Heineken Dares Karaoke Singers to Perform in Front of Thousands


Have you got the cojones to sing carols in front of tens of thousands? Heineken challenged people to find out, with “Carol Karaoke,” a campaign that invited karaoke crooners to a private event, then pulled the rug out from under them by challenging them to continue singing in front of thousands of people.

Developed by Wieden & Kennedy New York, Carol Karaoke is a continuation of Heineken’s “Open Your World” brand positioning, which the agency has tried to bring to the real world by showing people that life can be more fun when you take the unexpected route. Colin Westcott-Pitt, VP-marketing for Heineken, said that the concept is a “good fit” with the brand, which began as a “small beer brewed in Amsterdam that wanted to open our world.”

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Samsung unseats Google to become most-shared social video advertiser

Social video content created by Samsung attracted more shares this year than any other advertiser, according to new data released today by Unruly.

Special K Wants Women to Stop Talking About How Fat They Are

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Akin to Dove’s Beauty campaign which urges women to be less analytical about their looks, Special K is out with a campaign that aims to “shut down fat talk.” Created by Leo Burnett and directed by O Positive’s Peyton Wilson, the work witnesses women shopping in a clothing store where the clothing labels contain actual “fat talk” quotes found online.

According to Psychology of Women Quarterly, 93 percent of women engage in fat talk.

For the campaign, Special K has partnered with Tyra Banks. Of her participation, she said, “I know firsthand how much criticizing your body negatively affects self-esteem, but as a role model, I try to maintain a positive attitude and healthy approach to managing my weight. That’s why I’m excited to partner with Special K to help empower women to not only feel confident about their bodies, but also to remove those negative thoughts and show them how to employ tips and tricks to make their least liked physical attributes look better.”

The campaign includes a FightFatTalk website and a hashtag #FightFatTalk

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Santiago Rejoins Moxie

melaniemoxieWe’ve received confirmation that Melanie Santiago (nee Watt) has returned to her old stomping grounds at Atlanta-based Moxie Interactive, where she now serves as SVP/media strategy. Santiago initially spent three years at Moxie (or Moxie/Engauge if you will) as media director before splitting for the director of strategic marketing solutions position at Yahoo, where she remained for over a half-dozen years. One tipster sings the SVP’s praises, saying Santiago is “as good as it gets.” That’s a good enough statement for us at this point. Anyhow, prior to her first stint at Moxie, Santiago held media posts at the likes of SMG, MediaCom and Rodgers Townsend.

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IAB Ponies Up for High-Tech Democrats Ahead of 2014


Whether or not Sen. Mark Pryor is running for re-election will get the backing of Arkansas’ Christian community in 2014 remains to be seen, but he is getting some help from the digital community.

The Arkansas Democrat caught fire from critics for a recent campaign ad in which he clutches a Bible in the hopes of convincing voters of his Christian values. But in what promises to be a tough race to hold on to his Senate seat, the moderate Democrat has already convinced the Interactive Advertising Bureau that they share common goals.

“We are all in for Sen. Mark Pryor this year,” said Mike Zaneis, senior VP and general counsel of the IAB, who spends much of his time pushing the IAB’s agenda on Capitol Hill. The IAB’s political action committee gave $2,000 to Sen. Pryor’s campaign in January. Sen. Pryor chairs the Subcommittee on Communications, Technology, and the Internet and sits on the Senate Commerce Committee and its Consumer Protection Subcommittee, all places that have been home to discussions on digital advertising and privacy issues and related preliminary legislation.

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Facebook Stories faz retrospectiva de 2013

Se você der uma olhada no seu perfil no Facebook, irá perceber que já está disponível uma retrospectiva personalizada, que mostra os principais acontecimentos de sua vida em 2013 – ou pelo menos aquilo que foi selecionado pelos algoritmos da rede social – aqui há uma explicação da metodologia utilizada.

Usando por base os assuntos mais discutidos do ano, a equipe do Facebook Stories criou 2013 – A Year in Review, um vídeo que mostra alguns dos principais acontecimentos do ano, contados no próprio Facebook.

O atentado na maratona de Boston, o tufão nas Filipinas, Miley Cyrus, a terceira temporada de Game of Thrones e o final de Breaking Bad dividem a atenção com o Harlem Shake, o sucesso do incrível Humans of New York e a morte de grandes personalidades, como James Gandolfini, Lou Reed e Nelson Mandela. Vale o play.

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Associated Press Best Pictures 2013

L’agence Associated Press qui délivre plus de 3000 photographies par jour nous dévoile une sélection complète des « Best Pictures » de l’année 2013. A l’image du récapitulatif de Reuters Photos of the Year et de l’AFP Pictures of the Year, une sélection des clichés est à découvrir dans la suite de l’article.

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Bazaarvoice Launches ‘Trustmark’ to Ferret Out Fake Reviews


Ever been burned by a fake product review?

According to a study by Bazaarvoice, a business-to-business player that provides ratings and review services for retailers, 48% of people in U.S. have come across reviews they find suspicious. Which is why Bazaarvoice has created a new “trustmark” logo that it hopes will become the Verisign of the future.

Lisa Pearson, CMO at Bazaarvoice, said the company would like the mark to become shorthand for consumers that the reviews they are reading have been authenticated by a third party. The company who says 400 million people per month use its network to share opinions vets reviews using both technology and human analysis.

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50 Comical Christmas Gifts – From Funny Reproductive Money Banks to Comically Candid Coasters (TOPLIST)

(TrendHunter.com) Comical Christmas gifts are sure to brighten the holiday season. If your friends have a good sense of humor, they’ll certainly appreciate these funny gag gifts and stocking stuffers.

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Mazda transforma sala de cinema em game controlado pelo celular

Para ajudar a promover o lançamento do carro 2014 Mazda3, a JWT Canada fez parceria com o Cineplex’s Timeplay para adicionar interatividade ao anúncio que iria ao ar nos cinemas.

O resultado foi um jogo de corrida controlado pelo smartphone dos espectadores, acontecendo dentro da sala de cinema. Usando o acelerômetro do celular de cada um, o jogo é como um teste drive virtual, porém adicionando competição entre os usuários, que controlam os carros da telona.

O jogo é como um teste drive virtual, porém com os espectadores competindo em tempo real entre si.

Os jogadores usam seus smartphones para coincidir com a direção do condutor e ganhar pontos na tela por desempenho e exatidão. Mas é a performance coletiva do público que decide se um determinado carro está liderando a corrida ou ficando para trás. Assim, quanto melhor o grupo de jogadores for, melhor será o desempenho do usuário.

O recurso de acelerômetro do celular é medido a cada 200 milisegundos para determinar se o jogador está seguindo o caminho certo. Se sim, ganha-se pontos de bônus. Se não, o celular vibra para ajudar a corrigir o trajeto.

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“Resolvemos tirar controles complexos como acelerar e frear para tornar tudo mais simples e de feedback instantâneo.” – Brent Choi, da JTW Canada

Como não seria possível disponibilizar um carro para cada espectador sentado na sala de cinema, tais características do jogo colaborativo conseguem tornar a experiência mais competitiva, porém também menos real. Mas essa simplicidade não deixa de engajar a audiência e tirar o espectador da inércia, unindo colaboração, competição e tecnologia.

A ação aconteceu durante o mês de novembro em Toronto e Vancouver. Como etapa final, a agência pretende travar uma competição ao vivo entre os espectadores de cada cidade, com um grande prêmio ao melhor motorista.

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A Wedding in Aisle 3? Why Ikea Encourages Chinese to Make Its Stores Their Own


Visit an Ikea in China and you’ll see people getting comfortable — very comfortable. They’re dozing on Malm beds and curling up on Karlstad sofas. It’s as if they’re trying on a new life: one that comes with European-style furniture.

In Western countries, couples in Ikea stores might be spotted bickering over what bookshelf to buy, but in China the cheery, modern showrooms spark dreams of domestic bliss. One Chinese Ikea even hosted a trio of weddings.

The Swedish retailer, in fact, elicits surprising reactions here. Ikea is proof that in China luxury labels aren’t the only aspirational brands, said Camilla Hammar, Ikea China’s marketing director.

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Quietroom Imagines Santa as a Brand with Satirical Holiday Site

*Santa* Brand BookU.K. based shop Quietroom re-imagines Santa — changed to *Santa* because “the introductory asterisk reminds customers of a snowflake alighting on the eyelash of a fawn,” while the terminating asterisk “points customers to the polar star, and hence the birth of dreams” — as an international brand at a new site purporting to be Santa’s brandbook.

It’s kind of a weird idea, but Quietroom pulls it off with distinctly British dry humor, and parts of it are pretty funny. Quietroom does an excellent job mocking how brands talk about themselves. Some highlights include “Our brand house is constructionalised on a foundation of deceit, which is sunk deep within a bedrock of gullibility,” the white on white logo, the “Mandatory Venn diagrams” and the brand assets schematics asking “Who else is occupying *Santa*’s space?” (turns out it’s Hagrid), measuring fattiness and beardiness. If you’re in the holiday spirit and are looking for some laughs, it’s worth a few minutes to go check it out. Let us know what you think in the comments section.

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Ogilvy poaches McDonald’s creative director for Unilever role

Ogilvy & Mather London has appointed André Laurentino, currently TBWA/London’s global creative director for McDonald’s, as its global executive creative director for Unilever, including Dove and Hellmann’s.

WestJet Brings Christmas Miracle to Baggage Claim

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Over the weekend, Canadian airline WestJet released a video detailing an amazing Christmas promotion. Passengers boarding flights at Toronto’s Pearson International Airport and Hamilton’s John C. Munro International Airport were given the chance to scan their boarding pass at a kiosk and tell Santa what they’s like for Christmas.

While the two flights were in the air en route to Calgary, a team of WestJet employees, who had been monitoring what the passengers had told Santa, rushed out to Best Buy and CrossIron Mall to purchase everything the passengers had asked for.

When the two flights landed in Calgary and the passengers went to baggage claim (we’re assuming carry on passengers were somehow informed to go as well…or they just missed out), they experienced a Christmas miracle. The baggage claim area had been transformed into a holiday winter wonderland and presents were delivered along with luggage. And Santa was there as well to greet the passengers as they opened their gifts.

It was very likely the best airport experience any air traveler has ever had. And, perhaps. the best marketing stunt in quite some time. Well played, WestJet.

A video of the stunt is, of course, approaching one million views on YouTube.

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Focus sur Ben Zank qui est un photographe new-yorkais qui se prend comme sujet, et s’immortalise tous les jours dans diverses situations et positions. Des clichés étranges, mélancoliques et parfois surréalistes du plus bel effet, dont une sélection est à découvrir en images dans la suite de l’article.

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Se apenas por um segundo…

E se você pudesse esquecer, mesmo que por apenas um segundo, todos os seus problemas?

Se pudesse, numa lógica de criança, fechar os olhos e esperar que ao abrir tudo se resolvesse, os monstros tivessem ido embora, o medo desaparecido ou uma malcriação nunca tivesse existido.

“Sabe o que eu mais sinto falta? Estar despreocupado.”

Inspirada por esta frase de uma paciente com câncer, surgiu o projeto “If only for a second” da Mimi Foundation, uma instituição belga de caridade.

Eles pegaram 20 pessoas com câncer e levaram para um estúdio com a promessa de fazer um make up. Em troca, essas pesoas se comprometiam a ficar de olhos fechados até o processo acabar para não estragar a surpresa.

O make up, como eles vriam a descobrir depois, era, digamos, extravagante. Extravagante o suficiente para arrancar um sorriso e fazer, nem que por um único instante, estas 20 pessoas se esquecerem da terrível doença.

O instante da descoberta, deste primero olhar para o espelho, foi registardo pelo fotógrafo Vincent Dixon e acabou virando uma exposição e um livro. O video que divulga a ação tem 3.43”. E vale cada segundo.

A criação é da Leo Burnett da França.

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Apple’s iTunes Radio Hires Sales Exec From Cumulus Media


Apple’s iTunes Radio has poached a top radio ad exec as it prepares to offer the service widely to advertisers in 2014.

Former Cumulus Media executive VP-sales Michael Pallad is now overseeing ad sales for iTunes Radio internationally, according to people familiar with the matter.

Mr. Pallad started with Apple on December 2 and spent last week at the company’s Cupertino, CA, headquarters getting oriented, the people said. Radio industry email newsletter Tom Taylor Now had previously reported that Mr. Pallad may be leaving Cumulus Media to join Apple.

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The Boxtrolls ganha novo teaser-trailer

Em julho, a gente mostrou por aqui o primeiro trailer de The Boxtrolls, novo projeto do estúdio de animação Laika. Agora, neste segundo teaser-trailer, a equipe abre as portas do estúdio para mostrar não só um pouco mais do filme, mas também os bastidores de sua criação. E a julgar pelo que se vê, o que vem por aí é sensacional.

The Boxtrolls conta a história de um menino órfão que é criado pelos “trolls das caixas” na parte subterrânea da cidade, mas é obrigado a sair de sua própria caixa quando o vilão Archibald Snatcher ameaça a existência de sua família adotiva. A trama é baseada no livro Here Be Monsters, de Alan Snow.

Nos Estados Unidos, o filme estreia em setembro, enquanto no Brasil a estreia está prevista para outubro de 2014.

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