(TrendHunter.com) Furniture should be both functional and beautiful. Designer Mikhail Belyaev has achieved the balance between the two perfectly. He has created the ‘Pebble Table;’ a well-designed circular table….
Dennis Goodman watches about three hours of golf on TV every weekend, regardless of who’s playing. He even bought a ticket to see a practice round in person at this week’s PGA Championship in Rochester, N.Y.
The 67-year-old is also a subscriber of Time Warner Cable, which has blacked out CBS Corp.’ flagship network amid a failure to come to terms on a new contract. If CBS remains dark this weekend, more than 3 million customers in New York, Los Angeles and Dallas won’t be able to watch the tournament on TV. They’ll have to fire up the internet to track the action, something that doesn’t appeal to Goodman.
“It’s a bunch of garbage,” he said of the blackout, which began almost a week ago after talks between the two sides broke down. “I wouldn’t sit in front of a computer all day.”
Step right up, folks, and feel yourself getting gleefully dumber as you watch this new DirecTV Sunday Ticket ad posing as a bad rap video. Dubbed "Football on Your Phone," it stars Eli and Peyton Manning as slack-jawed versions of themselves. At first you'll hate it, but then you won't be able to stop watching. After a couple minutes of rubbernecking, you'll see Eli burst through a large portrait of Alexander Graham Bell and realize you've been beaten about the head with stupidity to the point that you can't help but laugh. In other words, it's like a lazy ripoff of The Lonely Island. Then again, if they'd tried too hard, it probably wouldn't work at all. And it's really pretty great. Agency: Grey, New York. Full credits after the jump.
Credits
Agency: Grey Group
CCO: Tor Myhren
ECD: Dan Kelleher
VP Creative Directors: Doug Fallon, Steven Fogel
EP: Andrew Chinich
Associate Producer: Lindsay Myers
Production Co.: Hungry Man
Director: Bryan Buckley
EPs: Kevin Byrne, Dan Duffy, Mino Jajoura
Producer: Jay Shapiro
Edit Company: Cosmo Street Editorial
Editor: Tom Scherma
Producer: Heather Richardson
Music: Butter Music & Sound
EP: Ian Jeffreys
CD: Andrew Sherman
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This week, Magnani Caruso Dutton is seeking an account director, while 87AM needs an associate media planner. Aerify Media is seeking an account manager, and OMD is on the hunt for a global account director for retail. Get the scoop on these openings and more below, and find additional just-posted gigs on Mediabistro.
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Algumas vending machines só funcionam na base da porrada. Outras reconhecem beijos e danças, fazem você cantar e até falam com você. Há, ainda, aquelas que te desafiam, seja com uma missão no melhor estilo James Bond, ou a mudar o mundo. Tem até aquelas disfarçadas de geladeira. Mas até agora não havia nenhuma que funcionasse só se você não tivesse de fazer absolutamente nada. Nada mesmo. A Amstel criou uma vending machine em que o desafio era ficar quieto e parado por 3 minutos em troca de uma lata de cerveja.
Parece fácil, mas não é. A máquina foi instalada no centro de Sofia, capital da Bulgária, e ao longo de 16 dias funcionou das 16 às 21 horas com a proposta de incentivar as pessoas a se desligarem do mundo, de seus celulares e problemas, para limparem a mente e relaxar. Mais de 1.300 pessoas aceitaram o desafio de fazer uma pausa por 3 minutos e, acredite, teve quem não conseguiu de primeira.
A ideia é ok, mas o mais preocupante é perceber que está mesmo cada vez mais difícil se desconectar. Ainda que apenas por 3 minutos.
A criação é da Next-DC de Sofia.
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In April, Campbell Mithun selected the finalists of their annual Lucky 13 internship contest, which this year focused on fresh branding ideas for Twinkies. Now, two from that group, Ben Blaska and Brian Skalak, have been hired to work full-time in account positions and assist teams on KeyBank and various General Mills accounts.
“We always strive to hire our Lucky 13 interns at the end of the summer,” says Debbie Fischer, director of human resources at Campbell Mithun. “This year Brian and Ben join us during an exciting time of organic growth. Our other two interns, Jonathan and Harry, return to Syracuse and UNC Chapel Hill and we wish them well as they complete their degrees.”
The boys start work this coming Monday, August 12, and as you can see in the above video, they’re jazzed. I especially appreciate the hand-flailing at the end. For further amusement, you can see Ben, Brian, and fellow intern Jonathan Unger practicing ad-speak in Batman voices in the clip below.
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Rupert Murdoch named a former newspaper executive to run News Corp. Australia in what Prime Minister Kevin Rudd said was part of a plan to attack him.
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Channel 4 has suffered the biggest audience losses of the public service broadcasters (PSB) over the past five years, with a fall of eight percentage points to a weekly reach of 51 per cent, according to the media regulator Ofcom.
Bebo founder Michael Birch is relaunching the social network after buying it back from AOL for a fraction of the price he sold it for, using a corporate video to tell the world how the old site became the “single biggest repository of cock and balls” on the internet.
DigitasLBi, the Publicis Groupe digital agency, has created a live sound installation, AM:PM:AD Timelapse, as part of the cross-discipline art and technology project, Hack the Barbican.
An overweight man and a skinny geek clumsily failing to kick a football are two of the images at the centre of a campaign for The Sun’s Dream Team fantasy football league, which tells the inept sportsman: “If you can’t play, manage”.
As you may recall, a few weeks ago, the Publicis Groupe agency now known as DigitasLBi unveiled a new logo complete with a unicorn (see Vine intro clip below). Despite a few folks scratching their heads about it, DigitasLBi apparently remains undeterred in celebrating their new magical, mystical mascot as you can see above. The image was posted on Facebook earlier this week and features DigitasLBi North America CEO Tony Weisman and, yes, a pony dolled up as a unicorn. You can just feel the enthusiasm though none more so than from the guy dressed like a conductor standing behind them. Where was our invite? Anyways, happy Friday!
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The latest viral video hits from British Airways India, Oakley and Motorola.
Freedrinks is launching a £4.2 million campaign to promote its soft drink, Zeo, with an ad starring the ‘Peep Show’ actress Vera Filatova
The Home Office’s “go home” ad campaign is being formally investigated by the Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) following 60 complaints, including concerns it could incite racial hatred.
Fake web traffic has long plagued the online publishing world, but Dr. Paul Barford, computer science professor at the University of Wisconsin, is claiming the problem might be worse than suspected. And it’s costing some of the top online advertisers millions in wasted ad impressions.
Dr. Barford, who is also the chief scientist at startup MdotLabs, is slated to present a study at an Internet security symposium Wednesday in Washington, D.C., where he we will claim that 10 traffic networks are serving up more than 500 million invalid ad impressions a month.
“We estimate the cost to advertisers for this fraudulent traffic to be on the order of $180 million annually,” he said in a statement in advance of the presentation.
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This column has been pinballing around my head for the past few months. I’m curious about hashtags. I’m under the impression that although everyone knows what a hashtag looks like, not many people pay attention to Twitter statistics beyond Follower counts. And now that every commercial – online or televised – comes with a hashtag, many of which seem perfunctory, I want to make an inexact science a bit more exact by evaluating basic Internet data and applying it to our coverage for the previous week.
Twitter clearly has value. Celebrities of varying degrees get paid silly amounts of money for sponsored tweets (sidebar: did you know that Melissa Joan Hart makes $9,100 for some of her tweets? That’s more obnoxious than silly). With money and brand equity to be had in the Twitter economy, every company can now slap a hashtag onto a visual ad and pretend to know what it’s doing. Remember when Newsweek ran with #MuslimRage? Or McDonald’s unintentionally eviscerating itself with #McDStories? Twitter can be tricky for the lazy and oblivious.
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Dan Hulse, the former head of planning at St Luke’s, is returning to the agency after just six months at Rainey Kelly Campbell Roalfe/Y&R.
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