This year, the Sports Illustrate Swimsuit Issue turns 50, which means that plenty of SI Swim Legends will be popping up to pay tribute to this All-American institution. But among the Kates and Heidis and Christies, there’s one unexpected name making an appearance in this year’s issue: Barbie. Yes, that Barbie. For the first time, the Mattel fashion doll will be the star of an editorial feature inside the magazine, shot by longtime SI photographer Walter Iooss, Jr.
Former Navy sailor Robert Patrick Hoffmann II was sentenced this week to 30 years in prison. Hoffmann, 40, was convicted last fall of attempted espionage.
According to the U.S. Department of Justice, Hoffmann had attempted to pass on top secret information to agents he believed to be working for Russia. In fact, those agents were part of an FBI investigation into the retired sailor and his willingness to sell U.S. secrets.
LaTanya Richardson Jackson, the wife of actor Samuel L. Jackson, has landed her dream role!
On Saturday, Richardson Jackson was asked to replace Diahann Carroll, who recently pulled out of the Broadway show A Raisin in the Sun.
Richardson Jackson will reprise the role of matriarch Lena Younger. Her character will play Denzel Washington’s mother, even though she is only five years older than the 59-year-old actor.
While she has been out of the spotlight for several decades, Shirley Temple Black was a beloved child star in her time. She was the subject of many films, and also did a number of commercials, while attracting audiences with her singing and dance moves.
Shirley Temple Black died on Monday at the age of 85. She made it big as a star at an early age, signing her first contract with Fox at the age of 5. She was an actress primarily during the Great Depression, and her first film was released in 1934.
Brands don't typically allow campaign metrics to go public unless they've exceeded expectations. With that in mind, HTC today says a just-wrapped 11-week campaign that mixed global social media with Times Square ads drew 54,000 photo submissions. The effort, pitched in the United States, the United Kingdom, China, Hong Kong and Taiwan, centered on a contest to win a 24-carat-plated HTC One smartphone worth $2,500.
Brands don't typically allow campaign metrics to go public unless they've exceeded expectations. With that in mind, HTC today says a just-wrapped 11-week campaign that mixed global social media with Times Square ads drew 54,000 photo submissions. The effort, pitched in the United States, the United Kingdom, China, Hong Kong and Taiwan, centered on a contest to win a 24-carat-plated HTC One smartphone worth $2,500.
There's going to be a new, more plasticky model posing alongside the flesh-and-blood ones in the Sports Illustrated's Swimsuit Issue next week.For a new campaign, Mattel is putting Barbie back in a version of the black-and-white striped swimsuit the doll wore when it was introduced in 1959 and promoting it partly with ads in Sports Illustrated's biggest issue of the year.Both the doll and the Swimsuit
Sweden's One Hour Agency is the brainchild of interactive art directors Ben Langeveld and Ingmar Larsen, who, along with a half-dozen other creatives from the Hyper Island program, want just 60 minutes of your time. "You give us one hour. We generate quality ideas," they say. At typical client-agency meetings, awkward pauses and efforts to reboot PowerPoint can last longer than an hour, but this startup remains undeterred.
Worldwide revenue at Omnicom increased 2.6% to $14.6 billion in 2013, the company said Tuesday morning, and grew 2.9% to $4.06 billion in the fourth quarter compared with the period a year earlier.Omnicom owns creative agencies TBWA Chiat Day, DDB, BBDO; media buying and planning shops PHD and OMD; and PR shops Fleishman-Hillard and Ketchum, among others.