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Posted in: UncategorizedAdvertising Agency: Lucifer Labs
Art Director / Copywriter: Anantha Narayan
Advertising Agency: Lucifer Labs
Art Director / Copywriter: Anantha Narayan
Advertising Agency: Lucifer Labs
Art Director / Copywriter: Anantha Narayan
Advertising Agency: Lucifer Labs
Art Director / Copywriter: Anantha Narayan
Advertising Agency: Lucifer Labs
Art Director / Copywriter: Anantha Narayan
So your joy does not turn into ashes after carnival, avoid excesses, be sexually responsible and have fun with consideration. Staying on the good side of this party just depends on your attitude.
Advertising Agency: Danza Estratégia e Comunicação, Vitória, Brazil
Creative Director: Luiz Carlos Silva
Art Director / Illustrator: Eduardo Fonseca
Copywriter: Gislaine Spagnol
Published: February 2013
Em dezembro do ano passado, o Ibope Media divulgou um relatório apontando que o Brasil tem 94,2 milhões de usuários de internet. Este número, entretanto, já deve ter sido ultrapassado, visto que foi registrado no terceiro trimestre de 2012. Mas, por que raios estamos falando em números? Porque estes números representam pessoas e todas estas pessoas estão consumindo conteúdo online – inclusive você, neste exato momento. Se há consumidores, então existe um mercado e, consequentemente, a demanda por produtos – e também por produtores.
É aí que começa a seguinte reflexão: qual o futuro deste ramo de negócios no país e onde entram os blogs nesta história toda?
Segundo pesquisadores do Ipea, nos Estados Unidos a indústria de conteúdos digitais chega a representar 10% de um PIB que ultrapassa os US$ 15 trilhões. É só fazer as contas e ver que, por lá, o segmento é bem rentável. Apesar de ainda estar engatinhando, o mercado brasileiro também já dá sinais de seu grande potencial, como bem observou Gaby Darbyshire, COO da Gawker Media.
Há alguns dias, ela esteve no Brasil para visitar os parceiros da F451, responsáveis pelas versões nacionais do Gizmodo, Kotaku, Jalopnik e do recém-finado Jezebel. Em um papo exclusivo com o B9, Gaby contou que há um plano de ampliar este leque – afinal os negócios vão bem por aqui -, mas que o projeto ainda está em fase de estudos. Todo esse tato tem explicação: se por um lado as oportunidades existem, por outro também há a preocupação se público e anunciantes estão preparados para determinados títulos, especialmente após o fim de Jezebel.
Em 2012, a boo-box analisou a audiência de blogs brasileiros com base nos dados de 80 milhões de usuários. As categorias mais acessadas são entretenimento, esporte, tecnologia, automotivos, moda e beleza, que juntos correspondem a 94% dos acessos – um prato cheio para anunciantes. A blogosfera se tornou um segmento tão atraente que não faltam pessoas querendo largar tudo para virar blogueiro profissional, com a ilusão de que o sucesso é instantâneo. Mas não é bem assim.
Se olharmos a trajetória dos principais blogs brasileiros, a maioria está por aí há pelo menos uns 10 anos, como o próprio B9. É claro que há casos daqueles que estouram do dia para a noite, mas nem todos conseguem se manter relevantes sem conteúdo de qualidade.
“É uma verdade imutável que se você produz um conteúdo bom, as pessoas vão querer acessá-lo e retornarão todos os dias, fazendo com que sua audiência cresça”, observa Gaby.
A pegadinha é que “bom” e “ruim” são coisas subjetivas e o que pode ser bom para alguns é ruim para outros, e vice-versa. Então o bom, segundo ela, é aquele que consegue se destacar dos demais e despertar o interesse do leitor dentro de seu segmento, tornando-se relevante. A combinação de relevância, interesse e audiência é o que define a viabilidade comercial da publicação. No caso da Gawker Media, isso se traduz em 40 milhões de leitores mensais, presença em nove países e um faturamento anual de US$ 26 milhões. Nada mal para o que começou em 2002 como um blog de entretenimento criado por Nick Denton, para se transformar em um grupo com 8 publicações – 3 delas (Deadspin, Gawker e Gizmodo) entre as 10 mais lidas do mundo.
Mas nem tudo é perfeito. Apesar de ser um dos títulos de maior sucesso da Gawker Media no exterior, o site Jezebel não deu certo no Brasil. A proposta de abordar cultura, moda, sexo e celebridades com um olhar mais crítico, acompanhando a realidade da mulher contemporânea, acabou não funcionando por aqui e o blog foi desativado no final do ano passado. Talvez o maior pecado de Jezebel tenha sido a incompreensão de seu posicionamento independente, pioneirismo punido com o fim da publicação.
“Nos EUA, Jezebel é gigante. Acreditamos que foi cedo demais para trazê-lo para cá, mas também acreditamos que o Brasil precisa de algo assim. Em algum momento, nós vamos tentar novamente”.
Há algumas semanas, o Braincast 47 discutiu a realidade das pequenas e médias agências do Brasil, que atendem clientes locais, com um orçamento bem diferente das polpudas contas do eixo Rio-São Paulo. No mercado da produção de conteúdo digital, mais especificamente dos blogs, a realidade é parecida. É cada vez mais comum blogs que atraem anunciantes locais (e em alguns momentos até mesmo nacionais) por ter um conteúdo regionalizado.
Guardadas as devidas proporções, a estratégia da Gawker Media é bastante parecida ao permitir que seus parceiros trabalhem localmente, de maneira independente, mas sem perder a identidade original das publicações que representam. E mesmo que nem todo mundo goste, é preciso levar em conta que muitos internautas preferem acessar blogs em seu próprio idioma. Se este não é o seu caso e você prefere ler o Gizmodo original, mas fica incomodado com o direcionamento para a versão brasileira, basta alterar os cookies do computador, utilizando os links para os sites norte-americanos presentes em todos os blogs.
Mas, e daí, os blogs vão substituir os meios tradicionais de informação?
Essa conversa de que a internet vai substituir jornais, livros, televisão e rádio rola há anos, mas pelo que pudemos ver até agora, melhor seria dizer que a internet é cada vez mais uma ferramenta para a integração do digital e do analógico. Saber combinar o melhor dos dois mundos é muito mais eficaz do que optar por apenas um e dizer que o outro vai acabar. Tanto para quem produz conteúdo, quanto para quem anuncia e consome.
No caso de quem produz, há incontáveis ferramentas à disposição que facilitam o dia a dia, queimando inúmeras etapas e reduzindo custos. É claro que é preciso desenvolver múltiplas habilidades, mas isso também é benéfico. Para os anunciantes, as possibilidades de envolver o público e criar experiências únicas parecem não ter fim, enquanto o consumidor passa a ser o maior beneficiado com tantas opções.
E mesmo toda essa concorrência é vista com bons olhos pela executiva da Gawker Media. “Tem espaço para todo mundo. Isso nos estimula a nos dedicarmos mais, é o que nos torna melhores”.
Depois disso tudo, dá para concluir que o mercado de conteúdo digital no Brasil tem potencial – senão não chamaria a atenção de grupos internacionais – e que a concorrência existe e pode ser positiva, mas saber explorar vantagens como a produção local é fator determinante em qualquer estratégia.
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In the old days, editors assigned stories to reporters, then made suggestions for improvement as the copy came in. Today, it’s a bit more complicated. Today, an editor needs to have the capacity to run the presses.
Paul Smalera, tech editor at Reuters, warns on Medium that editors need to know some code and possess a working knowledge of design, or risk forfeiting maximum exposure for their stories.
…Readers are being trained to expect simple yet elegant complexity in their online experiences. Woe to the media company that is not scrambling to deliver both.
Smalera points to a few examples, including “Snowfall,” a brilliantly executed multimedia story from The New York Times.
I’m also fascinated by this additional bit of insight from Smalera: “Cultivating reader relationships on an editorial level can unlock all sorts of value, understanding, and yes, even revenue. But only an editor who understands how to demand that data, from a team willing to provide it, will ever get it. Then she has to figure out how to use it.”
As editor and partner in this micro media property, I’d love to “unlock all sorts of value” right here, right now. Speaking of that, I listened to an interesting audiocast last night where USA Today Columnist Steve Strauss interviews Brian Clark, the CEO and Founder of Copyblogger Media.
“You have to demonstrate that you’re valuable enough to pay attention to,” Clark advises. Of course you do. But being interesting, and consistently providing interesting content is no guarantee of a pay day. To get paid, you have to sell something people are buying. You might be super interesting in a topic that doesn’t monetize.
AdPulp has always made “some money” from advertising and sponsored content, but I’ve never been an A-list blogger and I’ve never seen the cash windfalls that can come from it. Clark mentions on Strauss’ show that his 20-person company now brings in $5 mil a year in revenue. I’m as impressed as anyone that a great business can spring from a blog’s fertile soils. Just know the type of success that Clark, Chris Brogan, David Meerman Scott and others have found is the exception, not the rule. To make it big online or off, you also need talent, timing, luck, connections and the drive to work and never give up, plus several other intangibles.
While Shawn and I haven’t yet found the money-tree in the digital forest that we keep hearing about, unlike Sasquatch, it is there to be found. Sometimes, we say to ourselves it’s the topic — Advertising — that’s the problem, but I’m resistant to this because Advertising is huge, and we provide a valuable service to the practitioners, students of and professors of Advertising, plus many others with an interest in the business and ads.
As long as you’re here, there is market value here. I’m convinced AdPulp can get bigger, do more, and serve you in new and exciting ways, but first I have to get busy and become an editor who “understands data and cultivates reader relationships.” Doesn’t sound too difficult. But please, send me any advice you might have.
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The courtroom was packed today as J.C. Penney’s CEO Ron Johnson testified in the trial between Macy’s, J.C. Penney and Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia.
Over the course of nearly four hours, Macy’s lawyer grilled the executive, trying to establish that J.C. Penney intentionally sought to breach Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia’s existing contract with Macy’s.
From the beginning of his talks with MSLO in August 2011, Mr. Johnson seemed to be aware that any deal would cause trouble with Macy’s. “[Martha] wants to do it.I need to propose a deal so she can go to Terry [Lundgren, CEO] at Macy’s and break their agreement,” he wrote in an email. “That is the only issue in way of success at this point.”
Mobile telecommunications companies worry that their business model of moving everyone onto data-connected smartphones will erode their traditional revenues. We saw at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona this week that some of these companies are not just lying awake at night, but actually creating new ways of generating revenue.
For example, AT&T was talking about their home management service which facilitates control of all the connected appliances in your home to manage energy usage and security. To take advantage of the service, you don’t even need to be an AT&T subscriber, and they are selling the service to other telecommunications companies globally.
In 2013, there will be more mobile phone subscriptions than people on earth and the industry is already showing signs of changing its focus from connecting people to connecting objects.
The Livestrong Foundation has unveiled a new logo as part of a rallying cry for members to continue to support the organization and help it emerge unscathed from the Armstrong doping scandal.
The updated logo — which was unveiled by Exec VP-Operations Andy Miller at the annual Livestrong “State of the Foundation” address Thursday — is a visual change that focuses on the “Foundation” rather than the man behind it, disgraced cyclist Lance Armstrong.
Livestrong said that the logo tweak follows a legal name change to the Livestrong Foundation. In his speech, Mr. Miller noted: “The change is subtle but it is substantive. The positioning of the bars suggests forward and dynamic movement.”
Mobile-deals startup Endorse has landed Procter & Gamble’s Silicon Valley ambassador to be its first head of sales.
Sonny Jandial is a well-known figure among startups seeking to partner with packaged goods marketers. As associate marketing director at P&G FutureWorks, he was tasked with bridging the physical and psychic distance between corporate headquarters in Cincinnati and venture-capital firms and startups in Silicon Valley. Instead of working out of a P&G office, he divided his time between the startups he worked with: typically five to 10 at any given time.
Past P&G startup partners included Klout and Shazam, but Mr. Jandial had most recently been spending the bulk of his office hours in Palo Alto working at Shopkick, another mobile-deals player.
It’s a bird! It’s a plane! It’s … Howard Schultz, the CEO of Starbucks?
Yep. This week’s Media Guy Media Pick — and reader giveaway — is “Howard Schultz: The Man Behind Starbucks,” a comic book written by C.W. Cooke, drawn by Angel Bernuy and with a cover by Conan Momchilov. It was just released in a print edition by Bluewater Productions, a Vancouver, Wash.-based publisher of comic books, young-adult books and graphic novels.
If you’re picturing a tights-wearing, crime-fighting Schultz, um, sorry. This is actually a pretty straightforward telling of how the marketing director for a little Seattle coffee-bean retailer called Starbucks ended up rethinking the whole operation and taking it global, in the process becoming a billionaire and business-world icon. It’s a brisk 32 pages that you can read in about five minutes if you don’t stare at the drawings too long. I’m giving away three copies — see below — and if you win one, you should think about being nice and regifting it to your favorite barista as an ironic gift, or to the nearest ambitious, business-minded kid in your life (maybe Alex P. Keaton is your nephew?) as a serious gift.
Oreo just released the second video in its Oreo Separators series from Wieden + Kennedy, dedicated to finding absurdly mechanical ways of separating the cookie part from the creme part. The first video featured "physicist" (also, W+K creative) David Neevel, who came up with a seriously involved contraption in his Portland, Ore., workspace. This time, the intrepid experimenters are Barry Kudrowitz and Bill Fienup, described as "toy scientists" from the Midwest. And you have to hand it to them—their machine is a lot slicker, and simpler, than Neevel's. Their solution involves popping off the top cookie with a swift jab of plastic, then melting and spraying off the creme part. Fienup, the creme lover, gets a little messy in the process, but it's worth it. It turns out these guys were perfect for the job. As students at MIT in the mid-2000s, they helped create the MIT Toy Lab, funded by Hasbro, which developed new concepts for Nerf and Supersoaker products. (The idea for the Nerf Atom Blaster came from the lab.) As he mentions, Kudrowitz is a product-design professor at the University of Minnesota now, though his areas of research are decidedly offbeat, including "play and humor in design." Kudrowitz and Fienup's previous collaborations include a remote-controlled ketchup-squirting car.
Advertising Agency: Inbar/Merhav/Nissan, Tel-Aviv, Israel
Creative Director: Robby Nissan
Art Director: Raphael Nattiv
Copywriter: Yulia Feldman
Photographer: Omer Messinger
V.P strategy: Yahav Draizin
Supervisor: Anat Perlis
Account executive: Uri Avrahami
Social networks manager: Elli Omazgin
Digital account executive: Amit Vermus
Advertising Agency: Cramer-Krasselt, Chicago, USA
Chief Creative Officer: Marshall Ross
Executive Creative Director: Derek Green
Associate Creative Director / Copywriter: Bill Dow
Art Directors: Brandon Knowlden, Brandon Ireland
Agency Producer: Katie Green Juras
Group Account Director: Hilary Burns
Account Supervisor: Tiffany Alexander
Co-Director of Brand Planning: Joan Colletta-Sapp
Planning Director: Kay Bradley
Campaign Managers: Ericka Svenonius, Bill Lampert
Production Company: 1st Ave Machine
Directors: Antonio Balseiro, Bob Partington
Creative Director: Aaron Duffy
EP: Sam Penfield
Line Producer: Melinda Nugent
DP: William Rexer
Conceptual Artist: Carlos Ancalmo
Fabrication: Tom Talmon Studios
Editorial Company & VFX: 1st Ave Machine
Editor: Nate Buchik
Producer: Topper Anton
Lead Compositor: Ariel Altman
Compositors: Beryl Chen, Maxim Kornev
Colorist: Tim Masick, Company 3
Music: Nylon
Sound Design: Dave Robertson
Executive Producer: Mark Beckhaus
Sound Mix: Nylon
Sound Engineer: Dave Robertson
Producer: Joey Reyes