Poker Friends: Rub it in Your Friends’ Faces
Posted in: Uncategorized
Advertising Agency: EGG Productions, Tel Aviv, Israel
Creative Director: Yotam Guendelman
Published: June 2013
Advertising Agency: EGG Productions, Tel Aviv, Israel
Creative Director: Yotam Guendelman
Published: June 2013
The UK has outperformed the US in this year’s Creative Effectiveness Lions, despite receiving half the number of nominations, although the Grand Prix went to a Dutch shop.
UK agencies landed just one Silver and one Bronze in the Direct Lions category.
For the same money you spend on this product, you can drive this far.
Fiat Mille Economy. The most economical car in Brazil.
With the Fiat Mille Economy, you can go much further spending much less money on fuel. To demonstrate this, we developed a promotional event that took place at outdoor food markets. We replaced a traditional price sign with a car-shaped sign showing a distance in kilometers. The idea was to to show that, for the same price as a kilo of fruit and vegetables, you can put
enough fuel in the Fiat Mille Economy to drive a long way.
Advertising Agency: Leo Burnett Tailor Made, Sao Paulo, Brazil
Executive Creative Director: Marcelo Reis
Creative Director: Guilherme Jahara
Art Directors: Tiago Bastos, William Waters
Copywriter: Mário Cintra
Illustrator: Tiago Bastos
Typographer: TIago Bastos
Artbuyers: Stella Crippa, Mauro Moura
Print Production: Zezinho Lima
Account Supervisors: Pablo Arteaga, Cíntia Mourão, Daniela Ferreira, Guilherme Grigol, Eduardo Crepaldi
Advertiser’s Supervisors: Fernando Sales, Daniela Franco, Leonardo Gomes, Thais Gallucci, Fábio Requer
Planners: Marcello Magalhães, Tiago Lara
Published: April 2013
We are in the midst of the 39th G8 Summit deep in the back woods of Northern Ireland, Fermanagh County. An unprecedented security operation was put into effect for this summit. Thousands of police officers circle the five-star hotel and golf resort where leaders of the world’s most powerful countries are meeting for two days to discuss the geopolitical problems they collectively face, all whilst sipping away at whiskey, or Guinness, and dining on Kilkeel crab salad and braised shin of Kettyle beef with violet artichokes.
Aring of police officers encircling the locale – carefully placed razor wire, 4-mile long metal fencing and surveillance drones – all work to create a land and air exclusion zone around the venue. To further deter any activists (that is, those few hard-cores who do somehow make it to the-middle-of-nowhere) from protesting, temporary detentions centres were built in Northern Ireland and special courts were set up with sixteen judges on standby. All of this and more just to instil fear in anyone who feels that discussions over the world’s most pressing issues should involve attention to the voices of many rather than an elite few.
When world leaders go to such great lengths to radically separate themselves from the people, when many seasoned activists are giving up protesting the G8 because they can’t even get within the vicinity … when the G8 spends 60 million British pounds to sit around, pontificate and maintain the status-quo whilst preventing us from challenging them with Orwellian levels of security and surveillance – what is left for we, the people to do?
We’re working hard to figure that out, but for the next two days, go to kickitover.org, find a poster, meme or image that hits you in the gut, print it and post it up somewhere where it counts. And if you’re an economics student, nail it to your prof’s door.
Read more on Adbusters.org
É verdade que os inúmeros eventos paralelos em Cannes dão uma sensação de sobrecarga de informação, da qual ninguém seria capaz de dar conta e acompanhar tudo. Por outro lado, também é verdade que muita coisa dos seminários poderia ser dispensada sem dor na consciência. É fácil: basta olhar a programação e ver qual palestra tem alguma celebridade atrelada. Caso positivo, aproveite para passear ou procurar algum dos workshops nas salas paralelas.
Ficou notória a participação de Ben Stiller na edição 2010, quando em uma coletiva com a imprensa dentro do festival, ele afirmou não saber o que estava fazendo ali. Normalmente, as estrelas do cinema, música ou moda são contratadas para gerar atenção para o discurso do patrocinador. Até aí faz parte do jogo, mas que pelo menos saibam para qual público estão falando.
A esperada participação de Jack Black no morno painel “The New World of Online Content”, por exemplo, foi um desses casos esquecíveis. Serviu para o Yahoo! exibir sua plataforma de streaming de vídeo, que vai investir em conteúdo exclusivo como a série “Ghost Ghirls”, da qual Black é produtor, e só. O mesmo vale para o piloto Jenson Button, um pouco mais tarde, que se propôs a falar de criatividade. De uniforme. Ao menos foi interessante a apresentação da própria McLaren, que disse ser 80% NASA (tecnologia) e 20% Disney (magia).
Ponto alto foi a sempre concorrida palestra da Coca-Cola – escolhida como Anunciante do Ano – e que dessa vez inspirou com o título “Work That Matters”. Bem ensaiada pelos VP’s criativos da marca, Jonathan Mildenhall e Ivan Pollard, a apresentação é pensada para ser pop, mas tem fundamento. Foi mostrada uma timeline de campanhas da Coca-Cola que “mudaram o mundo”, alinhando com os princípios sociais que fizeram a marca assumir o posicionamento de colaborar para uma sociedade melhor, até chegar ao atual “Open Happiness”.
A seleção de anúncios começou em 1955, com a primeira afro-americana a estrelar como garota-propaganda da marca: Mary Alexander.
No mesmo ano em que Rose Parks se recusou a ceder seu lugar no ônibus para um branco, era uma postura radical da marca. Assim como foi a peça que mostra um garoto negro e outro branco sentados em um banco, com um símbolo de separação entre eles: o braço do assento. Mais uma vez o que parece inocente nos dias de hoje, foi provocativo na época.
Em 1971, o comercial “Hilltop” reuniu um casting multi-cultural de jovens para cantar sobre pluralidade e paz, no auge da da Guerra do Vietnã. Um clássico instantâneo da era de ouro da propaganda.
E um garoto dando sua Coca-Cola para o jogador Joe Greene foi um ato contra o racismo, em 1979.
Já em 1994, a Coca-Cola diz ser a primeira marca a ter quebrado o estereótipo de gênero, com o clássico comercial de Diet Coke.
Com o comercial “Videogame”, de 2006, que mostrava um GTA politicamente correto, a marca se gaba por ser “teimosamente otimista”.
Jonathan Mildenhall e Ivan Pollard apresentaram uma criação brasileira, para mostrar como em 2009 a Coca-Cola passou a se apoiar em histórias verídicas, promovendo storytelling voltado para a realidade.
Em 2011, “Reasons To Believe” mantém o otimismo mesmo entre a inundação de notícias ruins, em época de crise financeira e tensão política.
Já aquele que é considerado o viral mais rápido da Coca-Cola veio em 2012, e não de maneira oficial. Mildenhall e Pollard contaram que o vídeo vazou antes da hora, onde cameras de segurança são lembradas pelo aspecto positivo, mostrando situações de bondade e alegria.
Por fim, a atual campanha “Small World Machine” – com potencial de levar vários Leões em Cannes – mostra como aquilo que nos une é maior do que aquilo que nos divide, usando tecnologia para aproximar Índia e Paquistão.
Todo esse papo de publicidade por um mundo melhor não é novidade e nem exclusividade da Coca-Cola. Quanto mais as marcas precisam disputar a atenção das pessoas, mais elas fazem a auto-crítica – por necessidade, é claro – de que devem investir na criatividade que faz a diferença. Jonathan Mildenhall afirmou que é obrigação dos comunicadores usar a influência que tem para colaborar e transformar a vida das pessoas.
Um tom, aliás, que se repetiu no seminário da Cheil realizado durante a tarde, e que falarei em um próximo post. Cases que provam como o contexto e a utilidade podem se tornar marcantes com pouca verba e, cada vez mais, tecnologia.
Post originalmente publicado no Brainstorm #9
Twitter | Facebook | Contato | Anuncie
Heineken’s "Legendary Journey," from Wieden & Kennedy, Amsterdam, won the first Grand Prix of the Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity in the category of creative effectiveness.
This three-year-old category is a little different than others at Cannes. In order to enter, the work first must be judged to be creatively excellent by winning a Lion the year prior. Then, entrants are required to submit a 40-page paper that includes the business metrics proving the campaign’s effectiveness. Those papers and metrics are vetted by PriceWaterhouseCoopers before being submitted to the jury.
What it is: The Heineken entry, titled "Legendary Journey: Justifying a Premium the World Over," was a global campaign that demonstrated significant increases in market share in every country, according to the jury. The campaign’s most high-profile element was a highly detailed and produced video, "The Date," in which a suave gentleman takes a beautiful woman for a legendary night out. He shows off skills, ranging from fileting a fish to performing magic tricks. The campaign also included online integration, such as contests where entrants could try to win their own legendary dates.
One of the campaigns widely predicted to win big in the South of France this year — "Dumb Ways to Die," a safety-promoting campaign for Metro Trains by McCann, Melbourne — picked up two Grand Prix awards on the first day of the Cannes International Festival of Creativity.
It won the Grand Prix in the PR category, as well as the Grand Prix in the direct category. While it’s been expected to perform well at the festival this year, the campaign’s win in the PR category will likely be unwelcome by the PR-agency community; this is the fifth year PR has been a category at Cannes, and the Grand Prix has been won by an ad agency all five years.
What it is: This campaign, a public-safety message to encourage people to be safer around trains, was anchored by an original song about rail safety, "Dumb Ways to Die," that positioned dying or getting injured by a train as the dumbest way one could expire. It was released on YouTube as a three-minute animated music video and garnered 20 million views in a week. The song was played by radio stations as music programming and, after the agency released a karaoke version of the song, people started recording their own cover versions. The campaign also had a direct component, encouraging people to pledge to be safe around trains via outdoor billboards, a smartphone game and a children’s book. According to the campaign case-study video, the metro has seen a 21% reduction in accidents and deaths compared with the same time last year.
What it is: There’s nothing more passionate than a Brazilian soccer fan. So what if that same zest could be applied to one of the nation’s real problems? That was the idea behind the organ-donor push Ogilvy Brazil dreamt up for soccer club Sport Club Recife. Called the "Immortal Fans" organ-donor card, Brazilians were told that their hearts could keep beating for their team — even after their death, or in the body of a rival team supporter. Cards could be downloaded via an app or received in the mail. The campaign featured real patients on transplant lists. “When my lungs go to a guy from a rival team, he will breathe Sport Club Recife!” exclaimed one donor who was included in the case-study video. There were tearful tales told by others about their lives being saved and program’s impact on families. According to the agency, the campaign resulted in 51,000 organ donors and counting. The waiting list for heart and corneal transplants went to 1,000 from zero.
The jury: The 24-person jury was helmed by president Rob Schwartz, TBWA Worldwide’s creative president, who is based in the Los Angeles office of the Omnicom Group network. “I’m pleased to say I’ve judged with more women than I have ever in any show, so it’s nice to see that happening," he said. "Thanks to the gals and thanks to the dudes.” In addition to presiding over a diverse jury, Mr. Schwartz laid out some grand rules about how to pick winners. First was ensuring that pieces engaged the consumer and had immediate calls to action. Second, the jury was instructed to look for entries uniquely of this category — there’s a lot of blur with other categories in the show, and the jury focused on choosing a Grand Prix winner that was decidely promotional. And third, the jury was asked to look beyond examples of good advertising for examples of things they felt "moved by" as humans.
Why it won: Results were a big part of what swayed the jury, and this campaign claimed to improve the organ-donor rate in Brazil by 54%. The campaign also felt like one that could have a lasting impact, which the jury was looking for, especially on the 60th anniversary of the Cannes Lions show. "It’s something 60 years from now people will say, ‘That was really timely, and yet really timeless,’” said Mr. Schwartz.
Voici le prochain film de Martin Scorcese dans lequel Leonardo Di Caprio incarne un multimillionnaire génie de la Wall Street multipliant les folies et les excentricités. Un film inspiré de l’histoire vraie de Jordan Belfort dont l’excellent trailer est à découvrir dans la suite, rythmé par la musique « Black Skinhead » de Kanye West.
Ogilvy & Mather London picked up 12 of the UK’s 15 nominations in the Print Lions, with the agency’s work for the travel website Expedia being nominated eight times.
I see a lot of PR pitches, just like I see a lot of advertising. I don’t mind the over-exposure, because it is my job and my passion. However, I do mind especially crass and often repeated attempts to reach me, and the general lowering of standards industry-wide.
According to Ragan’s PR Daily, the ratio of PR people to “pitchable” journalists is estimated at 4 to 1.
This certainly explains my inbox. Here’s one that just came in — read it with me, will you?
Since you blog about the marketing and advertising industry, this new technology development — announced today — should be of interest because of the effect it will have on the marketing discipline..
“There are a lot of garbage, irrelevant pitches out there,” says Gail Sideman, owner and publicist, Publiside Personal Publicity. “Some PR people are so pressured by their clients or bosses to pitch stories with no real news value that they devalue themselves and leave reporters with a bad taste should they ever pitch another story.”
Yet, the practice has its place and its defenders. Christopher S. Penn of Shift argues the central reason why public relations and marketing communications as a field “will never go away” is because every business needs three fundamental communications drivers: Awareness, Engagement and Trust. To deliver on these key promises, Sarah Skerik of PR Newswire suggests that PR pros, “Keep surfacing those crucial nuggets that describe why the story matters, and lead your audience through the message, laying a trail with these compelling ideas.”
Good advise, but I have even better advise for PR pros. Develop relationships with the reporters and bloggers you’re pitching by taking the time to read their work, know their interests and specialties and generally have a clue about what’s going on in their world. I can count the PR pros on one hand who bother to do this for me.
We pay lip service to “scaling one-to-one” in a world where authenticity and personalization matter. The problem with scaling one-to-one is it takes a ton of work. A busy PR person needs to send their pitch to 100 people right now! Yet sending it to 10 might be fine, if each email is personally crafted. Bottom line, when you make the reporter feel important or good about themselves, you boost your chances of being heard immeasurably.
The post When Will PR Grow Up And Be All It Can Be? appeared first on AdPulp.
The first day of the Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity was action-packed, and Campaign captured the events on our global live blog, Live@Cannes.
La photographe Benedict Redgrove et Thomas Moeller ont eu l’occasion, pour le lancement du nouveau site de la marque de voitures McLaren, de photographier la MP4-12C au McLaren Product Center à Woking en Angleterre. Des clichés impressionnants magnifiant le modèle, à découvrir dans la suite de l’article.