United Biscuits boss Martin Glenn appointed Marketing Society president

United Biscuits (UB) chief executive Martin Glenn is to become the new president of the Marketing Society, with current leader Amanda Mackenzie set to stand down at the end of the year.

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Le photographe russe Alexey Klijatov parvient, grace à du talent, une grande patience mais aussi une méthodologie minutieuse et très bien pensée, à capturer des images de flocons de neige depuis son balcon. Des clichés impressionnant capturés avec son Canon A650 à découvrir en images dans la suite.

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ImageQuilts une práticas de visualização de dados ao Google Images

Edward Tufte, grande nome na área de visualização de dados – checar os livros Envisioning Information e Visual Explanations – desta vez se uniu ao engenheiro de software Adam Schwatz para criar uma ferramenta gratuita que trouxesse os conceitos estudados à prática.

ImageQuilts é uma extensão para o Chrome que funciona como um plug-in para o Google Images.

Após instalar o aplicativo, um botão irá aparecer em cima dos resultados das imagens que buscar pelo Google. Ao clicar neste botão, em uma interface intuitiva, o usuário poderá montar uma colagem baseada nos resultados da busca. A colagem oferece diversas formas de customização: é possível mudar o tamanho, a ordem, mais ou menos zoom, escolher entre grayscale, invertido ou todas as cores.

Após fazer as mudanças necessárias e remover imagens irrelevantes, o resultado será uma colagem coerente e atrativa, representando o assunto escolhido de sua pesquisa. Por fim, a colagem pode servir para visualizar de forma nova e dinâmica o conteúdo que tiver em mente.

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Está certo de que, dependendo do que for buscar, o trabalho de curadoria para que o resultado seja certeiro pode ser bastante trabalhoso. Outra coisa é que não há nenhum método para exportar a colagem, apenas com screenshots.

Apesar disso, ImageQuilts é uma boa opção para organizar dados. Principalmente se os dados que tem em mente apresentam melhor sua essência de forma visual (como os exemplos acima).

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Can the New Singtrix System Be the ‘Guitar Hero’ of Karaoke?


In 2005, aspiring rock gods around the world lived out their fantasies with the Harmonix video game “Guitar Hero,” which allowed everymen to throw it down like Eddie Van Halen — even if they didn’t know the difference between a fret and a bridge. That craze has passed, but two of the game’s creators, plus an Activision vet and advertising production company exec, are now hoping to bring the average Joe’s pop star dreams to life with home singing system Singtrix.

The next-gen karaoke system is an aspiring American Idol’s dream, promising to make you sound better than you do, whether you’re tone deaf or an already decent crooner.

Singtrix: Brand Video

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Golf Shop Owner Creates the Year’s Most Oddly Hypnotic Ad on His Phone

The single most amazing thing about this insane ad? It's actually running on TV.

Mike Mixson, owner of Mike's Golf Shop in Chattanooga, Tenn., has already racked up nearly 100,000 YouTube views for the commercial he shot on a camera phone. While it begins awkwardly enough, the video only truly hits its stride when he begins yelling, "We buy golf clubs!" so many times, the sentence begins to lose all earthly meaning and becomes a sort of ritualistic chant.

"I was at my desk doing some work, and I just hear a guy shouting on TV," local talk radio host Brian Joyce told community news site Nooga.com. "I turn and it’s just a guy filming his own commercial on a flip-phone camera."

Joyce sent the clip to a friend who writes for Late Night With Jimmy Fallon, and it has since been featured on several viral-video roundups. As for Mixson, he seems pleased with the success, telling reporters that he buys golf clubs, he buys golf clubs, he buys golf clubs, and, also, he buys golf clubs. 


    

Puma lança filme oportunista para celebrar a classificação do Uruguai

A Puma, fornecedora oficial do uniforme da Seleção Uruguaia de Futebol, lançou um ótimo filme para celebrar a classificação da equipe celeste para a Copa de 2014, obtida ontem com um empate em 0 x 0 contra a Jordânia.

No vídeo de 1 minuto, “El Fantasma del 50″ já chegou ao Brasil. Um simpático fantasma – quase uma caricatura do “Todo Mundo em Pânico” – circula pelo Rio de Janeiro espalhando “terror” aos brasileiros. Filme genial, na hora certa, muito bem filmado e sem os clichês típicos que aparecem quando gringos retratam o Brasil.

A campanha é obra da agência Notable com produção da Metrópolis Films. Para quem não conhece a história, na única Copa do Mundo realizada no Brasil, em 1950, o Uruguai venceu os donos da casa na final em plano Maracanã.

O Fantasma de 1950, também conhecido como “Maracanazo”, é um dos únicos grandes feitos da seleção do Uruguai na história. Agora é torcer pra eles caírem em alguma chave de confronto contra o Brasil, para mostrarmos que o futebol deles parou no tempo há muito tempo 🙂
Que venha o Fantasma de 50, que venha a França, a Argentina

Vai Brasil!

E se você, leitor uruguaio do B9, ficar de nhenhenhem com a Copa de 1950, assista este vídeo aqui 🙂

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Infographic: Third of brands ‘do not know’ where their display ads show

A third of UK advertisers have no insight into where their display advertising appears online, with £2.4bn being spent by brands on digital ads that could end up anywhere, including pornographic, illegal or abusive sites.

‘Technology is the job of marketers’ says LoveFilm founder Saul Klein

The scale of “digital illiteracy” in large companies is “shameful”, according to venture capitalist and LoveFilm founder Saul Klein.

John Lewis vai trocar a trilha sonora de campanha de Natal

É difícil saber se a ideia já estava prevista dentro da estratégia inicial da campanha de Natal 2013 da John Lewis ou se foi algo que surgiu depois do lançamento de The Bear & The Hare, com Lilly Allen cantando Somewhere Only We Know, da banda Keane. Fato é que, agora, a rede de lojas está em busca de um artista desconhecido para substituir a cantora e gravar uma nova versão da canção, que será inserida no comercial.

Em um vídeo estrelado pela própria Lilly Allen, ela explica que as pessoas podem enviar suas próprias versões da música no YouTube. A banda Keane, responsável pela canção original, irá ajudar a escolher o novo intérprete, que terá a chance de gravar com profissionais renomados em um estúdio de Londres.

Em resumo, a ideia da John Lewis é colocar em prática o slogan deste ano e, realmente, dar a alguém um Natal que ele nunca irá esquecer. Isso sem contar que deverá multiplicar o sucesso de The Bear & The Hare, que em apenas duas semanas soma quase 8 milhões de views.

 

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Sponsored-Content Spending Growing Faster Than Predicted


Ad spending on sponsored content is growing at a faster clip than originally thought, according to a new forecast from eMarketer.

In June, eMarketer said advertisers would spend $1.88 billion on sponsored content this year, a 22.1% boost from 2012, and would get to $3.08 billion in spending on sponsored content by 2017. The new forecast predicts that marketers will spend $1.9 billion on sponsored content this year, a 24% hike from last year, and devote $3.2 billion to the tactic by 2017.

The uptick reflects publishers’ attempts to create more bespoke advertising products for brands, according to eMarketer analyst Clark Fredricksen, partly in an effort to shore up ad rates.

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100 Eclectic Winter Accessories – From Tasty Hamburger Ear Warmers to Cozy Animal Foot Heaters (TOPLIST)

(TrendHunter.com) With the cold weather starting to stick around, it’s important to start stocking up your wardrobe with warm essentials, and these eclectic winter accessories are perfect for anyone feeling…

In Bid for Ad Revenue, Foursquare Opens Up Home Screen to Big Brands


In a bid to boost revenue, Foursquare will now let brands that don’t have a physical location advertise on its most prominent real estate: the app’s home screen.

MasterCard is the first business without a brick-and-mortar presence to place an ad on Foursquare’s home screen as part of a month-long campaign that wraps up on Dec. 20. While the function of ads in that placement had been to alert users to the presence of a business in their vicinity and drive in-store visits, MasterCard’s campaign is more of a branding initiative.

People who tap on the ad — which will be shown to Foursquare users nationwide — will be taken to a page listing nearby restaurants that accept MasterCard. (The credit card company is currently donating a penny to cancer research when cardholders spend $10 or more on meals.)

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Kettle brings traditional craftspeople together for TV ad

To celebrate “the love of craft”, upmarket crisp brand Kettle Chips commissioned a diverse group of authentic skilled craftspeople from across the UK to come together for one day and create a “Kettle feast”.

Don’t Let Congress Scale Back the Ad-Expense Deduction


If you’re reading this you are likely in the business of advertising. That means you will be impacted if any tax provision or bill is passed by Congress that changes the long-held deduction of advertising costs. This is a possible outcome of the current battle over tax reform in Washington, D.C.

For decades, U.S. businesses have been allowed to deduct 100% of advertising costs as an ordinary and necessary expense. But the approach being considered by the House Ways and Means Committee, under Chairman David Camp (R-Mich.), seeks to have businesses deduct only 50% of costs in the year the advertising runs and amortize the deduction of the remaining 50% over 10 years.

The proposed curtailment of the ad-tax deduction is part of a larger movement toward overall corporate tax reform. Some members of Congress seek to bring the current 35T corporate rate down to 25%. Changing the advertising deduction is one of several means being considered to fund this rate reduction.

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Bob Dylan’s 1965 hit ‘Like a Rolling Stone’ gets interactive

A TV chef, a radio DJ, a newscaster, a hip hop artist, and reality TV stars are among the characters shown singing: “How does it feel / To be on your own / With no direction home / Like a complete unknown / Like a rolling stone.”

Viral review: Get hands on with Ron Burgundy in an epic Dodge Durango competition

Social video experts Be On evaluate the latest viral campaign from Chrysler and Paramount.

Binary Prints Portraits

Le designer et typographe Alex Trochut a imaginé avec Binary Prints une série de portraits très réussie jouant symboliquement sur la dualité entre 2 oeuvres présentes sur le même espace. Prenant en photo différents artistes, ce dernier propose deux visions suivant l’éclairage de la pièce dans laquelle ces imprimés se situent.

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Air New Zealand, a “companhia aérea oficial da Terra Média”

Para quem trabalha na Air New Zealand, o fantástico mundo criado por J.R.R. Tolkien faz parte do dia a dia. Pelo menos é o que mostra Just Another Day in Middle-earth, comercial criado pela True para lembrar, mais uma vez, que a ANZ é a “companhia aérea oficial da Terra Média”.

Com participação do ator Dean O’Gorman e narração de Sylvester McCoy – o anão Fili e o mago Radagast, o Castanho – de O Hobbit -, o filme aproveita o lançamento do segundo episódio da trilogia, A Desolação de Smaug, para lembrar que a Terra Média está  mais perto do que se imagina. Destaque, ainda, para os papeis desempenhados pelos próprios funcionários da Air New Zealand.

Além de Just Another Day in Middle-Earth, a companhia aérea também fará um voo especial partindo de Auckland,  quando um Boeing 777-300 deverá chegar a Los Angeles bem a tempo da premiere de O Hobbit 2, no dia 2 de dezembro. A estreia mundial – inclusive Brasil – está prevista para 13 de dezembro.

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Del Monte: Gossip Break, Facebook Break, Coffee Break

Advertising Agency: Blammo, Canada
Creative Director: Michael Murray
Copywriter: Vinay Pamar
Art Director: Oliver Brooks
Strategist: Ritchie Elmslie
Agency Producer: Gord Cathmoir
Studio: Westside
Photographer: Andrew B Myers
Account manager: Ashley Weber
Head of Acc Management: Christine McNab

Audible.com: Romance, Fantasy, Sci-Fi

Advertising Agency: Taxi, New York, USA
Executive Creative Director: Dave Clemans
Art Director: Casey Espinoza
Copywriter: Eleni Georgeou
Producer: David Niblick, Joyce Lee