LOS ANGELES—Award-winning 740 Sound Design provided sound effects for four spots featured during Sunday’s Super Bowl. The company lent its talents to ads promoting Intel, Vizio, Audi and Dove. Here is a list of credits for each spot:
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Nice Shoes has brought on advertising sales and marketing pro Travis Taylor to unify its U.S. sales force, grow its core business, and expand into new realms. Taylor, who will hold the title Vice President of Sales & Marketing, has extensive experience in sales management, print advertising, event marketing, rebranding, and implementation of innovative and automated systems to overhaul ingrained corporate sales cultures. Prior to joining Nice Shoes, Taylor held similar positions at MetroMedia Company, Clear Channel Communications, Centra Software, and the Buxton Company.
The new hire is part of a massive overhaul of Nice Shoes’ operations that has included the merger of sister companies Guava and Freestyle Collective, a move calculated to consolidate their various services — design and animation, high-end visual effects, and world-class color grading - and become a more powerful creative solutions provider. Taylor, a proven sales professional who has raised sales and more…
Wildomar, Calif. – Ultrasone Inc., distributor for German headphone manufacturer Ultrasone AG, announced today that it has increased the manufacturer’s warranty on all headphones to five years from one year. The new 5 year warranty applies to all headphones purchased after January 1, 2010.
“The move to extend our warranty demonstrates the confidence we have in the build of our products,” stated Paul Taylor, President of Ultrasone Inc. “We firmly believe our headphones are the best sounding and most soundly designed in the world, this warranty furthers our commitment to continuing our legacy as THE headphone company.”
For additional information on Ultrasone’s five year warranty or any of their headphones, please contact PR Representative Brian Metcalf at (305) 576-1171 x11 or by e-mail at brianmetcalf@maxborgesagency.com. To learn more about Ultrasone, go to www.ultrasone.com
About Ultrasone
Based near Munich, Germany, Ultrasone AG has been manufacturing headphones for the more…
Santa Monica, CA, Feb. 8, 2010 — Elias Arts, a company devoted to music composition, strategy and production, has created and produced original music for five TV spots featured during yesterday’s Super Bowl. The Super Bowl TV spots for which Elias Arts provided music were: more…
CABSAT Stand # ZF-1, Zabeel Hall
JAMPRO ANTENNAS’ TO EXHIBIT DTV, FM, LP-FM, FM-HD AND HD RADIO ANTENNA SOLUTIONS AT CABSAT MENA 2010
Sacramento, CA (February 5, 2010) – Jampro Antennas, Inc. of Sacramento, California – a world leader in the manufacture and design of radio frequency components and broadcast antennas for radio and television since 1954 – will bring its diverse range of advanced antenna and RF components to the Middle East broadcast community at CABSAT MENA 2010. The Company’s line-up, including television and radio solutions for DTV, FM, LP-FM, FM-HD and HD Radio, will be on display in Stand ZF-1, Zabeel Hall. more…
(London, UK) Digital Vision’s fully equipped grading and finishing platform Film Master was recently used to grade the second series of the BBC’s BAFTA-winning drama series Wallander. Following in the footsteps of the highly acclaimed first series, the three 90-minute episodes, which aired last month, were graded by renowned colourist Aidan Farrell at The Farm. The series has received universal acclaim for its direction and photography. more…
Oddball Film+Video Acquires Shocking Terrorist Footage, Researches for MythBusters, Licenses for Häagen-Dazs Ice Cream.
Oddball Film+Video, the leading provider of offbeat and unusual stock footage, has recently acquired disturbing terrorist footage along with over a hundred eclectic, archival film prints from the 1940s and 1950s. Oddball’s quirky collection features over 50,000+ 35mm, 16mm and HD historical and contemporary clips in all genres. Oddball’s recent projects include licensing vintage erotica for HBO’s infamous “Katie Morgan’s Sex Quiz” which aired in December 2009, providing rare gay footage for the documentary film “Stonewall:The Uprising” due for theatrical release in 2010 and licensing a 1960s French fashion film for “Häagen-Dazs:Essential Five”, an online publicity campaign for the renowned ice-cream corporation. more…
When Hamilton Health Sciences started development of their new research institute, the David Braley Cardiac Vascular and Stroke Research Institute at Hamilton General Hospital, they needed an AV system capable of broadcasting two internationally recognized and well-established groups of scientists on a global scale. This new Institute will form a collaborative organizational structure by bringing together the Population Health Research Institute (PPHRI), currently led by Dr. Salim Yusuf, and the Henderson Research Centre (HRC), which is led by Dr. Jeffrey Weitz, with people around the world on a daily basis. more…
–Editorial Facility Contributes to User-Generated Ad Campaign–
Beast, one of the country’s top editorial facilities, announced today that editor John Dingfield contributed work on three spots for the CareerBuilder.com “Hire My TV Ad” contest, with the winner, “Casual Friday,” airing during Sunday’s Super Bowl XLIV. more…

Waiting for Superman
SANTA MONICA, Calif. — When Oscar-winning documentarian Davis Guggenheim sought out a post production company for the DI (digital intermediate) work on his powerful documentary, Waiting for Superman, he took his project to Company 3 and Colorist Stephen Nakamura. Nakamura, who has brought his sensitivity and technical savvy to blockbuster features including James Bond action thriller Quantum of Solace and upcoming Russell Crowe adventure Robin Hood, was thrilled with the opportunity to apply his talents to this decidedly smaller, independent film, made up primarily of video-shot interviews and a very diverse array of archival material. more…