Alcoólicos Anônimos coloca som nos coolers de garrafa de cerveja

Mais uma ação de bar pra Cannes, você deve pensar, mas pelo menos essa tem a desculpa do Alcóolicos Anônimos em uma criativa intervenção num objeto do dia a dia (dos cervejeiros).

O cooler usado nos bares para manter a cerveja gelada, também popularmente conhecido como “camisinha de garrafa”, já é normalmente utilizado como mídia, mas não dessa maneira. Aqui uma artimanha sonora chama a atenção dos consumidores de forma impactante.

Ao virar a garrafa, o cooler faz som de batida de carro, trazendo a mensagem do AA na parte de baixo.

Criação da JWT Brasil.

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Fluxograma passeia pelo universo de Stephen King

Apesar de ser reconhecido por seus livros de horror – que originaram filmes como Carrie, A Estranha (seu livro de estreia), O Iluminado e Cemitério Maldito -, a obra literária de Stephen King é muito mais abrangente. O escritor criou personagens tremendamente humanos para histórias envolventes – como John Coffey, o gigante com um dom especial da série O Corredor da Morte (o filme À Espera de Um Milagre tenta condensar os seis livros da coleção) – o que torna impossível não reverenciá-lo por seu legado.

E falando em reverência, não são poucos os fãs de Stephen King. A designer australiana TessieGirl, por exemplo, se apaixonou pelos livros do escritor na adolescência e rende sua homenagem a ele no fluxograma The Stephen King Universe.

O gráfico foi atualizado recentemente, para incluir o clássico A Torre Negra e faz conexões entre personagens e histórias de uma maneira que é possível passar horas se perdendo pelas ligações encontradas por TessieGirl e ela mesma admite que ainda tem muita coisa faltando. Mas para quem é fã do escritor, é um bom começo.

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Topline Gums: Kiss

“Made for kissing.”

Advertising Agency: Leo Burnett Tailor Made, Brazil
Creative Vice President: Marcelo Reis
Executive Creative Director: Guilherme Jahara
Creative Director: Marcio Juniot
Art Director: Bruno Mukai, Matheus Matsumoto
Account: Serge Crispin, Bruna Baldin, Soraya Joukhadar
Art Buyer: Stella Crippa
Illustrator/Photographer: Lumini Studio

Donate an Organ, Ensure That Your Heart Will Always Beat for Your Team


Ogilvy Brazil gives soccer fans a reason to donate their organs, in this bold new campaign for soccer club Sport Club Recife, widely known as having some of the loudest, most passionate fans in the country.

The agency created "Immortal Fans," an organ donor card for the club that told fans it would ensure that his or her heart would keep beating for their team, even after their death.

Cards could be downloaded via an app or received in the mail, and it was marketed via a campaign featuring real patients on transplant lists promising to make sure that they would keep the passion for the soccer club alive. According to the agency, the campaign has increased organ donation by 54% and reduced the waiting list for heart and corneal transplants. See full credits here.

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Surreal Hallucinatory Portraits – These Kyung Sunghyun Dream-Like Portraits are Eerily Fantastic (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) Korean artist Kyung Sunghyun has outdone himself with his dream-like portrait series featuring several blurred and fantastically morphed figures. Each of his paintings mimics overexposed photography….

Havas Media acquires data specialists MFG Labs

Havas Media Group has acquired “big data” specialists MFG Labs for an undisclosed sum, to further boost core analytics across group agencies.

Hiring New Talent: A Traditional Resume Doesn’t Always Cut It Anymore


Michelle Guglielmelli

Even as our industry diversifies rapidly and offers more exciting opportunities for people to cultivate lasting and meaningful careers — with speciaties like social media, mobile, performance marketing and integrated planning —  attracting and retaining talent continues to be one of our biggest challenges.

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How to Ensure Your Marketing Budget Delivers the ROI Your CEO Expects

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It’s no surprise that marketers are now talking about revenue now more than ever before. Marketing is increasingly on the hook to generate (and more importantly, prove) that the programs it puts in place have a direct impact on overall revenue. Often, the budget they are given by executive leadership — most likely based on last year’s numbers — is the “pole in the ground” around which all their activities revolve.

The challenge is often this budget is spent on activities that are skewed toward the top of the funnel or that are not necessarily aligned to revenue. So how can marketers possibly balance this budget and prove it is aligned to their assigned revenue contribution? The key is to find the right mix of “muscle” (volume) and “brains” (improved conversion).

This report frtom Bulldog Solutions explains how to get there in four practical steps:

  • Establish a model and framework that links marketing investments to revenue.
  • Perform a bottoms-up reality check.
  • Size the gap between your current state and your target revenue goal.
  • Find the balance: Increase volume at the top of your funnel while improving conversion throughout.

Download this paper now to make sure you have all the tools you need to support your marketing spend to your CEO.

Naturally recycled? / Une belle pompe à bière?

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THE ORIGINAL? 
Tatra Beer (Heineken Group) – 2009
Source : Luerzer’s International Archive
Agency : Change (Poland)
LESS ORIGINAL
Derbez Beer (Carlseberg) « It’s ours! » – 2013
Source : AdAsia
Agency : Ogilvy & Mather (Kazakhstan)

Riding the Roller Coaster With Your Mouth Open Isn’t a Great Look, Theme-Park Ad Reminds

It's a shame what powerful G-forces will do to one's face. The latest reminder of this comes in new ads for amusement park Cedar Fair by Cramer-Krasselt in Chicago. The flappy, wind-crushed faces will also appear on out-of-home boards and in print—the actors' visages frozen in a clown-like rictus of fun, allowing friends and family members to make fun of them for years to come. The ads are part of C-K's "Thrills Connect" campaign, which helped drive record season-pass sales for Cedar Fair in 2012. In related news, to see some of your favorite advertising people being pummeled in the face by high winds, click here.

    

Writers Shape The Brand Story; Ergo, Writers Are Fundamental

Thanks to rapid advances in communications technology and the cultural changes it continues to daily usher in, the media and marketing businesses are more complex than ever.

It’s the Age of Transparency, the Age of Measurement/ROI, the Age of Engagement and Relationships that Scale One-to-One, and so on. An ad man could lose himself in all the incessant chatter. Or an ad man could stay true to himself and his business.

Thankfully, Duff Stewart, CEO of GSD&M, is on the latter path.

He recently told The Statesman:

There are more channels to use and more media traffic to contend with, but the fundamentals of advertising remain the same. We have to discern what’s important or useful about the product or service and then package that idea in ways that motivate people. We’re storytellers. With all of the channels available to us, we can be a lot more targeted about what we do. We can engage more deeply and invite consumers into the brand as participants. But it’s still about explaining why this product is great and how it adds value to life.

Yes! Thank you to Duff Stewart for saying what needs to be said. All the tools in the world, are merely unfulfilled promises, until they are applied effectively. Take geo-location — it’s an amazing tool, but what can marketers do with it? How can brands “add value” via geo-location? I highly doubt that anything that looks, smells or feels like an “ad” will work on the phone. Which is fine, it simply means each medium comes with its own rules.

I am also grateful to Stewart for placing story and storytelling at the center of the discussion. I’m increasingly frustrated when I encounter a team that lacks a copywriter. Or there is a copywriter, but she’s brought in last minute to “supply some copy.” Stop the insanity!

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Writers think the material up before they write it. Thus, writers must have a seat at the free-pizza table from day one.

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Digital and Mobile TV to Dominate Growth in Entertainment Spending


U.S. consumer spending on media and entertainment will increase 4.8% a year through 2017, with digital consumption finally rivaling physical sales, according to a new report.

Online purchases of movies, music and other forms of entertainment on services such as Netflix will rise to 43% of consumer media spending in 2017 from less than a third in 2012, the accounting firm PricewaterhouseCoopers said in a report. Total U.S. spending on entertainment and media will reach $632.1 billion by then, according the report said.

Most forms of media will weather the transition to the digital age quite well, according to Deborah Bothun, advisory leader for the firm’s media and entertainment practice. Companies in film and TV are adapting to changing viewing habits, she said.

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RNC Names Facebook Engineer as CTO to Boost Data Ground Game


 

The Republican National Committee has hired a new head of tech in the hopes of crossing the chasm between it and the more tech-savvy party to the left. The GOP has hired Andy Barkett, former infrastructure and engineering exec at Facebook and self-proclaimed “nerd-herding” specialist, to broaden its digital and data capabilities.  Meanwhile, the Democratic National Committee has yet to name a permanent tech director to replace the one who left in April to work for the Obama campaign’s outside data services firm, according to sources familiar with the situation.

While at Facebook, Mr. Barkett “was in charge of dozens of engineers on six production engineering teams responsible for thousands of servers and scaling systems in mobile infrastructure, messaging, advertisements, newsfeeds, platforms, and payments,” according to an RNC statement.

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Olbermann to Return to TV, Anchoring Postseason Baseball

After a contentious run as a political anchor on MSNBC and Current TV, Keith Olbermann will host the playoffs on TBS in the fall.

    

Swiffer Apologizes For Putting Rosie the Riveter Back in the Kitchen

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In reaction to public outcry over Swiffer’s use of iconic feminist image Rosie the Riveter, who, in a 1943 Westinghouse Electric ad campaign, urged women to get out of the kitchen and work during World War II, the brand has issued an apology and promised to remove the image from its website.

The image appeared on the brand’s Swiffer website and in ads promoting Swiffer’s steam cleaner.

Of the brand’s seemingly incomprehensible reasoning behind using the image, Boing Boin Publisher Jason Weisberger said, “I love the clear tribute to an important historical image done in such a way as to piss on its legacy.”

Following an article in the Washington Post, Swiffer’s Elizabeth Ming issued a statement which read, “We were made aware of the concerns regarding the image in a Swiffer ad this afternoon. Our core purpose is to make cleaning easier for all consumers, regardless of who is behind the handle of our products. It was not our intention to offend any group with the image, and we are working to remove it from where it’s being used as soon as possible.”

Which, of course, begs the question, why would the brand employ Rosie the Riveter, an iconic symbol of women’s movement out of the kitchen, to urge womwn to get back into the kitchen? It’s like some 22 year old creative read Wikipedia and totally misunderstood what she stood for.

It’s all well and good that a brand issue a swift apology but how and why do faux pauxs like this continue to happen. It’s like the teacher left the schoolyard and the children have run wild.

Fundenic: Guns N’ Roses

A glass bottle takes until 4,000 years to disintegrate. Let’s recycle!

Advertising Agency: TBWA, Managua, Nicaragua
Creative Director / Copywriter: Alejandro Rivas
Art Director: Santiago Pazmiño
Illustrator: Roger Aburto
Published: June 2013

Fundenic: The Beatles

A plastic bag takes until 150 years to disintegrate. Let’s recycle!

Advertising Agency: TBWA, Managua, Nicaragua
Creative Director / Copywriter: Alejandro Rivas
Art Director: Santiago Pazmiño
Illustrator: Roger Aburto
Published: June 2013

Turns Out Americans Love ‘Controversial’ Cheerios Ad


Last week, a new ad from Cheerios was deemed controversial when media outlets discovered that the racist contingent of the idiocracy known as the YouTube comment section trashed the ad for featuring a mixed-race couple and a biracial child.

But according to data from Ace Metrix, Americans like the ad. In fact, "Good for Your Heart" (called "Just Checking" on YouTube) tested the highest of six new Cheerios ads this year and garnered attention and likeability scores 9% and 11% "above the current 90-day norm for cereals."

General Mills rightly decided not to be swayed by the rantings of deranged internet comments, telling USA Today that the supposed uproar would not affect future casting decisions.

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Mediterranean-Inspired Fashion – The ‘White Persuasion’ Editorial Showcases Stark Designs (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) The ‘White Persuasion’ editorial for Gynaika Magazine features geometric, white and stark designs that are perfect for a trip to the Mediterranean. The editorial’s model, Avalon Kip,…

Aplicativo ReadSocial propõe gamificação da leitura

Um dos maiores obstáculos da disseminação da leitura tanto no Brasil, quanto no resto do mundo, é também um dos mais absurdos: pessoas não lêem porque acham “chato”. Da mesma maneira que é preciso tentar entender as razões disso, também é imprescindível buscar soluções. Uma que encontramos e que chamou bastante atenção nesta era de popularização de e-books é o aplicativo ReadSocial. Criado pelo Dopa Labs, o app gamifica a leitura ao propor desafios que ajudam a entender melhor as ideias mais importantes de cada capítulo.

Geralmente, são desafios divertidos, rápidos e fáceis de serem solucionados, mas que ajudam a mapear o progresso do usuário na leitura e até mesmo a desbloquear conteúdos exclusivos. Só que isso é apenas o começo da história.

No ReadSocial, é possível construir comunidades em torno dos livros, que permitem que seus leitores se conectem entre si e diretamente com os autores, para a troca de ideias e maior entendimento do conteúdo. Desta forma, o que para muitos é visto como uma atividade solitária, ganha um estímulo, como uma espécie de clube do livro digital.

Além disso, também é possível criar, ler e compartilhar anotações, explorar indicações de conteúdos relacionados com determinados capítulos e, acredite, até mesmo criar analytics da experiência de leitura, o que poderia ser bastante útil para editoras e autores.

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Fiquei imaginando como este tipo de aplicativo seria interessante tanto para o mercado de livros quanto para a educação, uma vez que poderia potencializar a absorção de conteúdo e, quem sabe, até mesmo ajudar a superar um pouco a ideia de que ler é “chato”.

Eu ainda gosto do modo analógico de ler livros, mas boto muita fé no digital para estimular um pouco mais uma atividade que parece estar cada vez mais desvalorizada.

Só para lembrar, o Dopa Labs é um braço da agência Dopamine, que tem Gabe Zichermann como CEO. Para quem não ligou o nome à pessoa, Gabe é um dos principais divulgadores da gamificação nos Estados Unidos. Por enquanto há apenas três livros disponíveis na biblioteca do aplicativo, mas há um formulário para autores interessados em gamificar suas obras. Será que rola algo assim por aqui?

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