LV= flags mutual status with primetime activity

LONDON – Insurance brand LV= is refocusing its marketing strategy on brand-led TV ads in prime-time slots to improve awareness of its mutual status.

Defra proposes tighter control of green claims

LONDON – The government is to discourage brands from using terms such as ‘green’, ‘environmentally friendly’ and ‘eco’ when promoting products.

Digital broadcasters in HD battle

LONDON – Free-to-air digital broadcasters Freeview and Freesat are to go head to head with campaigns backing their HD TV services.

Bacardi adds global brand director role

LONDON – Bacardi’s marketing manager, Christian Woolfenden, has been promoted to the role of global brand director.

Cadbury in pre-Olympics sports drive

LONDON – Cadbury will back its sponsorship of the London 2012 Olympics with its biggest marketing campaign to date.

Special K to sell red dress through M&S deal

LONDON – Kellogg is to make a red dress shown in TV ads for its Special K cereal available for the public to buy for the first time.

Top 20 Trends of the Day (Mar 29) – From Documenting Poor Parenting to Midas Touch Meals (COUNTDOWN)

(TrendHunter.com) For the day of March 29th, these are the Top 20 trends, which include Documenting Poor Parenting, Early Bird Insectography and Edgy Punktography. The rankings are based on hundreds of thousands of views…

Nissan Qashqai: Window, Clothes

“Qashqai. Urbanproof.”

In the cities that seem more crowded and tougher than ever, each day is a battle for a parking spot or a minute less in your delay. Nissan Qashqai is the perfect car to confront the urban jungle – as the true crossover, it perfectly combines the capabilities of an off-road, 4×4 car, with the intuitive but long crafted city skills offered by a compact car. We valued the concept – “urban adventure” – through a series of layouts that pays a compliment to our target’s intelligence: only one detail reveals that it’s actually an urban landscape (a lighted window or washed clothes for air dry).

Advertising Agency: Publicis, Bucharest, Romania
Creative Director: Razvan Capanescu
Art Director: Cristian Costea
Copywriter: Carmen Dobrescu
Digital Artist: Cristian Costea
Published: March, 2010


Water slide picture to scroll down for Beach park

Amazing effect when you scroll down this long picture for the theme park named beach Park.

Feel the experience of sliding down a 14 floor building

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Advertiser: Beach Park
Agency: Pmweb

via Martin

Some water, Sir?

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Advertising Agency: TBWA\RAAD, Dubai
Executive Creative Director: Milos Ilic
Copywriter: Sandeep Fernandes
Account Supervisor: Ian Carvalho
Art Director: Daniel Djarmati
Photographer: Graham Tooby
Account Executive: Labiba Hamdan
Via [Dubai Lynx]

Videoclipe/catálogo (interativo) da Diesel

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Fucking Diesel! Depois da Ralph Lauren apresentar seu catálogo virtual/interativo, foi a vez da abusada Diesel adicionar ainda mais entretenimento na sua recém lançada campanha “Be Stupid“, apresentando aos mortais um e-catálogo um tanto quanto diferente, em forma de videoclipe, também interativo (aqui!).

Abaixo, o clipe original de “A hundred lovers“.

Via Adverblog

Baby-Terrorizing Photography – Tierney Gearon Hones in on the Dysfunctional Family (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) I don’t know how else to describe Tierney Gearon’s family photography other than with the word ‘dysfunctional.’ I feel as though there is no such thing as a ‘dysfunctional family’ considering that every…

How to Survive Geolocation’s Looming Apocalypse

Are we setting ourselves up for geolocation apocalypse? What consumers and marketers should know about the most-buzzed-about tech service.

Galactic Empire State of Mind

Galactic Empire State Of Mind

Eu talvez devesse arrumar uma desculpa maior para publicar isso aqui, além do fato de que provavelmente vai se tornar um dos vídeos mais assistidos da semana. Mas acho que só a genialidade já vale. Aliás, mais uma dos caras do College Humor.

O Jay-Z e a Alicia Keys amam Nova York, mas no Império Galáctico as coisas são um pouco diferentes.

Dá o play. É o melhor vídeo que você vai ver hoje, vai por mim.

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Is Verizon’s ‘Big Red’ Spot Lost on the ‘Yewts’?


Undoubtedly it'll strike some sort of chord with Boomers and Gen-Xers. But kids these days — and by kids, I mean anyone under 30 — probably aren't going to recognize the source material. Does that matter? Of course not.

Sometimes You Need to Let the Town Drunk Coach the Team


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Charlie Rangel Gets ‘Real Men of Genius’ Treatment


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Lacta’s Love At First Site Begets Love in Action

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Following its amazing, IAB MIXX Award winning Love at First site long form ad, Lacta, along with help from consumers, has crowdsourced another gem.
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Behind the Scenes of Ad Age’s Second 40 Years


NEW YORK (AdAge.com) — Last week, inspired by a similar video created 40 years ago when Ad Age was just a pup, Rance Crain, Judy Pollack, Allison Arden and Abbey Klaassen dished about the biggest marketing and advertising stories over the last four decades, the role Ad Age played in them and where we see the brand headed in the future.

United Way Names McCann Worldgroup’s Dooner


John J. Dooner Jr., chairman-CEO of McCann Worldgroup, has been elected chairman of United Way Worldwide's Board of Trustees. He will serve the privately funded nonprofit for a year, leading its global movement.