The more they love the monster the bigger it grows. What happens when it can’t fit in the car?

Hamilton Nolan at Gawker wrote an interesting post about the decline of good advertising on television. It’s been quite noticeable lately (in New York at least) how many prime-time advertising spots have been bought by what seems to be infomercial and low-production-value spots. The glitzy Lexus ads have been replaced with advertisements for smock-like blankets with long-sleeves, Amish-made faux-fireplace heaters and strange, mouth-aligned goatee trimmers. Nolan writes:
The collapse of ad sales, and the decline of the auto industry, means that even regular networks—and even, sometimes, in prime time—are increasingly forced to plug empty spots with cheap ass infomercial standbys.
Advertising Age [...]

The team at marketing blog AdHoles endured call after call to 89 agencies and got the names of 86 recruiters, 68 email addresses and from some of them, found out nifty info like whether they want your full portfolio or a mini book, to contact them via email or phone, what accounts have been lost and won, and most importantly, what positions they’re hiring for.
All this is provided in a nice 25 page book with room for notes on each agency for only $29.
Gig Spy

Time has a new ad on New York’s Houston Street which will evolve over the next few weeks with the help of a graffiti artist. Time’s agenny Fallon has commissioned COPE2 to tag the billboard with tags over a four week period culminating with the application of the Time logo and promotional copy.
[Image & Info Via AdRants]