It's time to take your Adland vitamin. Here's a quick recap of last week's ups and downs.

Down: Bacardi steals performance act for new ad campaign.
Up: George Ellis' impression of a Cannes award winner.
Up: Cock-A-Doodle viral follows up Everyman's Notice Your Nuts spot.
Down: Nowhere is safe from adcreep.
Up: Ideas on Ideas gets the conversation going on what is bad design.
Sideways: Fitness Company takes on bag-vertising, the latest trend in letting the media be the idea.

Ads of the week:
LUX - Balloon - (2006) :90 (UK)

Specialized Bikes - Happy Entrails (2006) 1:05 (USA)

Hummer H3 - Escape (2006) 0:90 (USA)

Get your fill of Adland goodness with a quick recap of last week's ups and downs.

Down: Business loses $2.13 million on punctuation error.
Up: Smironoff creates a viral ad, Tea Partay.
Up: Russian guerilla insurance advertising.
Down: Football has gone to the dogs (or soccer for you Americans) in Badland.
Down: Popsecret "fan site" created by professionals, and even with proof they still refuse to fess up.
Down: Badland shows that ads with goldfish really do have short memories.

Ads of the week:
Coca Cola - Coke Side of Life - Video Game (2006) 0:60 (UK)

Canal+ - March of the Emperor - (2006) :55 (France)

Hyundai Santa Fe - Next Generation (2006) 0:60 (New Zealand)

Get your fill of Adland goodness with a quick recap of last week's ups and downs.

Down: Agency.com's video pitch for Subway gets mocked.
Up: Eidos and Loki create virals for Reservoir Dogs Game.
Up: Optical illusion ad shows effects of earthquakes.
Down: Jeffery West ad with gun gets banned.
Down: Tampax print ads show woman swimming in blue liquid.
Down: Although it's great to see more advertisers sponsoring events like the Stockholm Pride Parade, it's rather transparent when political parties pretend to march together, especially six weeks before an election.

Ads of the week:
Red Cross - Death - (2006) :30 (Mexico)

Sony PSP - Loco Roco (2006) 0:30 (UK)

Burger King - Stackerhead (2006) 0:60 (Canada)

Apple tee shirts from the 1980s.

W+K Amsterdam starts a blog, Think Global Act Stupid.

Guinness ads featuring Lee 'Scratch' Perry.

The Media Guardian (reg req) gives the scoop (and a preview) on Mentos new advertising campaign to launch in cinemas this weekend, created by BBH.

The New York Times Magazine takes a look at The Brand Underground.

Steven Colbert gives some tips on how to be an expert on anything. Useful tips for presentations to clients. ;)

MTV celebrates 25 years...I guess we still want our MTV. Remember when they actually aired music videos? ;) You can old promos from the 80s here.

Speaking of the 80s...Tomorrow the Apple 1984 Playset by Podbrix goes on sale.

Fun with stop motion while someone (unclear if it's Aardman Films or not) makes Creature Comforts characters into political mouthpieces.
Some kids attempt to guerilla advertise "snakes on a plane" by putting plastic snakes on everything.

Get your fill of Adland goodness with a quick recap of last week's ups and downs.

Down: HeadOn commercials seem to cause more headaches than it cures.
Up: Magnecote presents the Super Pitch - for all your pitching needs.
Down: Could this possibly be the worse Lynx ad to date? It's highly likely.
Up: A nice example of Brazilian advertising for Playboy.

Chunk has just launched Scottish and Newcastle UK's (S&N UK) Insight and Customer Excellence document portal.

The website provides S&N UK employees with an easily searchable web interface to deliver the Insight and Customer Excellence research team's data.

The future of the web and the fall of the Fourth Estate and how we will get there. (grab a cold drink - it's a bit long)

Famous logos done in Web 2.0 format.

Corporate websites from 1996 - the web's come a long way baby!

Ad Council launches a new campaign to inform parents about TV blocking - view the PSA here.

Get your fill of Adland goodness with a quick recap of last week's ups and downs.

Down: Ads get placement on barf bags and egg shells.
Up: Sprite uses interesting media for giant "blinkie" posters.
Up: UK Kellogg's ad gets cult rep - Frosties kid not dead.
Down: Hell hath no fury like a media woman scorned - a.k.a. billboard stunt for Court TV, updated here.
Up: Pigeons protest the Toronto Zoo.
Down: Lame Kim Cattrall Nissan advert deemed too raunchy for NZ.

Ads of the week:
FUEL - Sink skating - (2006) :30 (USA)

Kantong - Inspirations (2006) 0:45 (Australia)

Greenpeace - Gas Guzzler (2006) 1:30 (UK)

Daniel Pink ponders What kind of genius are you? (via Coudal)

Draw The Pirate. Ah yes. (also via Coudal)

Cable TV ads get more targeted.

Sledge hammer operated keyboard (via design observer)

Burger King King kids version (a.k.a. Brooke Burke-free version).

Just Coffee Art features freshly brewed art (literally!)

Lost Litter Box microsite for Fresh Step.

Get your fill of Adland goodness with a quick recap of last week's ups and downs.

Down: Yet another appearance for Talk Talk in badland.
Down: Proof W+K lives up to it's mantra of Failing harder.
Up: Urinals upset McDonald's customer.
Up: Delaney Lund Knox Warren & Parnters tells men to notice their nuts.

Commercial touting Film 4 is free features Dame Judi Dench dressed as a lobster, Ewan McGregor as a tomato, Willem Dafoe, Ray Winstone, Rhys Ifans, Lucy Liu and others.

Here's an idea to make your copy pop. (via Coudal)

New X-tina Pepsi commercial also featuring Ozzy. Another version here with Elissa (and better sound quality). Also more at Hello!.

The Future of Advertising from 1995.

McDonald's Sundial Billboard.

HP launches new ads online.

German Axe spot - Thai Massage - click on goodies and then the TV to view.

Irony? Pete Coors, Coors Brewing Co. Chairman and beer pitchman was arrested for driving under the influence of alcohol.

Love Creative's new site reads like a book.

Write Room is a distraction-free freeware application that brings back the terminal/typewriter days. Version here for windows users. (Via Russell Davies).

Get your fill of Adland goodness with a quick recap of last week's ups and downs.

Down: Babies in bins in Chile and in Thailand.
Down: Sony's Black and White ads by TBWA spark controversy.
Up: Japanese Children Foundation commercial with a twist.
Down: MasterCard creates new logo with holes in it.
Up: Solo Mobile ads spread the word like an old-fashioned game of telephone.
Up: Fun ads from Delaney Lund Knox Warren & Partners tell men to notice their nuts.

Ads of the week:
G4 - Midnight Spank - Sand (2006) :30 (USA)

Holiday Inn - The Business Guys - Hot Tub (2006) :30 (USA)

Orange - Bike (free)- (2006) :40 (UK)

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Andy Rutledge explains the difference between a logo and a brand.

Yet another rash of transparent billboards over at briefblog.

You recall these sumo wrestlers shouting....well it doesn't sound like "bon giorno" even though it should. The Japanese wonderland of bizarre ads have now brought us a bikini-clad top heavy lass who shouts "jerk off"...or something.

Back in 1982 AYDS was a diet brand, and here's the commercial to prove it.

Everyone should speedread influx article Are agencies fast enough?

Al Gore beats up Bender. Fun fact: Kristen Gore (Al's daughter) was a writer for Futurama. Mr. Gore appeared in a few of the episodes before the show got canceled, which is due to return! Another fun fact: Billy West, the voice of Futurama's Philip J. Fry is also the voice for the Honey Nut Cheerios Bee and the Red M&M.

b3ta users show us the hazards of driving those transforming citroens. Ouch!

Sunsilk - Hair Therapy spot...what a bad media buy - this is exactly how it aired, 3 similar spots from Sunsilk in a row. Did an intern forget to switch to another tape?

Get your fill of Adland goodness with a quick recap of last week's ups and downs.

Down: More annoying media on the way with blinking ad blimps and ads beamed into cars.
Up: Cool Amnesty International ads from Denmark which won Bronze at Cannes.
Up: Cartoon Network's Crazy Billboards.
Up: The Official Adland Advertising Tutorial: Part Six - Creating TV Commercials
Up: Proof TV isn't dead - Part 1 and Part 2
Down: Cannes Titanium winner ends up in badland
Up: Guinness - 'Noitulove' wins Grand Prix
Busted: So far, nobody has returned a Gold Cyber Lion to Farfar who claims to have lost one.

Seems animal ads were the theme of last week:
Transavia - Fly birdie! - (2006) :30 (Romania)

Ikea - Cow Bingo - (2006) :30 (Germany)

Kerry - Low Low Cheese - (2006) :30 (UK)

Priceyourmeal.com, the food auction website that gives bidders the chance to dine at their favourite restaurants for as little as a penny, has appointed Chunk to create an online campaign to boost traffic to the website.

The campaign, 'Meal or No Meal', will be a take on a popular game show featuring a well known bearded presenter.

Chunk MD Donnie Kerrigan said; "We're excited to work with Price Your Meal and to get our teeth into the idea. The site itself has a lot of word-of-mouth appeal and a push from this campaign will help increase its already considerable user base"

Sukhvir, MD of PYM said; "Since going live 3 months ago, PriceYourMeal.com has already registered over 2,500 people who now regularly use the site. In order for us to expand very quickly, we need an online marketing campaign that can boost our database and give us a platform that we can use to launch into other cities very quickly. I am confident that Chunk has the required skills, experience and imagination to create a campaign that will attract users of all ages to the site. "

Belated congratulations to Bill at Makethelogobiggerwho's blog lit a solitary candle this Saturday when it turned one year old. Time flies when you're procrastinating, discovering the web, news, gossip and writing instead of making the logo bigger like the client asked!

Toronto-based design/motion graphics company Crush has added Yoho Yue to its design roster. Yue was previously a senior designer at Canadian kids' channel YTV, and prior to that, ran his own ad agency in Guangzhou, China.

View Yoho Yue's Reel Here

DesiCreative.com is a new forum for Indian advertising peeps to hang out in. It only opened about two months ago but already has a steady stream of 10k visitors a day.