Hasta La Creative!

That’s the only conclusion we can come to after viewing this Facebook Home commercial, Airplane. We know what Wieden + Kennedy was going for here — bringing your social life to, well, life — but who in their right mind would want to admit they had a social life like this guy?

Granted, we all have crazy elements of our social lives but do we really want to share them all? It’s bad enough we have our phones stuck to our faces most of the day now and all this ad does is reiterate how bored we all are with our “real” lives and that we have to indulge in a collection of digital oddities to keep ourselves amused.

Mr. Phillips, associated with The Times for more than 20 years, wrote a 1965 exposé of a man in Queens with an Orthodox Jewish background who was a senior Ku Klux Klan official.

“Bye hat, Bye winter!”

Advertising Agency: fedoriv.com, Kyiv, Ukraine
Art Director: Sen Kostya
Copywriter: Miriam Dragina
Illustrator: Kostya Alyakin

When IFC was seeking ideas for quirky comedic programming, the network knew where to look: iTunes data. Netflix and Amazon are using innovative data analysis to shape TV and video programming, too. Yet despite TV networks’ experimentation with new data sets, algorithms aren’t about to replace the human touch any time soon.

“WTF With Marc Maron” and Scott Aukerman’s “Comedy Bang! Bang!” got their starts as podcasts that gained followings on Apple’s iTunes. For IFC, that not only reflected a potential built-in audience for a TV show, but one that reflected the subcultural sensibilities the indie-film channel and purveyor of “slightly off” humor hoped to attract. So, the network transformed the podcasts into TV shows.

“There’s a particular tastemaker who we serve … and I credit them with much of the podcast trend,” said Jen Caserta, president of IFC. “It’s not as simple as it used to be, solely basing decisions on studies,” she said. “You can collect data all around you now.”

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Afin d’annoncer les X-Games qui se dérouleront à Detroit à partir du 23 avril 2013, le studio The Work Inc. nous propose cette belle vidéo tournée dans la ville américaine touchée par la crise. Alternant images de bâtiments et tricks, cette création réussie est à découvrir en vidéo dans la suite de l’article.

Ad Age’s Digital Conference is a week away, and in addition to the roster of major marketers and tech powerhouses, nine hot startups are set to participate over the course of the two day event.

Some are bootstrapped and fledgling, others have serious backing and have already made inroads into their respective markets. All have the potential to change the way our industry thanks and operates in some way. Some will make announcements, present their wares, demo new platforms and services, and of course take our questions. Here’s a look at who will be there:

#waywire

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Ever wondered what God is doing right at this moment? Thanks to social media and the lovely infographics over at god-was-here.com, you can spy on His Omniscience and see exactly where he's helping out. The website aggregates tweets of people thanking God for various things in real-time analysis of where in the country God is, how many people God has surprised, and whether God is doing more than Jesus. A group of Chicago creatives created the site. Enjoy the beautiful design while you keep tabs on His Holiness. If you're a believer, take solace in the fact that the U.S. is clearly still full of God-fearing people! And if you're not, laugh at the fact that so many people attribute minute acts for which they are responsible to a fictional deity!