Goodby and Gang Parody Dove ‘Sketches’ to Welcome Eric Kallman


Barton F. Graf 9000 alum Eric Kallman has landed a new creative director gig at Goodby, Silverstein & Partners. To celebrate the agency’s new hire, co-founders Rich Silverstein and Jeff Goodby and Partner/Executive Creative Director Margaret Johnson have recreated the popular award-winning Dove “Real Beauty Sketches” film.

The Dove ad, from Ogilvy in Brazil, tapped a forensic artist to draw women as they saw themselves and compared those sketches to drawings of how outsiders saw them, with startling results. But in the Goodby film, the agency’s creative leaders are asked to describe the perfect creative director — he has to have done work they wish they’d done, won awards for it, and so on.

The result (at least from Mr. Goodby and Ms. Johnson’s P.O.V.): a sketch of Mr. Kallman, who will join the shop March 3 as a creative director and associate partner. Mr. Silverstein, however, sees things a little differently.

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As a Zombie Fan, I Thank You, Relevent (Now, Only If We Were in Union Square at the Time)

There’s not much to say, but as The Walking Dead crawls, groans, lurches, etc. to the telly soon, here is a nice little stunt set up in Union Square today by NYC-based, MDC Partners-owned experiential marketing agency, Relevent. I promise to never walk over a sidewalk subway grate again (ok, at least for today). In case you missed this one, here’s a prank from just a couple of weeks ago on the AMC show’s star Norman Reedus in London.

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Intel conta a história de um alpinista cego em novo filme da campanha Look Inside

Há alguns meses, a Intel começou a reunir algumas histórias bastante inspiradoras na campanha Look Inside. A ideia é mostrar a importância de se ir além das aparências, lembrando que o que realmente conta é o que conseguimos realizar. É o caso de Jack Andraka, que desenvolveu um novo teste para detectar o câncer de pâncreas com apenas 15 anos de idade, e que abriu a série.

Agora, Look Inside ganha mais uma história incrível, desta vez do alpinista Erik Weihenmayer. Não bastasse ele ter escalado sete dos cumes mais altos do planeta – feito alcançado por somente 118 pessoas em toda a história -, o detalhe está no fato de Erik ser o único cego entre todos eles. 

Com criação da Venables Bell & Partners, produção da Knucklehead e direção de Christopher Hewitt, este filme é daqueles que fazem a gente ter vontade de se esforçar para ir ainda mais longe, e lembrar que o que está dentro é o que realmente importa. Vale o play.

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Hey, Welcome to Goodby, Eric Kallman

59_Eric_Kallman_thumbYes, San Francisco-based Goodby Silverstein & Partners has hired Eric Kallman as a creative director. In case you don’t recall, Kallman is one of the creative minds who was behind the now-ubiquitous, award-winning Old Spice “Man Your Man Could Smell Like” campaign who was poached by Gerry Graf and Barton F. Graf 9000 nearly three years ago. During his time at said agency, he helped win and worked with clients ranging from Little Caesar’s, DISH, Finlandia to Disney among others. Anyhow, he’s now headed to the Bay Area to join up with GS&P co-founder/co-chairman Jeff Goodby, who says in a statement, ““I think Eric will be an inspiration to our clients, to our people and, frankly, to me. I’m looking forward to watching how he sells such challenging, distinctive work.”

Along with his time with Gerry Graf and W+K Portland, Kallman served at TBWA\Chiat\Day New York. According to Goodby, the CD will work on accounts including fast-food chain Sonic and “got milk?” for California Milk Processor Board  as well as helping to lead various new business pitches.

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See the Spot: GE Uses a Child to Explain Its Complex Business


GE is using the voice of a child in its latest ad to help explain what the $140 billion conglomerate actually does.

The debuts tonight on NBC to align with the network’s coverage of the 2014 Winter Olympic Games in Sochi, Russia. It highlights the company’s role in building underwater power sources fueled by moonlight; connecting health-care institutions through mobile devices; and helping create environmentally friendly trains. To add an emotional element, a young girl explains how her mom works at the company and is involved in all of these efforts.

The ad is part of a larger effort to show off GE’s many operations and products.

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GE mergulha na imaginação de uma criança para falar sobre tecnologia

É interessante perceber como a imaginação das crianças funciona, especialmente quando elas tentam explicar o que um adulto faz em seu trabalho. Childlike Imagination, novo comercial da GE criado pela BBDO de Nova York para a campanha Imagination at Work, ilustra a explicação de uma garotinha sobre o que sua mãe faz no dia a dia. Ou ao menos como ela imagina que seja.

Isso inclui trens que são amigos das árvores a hospitais que você pode segurar em suas mãos, e até mesmo computadores capazes de imprimir partes do motor de um jato.

A proposta do comercial é mostrar que, apesar de muitas destas coisas estarem apenas na imaginação de uma criança, é este “otimismo inocente em relação ao futuro” que faz com que a empresa crie novas tecnologias e soluções para diferentes segmentos.

Ah, e é claro que a mãe da garotinha trabalha na GE.

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Facebook emociona com a história de “O Condicionado”

Como parte das comemorações de seus 10 anos de existência, o Facebook lançou 10 curta-documentários com incríveis histórias de conexão humana. Todas elas, é claro, auxiliadas pela rede social.

Vi muita gente compartilhando a do Humans of New York, que é boa também, mas nenhuma supera o caso de Raimundo Arruda Sobrinho, o poeta Condicionado, que viveu 35 anos em São Paulo como sem-teto.

A história emocionante e a produção é de cair o queixo. Um bom lembrete de como, debaixo de tanto lixo que a internet nos expõe diariamente, podemos utilizá-la de maneiras que realmente importam e fazem diferença.

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France 3: Highly concentrated

Advertising Agency: NMC Production, France
Creative Director / Directors: Arnaud Labille, Frédéric Durand
Art Director: Frédéric Durand
Copywriter: Arnaud Labille
Production Manager: François Morgant
Published: February 2014

Google, AOL Ventures And Others Invest $17 Million In Mobile Ad-Tech Company Vungle


Mobile advertising is booming, with a $5 billion dollar increase in spend expected this year, after a similar jump last.

And as the spending increases, the mobile ad-tech ecosystem is growing along with it, flush with entrepreneurs trying to turn a profit while helping the growing market reach its potential.

Seeing that opportunity, Google, AOL Ventures, and others are investing $17 million dollars in Vungle, an in-app focused mobile ad-tech company based in San Francisco.

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Google, AOL And Others Invest $17 Million In Mobile Ad-Tech Company Vungle


Mobile advertising is booming, with a $5 billion dollar increase in spend expected this year, after a similar jump last.

And as the spending increases, the mobile ad-tech ecosystem is growing along with it, flush with entrepreneurs trying to turn a profit while helping the growing market reach its potential.

Seeing that opportunity, Google, AOL ventures, and others are investing $17 million dollars in Vungle, an in-app focused mobile ad-tech company based in San Francisco.

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Esurance Hands Out That $1.5 Million, Releases Mind-Boggling Stats From Twitter Stunt

Despite not actually airing a commercial during the Super Bowl on Sunday, Esurance had an extraordinarily successful night, thanks to its #EsuranceSave30 sweepstakes on Twitter.

The company snagged the first ad slot after the game, and vowed to give away the difference in price—it went for $1.5 million less than an in-game slot—to one lucky viewer who tweeted the hashtag #EsuranceSave30 within 36 hours after the ad aired.

John Krasinski, the brand's spokesman, helped to announce the winner Wednesday night on Jimmy Kimmel Live. You can see that video below. But also check out the social stats from the campaign, provided by Esurance agency Leo Burnett:

• 5.4 million uses of the #EsuranceSave30 hashtag 
• More than 200,000 entries within the first minute of the Esurance commercial airing
• 1.4 million hashtag uses in the first hour and 4.5 million in the first 24 hours
• 2.6 billion social impressions on Twitter
• 332,000 views of the Esurance commercial on YouTube
• 261,000 new followers on the official Esurance Twitter account—an increase of nearly 3,000 percent
• A 12x spike in visits to the Esurance website in the first hours of the sweepstakes

Safe to say it was a successful stunt. Cue the copycats.


    



Mobile Helps Drive Visits to Super Bowl Advertisers’ Websites


This year’s Super Bowl advertisers saw more web traffic to their sites than ever before. Although Super Bowl advertising is largely brand-oriented, Adobe Digital Index has previously found that website traffic always rises the day of the game. This year the increase in web traffic was more dramatic than ever before. Visits to advertiser’s websites rose 15% over last year to an average increase of 163% above their normal daily web traffic.

Smartphone traffic increased 110% versus last year

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Famous Portrait Create With Objects

Nous connaissons tous le portrait de La Joconde, de la reine d’Angleterre, des tournesols de Van Gogh ou encore « Le baiser » de Gustav Klimt. Nous les redécouvrons sous une autre forme artistique grâce à l’artiste Jane Perkins, qui reproduit ces œuvres d’art classiques et ces portraits en utilisant des milliers d’objets.

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Greenpeace: Pinocchio

We are running out of real wood.

Advertising School: Brother Ad School, Dominican Republic
Art Director: Marcos Moore
Copywriter: Fernando Muñoz
Illustrator: Josue Carvajal

Volkswagen usa tecnologia para separar dois coelhinhos “apaixonados”

Antes de sair distribuindo asas para seus engenheiros nos Super Bowl, a Volkswagen começou 2014 contando a trágica história de dois coelhinhos de pelúcia, condenados a ficar separados para sempre. O “drama” Teddy Tragedy serve para divulgar a tecnologia de Controle de Distância Automático, do Golf. A criação é da adam&eveDDB, com produção da Movie Magic International e direção de Matteo Pellegrini.

Apesar de ser fofo, de certa maneira eu fiquei com a impressão de já ter visto esta ideia antes… Mais ou menos aqui.

Se a tecnologia das montadoras continuar neste ritmo, é provável que os bichinhos – sejam eles de verdade ou de pelúcia – nunca mais tenham um final feliz… 

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Motel 6 Apparently Aired the Greatest Radio Ad of the 2014 Super Bowl

All this talk about the TV commercials on the Super Bowl, but who could forget about the radio commercials? Well, almost everyone. But not WestwoodOne, which aired the game on Sunday and just released a list of the five best radio ads of the night.

The big winner was Motel 6, which placed the top spot—an amusing ad from The Richards Group called "Autocorrect," narrated by Tom Bodett, the chain's spokesman for going on 30 years. The ads that placed second, third and fourth—for Tilted Kilt restaurants, Subway and Exergen—are honestly pretty wretched. Coming in at No. 5 is Taco Bell, whose ad will elicit some chuckles as well.

Check out the Motel 6 and Taco Bell ads below.


    



LensCrafters: Anthem

Advertising Agency: Publicis Conseil, Paris, France
Chief Creative Officer: Anne De Maupeou
Executive Creative Director: Dimitri Guerassimov
Art director: France Bizot
Chief Executive Planner: Rob Klingensmith
Planning Director: David Daines
World Wide Director: Alberto Scorticati
Account Director: Fanny Delaunay
Account Executive: Roberto Pinto
TV Production: Pierre Marcus, Florent Villiers
Sound production: Schmooze
Sound producer: Clémens Hourrière / Prodigious
Director: The Ensrettet
Production company: Frenzy
Producer: Elsa Rakotoson
Post-production: Frenzy
Director of photography: Steven Keith-Roach
Music: Carl Orff
Photographer: Jason Hetherington

Nike FuelBand Sums Up Your Fitness Year With A Colorful Poster


Nike is giving its Nike+ FuelBand users a retrospective of their year with the 2013 Year in NikeFuel, a site that allows a FuelBand user to see a gorgeous, data-driven portrait of his or her personal activity over the last twelve months. Users log in with their FuelBand account to view the colorful infographic and see how their activities stack up against those of others. Better yet, they can download the data portrait, tack it on their wall and use it as inspiration for the next twelve months.

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Keira Watering Cans: Recycle

Flower friendly. Earth friendly.

Advertising Agency: McCann Worldgroup, Birmingham, USA
Executive Creative Director(s): Robin Chrumka, Mike Stocker
Art Director / Copywriters: Edward Parks, David Brajdic
Illustrator: Kristin Blumreich
Photographer: Nathan Garcia
Published: November 2013

Keira Watering Cans: Ladybug

Advertising Agency: McCann Worldgroup, Birmingham, USA
Executive Creative Director(s): Robin Chrumka, Mike Stocker
Art Director / Copywriters: Edward Parks, David Brajdic
Illustrator: Kristin Blumreich
Photographer: Nathan Garcia
Published: November 2013