In light of the upcoming Super Bowl, the annual stage for what is typically considered the very best work the advertising world can muster, I once again can’t help but wonder why this is the only time everyone expects advertising to be great?

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The new Federal Trade Commission (FTC) guides took effect on December 1, 2009. Read on to find out what has changed.

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This week’s Web Week in Review highlights include the first Internet “character” to be used in a mass-market campaign; growth of digital billboards; Photoshop and models; makeovers for social media; and Volkswagen’s piano stairs.

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This week’s Web Week In Review highlights include the United Kingdom and France urge to curb the photo-trickery of Photoshop; online advertising overtaking TV advertising; a fake PSA receives 2 million views in one week; Google Wave has arrived; and is the long-time used click-through rate officially useless?

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Before I was old, I was cool. My friends, my music, my hair, my clothes, my loathing of anything mainstream, my whole Woodstock world — cooler than any cool in history. Jeff Millman, gkv’s Vice Chairman and Chief Creative Officer, is Old Cool.

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The “PSA Texting and Driving” gained a lot of hype last week. The more than four-minute video, targeted at teenagers, is a powerful and haunting dramatization depicting different scenarios of driving while texting.

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With billions of Web sites to choose from, finding the good stuff can be a chore. That’s why we’re bringing you the Web Week in Review. How 20 popular Web sites looked when they launched, Hulu Claims Larger Viewership than Time Warner Cable, YouTube may offer online movie rentals, and, Winkers™: Let’s hope this doesn’t catch on.

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With billions of Web sites to choose from, finding the good stuff can be a chore. That’s why we’re bringing you the Web Week in Review. Literal Video YouTube search results, IKEA dumps Futura for…Verdana?, Megawoosh, and 2010 Mustang Community Customizer.

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Heather Woolford tells you about one of the worst advertising campaigns she ever saw. It was for the new Always Infinity pad with the campaign tagline — “Experience the Magic” — featuring a red-haired women dressed in all-white magician outfit. Do you agree?

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With billions of Web sites to choose from, finding the good stuff can be a chore. That’s why we’re bringing you the Web Week in Review. Mattress Dominoes, Hardee’s B-holes, Snickers’ Patrick Chewing, Evian skating babies and new iPhone.

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