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The baby carrot producers in America have gone to the agency that brought us the BK King and innovations like Chicken Fries to give them some of the naughty factor. Plus pick the similarities between a new Sky All Blacks campaign and one for the NFL.

First up a piece of branded content for Smarties that is cool but also makes Simon wonder about fadiness of collaborations and the creation of social objects. Also this week an ad for Carlton Draught that is doing the business.

Russell Brown on the big winners in the Australian election campaign -- the advertising agencies.

Simon Pound reports on the work of Cindy Gallop, an advertising genius turned charitable mistress and her work on makelovenotporn.com and ifwerantheworld.com. Cindy is now cooking up something in the western suburbs of Auckland, New Zealand.

Mr Pound gives the low-down on the winners, losers and offensive at the Creative Challenge.

Simon takes a journey around the world and picks out some of the creative and interesting in this week’s ad mash starting with a stopover in Argentina. Don’t say no to the Panda!

The new ad agency for ASB looks to be putting the star of their advertising campaigns over the past ten years, Ira Goldstein, out to pasture. How should they do it? The folks at Stoppress are running a comp.

This week in Simon Pound‘s ad mash we have a copy cat ad made here in New Zealand and some controversy at the Cannes Lions. Plus a follow up to the Super Bowl Old Spice commercial.

Vincent explains the new news service for the New Zealand marketing, advertising, media and PR industries, Stoppress.co.nz. The current hot topic is what could possibly be an industry-defining move by TVNZ to review its pricing and commission structures. Also there are some red faces over at NZ Life and Leisure. Vincent Heeringa is the editorial director at Idealog. Also find him on twitter.

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