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Afflicted Affleck Bounced from Beer Ads
Seems like an Oscar and a few lead roles was all it took to leave actor Ben Affleck drunk with star power.
After Affleck voluntarily checked into the Malibu-based Promises rehab facility for treatment of alcohol abuse (with the help of former occupant, Charlie Sheen) , Samuel Adams beer dropped him as a celebrity pitchman.
Considering his lead role in "Pearl Harbor," he might prefer kamikazes to beer. Nevertheless, reports of Affleck's activities prior to his decision to sober up would hardly encourage one to "drink responsibly."
requiemforadream
If you haven't surfed requiem for a dream yet, you haven't surfed.
Yes, teabaggers is dead.
Those of you who keep asking me "whatever happened to teabaggers" can go read the
last entries in the archives and figure it out yourselves. It went bad, thats all. :(
Sad. This is why we can't have nice things!
Condom Commercial Busted
If the upcoming sequel to teen sex comedy, "American Pie" involves pie-humping like the original, a promo tie-in with Lifestyle condoms would seem to be a perfect fit. What's more, it could help protect millions of easily influenced teen boys from direct exposure with fruit filling. Unfortunately, the deal to air a Universal Pictures produced TV spot just went bust.
Bond Beware! Lee is here.
Lee Tamahori - director of new zealand spots and the fab tearjerker (I cried like a baby - just don't tell anyone) "Once were warriors" has just agreed to direct the next Bond film.
It will be shot in London. Betcha didn't see that coming!
Dabitch is back (in New York City)
Since I'm so pleased that Adland is back online, I thought I'd throw a little party. You are all invited over to Justine's , 101 2nd street, between 1st avenue and A, on Saturday night at 10:30. The silver backroom is ours kids. I thought Justine's would be appropriate. Yes, it's an S&M bar, what else? Come and have a drink. I might spank you.
HHCL's howellhenryland is very fucking strange.
It's weird, it's poorly implemented, but fuck it looks interesting.
I quote: "howellhenryland is an interactive virtual reality that is our integrated web presence, extranet and intranet. It won't give you the same experience as walking around our unique working environment - but it's as close as we can get in the digital world."
What the hell is it?
Agency Gets Costly Dot-Com Lesson
Though they're an e-biz flunk out, bankrupt ecampus.com wound up teaching former agency DeVito/Verdi a thing or two about dot commerce.
Dennis Publishing is suing the agency for $270,000 worth of unpaid ecampus.com ads that ran in Maxim magazine. For the agency's sake, the litigation hopefully ends here. God forbid ecampus.com should decide that a media plan that promoted its text book website in Maxim contributed to its demise.
You got the guts to be a young gun?
We've spoken about the Young Guns 2001 awards here earlier , and now Michael Kean gives us the run-down on the why and how he helped found the new award which will be hosted in Australia this October. ....
No New Tricks for Old Spice
For ad folk, "PG" refers to a style of safe, over-tested advertising popularized by Proctor & Gamble. In recent years, P&G has made pronouncements and organizational moves toward breaking this stereotype. However, according to a recent stink over fresh Old Spice deodorant spots, some think the P&G creative process is still the pits.
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