Deft Agency

A Little TED Inspiration For You

admin — Sun, 24 Jan 2010 01:52:54 +0000

Create Dunkin’s Next Donut Contest Teaser

admin — Sat, 23 Jan 2010 15:53:57 +0000

Studiocom in Boston created this teaser for Dunkin’ Donuts bake-off using footage from last year’s contest.

Coke / Coca-Cola – The Happiness machine

admin — Sun, 17 Jan 2010 21:27:02 +0000

This coke spot deserves all the attention its getting lately. Watch it again!

DieHard Powered Beatboxing Light Show

admin — Sun, 17 Jan 2010 21:23:25 +0000

Check out this great spot for DietHard featuring comedian/musician Reggie Watts.

Minnesota State Lottery Hamsters

admin — Sun, 17 Jan 2010 21:21:11 +0000

Seven cute spots from Colle+McVoy featuring hamsters and super corny jokes. The set are very nice, maybe inspired by The Fantastic Mr. Fox?

State of Search

admin — Sun, 17 Jan 2010 21:10:13 +0000

Adotas breaks down the search space for you. Basically Microsoft’s new Bing search is growing by leaps and bounds. Google continues to grow but at a decelerating rate. As for Yahoo, it’s still bad news, search volume is down 2% from 2008.

Meetup.com For Feline Sanity

admin — Sun, 17 Jan 2010 21:03:55 +0000

This Meetup.com pictures a cat owner with a problem. Unfortunately I totally identify with him.

Agency Jobs Down 14% from 2007

admin — Wed, 30 Dec 2009 07:00:20 +0000

Ag Age is reporting that Bureau of Labor Statistics data shows a loss of 26,300 jobs from Decemeber 2007 to December 2009.

Almost as sobering, I noticed the first three comments look like link spam. Out of work agency people trying to make a buck perhaps?

NYTimes’ Decade in Pixels

admin — Wed, 30 Dec 2009 06:49:11 +0000

The New York Times has done a pretty good job of boiling 2000-2009 down to a grid of black and white icons.

Jeff Bezos on Kindle, Future of Reading, Etc.

admin — Wed, 30 Dec 2009 06:41:04 +0000

Newsweek has an interview with Jeff Bezos that covers how Amazon decides which markets to enter and the future of the Kindle among other things.

“It is [our] No. 1 bestselling product. It’s the No. 1 most-wished-for product as measured by people putting it on their wish list. It’s the No. 1 most-gifted item on Amazon. And I’m not just talking in electronics—that’s true across all product categories.”