Why Google Wanted Waze: The Local Ad Market Is Going Mobile


After acquisition talks between Facebook and social driving app Waze broke down last month, Google has snapped up the Israeli startup that has gained popularity by having people crowdsource traffic conditions as they use the app to navigate.

A Google spokesperson said Waze will remain a standalone app but declined to disclose the deal’s price. Israeli publication Globes reported on Sunday that Google would pay $1.3 billion for the app, and The New York Times reported on Tuesday its cost was $1.03 billion.

“We’re excited about the prospect of enhancing Google Maps with some of the traffic update features provided by Waze and enhancing Waze with Google’s search capabilities,” Google’s VP-geo Brian McClendon wrote in a company blog post announcing the acquisition.

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The Best (And Worst) Cities for Newspapers


The percentage of daily print newspaper readers in the U.S. has fallen nearly 20% since 2001, according to research firm Scarborough. But that drop has not been spread evenly, with print readership remaining strong in some metropolitan areas.

In several cities rimming the Great Lakes and Northeast, the percentage of adults who claim to read a print newspaper daily hovered around 50% in 2012, compared with 35.7% nationwide, Scarborough found. The number is as low as 23% in locales across the South and Southwest. 

HIGHEST READERSHIP

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Alka-Seltzer: Birthday

Advertising Agency: BBDO, Moscow, Russia
Chief Creative Officer: Igor Lutz
Creative Director: Mihai Coliban
Senior Art Director: Aaron John Nielsen
Copywriter: Andrey Sivkov
Producer: Marina Shponko
Account Director: Darya Arkharova
Senior Account Manager: Boris Sorokin
Production Studio: Masked Brothers

Alka-Seltzer: Christmas

Advertising Agency: BBDO, Moscow, Russia
Chief Creative Officer: Igor Lutz
Creative Director: Mihai Coliban
Senior Art Director: Aaron John Nielsen
Copywriter: Andrey Sivkov
Producer: Marina Shponko
Account Director: Darya Arkharova
Senior Account Manager: Boris Sorokin
Production Studio: Masked Brothers

Alka-Seltzer: New Year

Advertising Agency: BBDO, Moscow, Russia
Chief Creative Officer: Igor Lutz
Creative Director: Mihai Coliban
Senior Art Director: Aaron John Nielsen
Copywriter: Andrey Sivkov
Producer: Marina Shponko
Account Director: Darya Arkharova
Senior Account Manager: Boris Sorokin
Production Studio: Masked Brothers

Braincast 67 – O que aconteceu com M. Night Shyamalan?

Em 1999, M. Night Shyamalan era um forasteiro de apenas 28 anos de idade que acabara de se tornar o novo rock star de Hollywood. Com “O Sexto Sentido”, seu terceiro filme, ele foi catapultado instantaneamente para a lista de top diretores de cinema. E não apenas por ter dirigido um fenômeno pop que arrecadou 1 bilhão de dólares, mas também por tê-lo escrito, um roteiro original que atraiu diversos estúdios, incluindo a toda poderosa Disney.

Chamado de “o novo Hitchcock” ou “o novo Spielberg”, Shyamalan passou o resto da carreira sendo cobrado por outro sucesso de igual grandeza, e a medida que a pressão aumentava, sua decadência criativa foi ficando mais evidente. Nenhum outro filme seu foi unânime, até chegar ao ponto de fracassos retumbantes de crítica e público em seus últimos trabalhos.

No Braincast 67, conversamos sobre os motivos dessa derrocada, filme a filme, as diferenças com a Disney, a ida do diretor para a Warner, e seu mais recente trabalho, “Depois da Terra”. Carlos Merigo e Saulo Mileti, fãs de “Sinais” e “A Vila”, debatem com Alexandre Maron, Cristiano Dias e Guga Mafra, não tão fãs assim.

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Mazda: New Direction

Advertising Agency: the Smarts, Sofia, Bulgaria
Creative Directors: Martin Markov, Radoslav Bimbalov
Art Director / Illustrator: Martin Markov
Copywriters: Borislav Kandov, Martin Markov

Mazda: New Dimension

Advertising Agency: the Smarts, Sofia, Bulgaria
Creative Directors: Martin Markov, Radoslav Bimbalov
Art Director / Illustrator: Martin Markov
Copywriters: Borislav Kandov, Martin Markov

Mazda: New Universe

Advertising Agency: the Smarts, Sofia, Bulgaria
Creative Directors: Martin Markov, Radoslav Bimbalov
Art Director / Illustrator: Martin Markov
Copywriters: Borislav Kandov, Martin Markov

Pop-Up Urban Microfarms – The ‘GrowUp Box’ Automatically Raises Fish and Plants in a Small Area (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) Urban farming firm ‘GrowUp’ lets you raise fish and grow plants easily in your backyard with the GrowUp Box. The box is made of an upcycled shipping container and has two levels. The top…

The Truth About Bicultural Consumers and How Marketers Are Taking Notice


I am what you would call a completely bicultural and bilingual Hispanic, living and working in the United States. I use both languages for work and at home, to communicate with friends, family and in general in my day-to-day life.

I could easily move through life in a completely English-speaking, Americanized world. But I choose not to. That’s why I need to be marketed to in a special way. Because I consume media and culture in both languages, I am invested in my heritage and perhaps most importantly, I want my children to have the same interest and respect for both how they are different and how they are like others in their world.

I’m not alone. Statistics show that a majority of Hispanics want their kids to speak Spanish, even when they themselves are not completely Spanish-dominant. That may portend the longevity of Spanish-language media, but more importantly it shows the significance of culture; our lives are not just about language.

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Civil initiative Bulgaria Without Smoke: Mask, 2

You don’t need them, they need you.
The combined profits of the six biggest tobacco companies for 2010 is 35 billion dollars. This equals the profits of Coca-Cola, Microsoft and McDonald’s for the same year.
Tobacco companies produce so many cigarettes that every living person on the planet has 1000 cigarettes a year at their disposal. This is why they need every man, woman and child on Earth.

Advertising Agency: the Smarts, Sofia, Bulgaria
Creative Directors: Martin Markov, Radoslav Bimbalov
Art Director / Photographer: Martin Markov
Copywriters: Radoslav Bimbalov, Borislav Kandov

Civil initiative Bulgaria Without Smoke: Mask, 1

You don’t need them, they need you.
The combined profits of the six biggest tobacco companies for 2010 is 35 billion dollars. This equals the profits of Coca-Cola, Microsoft and McDonald’s for the same year.
6 000 000 smokers die every year. Tens of thousands quit smoking. The tobacco industry must replace them to keep their profits.

Advertising Agency: the Smarts, Sofia, Bulgaria
Creative Directors: Martin Markov, Radoslav Bimbalov
Art Director / Photographer: Martin Markov
Copywriters: Radoslav Bimbalov, Borislav Kandov

Clear Channel Takes on a Challenge in Radio: Lame Ads


The radio giant Clear Channel is taking on a glaring problem in the industry: second-rate advertising.

“Talking to creative agencies, we all agreed that radio has been put to one side and not given the level of creativity it warrants, given the importance it has,” said Bob Pittman, chairman-CEO at Clear Channel, parent company of Clear Channel Media and Entertainment, which houses more than 850 radio stations, and Clear Channel Outdoor. 

To try to fight the trend, the company has formed a Creative Advisory Council with senior ad agency executives including Jeff Benjamin, CEO of JWT North America; Andrew Essex, vice chairman and CEO at Droga5; Andrew Keller, partner and CEO at CP&B; and Benjamin Palmer, CEO and chief creative officer at The Barbarian Group. The council’s first project is a scholarship for a creative industry executive to attend the Berlin School starting next month and work toward an executive MBA.

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The Life Foundation: 160 million

Stop The Gendercide.

Advertising Agency: Ogilvy & Mather, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
Executive Creative Director: Todd McCracken
Art Directors: Todd McCracken, Len Cheeseman
Copywriters: Craig Love, Malcolm Pryce, Todd McCracken
Typography: Steve Cicala, Len Cheeseman
Retouching: Steve Cicala
Designers: Steve Cicala, Len Cheeseman, Huy Anh Le, Joe Harris, BonnieTram Nguyen
Account: Hong Le Phan
Published: February 2013

The Life Foundation: Girlfriend

Stop The Gendercide.

Advertising Agency: Ogilvy & Mather, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
Executive Creative Director: Todd McCracken
Art Directors: Todd McCracken, Len Cheeseman
Copywriters: Craig Love, Malcolm Pryce, Todd McCracken
Typography: Steve Cicala, Len Cheeseman
Retouching: Steve Cicala
Designers: Steve Cicala, Len Cheeseman, Huy Anh Le, Joe Harris, BonnieTram Nguyen
Account: Hong Le Phan
Published: February 2013

The Life Foundation: A penis, it lives

Stop The Gendercide.

Advertising Agency: Ogilvy & Mather, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
Executive Creative Director: Todd McCracken
Art Directors: Todd McCracken, Len Cheeseman
Copywriters: Craig Love, Malcolm Pryce, Todd McCracken
Typography: Steve Cicala, Len Cheeseman
Retouching: Steve Cicala
Designers: Steve Cicala, Len Cheeseman, Huy Anh Le, Joe Harris, BonnieTram Nguyen
Account: Hong Le Phan
Published: February 2013

The Life Foundation: Kill her

Stop The Gendercide.

Advertising Agency: Ogilvy & Mather, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
Executive Creative Director: Todd McCracken
Art Directors: Todd McCracken, Len Cheeseman
Copywriters: Craig Love, Malcolm Pryce, Todd McCracken
Typography: Steve Cicala, Len Cheeseman
Retouching: Steve Cicala
Designers: Steve Cicala, Len Cheeseman, Huy Anh Le, Joe Harris, BonnieTram Nguyen
Account: Hong Le Phan
Published: February 2013

Shareholders Approve Plan to Split News Corp.

The vote was something of a foregone conclusion because the Murdoch family controls almost 40 percent of the voting shares.

    

Oral-B: Power of Dad

Advertising Agency: Publicis Kaplan Thaler, NY, USA
Senior Vice President, Creative Director: Mark Ronquillo
Art Director: David Drayer
Copywriter: Heather Stiteler
Senior Producer: Deanna Shenn
Sound: Sound Lounge
Mixer: Glen Landrum
Post Production: Cutting Room
Editor: Conor O’Flynn
Post Executive Producer: Melissa Lubin
Post Producer: Kristine Polinksy
Finishing: Light of Day
Finishing Producer: Aynsley Connell
Smoke Artist: Peter Charles
GFX: Leo Nguyen
Flame Artist: Colin Stackpole
Head of Production: Kristen Barnard