Mollá Originals

Men’s Vogue paid a visit to Miami, which is home to scorching hot Hispanic marketing agency, La Comunidad.

It’s the kind of office where flip-flop-wearing employees kiss on both cheeks when they arrive on Monday morning. It’s the kind of office where business meetings are held by the pool and where the company chef lures staff with a family-style lunch. And there’s a nearly perfect duplicate of it 4,000 miles away, in Buenos Aires, where another three dozen staffers work under Joaquín Mollá, 38, José’s brother and partner.

Joaquín explains that they are driven by the notion of community (the literal translation of comunidad), which is why they’ve turned down business that would have allowed them to grow even more quickly at the expense of their culture of on-site yoga and painting classes. “You can’t change the world, but you can do something about the people that surround you,” reflects Joaquín, who studies Buddhism.

La Comunidad/Miami will soon be moving in to a 20,000-square-foot warehouse renovation in the heart of Miami’s Wynwood Art District. The new office will have an adjoining gallery space.

Who Wants to Be Humiliated?


NEW YORK (AdAge.com) — At last! Someone has finally figured out how to bring the sick thrills that are so much a part of daytime fare like "Jerry Springer" and graft them on to the feel-good circus atmosphere of "Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?" Leave it to Fox to take unsuspecting game-show contestants and make them really pay for the money they fight to win.

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Advertising Agency: Ogilvy & Mather, Mumbai, India
Executive Creative Directors: Piyush Pandey, Rajiv Rao
Creative Director: Rajiv Rao
Art Director / Illustrator: Santosh Sonawane
Copywriter: Gururaj Rao

White House Takes New Tack in Drug War


WASHINGTON (AdAge.com) — The White House drug office will use its first Super Bowl spot in four years to caution that the biggest teen drug danger could be the legal medicines stored in parents' medicine chests.

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Advertising Agency: Ogilvy & Mather, Mumbai, India
Executive Creative Directors: Piyush Pandey, Rajiv Rao
Creative Director: Rajiv Rao
Art Director / Illustrator: Santosh Sonawane
Copywriter: Gururaj Rao

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Advertising Agency: Ogilvy & Mather, Mumbai, India
Executive Creative Directors: Piyush Pandey, Rajiv Rao
Creative Director: Rajiv Rao
Art Director / Illustrator: Santosh Sonawane
Copywriter: Gururaj Rao

Mutual Community Health Insurance: GI Joe Boy

Mutual Community Health Insurance: GI Joe Boy

After 70 years we’ve seen it all.

Advertising Agency: Clemenger BBDO Melbourne, Australia
Executive Creative Director: James McGrath
Creative Directors: Cameron Hoelter, Emma Hill
Art Directors / Copywriters: TOM MARTIN, Julian Schreiber
Photographer: Matt Baker

Mutual Community Health Insurance: Skydiver

Mutual Community Health Insurance: Skydiver

After 70 years we’ve seen it all.

Advertising Agency: Clemenger BBDO Melbourne, Australia
Executive Creative Director: James McGrath
Creative Directors: Cameron Hoelter, Emma Hill
Art Directors / Copywriters: TOM MARTIN, Julian Schreiber
Photographer: Matt Baker

Mutual Community Health Insurance: Basketball

Mutual Community Health Insurance: Basketball

After 70 years we’ve seen it all.

Advertising Agency: Clemenger BBDO Melbourne, Australia
Executive Creative Director: James McGrath
Creative Directors: Cameron Hoelter, Emma Hill
Art Directors / Copywriters: TOM MARTIN, Julian Schreiber
Photographer: Matt Baker

Electronic Swiss Army Knife – Solar Powered MP4 Mobile Power Station (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) What can you say about an MP4 player that will never run out of power and will recharge your cell phone and much more? The imaginatively named “Solar Powered MP4 Player 2GB – Mobile Power Station” is an electronic Swiss Army knife.

It is a NES, GB and GBC emulator. It can recharge 4.5V, 5V, 6.…

Harvey Nichols: Fashion statement, 3

Harvey Nichols: Fashion statement, 3

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Fashion statement

Advertising Agency: DDB London,UK
Executive Creative Director: Jeremy Craigen
Art Director: Noah Regan
Copywriter: Graeme Hall
Photographer: Jonathan De Villiers

Harvey Nichols: Fashion statement, 2

Harvey Nichols: Fashion statement, 2

Harvey Nichols
Fashion statement

Advertising Agency: DDB London,UK
Executive Creative Director: Jeremy Craigen
Art Director: Noah Regan
Copywriter: Graeme Hall
Photographer: Jonathan De Villiers

Harvey Nichols: Fashion statement, 1

Harvey Nichols: Fashion statement, 1

Harvey Nichols
Fashion statement

Advertising Agency: DDB London,UK
Executive Creative Director: Jeremy Craigen
Art Director: Noah Regan
Copywriter: Graeme Hall
Photographer: Jonathan De Villiers

Sprint CMO Kelly Out After 8 Months


SAN FRANCISCO (AdAge.com) — Troubled Sprint Nextel said it has parted with its chief marketing officer, Tim Kelly, after eight months on the job.

KFC Colonel Dances to Make us Dance to Make Celebs Dance … for Charity.

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In Super Bowl spirit, but really just to promote its spicy crunchy Hot Wings, KFC is donating $260,000 to charity on behalf of the first football player or celebrity to do an end zone Chicken Dance.

Quick, Find The Proofreader

Ad Age readers were quick to spot the typo in the next-to-last line of Fallon’s new ad for TheLadders.com:

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Look, typos happen. Very often, the fast nature of advertising, particularly online, leads to slips like this. No one’s perfect, least of all me. But when you’re sending out copies of a new ad for PR purposes, it doesn’t look so good.

MTV Puts Modern Spin on Holocaust Horrors

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For Think MTV (MTV’s conscience?), Arnold put together two takes on what the Holocaust would be like if it happened today. Tagline: “The Holocaust happened to people like us.”

ASA: Boots Nipple Cream’s OK By Us!

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Check out this warped Boots nipple cream ad that’s pissing so many English interest groups off. If Tim Burton were a creative, such would be the fruits of his labour.

Why Bridgestone Has Three Ads for Two Bowl Slots


DETROIT (AdAge.com) — Bridgestone Firestone North America was so impressed with three ideas pitched by its agency, the Richards Group, for the Super Bowl that it produced all three, even though it had bought only two 30-second slots during the game.

The Nuge Creates Custom Gun-Gear

Carnivorous Republican rocker Ted Nugent — aka "Sweaty Teddy" or, if you will, "The Motor City Madman" — has partnered with Snap-On tools to develop a line of storage cabinets for all your guns, fishing poles, crossbows and maybe even t-shirt bazookas.