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BBH New York have teamed up with production company The Corner Shop to produce this new spot promoting Sony’s new Playstation Plus network.

The 1:19 spot continues the trend of depicting gamers in real-life situations mirroring the games they’re playing, in lieu of actual gameplay. In this way, the spot shows a group of friends transition among a series of games (at one point one of the players says, “Guy’s it’s me,” but they’re no longer playing on the same team and just laugh), displaying the Playstation Plus’ “New Games Monthly” and “Next Gen Multiplayer” features simultaneously. It’s something of a spiritual successor to BBH’s lauded “Perfect Day” spot from October, although it doesn’t have quite the same swagger. Credits after the jump. continued…

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(TrendHunter.com) It might seem hard to believe when looking at the photos, but this Lamborghini Sesto Elemento is actually a homemade marvel that’s crafted from the basic shell of a 30-year old Volve 740….

Most marketing folks I know have long been of two minds on the role of advertising, seeing it as a tool to connect with consumers emotionally, but also rationally. Most advertising has tried to do both, with varying degrees of success, and often at the expense of one or the other outcome. This uneasy duality has gotten more extreme lately.

In fact, it’s beginning to look like a clinical affliction: Never have advertisers won more creative awards, entertained more Super Bowl viewers, or seen their content repurposed across more channels. Yet consumers have never trusted companies less, and their loyalty to brands has never been lower. Now, as if in response to this chronic condition, employers and clients increasingly rely on the invisible magic of data and tech solutions to try to connect consumers to sales transactions.

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Well, the Olson camp did the math for us as the Minneapolis-based agency’s wet n wild Beauty win marks its seventh AOR assignment since Sept. 1, following the likes of Sharp Electronics, Supercuts and Commerce Bank. In case you didn’t know, wet n wild, which signed Fergie from Black Eyed Peas as its spokesperson in 2012, is a 35-year-old, L.A.-based division of Markwins Beauty Products and one that has never maintained an AOR relationship before but tapped Olson after a national search.

Markwins president Bill George says in a statement, “Our brand is in a great position to reach out to a broader audience. Of all the agencies we talked to, Olson’s team best understood our circumstances and laid out the most compelling vision for our future.” From what sources tell us, other agencies in the final round were Mekanism and DDB West. As wet n wild AOR, Olson will now handle broadcast, digital, social media and data analytics for the brand.

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4. Roger has a blind sense of optimism and faith. Things always seem to work out and he never gets too upset by almost anything.

5. One of his first partners in advertising was Paul Venables when he started at Korey, Kay and Partners. Here’s a dumb ad they did.

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The latest iteration of Droga5′s UNICEF Tap Project (started all the way back in 2007) asks people to put down their smart phones for ten minutes to provide clean water for a child who needs it.

Across the globe, 768 million people lack access to clean drinking water and 1, 400 children die every day from diseases directly related to unsanitary drinking water. Since 1990, UNICEF has been working to provide clean drinking water to those who would otherwise lack access to it. For the past seven years, Droga5 has been helping get the word out via UNICEF’s annual Tap Project campaign.

This year, visitors to www.UNICEFTapProject.org will be met with a challenge: for every ten minutes they don’t use their mobile phones, UNICEF’s sponsor will provide one day of clean water for a child in need. Currently in its beta phase, the app from Droga5 is scheduled for official launch on March 1st. The way it works is pretty simple: once you visit the site, the app will calculate how long you spend there, with a final tally counted once you touch the mobile device again. For every 10 minutes, a donation will be made by UNICEF’s sponsors, including national sponsor Giorgio Armani Fragrances. Visitors to the site “can also learn more about UNICEF’s clean water initiatives, sign up to be a volunteer and make their own personal donation to help UNICEF provide children with clean water.”

So, if you’re reading this on your smart phone, head on over to www.UNICEFTapProject.org and then put your phone down for a while. It’s for a good cause, and you’re probably on your lunch break anyway. You can live without it for a few minutes. Credits after the jump. continued…

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