The Denver Egotist points us to Ashley Billings shameless self promo. We laugh and recite the do you work in advertising or are you a prostitute joke to ourself. Then we recall "four-sprung duck technique" and now we need a new keyboard as this is permanently coffee damaged. We calm down by oohing a...

At 11 minutes past six p.m. my time, that Chinese love toy spammer I've been battling for the past week posted a spampost about their warez, including images of sex toys to the front page. At thirty four minutes past six I looked up from dinner-cooking and saw what had happened and could delete it. ...

Even though I did say on Monday that "Skittles learns the hard way that social media can not be tamed", I do not subscribe to Mashable's theory which reckoned that "Skittles Swaps Homepage from Twitter Search to Facebook Page" because of the bad Skittles jokes that were filling the search stream. No...

DDB South Africa hired a couple of fun loving human statues to show off Canon Powershot’s image stabilizer. "We strategically placed the human statues close to camera shops and chose high action scenarios that would usually be photographed." Watch the two minute film inside, worth it for the littl...

“The new Must Drink More Milk campaign has been positively received since it launched last June. It has generated a lot of discussion both on-and-offline amongst teens, and has helped grow the volume of milk sales in BC by nearly 3 per cent,� says Dean Lee, creative director, DDB Canada. BC Dair...

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Skittles.com has done a Modernista! and instead of filling a web page full of content themselves, they simply frame a twitter search of the word "skittles" and let the world tweeters with skittles on their mind fill it. This begs to be messed with, of course. Fellow adgrunt Claymore a.k.a adtothebon...

From BBDO new york comes this campaign for GE showing little fireflies with eco-friendly CFL light bulbs-butts. Aw. Kyoot. Bill Bruce / David Lubars : Executive Creative Director John Leu : Creative Director/ art director Brad Roseberry : Creative Director/ writer The first thing I thought of when I...

Yesterday I asked who it there works in advertising on twitter - I figure other adpeeps will also want to find friend in the field out there. It's far too easy to find all the social media experts out there, but what about the discreet designers, the quirky copywriters, the always panicky producers ...

I got a little carried away when procrastinating today, and by popular demand here is a more permanent place for these tweets. For added fun, and to prove twitter is not just a megaphone, conversations do happen, replies are included. :) p.sample { font-family: serif; font-style: normal; font-varian...