s sales. They can also backfire.

Time Warner chief executive Jeffrey Bewkes has said he is open to a combination of AOL with another company, fuelling speculation that the firm is looking to sell the company or merge it with a rival.