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Twittered Salesforce Crash
ADOTAS | 2 hours 10 minutes ago
ADOTAS — Salesforce.com apparently came crashing through the clouds for a few hours yesterday afternoon. The software provider, which charges a monthly fee for its cloud computing offerings, had linked up with Facebook and Amazon on a management service. It allows third-party developers to sell apps to businesses, and clients can build and manage intranets and external sites. But on Tuesday afternoon, nada.?? Twitter had the distress call.?? As one?? twitterer said “Salesforce.com...
Economy Be Damned! Affiliate Summit to Rock Las Vegas
Adrants | 4 hours 32 minutes ago
If you'll be in Las Vegas for Affiliate Summit which begins Sunday and runs through Tuesday, here's a list of known events occurring prior to and during the conference.
Humanitarian Lions?
Adverblog | 6 hours 44 minutes ago
Hey! happy new year everybody! Not about interactive itself but i found this interesting: Do you think that there should be a category awarding the best practices to make this world a better place? Then maybe you're interested in supporting...
Know the signs
Adverblog | 6 hours 44 minutes ago
Done by Unit9 and Ruby and based on the fact that some people turn into embarrassing characters when they drink too much, Heineken launched this experience site called "Know the signs" last December to recommend a moderate use of...
for more info.Geico's Kash rears his ugly head once again
Adweek/Adfreak | 8 hours 15 minutes ago
Maybe the gecko could eat or burn or tear "Kash" to shreds in a "Gecko vs. Kash" commercial.
Versus Wants to See Your Hooha
Adrants | 10 hours 8 minutes ago
Sporting site Versus has launched a recent promotion entitled Show Me Your V. Yes, this is where that is going.
Geico's Kash rears his ugly head once again
Adweek/Adfreak | 11 hours 8 minutes ago
Maybe the gecko could eat or burn or tear "Kash" to shreds in a "Gecko vs. Kash" commercial.
Trust Me. It's A Modern Day Mad Men. Seriously.
Adrants | 11 hours 40 minutes ago
Written by actual creatives, Hunt Baldwin and John Coveny, TNT's Trust Me will, one hopes, bring life to the tired scenario of family man working with single slacker.
3D Super Bowl Ads to Benefit Eye Doctors
Adrants | 12 hours 41 minutes ago
One could trash the latest Super Bowl ad gimmick - 3D ads for DreamWorks Animation and SoBe - but that might be a bit short sighted.
Angry Whopper Bites Back.
Adrants | 13 hours 8 minutes ago
Fast on the heels of its unscrupulous Whopper Virgin campaign (and the melodramatic responses it inspired), Crispin Porter + Bogusky introduce us to Burger King's Angry Whopper.
for more info.You'll need 3-D glasses for Super Bowl XLIII
Adweek/Adfreak | 13 hours 15 minutes ago
Four marketers are teaming up to air two commercials in super-fabulous 3-D this year.
The Whopper Virgins Got Their Aid ... But Who Will Serve the Perrier Virgins?
Adrants | 13 hours 34 minutes ago
A Humanitarian Lion supporter produced a video riffing off Burger King's Whopper Virgins campaign, where documentarians engage Third World inhabitants in hamburger taste tests -- and incidentally pop their hamburger-free cherries.
Breakfast Cereal Club, Sam L. J. Pushes Broadband, Cuts at Ogilvy
Adrants | 13 hours 34 minutes ago
- Jack Morton Worldwide, Almighty, Weber Shandwick and Google join Citizen Schools to help kids succeed.
Dunkin': You Don't Have to Be Bright to Be a Go-Getter!
Adrants | 14 hours 9 minutes ago
You kin' do it!" Dunkin Donuts exclaims in the 2009 debut of its new ad campaign, where people like you! power through everyday life with the will and guilelessness of Special Olympics athletes.
Puma Celebrates 60th With Past Masher
Adrants | 14 hours 9 minutes ago
Upload your photo! Change its size and position! Alter the skin tone! Mess with Saturation! Toy with brightness! Meddle with contrast! Choose a body style! Pick a hair style! Slip on some glasses! Accessorize! Save it! Share it! Add to gallery!
Anne Hathaway and Kate Hudson Assault Website
Adrants | 14 hours 9 minutes ago
Wait, there's a website underneath all those ads?
LiveJournal Layoffs
ADOTAS | 14 hours 22 minutes ago
ADOTAS — LiveJournal, a social media, blogging space, announced restructuring (layoffs) today, though no number was given. The global economic downturn was blamed for the restructuring, and LiveJournal s global product development and design will now be coordinated out of its Moscow office, according to the company. Its headquarters , technical operations, and servers, legal, administration and the customer service teams will remain in the United States. LiveJournal, owned by SUP, will...
Interactive Advertising Cometh
ADOTAS | 14 hours 22 minutes ago
ADOTAS — EXCLUSIVE — As we usher in the New Year and our ritual resolutions take shape, I m struck by the similarities between ad executives and pudgy uncles. You know the drill. A favorite uncle announces boldly his spare tire will become history. Then the year passes and another and the resolution starts repeating itself as predictably as the holiday binging. The uncle still strives for much the same goal, but does so with considerably less fanfare. For the past few years, i...
Know the signs
Adverblog | 14 hours 29 minutes ago
Done by Unit9 and Ruby and based on the fact that some people turn into embarrassing characters when they drink too much, Heineken launched this experience site called "Know the signs" last December to recommend a moderate use of...
Charmin Half-Asses Casting Call Campaign
Adrants | 14 hours 29 minutes ago
In the last full week of December, Charmin launched what appears to be the beginning of a casting call campaign for a new bear mascot.
Grapes Battle Jelly Beans in Epic Showdown
Adrants | 14 hours 29 minutes ago
Jelly beans. Grapes. Highlighters. Yellow stickies. Paper clips. Elastic bands. Strawberries. Push pins. What would you create if you had all these items and kick ass animation skills? A soy Joy commercial, of course.
Broadband Users Rise
ADOTAS | 14 hours 29 minutes ago
ADOTAS — The Obama broadband revolution has already begun, and he hasn’t even take office yet. The top 20 cable and telephone providers in the US signed up 1.3 million new high-speed Internet subscribers in the third quarter of 2008, according to the Leichtman Research Group. Cable companies have 36.5 million broadband subscribers, and telephone companies have about 30.2 million subscribers. Legislators, telecom companies and advocates are pushing for increasing the availability a...
IBM, Microsoft, Massive Layoff Rumors
ADOTAS | 15 hours 40 minutes ago
ADOTAS — Considering the recent massive layoffs that traumatized everyone, even those that survived, there was hope that the new year would at least give some respite. But with quarterly numbers ready to come out, the layoff rumors and speculation has ramped up and targeted two behomeths: Microsoft and IBM. News of Microsoft doing something by Jan. 15 has long been rumored, and some say restructuring is long overdue. But now people are saying 15,000 people worldwide, 17 percent of its w...
You'll need 3-D glasses for Super Bowl XLIII
Adweek/Adfreak | 15 hours 46 minutes ago
Four marketers are teaming up to air two commercials in super-fabulous 3-D this year.
New York Times Succumbs
ADOTAS | 16 hours 12 minutes ago
ADOTAS — It’s unsurprising when schadenfreude erupts whenever the New York Times stumbles or even accepts the inevitable. But with its Internet ad revenue and overall Internet revenue actually declining in November, down 3.8% and 2.6%, respectively, they have to find advertising dollars anywhere. And apparently they found $75,000 under the front page Christmas tree. It use to be sacred space on the front page for newspapers, but that was long ago. The Times was probably the longes...
Sincerely yours, the Breakfast Cereal Club
Adweek/Adfreak | 16 hours 32 minutes ago
No one outside of Gen X and JC Penney cares about The Breakfast Club, but this poster for The Breakfast Cereal Club is pretty inspired.
Naked, shotgun-wielding chick not included
Adweek/Adfreak | 16 hours 32 minutes ago
I was surprised to see that this fashion ad is from an agency in Zurich. So much for Swiss neutrality!
for more info.My kingdom for a decent TV viral campaign
Adweek/Adfreak | 16 hours 32 minutes ago
A campaign for NBC's Kings blurs reality and fiction, but suffers from lots of missing pieces.
Humanitarian Lions?
Adverblog | 16 hours 45 minutes ago
Hey! happy new year everybody! Not about interactive itself but i found this interesting: Do you think that there should be a category awarding the best practices to make this world a better place? Then maybe you're interested in supporting...
Ad Network Assault
ADOTAS | 16 hours 45 minutes ago
ADOTAS — Third-party ad networks have been under attack by brands and ad agencies for a long time. Despite the fact that they, for the most part, are the reasons technoloy was created and developed to collect targeted data as users moved from one site to another, they get little respect. “The ad-network business, we almost shouldn’t have allowed it to exist,” Rob Norman, chief executive of WPP’s digital-media unit, Group M Interaction Worldwide told the WSJ. WPP ...
My kingdom for a decent TV viral campaign
Adweek/Adfreak | 17 hours 10 minutes ago
A campaign for NBC's Kings blurs reality and fiction, but suffers from lots of missing pieces.
ESPN s Ram Ford
ADOTAS | 17 hours 16 minutes ago
ADOTAS — ESPN officially unveiled its new design and ad campaign — with a truck. Ugh. No offense. But if I wanted to make my new site hip and buzz worthy, I would have done something different at first, some new gadget, game or even just a wacky beer commerical, not a truck. Having said that, the interaction between part of the advertisement and the announcer was fun. The ad, which highlighted Ford’s Ram truck, covered the home page, and at one point had the truck peel out...
Naked, shotgun-wielding chick not included
Adweek/Adfreak | 17 hours 30 minutes ago
I was surprised to see that this fashion ad is from an agency in Zurich. So much for Swiss neutrality!
Virgin Atlantic: Still Red-Hot After All These Years
Adrants | 17 hours 30 minutes ago
To celebrate Virgin Atlantic's 25th anni, "Still Red Hot" brings us back to June 22nd, 1984, when London's Gatwick Airport changed forever.
Sincerely yours, the Breakfast Cereal Club
Adweek/Adfreak | 18 hours 29 minutes ago
No one outside of Gen X and JC Penney cares about The Breakfast Club, but this poster for The Breakfast Cereal Club is pretty inspired.
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