Pioneer: Vinyl Prisoners, 3

Free your vinyl. The PL-990 automatic turntable.

Advertising Agency: BBDO Proximity, Berlin, Germany
Chief Creative Officer: Wolfgang Schneider
Executive Creative Directors: Jan Harbeck, David Mously
Creative Director: Daniel Haschtmann
Copywriter: Momme Clausen
Art Directors: Shelley Lui, Jan Lorenz
Graphic Designers: Shelley Lui, Anne Herrmann
Photographer: Jochen Arndt
Stylist / Set Designer: Nici Theuerkauf
Account Management: Sebastian Schlosser, Mia Lücker, Gülcan Demir
Published: April 2013

Pioneer: Vinyl Prisoners, 2

Free your vinyl. The PL-990 automatic turntable.

Advertising Agency: BBDO Proximity, Berlin, Germany
Chief Creative Officer: Wolfgang Schneider
Executive Creative Directors: Jan Harbeck, David Mously
Creative Director: Daniel Haschtmann
Copywriter: Momme Clausen
Art Directors: Shelley Lui, Jan Lorenz
Graphic Designers: Shelley Lui, Anne Herrmann
Photographer: Jochen Arndt
Stylist / Set Designer: Nici Theuerkauf
Account Management: Sebastian Schlosser, Mia Lücker, Gülcan Demir
Published: April 2013

Yahoo Rolls Out Its Own ‘Native’ Ad Format


Yahoo reorganized its homepage in February around an infinite “stream” of content, personalized for the user by their declared or implied interests. Now that feed is getting ads, so-called “native” formats called “Yahoo Stream Ads” that will appear in the feed, whether on the desktop, tablets or mobile phones.

“Both the placement of the ad and the look and feel will be are native to the content,” said Yahoo VP of product, Mike Kerns. And just as content is targeted in that feed, the ads will be, too. “The targeting will be primarily based on your user profile,” he said, but Yahoo can also target those not logged into their Yahoo account through their behavior on the site. “We have improved that algorithm substantially,” he said.

The definition of what constitutes a “native” ad is a moving target. Publishers from Buzzfeed to The Atlantic have seized on the notion, which means ads that mirror the tone or type of content in some way. Mr. Kerns said the ad will be clearly marked as such, so not trying to look like a news story or video, but it will be in the format that predominates in a user feed. Yahoo users watching videos, for example, might get a video ad. Those reading text will get a text ad, targeted to their interests.

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Curator’s Code: honrando os autores e padronizando a curadoria de conteúdo

Maria Popova, fundadora do Brainpickings.org, criou um código de conduta para curadores de toda a web usarem quando forem citar suas fontes.

Numa era de excesso de dados, a curadoria – um serviço que leva ao público o que é interessante, significativo e que vale o tempo gasto – é uma forma de criação de crescente urgência e importância.

O Curator’s Code pede para que qualquer um que for compartilhar conteúdo online dê créditos para a fonte usando uma das formas padrões, “via” ou “hat tip“. Tais formas de citar fontes existem há um tempo, mas seus significados nunca foram consolidados.

A proposta de Maria Popova é indicar o “via” como uma descoberta direta, usada para quando o conteúdo compartilhado foi pouco ou nada modificado da fonte. Por exemplo, compartilhar uma imagem ou usar citações de outra pessoa sem acrescentar palavras.

Já uma “hat tip” significa um link indireto de descoberta, quando se usa um conteúdo como inspiração para criar um novo. Por exemplo, matérias usadas para construir a sua própria visão do tema, ou um remix e mash-up de trabalhos sob Creative Commons.

Para ambas as situações, o código propõe caracteres especiais, ? e ? respectivamente, de forma a honrar e padronizar as descobertas e usos de fontes pela web. Os caracteres especiais são símbolos que irão gerar curiosidade e que, aos poucos, tendem a passar a mensagem sozinhos.

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Curator’s Code visa criar um código de ética, e não uma lista de regras, com o objetivo de honrar os autores e as descobertas pelos labirintos da web, encorajando o respeito através da atribuição de fontes e a curadoria como criação.

“Ainda não tínhamos um sistema que honrasse esse trabalho de descobertas e suas fontes.” – Maria Popova

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Para quem gostou dos caracteres especiais, Popova também desenvolveu um bookmarklet para navegadores, que permite que o usuário insira os caracteres em um campo de texto direto na hora de postar (tweet ou blog CMS, por exemplo) sem precisar copiar/colar.

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3D-Inspired Beauty Photoshoots – Mirage by Michael David Adams Will Have People Seeing Doubles (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) The photo series titled Mirage by Michael David Adams, a photographer living and working in New York City, will have women reaching blindly for their 3D glasses. The edges of models Ieva Aniulyte…

IR Magazine: The bieke theft / Velofenders

Every spring in Latvia comes with a huge increase in bicycle thefts. Everyone knows it, but because of the state laws, police can’t do much about it. We had to change the situation, so we made an experiment called “Velofenders” (Bike theft).It involved 5 bikes equipped with GPS trackers, multiple online cameras, 16000 crime witnesses, every bike thief in Latvia and the local police.
After the project IR magazine raised the topic and because of our experiment state police admitted that there is something wrong with the laws, so now they are working on a new and hopefully better law.

Advertising Agency: Pika, Riga, Latvia
Creative Director: Valters Jonats, Oskars Cirsis, Renars Liepins, Voldemars Dudums
Art Director: Martins Zutis
Photographer: Oskars Cirsis
Strategic Planner: Artis Krilovs
Project Manager: Rolands Puhovs

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Images of Parkour

Coup de cœur pour le travail de Andy Day, un photographe passionné par l’activité physique et la discipline du parkour. Il capture avec talent des images de ces acrobates urbains depuis 2003, et nous propose des clichés incroyables dans divers décors. Le tout est à découvrir dans la suite de l’article.

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Microsoft pede para fãs de Apple e Samsung pararem de brigar

Se Apple e Samsung vivem disputando cada mínimo espaço de mercado nos bastidores, as campanhas publicitárias não escondem isso e colocam os próprios consumidores na briga. A galera de Cupertino pode até ter evitado o confronto em seus últimos comerciais, só apelando para o tom emocional e humano em seus iGadgets, porém, diversos filmes para o Galaxy da Samsung bateram diretamente na concorrente.

Os fãs de cada marca não perdem a oportunidade de cutucar uns aos outros, estabelecendo de vez quem são os principais times dessa rivalidade. E já que é quase impossível ver alguém como advogado do Windows Phone e/ou Nokia, ambas as empresas acabaram de entrar na roda como a turma do deixa disso. Bem, na verdade, querem é ver o circo pegar fogo.

Dirigido por Roman Coppola, o novo comercial do Windows Phone tira sarro dessa rixa, mostrando o bate-boca entre fanboys da Apple e Samsung durante o casamento. A contenda termina em porrada, não antes de exibir cada “argumento” comum de ambos os lados, assinando com: “Don’t fight. Switch to the Nokia Lumia 920 Windows Phone”

A criação é da Crispin Porter + Bogusky.

Apple vs. Samsung vs. Microsoft

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Windows Phone Implies Apple, Samsung Users Are Bickering Idiots

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In a move which attempts to place the brand apart from and above the Apple vs. Samsung battle, Windows Phone is out with a CP+B-created ad that paints Apple and Samsung users as bickering idiots.

In the midst of a wedding, a man with an “enormous phone” blocks the view of an iPhone user. A middle aged woman instructs Siri to search for “one trick pony” and a Samsung user responds, “Aren’t you a little young to have an iPhone?”

All hell then breaks lose with the two camps entering into a full-on, across-the-aisle brawl of epic proportion all while a very calm waiter and waitress — who are using Windows Phone-enabled Nokia Lumia 920s, ‘natch — look on. The waiter asks the waitress, “You think if they knew about Nokia Lumia they’d stop fighting all the time?” to which the waitress responds, “I don’t know. I think they kind of like fighting.”

It’s an interesting approach though, truth be told, the one brand rising above the fray really is Apple which just goes along informing their public how great their iPhone is without acknowledging the competition.

Weather Channel Aims Twitter-Powered Tornado Winds at Its Helpless Interns

Intern abuse is always good fun. The Weather Channel is celebrating the beginning of Tornado Week today by putting its interns in a room and blowing powerful winds at them, with the force of the breeze increasing for every public mention of #TornadoWeek on Twitter. They're broadcasting the whole thing live on YouTube (see below—although for the full experience, click the link above). There have been about around 6,000 mentions so far, and the winds are in the mid-90 mph range. If the tweet count hits 1 million, the channel is vowing to pummel the interns with a "full blown EF-5 tornado." That would mean wind speeds of more than 200 mph. They'd better have a lot of desk fans on hand.

    

The Weather Company’s NewFront Pitch: Series That Span TV, Web and Mobile


The Weather Company has been touting its data-driven targeting capabilities to the ad world for some time now, but the emphasis was on its programming during its presentation to digital ad buyers on Monday.

Starting in July, the company plans to introduce short-form shows available for viewing on The Weather Channel, on its website and on mobile devices, including “Virus Hunters,” a dramatic look at super viruses that could affect large groups of people, and “Alive,” which will chronicle the harrowing tales of people who survive treacherous weather events.

It also plans web series “Brink,” which focuses on crusaders who have helped save endangered species, and “Grid Breakers,” which tracks intrepid explorers in extreme weather conditions.

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Microsoft to Apple and Samsung Fans: Stop Fighting, You Utter Morons

If smartphone advertising has a recurring theme, it's that the users of rival products are idiotic obsessives. Samsung made that point with its campaign poking fun at Apple fanboys. Now, Microsoft is making a similar point about both Apple and Samsung fans. The spot below for Windows Phone, from Crispin Porter + Bogusky and director Roman Coppola, takes place at a wedding, where half the crowd has iPhones and half has Galaxies. The bickering starts immediately, and soon escalates into a nasty brawl. A couple of attractive caterers, meanwhile, don't see what all the fuss is about. Can't we all just get along, and agree to buy Windows Phones? Of course, Microsoft would kill, or at least maim, for the kind of smartphone brand loyalty that the other two companies have. For now, the thinking seems to be, If you can't beat them, at least beat them up. And by the way—yes, unfortunately, Apple body tattoos do exist.

Credits below.

CREDITS
Client: Microsoft Windows Phone
Spot: "The Wedding"
Agency: Crispin Porter + Bogusky
Worldwide Chief Creative Officer: Rob Reilly
Executive Creative Director: Dan Donovan
Creative Directors: Dave Swartz, Dave Steinke, Bill Roden
Art Director: Robbin Ingvarsson
Copywriter: Waldemar Wegelin
Executive Integrated Producer: Aaron Kovan
Senior Integrated Producer: Laura Keseric
Junior Integrated Producer: Mike Borell
Production Company: Directors Bureau, Hollywood, Calif.
Director: Roman Coppola
Executive Producers (Production Company): Lisa Margulis, Elizabeth Minzes
Producer (Production Company): Mary Livingston
Postproduction: Method, Santa Monica, Calif.
Editorial Company: NO6LA, Santa Monica, Calif.
Executive Producer, Design: Crissy DeSimone
Producer: Leslie Tabor
Editor: Kevin Zimmerman        
Junior Music Producer: Chip Herter        
Group Account Director: Devin Reiter
Content Management Supervisor: Lynn Harris
Content Supervisor: Kelly Olech
Content Managers: Casey Wilen, Andrea Cadloni
Business Affairs: Katherine Graham Smith
Group Planning Director: Jason De Turris
Junior Cognitive Anthropologist: Tiffany Ahern

    

Join Ad Age at CMO Strategy Summit June 4 in San Francisco


Ad Age will be hosting its second CMO Strategy Summit in San Francisco on June 4, followed by a curated Technology Tour, specifically for conference attendees, on June 5.

For chief marketers, there’s no shortage of conferences and events to attend. But with the CMO Strategy Summit, Ad Age has created an intimate gathering of savvy marketing leaders who, through innovation and creativity, are managing brands small and large.

The CMO Strategy Summit will be held at the Intercontinental Hotel and will cover a wide variety of topics crucial to marketers today from how to use of customer data to build the business to the challenges in evolving established brands. The second-day Technology Tour will give attendees exclusive access to some of the most intriguing companies in Silicon Valley.

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Budweiser Lets You Make Facebook Friends With a Clink of Your Pint


Making friends the “old fashioned way” is so passe — at least according to Budweiser Brazil, who’s changing up the way we connect with each other with “Buddy Cup,” created out of Brazilian agency Africa. The cups are embedded with a chip — when clinked with each other, the two people would become friends on Facebook. The cups will be used during Budweiser events.

Other brewers have been experimenting with connected objects too. Strongbow Gold Cider and Work Club created a bottle cap with an RFID chip that connected to a “reader,” so that bottles with the “Startcaps” would set off interesting reactions around a bar in Budapest.

For more exciting ideas in brand creativity, check out Creativity-Online.com, follow @creativitymag on Twitter or sign up for the Creativity newsletter.

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Campaign Spotlight: Charity Promotes a New York State of Mind

An antipoverty campaign by the Robin Hood Foundation celebrates archetypal Big Apple behaviors, like knowing the best place to get dim sum.

    

Ninet Diapers: Mom, Dad

Advertising Agency: Spectacular Holistic Circus, Lima, Peru
Chief Creative Officer: Juan Carlos Gómez de la Torre
Art Director: Jorge Rocca
Copywriter: Luis Alonso Vega
Producer: Renzo Zuleta
Photographer: Daniel Ducato & Andrés Alfaro

Android, iOS Loyalists Brawl In New Windows Phone Ad


In the ongoing smartphone superiority debate between Android and Apple loyalists, Microsoft is marketing the Nokia Lumia 920 — a.k.a. the Windows Phone — as a sensible alternative that just may prevent your wedding from turning into a disaster.

Microsoft’s new Windows Phones ad, premiering tonight, shows a wedding devolving into a brawl between the bride’s family of Android users and the groom’s family of iPhone fanboys. As the opposing factions fight and criticize one another, two caterers calmly record the mayhem on their Nokia Lumia 920s.

What Microsoft is hoping to tap into is the ridiculous tribalism between Android and iOS users. Once smartphone owners become more aware of the Windows Phone, they’ll recognize it’s a superior product, Microsoft said.

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Lider Interiores: Life asks for a Lider

Advertising Agency: Lápis Raro, Belo Horizonte, Brazil
Creative Director: Carla Madeira, Cristina Cortez
Art Director: Daniel de Jesus
Copywriter: José Celso
Photographer: Jomar Bragança

Campanha de doação de orgãos dá vida nova aos apps inúteis do seu smartphone

Uma recente pesquisa apontou que, em média, cada usuário de smartphone instala 37 aplicativos por ano. Obviamente, tem obcecados que baixam muito mais do que isso, mesmo que não cheguem a usar nem meia dúzia deles com frequência, e o resto apenas ocupando espaço no celular.

Apps de eventos – como festivais de música, por exemplo – são os mais abandonados. Grande parte não tem utilidade depois que os shows acontecem, e um novo aplicativo é criado para o ano seguinte. Seria mais fácil apenas atualizar o app anualmente, mas pra que facilitar, certo?

Foi pensando nisso que a agência belga Duval Guillaume encontrou espaço para uma campanha de doação de orgãos. A ideia é simples: Depois que esses aplicativos sazonais não tem mais serventia, eles são atualizados uma última vez, e convertidos em um formulário da ONG Re-Born To Be Alive.

Ao dar vida nova ao app, a intenção da iniciativa é aumentar a quantidade de doadores de orgãos na Bélgica, ao mesmo tempo que oferece a oportunidade de empresas e desenvolvedores de realizar uma boa ação com custo zero.

Reborn Apps

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