Republished from TechCrunch post by Leena Rao Ever seen a nasty pot hole or a wall full of graffiti and wished you could report the problem on the go instead of writing a letter or email to your city bureaucracy? TechCrunch 50 startup CitySourced is launching an a slew of smartphone applications that let you [...]
Live Streaming by Ustream.TV TechCrunch50 Conference is up and running today via UStream for all us without 3 grand to spare. So far, Client Show and CitySourced have been pretty impressive. Unfortunately I’m not fast enough to live tweet this thing (and I have a day job), so I’ll sit back and watch Paul Carr [...]
Ever heard of Atlantic Hyundai from West Islip, New York? Neither had I until the ad above popped into my Google Reader last week. According to Autoblog, an overworked newspaper editor accidentally added a fake concept image of a 2011 Hyundai Sonata to a dealer ad for a 2010 Hyunday Sonata that they simply google [...]
Agency brief: Take our recently updated brand platform, and update it for the new GM. Single minded thought: Cadillac’s cars are cool again. Budget: $1 Million of taxpayer money for anthemic TV Creative Requirements: – Must show as many car models as possible – Must be drenched in American pride – Must be somewhere exotic, [...]
Wow. Glad this is just a spec ad entered in the One Show. Otherwise that’d be pretty tasteless of the WWF. We can thank DDB Brazil for proving yet again that creating spec work for clients you don’t even have is just an attention grab that does more harm than good. As Stan Lee points [...]
