Apple boss Steve Jobs undergoes liver transplant

NEW YORK – Steve Jobs, the CEO of Apple, who was ill for sometime before stepping back from his role has undergone a liver transplant, but is likely to return part time to running the company he co-founded 1976.

Setanta loses Premier League rights after missing payment

LONDON – Setanta, the troubled pay-TV sports broadcaster, has lost its rights to air 46 English Premier League games next season, after failing to make a crucial rights payment to the English Premier League.

UKTV unveils Good Food channel branding

LONDON – UKTV is today unveiling new on-air branding for its food channel to mark its change from UKTV Food to Good Food.

Self Control Freak interactive video

Visit this website and watch the surprising intercative videos Concept/Interaction Design: Olivier Otten Support: Daphne Heemskerk

Sound, DIY culture and mechanics at SonarMàtica

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Given my notoriously campy taste in music, you will be relieved to know that i’m going to carefully avoid reviewing the music side of Barcelona’s International Festival of Advanced Music and Multimedia Art. What’s left then? Fashion, a bit of advertising and the SonarMàtica exhibition continue

Bajaj Exhaust Fans

An excellent campaign, looking as Global as one could. Hats off to the teamAdvertising Agency: Leo Burnett Mumbai, IndiaExecutive Creative Directors: KB Vinod, KV SridharArt Director: Deepak SinghPhotographer: LaiCopywriter: KB VinodStudio: Groovy StudiosDigital Imaging: Bhushan Patil, Procolorbajajbajajbajaj

Lack of Film Standout at Cannes Shows That Creativity Is Evolving


The fact is, for now, Cannes still matters; awards still matter. Simply, awards are a marketing tool, for individuals and for companies. Especially now that clients are taking more of an interest in what goes on at Cannes, winning a Lion is business.

Trashy Parasitism as a Get-Rich-Quick Scheme? Hi, HuffPo


I'm revisiting HuffPo not only because the response to my outrage has been so interesting but because last week HuffPo CEO Betsy Morgan was forced out.

Agencies and Media Brands Turning Into Commodities


Commoditization may be the biggest threat facing agencies and media companies today — yet we hear precious little about it, and few can articulate a strategy to combat it.

Brand Awareness Was Only Half the Battle for Aflac


NEW YORK (AdAge.com) — Any CMO who invites L.A.-based rap group Majesty into an insurance company for a performance is clearly trying to shake things up. Indeed, Jeff Charney has made it his mission to infuse new life to a still-misunderstood brand.

How the World’s Advertisers Cope With Recession


LONDON (AdAge.com) — With the recession being felt worldwide, London Advertising, along with ad-translation agency Textappeal, surveyed 109 strategic planners to get a read on how countries are responding. Watch our slideshow of 13 regional ad campaigns.

Google Opens Up Digital-Education Portal

NEW YORK (AdAge.com) — Google has spent a lot of time in the past few years trying to quell fears it's out to disintermediate advertising agencies. Now it's undertaking a major effort trying to educate them on all things digital.

To Build Display, Yahoo Joins Self-Serve Ad Fray


NEW YORK (AdAge.com) — Today Yahoo rolls out the first version of its self-serve ad product, My Display Ads, a bid to win over local advertisers and convert search advertisers to display.

Recession Renders Many Marketers’ Databases Useless


NEW YORK (AdAge.com) — Customer databases, which cull years of spending and behavioral information to try to boost conversion and revenue, have long been a staple for marketers in industries such as travel, hospitality, retail and financial. But what happens when a massive disruption — say, a meltdown of the economy — alters consumer behavior so dramatically that it renders historical data useless?

NBC, CBS Have Conflicting Visions of Broadcast Future


NEW YORK (AdAge.com) — You'd think the nation's two oldest broadcast TV networks would agree where the future of the industry lies. You'd be wrong.

Can Eric Hippeau Turn HuffPo Into Big Business?


NEW YORK (AdAge.com) — HuffPo has to eventually become a business if it's going to outlive newspapers. And its recent injection of $25 million in venture capital means it also has to become a much, much larger operation than it is now. Unfortunately for antagonists, the new CEO it installed last week — Eric Hippeau, the former Ziff Davis CEO turned private equity investor — seems well-suited to help make that happen.

Why ‘Going Galt’ Isn’t the Solution for Newspapers

NEW YORK (AdAge.com) — What if every newspaper gated off all their content tomorrow? What if newspapers embraced the idea of "going Galt"? Well, it would be suicide.

Celebrating the Renaissance of Out-of-Home Advertising


So here it is, the first annual Art of Outdoor from Ad Age and Creativity. It incorporates all the Obie winners but also several dozen campaigns from around the world that impressed Ad Age's outdoor reporter, Andrew Hampp, or the ever eagle-eyed editors of Creativity, in the last year.

Cannes Lions 2009: Mil Casmurros | Vídeo-Case

O projeto “Mil Casmurros”, criado pela LiveAD para promover a minissérie “Capitu” da Rede Globo, é um dos dois trabalhos brasileiros no shortlist da categoria PR, divulgado ontem em Cannes Lions 2009.

No vídeo-case abaixo, você pode conferir como aconteceu essa leitura colaborativa de um dos maiores clássicos da literatura brasileira. Segundo a agência, a mídia espontânea gerada pelo projeto pode ser calculada em 6,7 milhões de dólares.

Os vencedores da categoria PR, assim como Promo e Direct, serão revelados na terça-feira, dia 23.

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Um Titanium chamado Barack Obama

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Mesmo com a queda no número e na qualidade das peças inscritas para o Cannes Lions 2009, alguns cases ainda me inspiram e me fazem torcer. Um deles se chama “Barack Obama“. Quer queira ou não, B.O. é um case, não só por ter revolucionado a política norte-americana, mas principalmente o marketing político no mundo todo. David Axelrod, seu principal assessor de campanha, até já foi comparado com Joseph Goebbles, em um polêmico post meu feito há quase 1 ano (aqui).
Esta semana, o case “Obama for America” entra para a lista dos favoritos que podem levar um leão de ouro na maior e mais desejada categoria do Festival de publicidade de Cannes, a categoria Titanium, capitaneada pelo criativo australiano, David Droga, sócio-fundador da premiada agência Droga5.

Confesso que, entre os demais candidatos da categoria, é o meu case predileto. Apesar de eu também ser do fã-clube de Whopper Virgins e da CP+B, nada conseguiu me chamar tanta atenção em 2008, como essa campanha integrada que fez motivar novamente os jovens norte-americanos, que estavam desinteressados em contribuir com o futuro da política de um país afundado em um mar de inimizades.

A qualidade de um candidato negro, com poucas chances de subir no “trono” da Casa Branca, foi impulsionada por um forte investimento em inovação. Utilizaram todos os meios disponíveis para formar vários canais de comunicação direta com o público, reescrevendo, ao longo do caminho, a nova era do marketing político.

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Uma rica vitrine do engajamento, a utilização de sites, blogs, redes sociais, aplicativos móveis, e até publicidade em games, fez da campanha de Obama uma grande janela da plataforma 2.0 para o mundo. Obama já foi condecorado por outros grandes prêmios da publicidade e do marketing global. Levou ouro no Clio Awards com o clipe musical criado pelo Black Eyed Peas. Ainda por cima, foi nomeado “Anunciante do Ano” pelo AdAge, ano passado. A vitória em Titanium, este ano, deve ser anunciada na próxima sexta ou sábado, e consagraria todo o reconhecimento da ambiciosa e destemida campanha “Obama for America”. Se não levar um leão, pouca ou quase nenhuma coisa vai mudar. O que importa é que Barack Obama e sua campanha continuará sempre nos inspirando.