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Milk Men - A Mad Men Parody
Milk Men parodies mad men to a teet. (sorry).
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Forget Proposition 8 - lets make divorce illegal.
You said “Til death do us part.” You’re not dead yet.
http://rescuemarriage.org/ have decided to tackle the issue raised by last years Proposition 8 by doing the classic "zig-zag" Luke Sullivan favors. If those who argued for Proposition 8 last year were saying that gay marriage should be banned because it ruins the sanctity of marriage and the family unit - then clearly divorce must be made illegal in California. Zing! In order to get this proposed voter initiative on the 2010 ballot, supporters of the initiative must collect nearly 700,000 signatures in order to qualify it for a vote.
Two talking head PSA's in the style we're so used to have been created and are currently making the rounds. On the site rescuemarriage.org you can pick up banners, t-shirts and help rally support in various ways as well as keep up with all the press mentions. The site is done entirely with a straight face, and I must say: well played sir.
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Killer Hamster Trend
To be honest, I don't think this is much of a Badlander, but I hafta keep up my title of most hated person on the ad-intarwebs in order to keep my rightful place on your dart boards, so here ya go.
The recently released HiFi-klubben hamster ad created by Lowe Brindfors, Stockholm and shot by Bacon, Copenhagen has been accused in emails to the hostmaster of borrowing its murderous hamster legs from G4/Midnight Spank. Lets watch, shall we. Get the the popcorn.
And, as it aired back in April, the G4 midnight spank from BBDO/ New York and shot by Daniel Kleinman at Kleinman Productions.
Fair enough, they both have deadly hamsters in it. Had they been white bunny rabbits with pointy teeth the Rabbit of Caerbannog comparisons would never end. What do you think, total coincidence or borrowed idea?
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Scamville: the social gaming ecosystem from hell must not go unchecked.
Techcrunch sounds the alarm regarding those shady shady games online: Scamville: The Social Gaming Ecosystem Of Hell
....And some users aren’t dumb, either. For every user who gets tricked into some fake mobile subscription, there’s another who can beat the system. That’s where the legitimate advertisers, like Netflix and Blockbuster, get hit. Users sign up for a free trial with a credit card, get their game currency, then cancel the membership and start over. Netflix has a policy of only paying for a user once. But game developers use a complex set of partner chains to launder these leads and try to get them through for payment. Netflix sees an overall lowering of quality and pays less for leads. Game developers, desperate to monetize, then search for ever more questionable offers to make up the difference. In the end, the decent advertisers are out, and only the worst of the worst remain.
Left alone, the system really will slide into a full blown disaster.
Techcrunch is right, and advertisers should take a good long look at this before we "let it go" unchecked like we did with email marketing in the nineties. We all know how well that turned out. The techcrunch post has many updates and extra links - check it.
Watch Anu Shukla from Offerpal Media responds to Michael Arrington's questions that were challenges the ethics of virtual goods offer providers at the VG summit Oct. 24th 2009. "We should get some advertisers here next year" they say, yes, they should.
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Swedish team Petter & Kaspar win D&AD 30-day challenge with "D&AD creative search"
The two Swedish graduates behind the D&AD Creative search, have won the 30 day D&AD challenge and with that a paid placement at London agency AMV.BBDO. Congrats adgrunt petterprinz, one half if the Petter & Kasper team bound for London.
The idea behind creative search, as demoed in this video, is an aggregated search engine that serves the results in form of images, video and even music, making the D&AD website one-stop shopping for inspiration.
"Petter & Kasper did what creative thinkers should - they saw a problem and solved it," said D&AD President and AMV.BBDO ECD Paul Brazier. "The creativesear.ch positions D&AD where it belongs - as the first place to go for inspiration. Most importantly, they answered the brief."
He continues, "I was impressed by the fact that they understood the tone needed for D&AD and presented it in a clear and dynamic way. Well done to them, I'm looking forward to welcoming this team in to AMV for their work experience."
Over half of Student Awards 2010 briefs include a placement as part of the prize. The winner of the Nokia interactive design brief will land a 3 to 6 months paid placement in their creative department; Which? is offering a 12-week paid placement to one of the winners of the Integrated Communication brief; De Facto will offer a paid placement to a Viral brief winner, along with £1000 if they decide to use the idea. Finally, New British Design will create a prototype and help market at least one of the winning furniture designs.
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Link Lust: Bird ad agency comic, wicked safe creative & the beancast
More on the sad demise from the agency that brought us "where's the beef" in Creativity online - Cliff Freeman shutters after 22 years. This is really quite sad.
Hear this? I, along with CC Chapman (@cc_chapman Digital Dads), Len Kendall (@lenkendall the 3 six 5 project) and Bill make the logo bigger Green (@mtlb) were talking about Victors and Spoils, procurement, death of DM and the total non surprise that Seth MacFarlane can be offensive on episode 77 of the beancast. Grab the mp3 right here, or subscribe via itunes. Meanwhile our host Bob Knorpp just got a column published in ad age this week.
Seen this? The Cuckoos "The Cuckoos is a comic strip about a small advertising agency called “Cuckoo Advertising Agency”. "... 'cept they're all birds, right? Not birds, birds as in hawks and crows and, just look at it. hat tip lordFredruk.
After watching this, I must now end everything I say with "wicked, safe, creative"
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Windows 7 & Burger King in Japan, a heart stopping combination
I'm not sure if this brand-pairing and special menu item from BK Japan is for real or an elaborate hoax cooked up by a giggling team at CP+B. Either way it's a show-stopper (and likely a heart stopper), because who in the world would want to eat seven - count 'em, seven - beef patties between a sesame seed bun with BK special sauce? It's a steal at only 777 yen! I'm sure all seven deadly sins are committed by eating one of these.
Hat tip @amuraka
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Twitters lists - and adding ad stuff to them.
When @adland got the twitter lists (weeks before @dabitch did so I had to keep the secret from myself, how confusing) twitter was currently in a wonky period and adding people was quickly becoming a pain. No wonder they waited a while before opening it up to everyone.
I did create two lists that I thought other ad folk might find useful though. ad agencies list contains a whole bunch of ad agencies that I found worldwide. If your agency isn't on here and should be, the new listorious service can tweet me to include you.
I also created adjobs list, because practically everyone i know is looking for work. Again, I could use a please include tweet if I missed a good source.
The other two lists are adpeeps, which are simply people who work in advertising and adgrunts which are people who have their twitter accounts listed here in their adgrunt profiles, and that you see tweeting past on the right hand side of the front page. Getting on the latter is obvious, make sure your twitter account is listed in your profile here.
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Save the logos! Or rather, the animals in them.
Lots of animals are struggling to survive. Lots of animals lend their looks to logos. Save Your Logo wants to save all those animals in logos. WWF 2.0? Either way, it's a nice idea.
So far, Lacoste, MAAF and Val d´Isère has joined. There's more animal logo's out there, here's 60 pretty animal logos to feast your eyes on. It's too late for the Toronto Raptors to join.
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Thanks for the laughs, Cliff Freeman & Partners R.I.P.
Looks like the rumors are true, Cliff Freeman and partners is no more.
The mystery surrounding the ongoing status of Cliff Freeman and Partners deepened as sources said CFP staffers in New York have been packing up boxes and selling equipment and chief financial officer Gail Hoffman Frusciante is leaving the shop today. She did not return calls.
The 22-year-old agency's namesake founder did not respond to Adweek inquiries.
Cliff brought us many great laughs in 30-second spots, and used to be a safe bet on Superbowl for delivering a fun ad. What a sad way to go, with a whimper.
Not strangers to a bang though, their client Quizno's with the rats in the subs* was one of those campaigns that was either loved or hated. Mainly hated. But Cliff Freeman's attempt to save Quizno's with the Baby Bob was another polarizing character (actually, she was baby babette) (* I should point out that the spongemonkeys are not made by Cliff Freeman, but it is a campaign from one of their biggest clients. Some turd keeps trying to comment about this in the rudest way possible so this clarification is for that dimwitted retard alone.)
But let's not forget, that Cliff Freeman also gave us Where's the Beef way back in 1984.
Update : B|Net has some screendumps of strange ongoings on various social media accounts belonging to Cliff people, like the breif moment of claytoncliffCEO account and former creative director Lee Seidenberg started an ad school - $350 for 10 Lessons
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