According to Boulder's Daily Camera, Crispin is scaring the tofu-eating residents of Boulderado. The "Disruptive Thinker Transport," a 25-passenger bus draped in drab gray and black lines, fake bullet holes, a nondescript company logo and a certain dark sense of humor, is raising eyebrows across the city. The 1999 Bluebird biodiesel-converted vehicle, which last month began making rounds to employee pickup and …
Pearez Hilton Can’t Believe It’s Not Butter
According to The New York Times, Unilever, which makes the margarine spread I Can’t Believe It’s Not Butter, has been running Spraychel Webisodes since 2005. Unilever’s digital media agency, Story Worldwide, created the Spraychel campaign. …
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Digital Diva
Adweek is profiling Colleen DeCourcy, chief digital officer of TBWA Worldwide and Cyber jury president at Cannes. DeCourcy, 43, has been at the forefront of digital marketing since the first tech boom in the '90s, when it mostly meant building Web sites. Speaking about her new role at TBWA, DeCourcy says, "It's been a leap of faith for someone like myself to spend a year not being deeply associated with any work …
Working Hard To Better The Awards Show Experience
Wrath of Cannes is the right kind of award show. That is, one that doesn't take itself too seriously. Hosted by Woods Witt Dealy, the announcement is plenty cheeky. This week, what will you be doing while Madison Avenue’s crème de la crème are soaking up sun and sipping rosé on the Riviera during the Cannes International Advertising Festival? Why not join the rest of us outcasts, exiles and undesirables at Cha-Cha’s …
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Hire A Copywriter, Already.
What’s The Carbon Footprint on This Back Slap?
This year, total entries at this Cannes International Advertising Festival grew 10.2% to more than 28,000. Every category is up, and the new design Lions attracted about twice as many entries as expected -- 1,126 -- so the festival had to scramble to add more judges to the jury. Americans aren't deterred by the weak dollar that has pushed delegate fees above $3,000 and room rates at the beachfront hotels such as the …
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My-Redesigned-Space
According to Brian Stelter of The New York Times, "the bloom has come off social networking’s rose." With a new design to debut this week, News Corp.-owned MySpace intends to do something about it. With an eye toward monetization, MySpace is being redesigned beginning Wednesday with a new home page, which will be less cluttered and more hospitable to advertising. The redesign, to be done by early fall, will include a …
Don’t Want To Be On Camera? Walk Away.
Michael Arrington of TechCrunch grills Chris Alden, CEO of blogging service SixApart, at Apple's iPhone 2.0 coming out party last week. It's good to see some tough questions from a blogger. And it's funny to see the culture of transparency (as represented by Arrington) bump up against Apple's closed-source reality. …
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