Chad Rea and Anthony Burril have just launched their trilogy booksmarts123.com. Now it's your turn to make the follow-up book, The Truth About Advertising. The top three lines, chosen by Chad, will get a set of booksmarts123 books for the Xmas stocking.

To enter to win, just read on - winners will be drawn the 19th and sent off the 20th of December, it'll reach your stocking just in time for jingle day.

Happy Holidays from the gang at AdLand.

We've got some fun gifts to hand out this month. The very generous folks over at Communication Arts have given us some 2004 CA Ad Annuals to share with you. Read more!

Claymore, the man with the witty pen has done it again and won the coming Adtractions competition. While the trailers to other ad-movies like the retro themed Slasher, the scary idea of the Morning After the Agency Holiday Party, the world famous Kill Your Darlings, The Attendee, FLAT BROKE and The return of the customer all sound like they would make great straight to video movies the jury fell for the all too recognizable event described in Claymores The Art Director's Time Sheets.
The lucky sod will receive a set of 20 jewelboxings, a.k.a the only way for a digital portfolio to travel in style. Congrats and thanks all for playing!

Yes fellow AdGrunts, we have another game on where you can use your creative writing skills to win a 20pack of pretty jewelboxings, also known as the only way for a digital portfolio to travel in style.

The game is quite simple, write the voice-over for our coming adtractions, movies about love, lust and advertising. The rules are even simpler - write your VO as a comment underneath this article, and you have a chance to win the 20pack. Monday October 4 is the day we will pick the winnah!

Designers see this, Speak Up’s Poster Contest is on - create a poster with your favorite Speak Up quote ever, and you may win $75 Amazon giftcerts and $75 good towards Veer's lovely eyecandy products. The deadline has officially been extended, your poster must be in by Monday, September 20 at 11:59 pm Central Standard Time.

The trivia-chain-game is up - the last questions answer was Jim Blandings the ad exec that Cary Grant played in the film Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House (1948).
Looks like adgrunt Alex managed to stump everyone here with that question - and that makes him the king of superb ad trivia and the lucky winner of a 20-pack of those ever-sexy Jewelboxings!

Give him a big hand folks, and Alex, promise to make something nice with your jewelboxings and show us, right?

Another chance to show off your adgrunt skills, impress everyone with your ad trivia and win a 20-pack of Jewelboxings!

Ask a question about advertising that contains the answer to the previous question. Simple as that.

One Jewelboxing 20pack of Kings to the winnah!

We'll start the thread with two entries as an example. Have at it!

Ready? Lets go - Here's how to do this:

YCN, Encams, and Grafik have come together for a competition looking for the creation of an animation or piece of design involving the Tidyman character from the "Keep Britian Tidy" campaign. The competition is open to everyone - students, graduates and industry professionals. Prizes include cash and subscriptions to Grafik magazine. Deadline for entries is August 2nd, 2004.

Arite, first up I'd like to say that this was really really hard to judge who should win the Jewelboxings. So many jingle-rhymes were rather funny - gems like Hinchcliffes new coke-song:

I'd like to teach the word to quiz
in perfect harmony

I'd like to say, the answer is
Fay Weldon and Salman Rushdie.

I'd like to pose another link
In this crafty chain

So tell me who spilled Cinzano on
Joan Collins on a plane.

Round three, the final round, of the trivia game, a chance to show off your adgrunt skills, impress everyone with your ad trivia and win a 20-pack of Jewelboxings! Last weeks winner was Claymore - congrats to our resident rhyming poet.

Ask a question about advertising that contains the answer to the previous question. Simple as that.
We'll pick a post and send them a Jewelboxing 20pack free of charge.

Watch out for wrong answers! And remember, rhyming isn't a requirement but if you wanna go nuts, by all means..... Go nuts!

Yes, it's round two of the trivia game, a chance to show off your adgrunt skills, impress everyone with your ad trivia and win a 20-pack of Jewelboxings! Last weeks winner was Shoepal.

Ask a question about advertising that contains the answer to the previous question. Simple as that.
We'll pick a post each week for the next two weeks (this is round two remember?) and send them a Jewelboxing 20pack free of charge.

watch out for wrong answers - last weeks game we sorta got a split chain there for a while. ;) If you see a wrong answer, and can provide the correct one, better do that.

Another chance to show off your adgrunt skills, impress everyone with your ad trivia and win a 20-pack of Jewelboxings!

>Ask a question about advertising that contains the answer to the previous question. Simple as that.
We'll pick a post each week for the next three weeks and send them a Jewelboxing 20pack free of charge. We started the thread with three entries as an example. Have at it!

Ready? Lets go - Here's how to do this:

Ihaveanidea has launched a new radio competition for students and young creatives. The First Ever Junior Radio Competition is being sponsored by Pirate Radio and the Radio Marketing Bureau of Canada.

Participants must create a campaign to launch Auto Trader's new luxury car magazine, Luxury Auto Trader. The winning campaign will be produced by Pirate. The deadline for entries is April 2 2004.

Information including entry kits, the creative brief and words of wisdom can be found online at http://www.ihaveanidea.org/radio

It's been highly amusing, in a "should I laugh or cry?" kind of way, to read all the warstories entered in the AdVent competition.

And man it was hard to pick a winner from the amusing comments. So many classics! Clients that contradict themselves and dark pools of ignorance like 'black will jump out of register' or 'black loads slower [on the web]' or, mama mia, "do we have the rights to the yin-yang symbol?". Many a client/boss needs to be smacked with a clue-by-four. And the winners are ....... (to open the envelope, click on read more...)

We've all been there, when your client or boss says something incredibly stupid in he heat of the moment.
Lines like "What's the latest I can approve this and still have it ASAP?". Classics like "Perfect! See changes." and such - well Jim from Coudal.com and myself want you to AdVent!
Tell us the stupidest lines you've ever heard, and get a chance to win a 20pack from Jewelboxing, the professional-grade, short-run DVD/CD packaging system.

Best two stupidest lines win a 20pack from Jewelboxing- so you can make a great looking send-off portfolio or reel and get the heck out of that agency. ;)

For all you radical creatives with time on your hands, Move-on has a job for you.

http://www.bushin30seconds.org/

Create a 30 second TV ad that tells the truth about George W. Bush.

Sick of the propaganda being beamed at you from the current administration's media mavens? Here's a new way to fight back: Enter MoveOn.org Voter Fund's political ad contest. You don't have to be formally trained in the art of filmmaking, just ready, willing and able to create an ad that tells the truth about George Bush.

All eligible submissions will be posted on this web site and rated by visitors. The top rated ads will then be voted on by our panel of esteemed judges, including Michael Moore, Donna Brazile, Jack Black, Janeane Garofalo, and Gus Van Sant. The winning ad idea will be broadcast on television during the week of Bush's 2004 State of the Union address, and the winner will receive a recording of the ad as broadcast.

Want to help spread the word about the contest? Then download and post this poster (.pdf) in places where entrants might hang out.

Fancy winning a Luerzer's TV Archive Mag/DVD delivered to your desk?
Remember that Luerzer's TV Archive Mag/DVD coming to USA - they'll need a jingle, and we'll need your help!

Best three get gold-silver and bronze Luerzer's TV Archive Mag/DVD stuffed envelope. Read on to see the task at hand;

the creative club in the UK wishes the worlds adgrunts a merry holiday by offering us an advent calender on their site....... (read more)

Bra-la-la-la-lahh La-lahh-lahh-lahhhhh.

(Link Updated) It must be Christmas shopping season in America, 'cuz Victoria's Secret just revealed its annual over-the-top publicity magnet - the $10 Million Bra and Panty. Seems like a spiffy excuse to have an AdLand contest! If you're a Regular or Super AdGrunt, continue on for the headline contest and prize description. And if you're not a member yet, sign up already!

14 live creative briefs have been published at the YC'N (Young Creatives Network) website; http://www.ycn.org.uk

Written by a range of organisations, from Orange and VH1 to the NSPCC and the Wales tourist board, they present commercial and social communication challenges and offer the opportunity to demonstrate creativity across a range of media.

The deadline for submitting work is March 21st 2003.