ESPN Shows You What Happens When a Bronco and a Seahawk Meet


It’s going to be a long week at ESPN’s Bristol, Conn., campus, as shown in this fun new Sportscenter ad via Wieden & Kennedy New York. Featuring Jay Crawford and Steve Levy, the ad shows a particularly tense moment in the elevator, when a Bronco and a Seahawk mascot encounter each other.

Certainly feels like the broadcaster has some of the best Super Bowl-related marketing so far. It showed off this cool subway-inspired outdoor work yesterday.

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‘Best Vacation Ever’ Spot for Universal Looks a Lot Like Apple’s ‘Misunderstood’

On Jan. 13, Universal Orlando launched “Best Vacation Ever,” which shares more than a few similarities with Apple’s holiday spot, “Misunderstood.”

“Best Vacation Ever” shows a family enjoying their time at Universal, with a teenage daughter who seems to always be on her phone. At the end of the spot, it’s revealed that she was on her phone all that time making a digital scrapbook of the family’s trip, which she entitled “Best Vacation Ever.” When she sends the file to her father, her mother intones, “And you said no phones.” As you may remember, this calls to mind the big reveal in Apple’s “Misunderstood” spot, in which a seemingly aloof teenage boy puts together a slideshow for his family on Christmas.

According to our anonymous tipster, all these similarities are “completely (and unfortunately) coincidence.” The Universal spot was purportedly sold last spring, “as part of a larger effort, so it took some time to produce,” and wrapped in November. Universal decided to hold the spot until the new year, a decision they must have regretted after seeing Apple’s “Misunderstood” over the holiday season. Our tipster added this tidbit: “Universal contacted Lance Acord in October to direct, he saw the Universal boards, but he had already accepted the Apple job.” Let us know your thoughts on the similarities between the two spots in the comments section.

 

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Jaguar reúne vilões britânicos em sua estreia no Super Bowl

Depois de diversos teasers, a Jaguar revelou seu comercial na íntegra para o Super Bowl, que sua estreia no intervalo publicitário mais caro do mundo.

O modelo F-Type Coupeé é apresentado por três atores britânicos que recentemente interpretaram vilões em Hollywood: Ben Kingsley (“Iron Man 3”), Mark Strong (“Kick Ass”) e Tom Hiddleston (“Os Vingadores”). A hashtag #GoodToBeBad resume o conceito.

O comercial foi dirigido por Tom Hooper, de “Os Misera?veis” e “O Discurso do Rei”, e a criação é da agência Spark 44. Assista ao making of.

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Imaginative Inanimate Object Art – Victor Nunes Creates Original Art Pieces with Everyday Objects (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) Original art, especially the funny and inventive kind is a rarity but when it is found, it’s always entertaining. These images by Victor Nunes take inanimate objects and create cute drawings…

Primeiro comercial da Coca-Cola para o Super Bowl mostra sonho de um jovem quarterback

A Coca-Cola revelou o primeiro dos dois comerciais que irá veicular no intervalo do Super Bowl no próximo domingo.

Mostrando seu trabalho com comunidades locais, a marca traz um jovem jogador de futebol americano – ainda no colégio – correndo atrás de seu sonho, terminando com a marcação de um touchdown no estádio do Green Bay Packers.

A Coca-Cola prometeu doar 50 mil dólares para a associação Boys & Girls Clubs of America quando o vídeo atingisse 10 mil views no YouTube. Atualmente, já acumula mais de 30 mil.

Criação da Wieden + Kennedy de Portland.

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Stefan Bleihauer Photography

Coup de cœur pour Stefan Bleihauer, un photographe allemand qui a réalisé une série de photographies intitulée « Amber ». Il s’intéresse aux usines et aux coins reculés d’une Allemagne en construction. L’orange et le bleu saturés, pétants se marient avec l’atmosphère grisâtre pour lui redonner les couleurs de la vie.

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Um aplicativo para acabar com bloqueio criativo de quem gosta de escrever

Se o bloqueio criativo que você está enfrentando tem mais a ver com obter outras perspectivas e opiniões, então Coda App pode ser boa alternativa.

Coda App oferece aos autores corajosos um espaço diferenciado para colaboração e edição de seus textos.

Coda é um novo aplicativo móvel para quem gosta de escrever e está buscando a assistência de outras pessoas. Ao se ligar com uma conta de Twitter, ele permite que o usuário tenha ajuda da comunidade para terminar ou melhorar seu texto, seja um poema, um conto, um artigo, etc.

Enquanto os usuários podem livremente contribuir com suas ideias e palavras, é o próprio autor que decide o que será mudado ou acrescentado em sua obra.

Toda essa abertura e exposição pode ter duas grandes conseqüências. A primeira é que, se você é um autor tímido, então o aplicativo pode gerar algum incomodo, uma vez que seu texto estará não somente exposto para todos via Twitter, mas também porque as contribuições podem não ser agradáveis.

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Outro desafio é que, com tantas vozes construindo um único texto, o aplicativo dá margem para uma grande discussão autoral, podendo dar vida a obras 100% colaborativas, onde tanto o papel quanto os direitos do autor podem ser questionados caso ele não esteja aberto ao que essa tendência tem a oferecer.

Coda App está disponível para iOS por $1.99.

 

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TVtag (Formerly GetGlue) Is Paying 50 People to Watch and Tag TV All Day


In November, i.TV announced it was buying the social-TV app/platform GetGlue; I spoke with i.TV founder-CEO Brad Pelo at the time and he explained why. Now I’ve spoken with him again to get him to explain why i.TV is rebranding GetGlue as TVtag, effective today, as well as introducing a new iPhone app. What follows is a lightly edited and compressed transcript of our phone conversation.

Simon Dumenco: So this is about something more than just a name change.

Brad Pelo: What we’re announcing is bigger than GetGlue becoming TVtag, it’s actually a unification of our partners and the GetGlue audience into a single audience that will be called TVtag. So to the GetGlue users it means their app will now be called TVtag. To DirecTV and Nintendo users [which use i.TV’s back-end technology to power their social-TV apps], it means that the DirecTV- and Nintendo-branded services Nintendo’s is Nintendo TV and DirecTV’s is CoPilot — will keep their brands. It’s just that we will now combine everyone’s audiences into one single audience. So now we will be by far the largest TV second-screen community and also bring to the launch 70 of the broadcast networks.

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DigitasLBi Makes ‘Mild Staff Calibration’

digitascornThat’s pretty much what we have for you, ladies and gents. To address the tipsters, we’ve been told that DigitasLBi has indeed cut some staff. Despite what the Spy line was buzzing, the cuts only affected only the Detroit office and NOT Boston as well, amounting into 10+ people. From what sources tell us, the reductions were based on “needs to flex up and down based on project projections and workload, this is a standard practice.” From what spies tell us, though, the DigitasLBi issue may be with its Team Sprint counterpart but we’ll leave conjecture at that.

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Publicis’ Stephan Beringer Tapped as New President of Audience on Demand


Publicis Groupe has tapped Stephan Beringer to replace Kurt Unkel as chief growth officer and president of digital media trading group Audience on Demand.

Mr. Unkel recently left AOD to run WPP’s dedicated Ford agency, Team Detroit.

Mr. Beringer was most recently chief growth and strategy officer for Publicis’ Digital Technologies division, which houses both DigitasLBi and Razorfish. He was also International CEO for Digitas and Razorfish from 2009 to 2013. In the role, he oversaw the shops’ P&Ls, as well as other digital marketing specialist shops, in all markets outside of North America. Publicis also credits him with integrating Digitas and LBi globally, after the holding company bought LBi in late 2012.

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Morpheus de “Matrix” muda o luxo como você conhece em comercial da Kia

Apenas três dias depois do teaser, a Kia revela o seu comercial para o Super Bowl XLVIII.

Como já era esperado, o filme traz o ator Laurence Fishburne novamente no papel de Morpheus, seu personagem da trilogia “Matrix”. Novamente ele aparece para propor mudança de perspectiva, oferecendo para o casal uma chave azul (para continuar tudo igual) ou vermelha (caso queiram mudar o conceito de luxo como conhecem).

A participação de Morpheus, porém, não acaba aí. Ele vai de carona no banco traseiro e, enquanto canta “Nessun Dorma”, faz carros voarem, luzes explodirem, colheres entortarem, entre outras firulas.

A criação é da David And Goliath.

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Cada vez que um Volkswagen atinge 100 mil km rodados, um engenheiro alemão ganha asas

Assim como no ano passado, o teaser da Volkswagen para o Super Bowl tem pouca ou nenhuma relação com o comercial que será de fato veiculado.

A agência Argonaut partiu da estatística de que a montadora alemã é que mais tem carros nas ruas que ultrapassaram 100 mil milhas rodadas. Um insight com boa produção, mas que obviamente não deve ser tão popular que o já clássico mini Darth Vader de 2011, o comercial a ser batido.

A campanha inclui o site vw.com/why-vw/100k-miles, com depoimentos de proprietários de Volkswagen ainda muito felizes mesmo com carros tão rodados.

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DIY Crayon Lip Colours – These DIY Crayon Lipsticks Will Save You Cash and Help You Look Impressive (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) If you are tired of spending money on expensive lipstick, you can now rejoice and create your own with a DIY crayon lipstick. This do-it-yourself project allows you to choose from any color in the…

Report Says BBC Executives’ Oversight of Digital Project Was Flawed

The independent British report does not single out any executives. The BBC’s director general at the time was Mark Thompson, now chief executive of The Times.

    



Singer Is Photoshopped From Regular Girl to Pop Star in This Incredible Music Video

Well, this is just all sorts of amazing. Taking the time-lapsed Photoshopping of Dove's "Evolution" to a new level, Hungarian singer Boggie has created a music video in which she is digitally retouched from normal girl into glamorous pop star.

Through a combination of CGI trickery and seamless editing, the video for "Nouveau Parfum" is so compelling, it's hard to look away. And because the on-screen effects are so subtle, you're still able to pay attention to the song, which isn't bad at all. The video was posted to YouTube in December but only recently became a viral sensation, generating almost all of its 2 million views over the past week.

The 27-year-old singer, whose full name is Csemer Boglarka, told the Daily Star that the shoot took eight hours and required five changes of wardrobe, makeup and hair style. She was proud to see the effort paying off by continuing to fuel the global debate over manufactured beauty.

"Women open magazines and they have to face that on the pages everyone looks perfect, therefore they start to feel imperfect. I wanted to make it clear that we shouldn't try to compete with this perfectionism and manipulation which ruins your self-esteem," she told the newspaper.

"You should accept yourself on your good days and bad days, which is a hard process but it pays out at the end."

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Chief Creative Officer: Olivier Altmann
International Creative Director: Steve O’Leary
Copywriter / Art Director: Meric Settembre
Worldwide Account Director: Cécile Lejeune
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Jimmy Carter Book on Women’s Rights Is Set for March Release

Simon & Schuster said the book, “A Call to Action: Women, Religion, Violence and Power,” would be based on Mr. Carter’s world travels.

    



Next Year’s VW Super Bowl Ad Will Feature German Engineers With Rainbows Shooting Out of Their Butts

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This year’s Volkswagen Super Bowl commercial icreated by Argonaut is particularly relevant to me since I own a VW. And very old VW. A 1999 VW Passat. With 202,000 miles on it. So when I watched this “It’s A Wonderful Life”-inspired commercial in which a dad tells his daughter that a German engineer gets his wings every time a VW hits 100,000 miles, I was like, hey, what about when a VW hits 200,000?

Thankfully the wise ass daughter replied, “Yea, dad. And I’m sure at 200,000 miles, rainbows shoot out of their butts.” Well it pleases me to no end that I may have caused one German engineer to shit in technicolor.

Super Bowl Tailgate: See Kia’s Version of ‘ The Matrix,’ Toyota’s Muppets and Jaguar’s Villains


Actor Laurence Fishburne returns to his dark glasses and trenchcoat as Morpheus from “The Matrix” in Kia’s Super Bowl effort this year, an extended version of which you see above.

It’s all about luxury, as Mr. Fishburne’s character offers a glamorous couple exiting a restaurant a choice of keys — red or blue — and tells them that if they take the red key, they’ll never look at luxury in the same way again. So far, so standard car ad.

Kia’s spot only takes a more surprising turn when, seated in the back during their Kia test drive, he bursts into operatic song, serenading them with a soaring rendition of Puccini’s “Nessun dorma” as streetlights explode, spoons bend and buildings ripple like water.

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We Do Not Like Jaguar’s Super Bowl Ad. At All.

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We could go on and on about the overblown cliches, poor attempt at British wit and stupid one liners in Jaguar’s Spark44-created Super Bowl ad but we’ll simply sum it up thusly. What a waste of talent.

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