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Frog Loves, Moms Hot, Cadbury Gorilla Remixed, Nano Chromatic'd,

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- Strawberry Frog's Scott Goodson looks back upon the agency's move to New York and why it was the right thing to do.

- Are you a Hot Mom? If so, send your Facebook profile over to Yianna Garcia who's created a Facebook group and will highlight your hotness on the group.

- Wanna flirt with the hottie at the end of the bar? Ecast and LocaModa can help with its interactive network.

- Buddy Media's BuddyBrain is the social control system responsible for managing campaign intelligence and app-vertisement behavior in a social world. The BuddyBrain is split into four essential lobes: Project Center, Intelligence Center, Social Wire and Reference Tools. Um, whoa.

- Fallon London remixes the Cadburry Gorilla commercial to the tune of Bonnie Tyler's Total Eclipse of the Heart.

- And, yes. It's the new iPod Nano commercial. Apple's calling it the Nano Chromatic now.

Written by Steve Hall    Comments (0)     File: Agencies, Commercials, Social     Sep-10-08  

Bogusky, Blackshaw, Woolington, Brown Dish on DishyMix

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Personal Life Media's Susan Bratton tells us, "While you were basking on the beach, raving at Burning Man, getting your kids back to school or relishing the last days of summer, I was busy producing some of my best ever episodes of DishyMix." And she's got quite a collection including Crispin Porter + Bogusky's Alex Bogusky, JWT BOOM's Mary Brown, Nielsen Online Digital Strategic Services EVP Pete Blackshaw, Naked Communications' Paul Woolmington and Netconcepts President Stephan Spencer.

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Written by Steve Hall    Comments (0)     File: Podcast     Sep-10-08  

Join AdGabber, A Social Network For the Ad Industry

Join AdGabber and stop bothering your friends with your obsessive compulsive advertising disorder. On AdGabber, you can gab about industry issues, upload and share your favorite ads, peruse member profiles for your industry friends and those you want to friend, join or create a topic-specific group, keep up to date on industry events, read member's blog posts, find a job, post a job, post your portfolio and, yes, even see pictures of this idiot.

Hatred of Adobe Expressed on 'Dear Adobe'

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Seems there's a lot of hatred out there for Adobe which, as we all know, has a pretty firm grasp on advertising's creative community. In fact, there's so much hatred, a site dedicated to that hatred, Dear Adobe, collect gripes about the company and its products. The number one gripe? "Why does the Acrobat Reader take two minutes to launch, and require updates twice a month, just to display PDF pages?"

The answer to that question? Who cares. Just use Foxit Reader (for Windows but available in Preview for Mac) and your Adobe Reader woes will be gone. That aside, there are hundreds of gripes on the site ranging from complaints about Photoshop, Adobe's installer and feature bloat.

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Written by Steve Hall    Comments (2)     File: Brands, Social, Tools     Sep-10-08  

Because Being Uninsured is Almost (?) Like Being Naked

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To draw eyes to the 6.7 million uninsured residents living in California, Blue Shield erected 40 naked statues at a Los Angeles-based event for universal healthcare coverage. Each statue is frozen in a vulnerable position, which reflects the state of people living without healthcare coverage.

I like the effort. It brings a bit of provocation to a public landscape without making it seem cluttered with advertising. See more photos.

Written by Angela Natividad    Comments (1)     File: Cause, Events, Good, Guerilla     Sep-10-08  

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Caesar's Uses Self-Entitlement to Reel 'Em In

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Imagine it: endless champagne, a lively -- but intimate -- night life, creamy white sheets, Roman baths, and sweet nothings brimming from the mouths of chiseled strangers.

What's all this? Why, "The Life You Were Meant to Live," a less-than-subtle ploy by Leo Burnett/Chicago to get your pipe-dreaming ass into Caesars. Spots include:

o "I'll Have the Bubbliest Champagne" -- for the ladies!
o "Try it Before You Croak" -- for the couples! -- or maybe just singles that enjoy morning-after intimacy.
o "I'm the Funny Good Looking One" -- for graying men still pursuing validation!

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Written by Angela Natividad    Comments (0)     File: Brands, Campaigns, Commercials, Online, Television     Sep-10-08  

Football Fans Get Their 15 Minutes on (and for!) Samsung HDTVs

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Samsung partnered with the NFL to bring football fandom to the big screen. See a couple of the TV ads, lengthened for the 'net, at That's How I See It. A spot I've seen often is the one where a dad gives his son a Vikings helmet, heirloom-style, to wear while watching TV.

In general I feel like we've seen too much of this kind of thing before. (See fans! Fans like you! Fetch wallet!) But if you feel closely affiliated with a certain football team, maybe getting recognized by a big brand always feels fresh. Kinda like how I feel every time a rapper shouts my area code into a mic.

Written by Angela Natividad    Comments (0)     File: Brands, Campaigns, Commercials, Online, Television     Sep-10-08  

Nibble Celery and Peanut Butter off Arthur's Face!

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Arthur is among the few kid shows I still feel okay watching. It's wholesome, square and enriched with feel-good lessons.

Anywho, CVS and Hefty licensed Arthur's name and likeness to promote products, like the charming paper plate at left, to kids (and possibly nostalgic quarter-lifers). One plate by itself is friendly enough, but check out this disembodied constellation of Arthur characters, all ready to bear slices of cake on their noses. It's unsettling.

You know how Stamps.com lets you turn photos into stamps? I bet one day Hefty'll do that with paper dishware. Why eat off a fictional acquaintance when you could be scooping peanut butter out of Kid Sister's right earlobe?

Written by Angela Natividad    Comments (0)     File: Brands, Packaging, Sponsorship, Television     Sep- 9-08  

Will Barefaced (and Barebottomed) Sexism Win Ecko an Audience?

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Some chick sent us an email just dripping with faux indignation. It was all, "Have you seen this site? There hasn't been anything so demeaning to women in the history of the internet!" Don't be a tease, honey, just say it: DEAR ADRANTS, PLEASE WHORE ECKO MFG.

And boy is it worthy. The job ECKO MFG tries accomplishing, with almost cheesy earnestness, is stirring drama over Ecko's "SEXIST!!!" manufacturing practices: bikini-clad women stitching jeans together. It could be The Stepford Sweatshop -- if Connecticut were ruled by frat boys and not WASPs.

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Written by Angela Natividad    Comments (0)     File: Brands, Campaigns, Online, Racy, Strange     Sep- 9-08  

Miley Cyrus Stripped, Michelob Reinvigorated, Copyranter Quits (Again)

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- Copyranter calls it quits. Again. Don't worry, he'll still be writing for Animal New York, and he's open to sponsorship.

- Speaking of sponsorship, HBO whips out some wad for web celebs like lonelygirl15. The network is rounding up YouTube headliners for a web series called Hooking Up. Witness the lameness.

- Degourget doesn't like Esquire's first-ever digital magazine cover, which was sponsored by the "ugly-assed Ford Flex." The price we pay for bells and whistles.

- Clear Channel Radio hosted an event called Stripped, where artists play "stripped-down" versions of songs in a jammy "unplugged" setting. Why is this news? Because Miley Cyrus performed Girls Just Wanna Have Fun, that's why. Everything involving Miley Cyrus is news, especially when the headline reads "MILEY CYRUS STRIPPED."

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Written by Angela Natividad    Comments (0)     File: Brands, Campaigns, Celebrity, Events, Magazine, Online, Strange, Trends and Culture     Sep- 9-08  

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