What is bullshit commercial in video
Posted in: UncategorizedGreat video from the agency Blue Monkeys showing us what is bullshit advertising and why we need to leave it behind us in 2014.
Great video from the agency Blue Monkeys showing us what is bullshit advertising and why we need to leave it behind us in 2014.
Viewer fragmentation, on-demand streaming video platforms and threats from cable companies to prune under-performing networks didn’t stop new channels from popping up in 2013, including a sports channel with visions of taking down the leviathan that is ESPN.
Most of the newcomers got their slots on the program guide either by taking over a failing channel, as Pivot and Al Jazeera America did, or taking advantage of Comcast’s promise to add minority-owned networks, a condition of government approval for the company to buy NBC Universal.
“In general, operators have never been less interested in launching new networks, as they have neither the bandwidth nor the margins to absorb them,” said Cathy Rasenberger, a cable consultant who helps new networks get established. “Moreover, operators argue that there are no remaining underserved audiences on TV, and that new video product will not help them move the dial versus the competition.”
Découverte du talent de Megan Christine, une jeune photographe américaine aussi connue sous le pseudonyme Earthreader. Se mettant en scène dans diverses situations, l’artiste nous propose des visuels surréalistes du plus bel effet à découvrir en images dans la suite de l’article.
Sob o título de The New Original – ou O Novo Original -, MINI está convocando designers e fotógrafos do mundo inteiro para verem as coisas de forma diferente, encontrando algo inesperado e novo em objetos que fazem parte do nosso cotidiano, a partir de um novo ângulo.
Para participar, é preciso enviar uma fotografia, ilustração ou design mostrando sua interpretação do “novo original”. O projeto deve ser original e não conter logotipos.
Os trabalhos podem ser enviados até fevereiro – um quadro no site indica os dias corridos disponíveis. A premiação inclui um iMac e câmeras fotográficas da Fuji e GoPro.
Post originalmente publicado no Brainstorm #9
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Best Buy’s showrooming strategy is likely paying off through increased store traffic but more could be done to encourage shoppers to actually buy its products, new research based on social-media data suggests.
Best Buy in late October launched its first specific showrooming campaign via a spate of ads featuring actors Will Arnett, Maya Rudolph, Jason Schwartzman and LL Cool J. At the time, the company said it hoped to show consumers there is a better way to research and buy electronics via its “low price guarantee” and the ability to order online and pick up in store.
Jehan Hamedi, global market development manager at Crimson Hexagon, a social-media analytics company that analyzed Twitter and Facebook data from 16,500 online consumer opinions from Oct. 21 to Dec. 12 on Best Buy, said his company fround creative aspects of Best Buy’s showrooming campaign resonate well with consumers with positive sentiment outweighing the negative. However, he said it’s understanding what drives consumers to buy that is the most relevant and said that 10% of surveyed consumers said the showrooming strategy actually gives Amazon the benefit. (Neither Amazon nor Best Buy is a Crimson Hexagon client.)
O segundo semestre foi movimentado na programação de documentários originais da rede CNN. Depois de grande estardalhaço e uma campanha agressiva, o canal iniciou a transmissão de uma série de filmes – de acordo com a promessa – polêmicos e transformadores sobre temas como energia atômica, as Orcas do SeaWorld e o assassinato do Presidente John F. Kennedy. Todos eles, repletos de informação e com boa produção, mas, em dois deles, algo em comum: visão unilateral.
Documentários, idealmente, tem o objetivo de informar o espectador sobre um determinado assunto. Em muitos casos, o documentarista engajado utiliza o formato para contar uma história verídica por meio de depoimentos e informações, defender uma causa e promover a denúncia. Esse estilo é normalmente adotado pelo cineasta independente, cujo objetivo é vencer uma batalha, mostrar uma verdade assustadora, criticar algo ou alguém.
Entretanto, quando a marca CNN está envolvida, com o selo CNN Films, esperasse a pluralidade de ideias e a influência jornalística do canal no resultado final. O primeiro dos filmes da temporada foi “Blackfish”, um documentário agressivo e revelador sobre o tratamento dado às Orcas no SeaWorld e demais parques aquáticos da companhia por causa das diversas mortes de tratadores e treinadores.
Repletos de informação e com boa produção, mas algo em comum: visão unilateral
Vários ex-funcionários do SeaWorld, familiares de vítimas e especialistas no tratamento de baleias foram entrevistados e defenderam as acusações de maus tratos, perigo para os treinadores, distúrbios comportamentais detectados nos animais por conta dos anos de cativeiro e o acobertamento dos casos fatais. O conteúdo é forte e vai direto ao ponto. Entretanto, não há um representante sequer defendendo a empresa ou, de maneira mais ampla, falando sobre os eventuais aspectos positivos do trabalho da companhia.
Nesse caso, será que o outro lado não existe? O SeaWorld só se manifestou por meio de comunicado à empresa acusando o documentário de ser unilateral. Bom, nesse aspecto, eles estão certos. É fácil comprar uma versão emocionante e assustadora; mas, uma vez passado o susto, a imagem pode perder força e relevância. É acusador, júri e carrasco num pacote só. Se o espectador tem a opção de tirar suas próprias conclusões, a mensagem nunca é esquecida e o efeito permanece.
O mesmo acontece em “Pandora’s Promisse”, vendido como um debate sobre Energia Nuclear, mas que não passa de uma defesa obstinada em favor da tecnologia. Para isso, o diretor utilizou especialistas, ativistas ambientais anti-nuclear nos anos 70 que se converteram depois de aprender e descobrir as verdades sobre as usinas atômicas e os problemas das outras fontes de “energia limpa”. Há muita coisa boa ali.
Um exemplo: sabia que a areia da praia de Guarapari é mais radioativa do que os prédios vizinhos a Chernobil hoje em dia? O documentário é bastante educativo e revela muitas informações sobre os novos reatores e a efetividade da energia nuclear contra eólica ou solar, que são mais baratas, mas dependentes de condições climáticas.
Enfim, é um documentário interessante, mas é tudo tão lindo e fantástico? Não acabamos de enfrentar o desastre em Fukushima? Se é tão seguro, por que o único país descrito como “esperto o suficiente para perceber tudo isso e adotar usinas nucleares como principal fonte de energia” é a França?
A defesa é clara: o monopólio do petróleo não quer que ninguém saiba. Muito disso é verdade, com certeza. Mas aí coloco a pergunta: é mesmo papel do documentarista pensar pelo espectador e tentar empurrar sua visão sobre os fatos?
Tom Hanks tentou fazer isso no terceiro documentário da temporada “The Assassination of President Kennedy”, uma análise dos fatos, teorias da conspiração e efeitos causados pelo assassinato de John F. Kennedy. Esse foi o único dos três filmes a colocar opiniões contrárias em confronto direto. Ex-policiais, jornalistas, médicos, escritores e políticos que estiveram ligados ao caso de alguma maneira foram ouvidos e deixaram seu recado.
No meio desse tiroteio de opiniões, uma linha editorial sólida e bem direcionada vai mostrando reportagens de época, fotografias, vídeos, faz uso de vozes de peso como Walter Kronkite e muitos depoimentos de arquivo para alimentar ambos os lados. Foi um tiro só? Jim Grissom, protagonista do filme “JFK” foi apenas um aproveitador atraindo a atenção pública? Qual a importância do Warren Report? Por que Jack Ruby matou Lee Oswald? Tudo isso é abordado tanto pela visão da época quanto pela ótica, e perspectiva, atual.
Pensando em termos lógicos, essa temporada de documentários da CNN parece ser balanceada: um agressor (“Blackfish”), um defensor (“Pandora’s Promisse”), um meio termo (“The Assassination of President Kennedy”). Visto de forma ampla, pode até fazer sentido, mas o espectador é apresentado a cada produto de uma vez, em horário nobre, com roupagem de verdade absoluta por conta da edição normalmente emotiva e envolvente.
Pessoalmente, não volto mais ao SeaWorld. O filme me provocou a pesquisar mais e, por conta da pesquisa, acabei encontrando informações mais contundentes ainda e sacramentei minha impressão (afinal, o assunto é mais “simples” e palpável), por outro lado, não comprei uma fantasia de Homer Simpson ou saí por aí pedindo mais usinas atômicas.
A CNN fica no fogo cruzado entre a “TV para Republicanos Radicais” e a “TV do Democrata Feliz”
Diferente do primeiro caso (que envolvia acusações criminais), cientistas e pesquisadores atômicos poderiam muito bem balancear os prós e contas do sistema. Não foram utilizados por opção clara do diretor. E, se ele optou por só mostrar um lado, prefiro não confiar muito nele. Ele pode estar certo e temos condições de construir novos reatores, seguros e efetivos, mas gosto de informações, não de propaganda. E, quando existe apenas um lado de uma história tão grande, que envolve vida e morte, há apenas um interesse. Ele age exatamente do mesmo modo que aqueles a quem critica.
Curiosamente, isso acontece em meio ao renascimento de um programa clássico da CNN: o “Crossfire”, cujo conceito envolve colocar defensores de dois lados de um determinado assunto e deixar o circo pegar fogo. No atual cenário de canais domésticos, a Fox News detém o título de “TV para Republicanos Radicais”, a MSNBC está no espectro oposto como a “TV do Democrata Feliz” e a CNN fica no fogo cruzado, tentando balancear sua cobertura e faz de conta ainda acreditar na neutralidade. O perfil dos documentários, e reportagens especiais, apresentadas recentemente vai contra essa imagem e, assim como seus concorrentes, o canal criado por Ted Turner parece estar extremamente interessado na tão criticada venda de opinião. E, pelo jeito, vale tudo.
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America’s love affair with challenger brands is older than the Boston Red Sox, and probably predates the 13 colonies. In recent years, an adoring business press has adopted the term to describe disruptive brands that come out of left field to unseat the market leader or win people’s hearts. The oft-told storyline follows a little brand with a better mousetrap as it rises out of obscurity.
Malcolm Gladwell’s “David and Goliath: Underdogs, Misfits, and the Art of Battling Giants” references hundreds of examples. While these ascending challengers are genuine, I find the David-and-Goliath paradigm too restrictive.
Challenger brands aren’t necessarily small or medium or upstarts. Some are permanent challengers: Avis has been the “We try harder” brand for so long, it’s hard to imagine how it might reposition itself if it lets go of Hertz’s coattails. AMD has been the stepchild to Intel for decades and still finds ways to win. Challengers can be former leaders, like BlackBerry or Dove. They can include any brand looking to achieve meaningful revenue growth. What they have in common is that the most likely path to those revenues requires jousting with a market leader.
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As few as five years ago, Live Nation didn’t consider itself a data company. Now data is a core part of the concert promoter’s DNA, according to John Forese, who joined in 2011 to head a new data arm, LiveAnalytics, as senior VP and GM.
Live Nation sits on a slew of ticket buyer data, after all, that illuminates who is willing to pony up to see musical artists and sporting events. So it’s no surprise that the company ultimately began investing heavily in its data division. Since his arrival, Mr. Forese has built a team of around 20 research experts and statisticians, most based in Los Angeles, where Live Nation is headquartered.
Now LiveNation, which merged with Ticketmaster in 2010, uses purchase data to help marketers determine what types of music their target audiences enjoy. The key to reaching that goal was integrating databases that were once siloed.
From Adbusters #111: The Big Ideas of 2047
LEAH MCINNIS
The “We Told You So” cover in 2021 was our final hurrah. But it was pyrrhic. The type of battle you win but at too great of a cost. Yes, we got to have our righteous moment … a final “fuck-you” to all of our enemies, but we were just a bunch of editors, writers and designers on the nose of the Titanic. Turns out it wasn’t enough to see the problem – you also had to show people a way out … a way to deal with the emotions that surface.
Our best swipe at the dominant culture was either Buy Nothing Day, which went viral in over sixty countries, or else our grandiose attempt to shift the theoretical foundations of economic science with our book Meme Wars. Our dream of getting it used as a textbook at Harvard never materialized, but we did have the pleasure of calling Professor Gregory Mankiw an “Old Goat” and got students to walk out of his class en masse. I know that gave some people at the Heritage Foundation some good giggles.
We also started selling Blackspot shoes in the early 2000s. But this pissed off as many people as it pleased. It wasn’t anarchist enough for the Black Bloc. It reeked of “green capitalism” to the Marxists. Professor-types said it was hypocritical, that you can’t critique capitalism out of one side of your mouth and make money out of the other. But the part that they never got was that it wasn’t about making money … it was about trying to get the world to recalibrate their tastes, to accept indie as cool instead of Nike and all the other big name megacorps who were colonizing every aspect of our lives. But Nike kept going strong till the bitter end. Pissed us right off.
As we got more political, things changed. Of course, the magazine was always political, but then we got really political – calling out popular presidents, going after the state of Israel for its arrogant brutality, dubbing economists “logic freaks,” accusing graphic designers of kissing corporate ass and jilting the consumer with increasingly ad hominem attacks – yeah, we lost a lot of readers then. Seeing Adbusters on the shelf at the grocery store became an invitation to a giant guilt trip, sandwiched in between some far-out philosophy, anarchist bravado, apocalyptic imagery and existential angst. Nobody wanted that anymore. They couldn’t handle it.
Looking back on it all now with the wisdom of hindsight, I think the reason we were never able to get any real traction and turn the world around was probably because we were just too negative. Everything we did had an anti feel to it … even our name, Adbusters – what does that actually convey? Pushing back against ads, busting ads as if advertising is this huge dominant force and we are the little army of ad-busters nipping at its heels? And “culture jamming,” what was that all about, really? Just jabbing against the mainstream consumer culture instead of using all of that angst to create a culture of our own.
Looking back … it’s so obvious now … it was that endless finger pointing at all the horrible things that the corporations and governments and mass media were doing … that stench of reactionary negativity about everything we lefties did is what made us so ineffective. We used to get calls and invitations almost daily, people asking to join this or that cause, partner with some campaign. Mostly we were spread too thin to jump. But some of it was our ego as well. We thought we had it all.
The dwindling faithful kept reading and subscribing of course, but I think they did this more out of loyalty and respect … nostalgia. Maybe for those last few subscribers, our dark side, even our apocalypticism, was a kind of soothing relief from all the lies and denial – you could always count on Adbusters to tell it how it is five years before anybody else.
We never sold out, even though some people say we did. We managed to stay ad-free and fiercely independent until the last run. It was only at the bitter end, when things were really starting to fall apart, that we finally woke up and launched some wildly successful memes into the noosphere like Occupy Wall Street, Kick It Over and the open-source, real world #KILLCAP game which at its peak got almost one billion people mobilized and into the streets … but by then, of course, it was too late. The center was already giving way.
And now we are here, with nothing left to say except “we told you so.”
Oxfam has today launched a fundraising campaign, “Lift lives for good,” to highlight the difference made to people’s lives through the charity’s long-term development projects.
Advertising Agency: Peterson Milla Hooks, USA
Creative Director: Dave Peterson
Associate Creative Director: Courtney Vincent
Executive Producer: Aldo Hertz
Producer: Bianca Cochran
Production Company: Milkt Films
Director: Danny Clinch
Executive Producer: Lindha Narvaez
Producer: Paula Cohen
Director of Photography: Vance Burberry
Editorial: Channel Z
Editor: Brett Astor
Producer: Kelly Nelson
Post: Pixel Farm
Colorist: Dave Sweet
Efx Artists: Kurt Angell, Jay Holgate
Producer: Krystal Lamoreaux
Advertising Agency: Peterson Milla Hooks, USA
Creative Director: Dave Peterson
Associate Creative Director: Courtney Vincent
Executive Producer: Aldo Hertz
Producer: Bianca Cochran
Production Company: Milkt Films
Director: Danny Clinch
Executive Producer: Lindha Narvaez
Producer: Paula Cohen
Director of Photography: Vance Burberry
Editorial: Channel Z
Editor: Brett Astor
Producer: Kelly Nelson
Post: Pixel Farm
Colorist: Dave Sweet
Efx Artists: Kurt Angell, Jay Holgate
Producer: Krystal Lamoreaux
Advertising Agency: Peterson Milla Hooks, USA
Creative Director: Dave Peterson
Associate Creative Director: Courtney Vincent
Executive Producer: Aldo Hertz
Producer: Bianca Cochran
Production Company: Milkt Films
Director: Danny Clinch
Executive Producer: Lindha Narvaez
Producer: Paula Cohen
Director of Photography: Vance Burberry
Editorial: Channel Z
Editor: Brett Astor
Producer: Kelly Nelson
Post: Pixel Farm
Colorist: Dave Sweet
Efx Artists: Kurt Angell, Jay Holgate
Producer: Krystal Lamoreaux
Aired: November 2013
Advertising Agency: Dieste, Dallas, USA
Chief Creative Officer: Paco Olavarrieta
Executive Creative Director: Ciro Sarmiento
Copywriters: Jose Benitez, Ciro Sarmiento
Art Director: Zeta
Executive Producer: Boris Nurko
Production Company: Landia
Director: Karina Minujin
Music Studio: Elastik Music
Executive Producer: Luli de Oto
Edit Studio: Red Car
Norwegian wanted to say Merry Christmas and give thanks to their Finnish customers, who had just chosen them as the ‘most liked airline in Finland’ (EPSI 2013 research). The ad was published in Finland’s biggest newspaper on Christmas Eve – just in time for some last minute gift wrapping.
Advertising Agency: 358, Helsinki, Finland
Copywriter: Antti Tähtinen
Creative Director / Art Director: Antero Jokinen
Graphic Designer: Isa Jokela-Gomes
Producer: Elina Tähtinen
Strategists: Dan Goodall, Peter Barmer
Client Team Director: Kimmo Tupala
Published: December 2013
Advertising Agency: DDB, Chicago, USA
Group Creative Director: Chuck Rachford
Creative Director: Mike Piro
Art Director: Brant Herzer
Copywriter: Tyler Campbell
Director: Brian Billow
Published: December 2013
Advertising Agency: DDB, Chicago, USA
Group Creative Director: Chuck Rachford
Creative Director: Mike Piro
Art Director: Brant Herzer
Copywriter: Tyler Campbell
Director: Brian Billow
Published: December 2013
Advertising Agency: TBWA\Chiat\Day, USA
Chief Creative Officer: John Norman
Global Group Creative Director: Brent Anderson
Global Creative Director: Jayanta Jenkins
Associate Creative Directors: Chris Hutchinson, Driscoll Reid
Art Director: Pierce Thiot
Copywriter: Scott Cleveland
Executive Producer: Sarah Patterson
Senior Producer: Katie Lambrecht
Assistant Producer: Garrison Askew
Executive Project Manager: Karen Thomas
Group Account Director: Blake Crosbie
Management Supervisors: Magdalena Huber, Chris Crockett
Account Supervisors: Kyle Webster, Catherine Fishback
Account Executive: Robyn Baker
Sports Marketing: Lexi Vonderlieth
Sports Marketing: Brynn Cameron
Group Planning Director: Scott MacMaster
Global Planning Director: Martin Ramos
Planner: Rebecca Harris
Junior Planners: Katie Acosta, Matt Bataclan
Director of Business Affairs: Linda Daubson
Senior Business Affairs Manager: KK Davis
Talent Payment Manager: Vanessa Aniles
Traffic Manager: Jerry Neill
Production Company: @Radical
Directors: Josh & Xander
President: Frank Sherma
Executive Producer: Jim Bouvet
Producer: Rob Stark
Head of Production: Cathy Dunn
Editorial: Rock Paper Scissors
Executive Producer: Carol Weaver
Producer: Marquerite Olivelle
Editor: David Brodie
Asst. Editor: Dustin LaForce
Post EFX: The Mill
Executive Producer: Sue Troyan
Producer: Dan Roberts
Production Coordinator: Antonio Hardy
Telecine Producer: LaRue Anderson
Colorist: Adam Scott
Flame Artists: Adam Lambert, Robert Murdock
Matte Painting: Andy Wheater, Thomas Price
3D Artist: Martin Rivera
Sound Design: Stimmung
Producer: Kristina Iwankiw
Sound Designer: Gus Koven