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Resto Van Harte sets up eating-houses where people from the same area can meet each other while enjoying a healthy and cheap 3-course menu. To continue this they depend on financial support of contributors. Loneliness is a problem for more than 300.000 Dutch who have no friends or family. Resto VanHarte wants to get those people out of their solitude and brings them together. To let the contributors experience what the effect is of social solitude, Lowe?Draft a confronting DM-package.

Agency: Lowe/DraftFCB, Amsterdam

If you don't take Valentine's day too seriously, you might have fun with Romance Novel Yourself. Silly but quite viral online application that let you or your partner star on the cover of a romance novel....

Campanha Y&R para a Caixa Empresas, da CGD. Cliente: CGD Agência Y&R Lisboa Dir. Criativos: Pedro Ferreira e Judite Mota Dir. de Arte: Joana Faria e Luis Moreira Copywriter: José Quintela Produção Agência: Ricardo Cansado / APP Produção Fotografia: Krypton Photo Dir. de Arte Fotografia: Rogério Serrasqueiro Fotógrafo: Frederico van Zeller Produção: Teresa Pinto Pós-produção: Rodrigo Lameiras

A district court judge denied a motion to dismiss a lawsuit headed by Ed O’Bannon and arguing that athletes should be compensated when their images are used.

Sponsors events to attract money from "local-national" advertisers such as quick-serve restaurants.

CEO Eric Schmidt shrugged it off, but Google's big game ad shows just how much the company has embraced traditional marketing methods.

Social network accounts for 40 percent of page views from U.K. mobile devices.

Adds Nielsen data based on Zip codes and other offline household information.

Tennis star spearheads design contest, while posting for the brand on Facebook and Twitter.

Previewing the new site for users and advertisers allows them to make suggestions prior to the formal launch, according to AccuWeather.

Four-year agreement is kaput in possible blow to Microsoft's ad representation ambitions.

A research effort meant to find a replacement for pre-roll online video ads actually validates them.

Many brands forking over big TV bucks haven't integrated efforts into social sites.

After consolidating digital music sales teams, MTV has begun to focus in earnest on brand marketers.

Ex-Googler David Eun will replace Bill Wilson as the president of Media and Studios at AOL.