‘Check in your ego with your coat’ at Davos forum

PR industry bosses heading to Davos for the annual World Economic Forum next week have been advised to ‘check in their egos with their coats’.

GSK bid to refresh ‘iconic’ brands

GlaxoSmithKline has called in agency support to revive four of its ‘iconic’ consumer brands.

Georgia in comms push to build links with the EU

The former Soviet republic of Georgia has brought in a public affairs agency for an unusual £375,000 strategic comms brief.

Vindel joins Red to lead tech arm

The Red Consultancy has rec­ruited tech stalwart David Vindel to head up a new B2B tech division.

Grayling to lure voters in London Mayor elections

Grayling is to spearhead a PR drive to increase turnout in the forthcoming London mayoral elections.

Links for 2008-01-16 [del.icio.us]

  • Rhizome – Brody Condon – Performance Modification (Naumann)
    10 performers outfitted in medival/space/fantasy armor re-create Bruce Nauman’s 1973 work "Tony Sinking into the Floor, Face Up and Face Down". Performed in slow motion and combined with movements based on computer game death animations, this piece is acc
  • Monochrom: Campfire At Will – Boing Boing TV
    monochrom teach us how to "hack the urban context" with campfires, wiener schnitzel, beer, and an elderly Austrian gentleman who speaks LOL. In the second segment of today’s episode, someone constructs a campfire, complete with beer bottles and half-cooke

Five, FIAT Seize Relaxed UK Ad Regulations to Promote FIAT 500

UK-based Five.tv and FIAT Automobiles have joined forces to promote the FIAT 500 online and outdoors. This may not be a huge deal Stateside, but it’s a big deal in the UK, where OFCOM recently relaxed regulations for terrestrial…

Manhattan Unveils Pay-Per-Potty, Execs Are Stoked

Last week New York City unveiled its first automatic pay toilet. For $0.25 and at a limit of 15 minutes per use, you could hit a streetside loo that automatically self-cleans. The effort to promote the APTs (as they’re…

UK web ad spend ‘to exceed TV in 2009′

This extract taken from the Guardian.
The UK will become the first major economy to see advertisers spend more on the internet than on TV ads, according to the latest forecast from a leading media buying agency.
Group M, the combined media planning and buying operation owned by Sir Martin Sorrell’s WPP group, predicts that UK internet […]

Who Wants to Date a K-list Celeb? Larry Dobrow, That’s Who

I've sent all 85 of my reality-show application videos VH1's way, because the net's dating competitions boast a unique perk: namely, the possibility of rubbing shoulders with and/or contracting genital warts from a K-minus-list celebrity. Indeed, VH1's "Celebreality" shows are simultaneously the most reprehensible and wildly entertaining programming on cable TV. They're also massively addictive: Touch down in the middle of an "I Love New York 2" marathon and next thing you know, four hours have flown by, all the while "Their Eyes Were Watching God" sits unread in your bookshelf.

Hawaiian Tropic Pink Bits: Key West

Hawaiian Tropic Pink Bits: Key West

Turn off the sun.

Advertising Agency: Grey Stockholm, Sweden
Art Director: Daniel Backman
Copywriter: Marcus Nystrom
Creative Director: Martin Stadhammar
Final Art: Sara Bellafesta, Richard Landérus, Andy Chong

Hawaiian Tropic Pink Bits: Maui

Hawaiian Tropic Pink Bits: Maui

Turn off the sun.

Advertising Agency: Grey Stockholm, Sweden
Art Director: Daniel Backman
Copywriter: Marcus Nystrom
Creative Director: Martin Stadhammar
Final Art: Sara Bellafesta, Richard Landérus, Andy Chong

Hawaiian Tropic Pink Bits: Aruba

Hawaiian Tropic Pink Bits: Aruba

Turn off the sun.

Advertising Agency: Grey Stockholm, Sweden
Art Director: Daniel Backman
Copywriter: Marcus Nystrom
Creative Director: Martin Stadhammar
Final Art: Sara Bellafesta, Richard Landérus, Andy Chong

Coffee Morning: likemind

Likemindkc

We’ll be at JP Wine Bar on Friday starting at 7:30 for the second KC likemind . If you were able to join us for the November likemind, you probably remember the nametags, buttons and the first $25 of coffee that was kindly provided by Anomly.  We’ll have all that stuff this time too. And, just like the many other likemind events around the world,  we’ll have a global question to discuss.

See you Friday.

Skoda Roomster: Hyppo

Skoda Roomster: Hyppo

Whatever work asks you.

Advertising Agency: Cayenne Milan, Italy
Creative Directors: Giandomenico Puglisi, Stefano Tumiatti
Art Directors / Copywriters: Daniel Fattorini, Giacomo Sebregondi

World’s Highest Residence Has Prices to Match – Chicago Spire

Condos in the ultra luxurious Chicago Spire went on sale recently. The condos are not for the faint-hearted because the sky high structure has sky high prices too. At 2000 feet, the building is the highest residential housing in the world. Prices range from $750,000 to $15 million, putting the Windy…

General Motors Belgium: Opel 8

General Motors Belgium: Opel 8

Our offers are getting in shape for the motor show.

Advertising Agency: McCann Erickson, Brussels, Belgium
Creative Director: Frank Van De Vijver
Art Directors / Copywriters: Annelore Bruynseraede, Pieter Lambert
Photographer: Frank Uyttenhove
Image retouching: Beefactory, Caouchou
Published: January 2008

General Motors Belgium: Opel 4

General Motors Belgium: Opel 4

Our offers are getting in shape for the motor show.

Advertising Agency: McCann Erickson, Brussels, Belgium
Creative Director: Frank Van De Vijver
Art Directors / Copywriters: Annelore Bruynseraede, Pieter Lambert
Photographer: Frank Uyttenhove
Image retouching: Beefactory, Caouchou
Published: January 2008

General Motors Belgium: Opel 1

General Motors Belgium: Opel 1

Our offers are getting in shape for the motor show.

Advertising Agency: McCann Erickson, Brussels, Belgium
Creative Director: Frank Van De Vijver
Art Directors / Copywriters: Annelore Bruynseraede, Pieter Lambert
Photographer: Frank Uyttenhove
Image retouching: Beefactory, Caouchou
Published: January 2008

Yoga: Peach

Yoga: Peach

Feeds your baby’s imagination.

Advertising Agency: DDB Milan, Italy
Creative Director / Copywriter: Vicky Gitto
Art Director: Alessandro Campani
Photographer: Luca Perazzoli
Published: 2007