Perils of Internet Advertising

I know it's a system of looping ads, probably based on an algorithm, but this has to be one of the worst ad placements.

via Jalopnik.

Cannes Young Lions 48 Hour Ad Contest 2009

Check out and vote for the submission of the super jr. creative duo of Ashley and Krystha.



Agency: Y&R San Francisco
Jr. AD: Ashley J George
Jr. CW: Krystha Barrera

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"When people can no longer tolerate one problem, their tolerance of all their other problems bottoms out."

Such wise words from such a young soul, ms. thompson. It was just put really well and I wanted to document it.

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News Roundup

• Francisco Ramos has an outstanding photography portfolio.


• Amsterdam Worldwide launched a Pan-European blogger outreach for Asic' sportstyle for the "Left & Right" campaign.


• Check out the Passion Pit music video "The Reeling" directed by Danziger, Stephens, and Hobbs (Hobbs is the former co-ECD along with Texas-Ex Peter Rosch).


• The 7th Annual Portfolio Night is coming June 11! View agency-created commercials by Amsterdam/Montreal (Sid Lee), Chicago (Gertrude Inc), Los Angeles (David & Goliath), Quebec City (Socom), and San Francisco (PJA Advertising).


• Chris Abraham is teaching a series of webinars about the power of twitter and online marketing. May 7 is "How to defend and protect your brand reputation online- co-hosted with Jay Jaffe" and May 14 is "How to do social media marketing: bloggers, social networks, metrics, and more". The webinars are FREE.
  
  updated: View current and previous presentations and transcripts here and here.


• updated: Bob Pearson, former head of social media at Dell, is now the President of the Blog Council. Read more at Andy Sernovitz's blog.