Blue Wave House in Australia

L’architecte belge F2 Architecture a construit la maison « The Pole House », en hauteur sur la Great Ocean Road, en Australie. Au-dessus de la route, on peut admirer la côte et la mer australienne depuis le balcon et à travers les baies vitrées. Une architecture très agréable et idyllique à découvrir dans la suite.

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Buick Spot Uses Granny to Make Point That It’s Not a Granny-Mobile


DETROIT — Buick will introduce a commercial this week that will try to convince consumers once again that its vehicles aren’t made for the blue-haired set.

But this time it will enlist the help of, well, a few blue hairs.

Buick is tapping one of its biggest advertising platforms of the year, the NCAA men’s basketball tournament, to air the spot, which features all five vehicles in its lineup. The spot, from agency Leo Burnett, Detroit, will begin running Thursday, when Sweet 16 games begin.

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Allstate’s Mayhem Is Fiddling With Vine While Brackets Burn

Sports sponsorships rarely equate to more than some choice ad placement and logo saturation. But Allstate and its agency, Leo Burnett, are definitely making the most of the company's partnership with March Madness.

In a campaign called March Mayhem, the official NCAA tournament sponsor is trotting out its likably loathsome ad character to Twitter, Facebook and Vine, where he delights in the millions of brackets broken by unexpected wins like No. 10-seeded Stanford defeating No. 2 Kansas and 12th-seeded North Dakota State winning big over No. 5 Oklahoma.

Read more about the effort in our Q&A with Pam Hollander, Allstate's senior director of integrated marketing communications, and check out some of Mayhem's better Vine installments below.

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Contemporary Sculptural Cabinetry – The Larkbeck Furniture Collections is Made Out of Solid Hardwood (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) The Larkbeck furniture collections is a collaborative effort that explores the artistic potential of various home designs. In this case, the founders of the brand, Rafe Mullarkey and Laszlo Beckett,…

Ice Typography by Nicole Dextras

La série « The Ice Typography » de Nicole Dextras, une artiste environnementale canadienne, regroupe un éventail de mots 3D en glace que l’artiste a faits à l’aide d’attelles en bois. De la ville de Toronto à la rivière Yukon, ces installations poétiques montrent les mots comme étant éphémères et en constante évolution.

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Pizza Hut, Papa John’s Tap Sportscasters to Win March Madness Ad Battle


Big-name sportscasters Jim Nantz from CBS and Scott Van Pelt of ESPN are choosing advertising sides in the Pizza Wars.

Mr. Nantz, CBS’s longtime lead announcer for NCAA basketball coverage, hawks Papa John’s pizza in a TV commercial that debuted nationally Monday. Mr. Van Pelt, meanwhile, has been pitching rival Pizza Hut in TV ads airing during March Madness coverage.

Calling Mr. Nantz the “golden voice of the NCAA,” Papa John’s CMO Bob Kraut said the veteran play-by-play announcer is “synonymous” with March Madness.

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Anúncios digitais sofrem com fraude, já que 36% do tráfego web é fake

A internet tem se tornado uma ferramenta tão poderosa para a publicidade que as marcas já não podem mais ‘se dar ao luxo’ de não ter ações online em suas campanhas. A cada ano que passa, o montante investido em anúncios na web continua em alta, e em 2014 a expectativa é que os norte-americanos invistam cerca de 50 bilhões de dólares em publicidade digital, o que representará 28% do total investido em propaganda nos EUA. Para se ter uma ideia, há apenas 5 anos os investimentos em mídias digitais somavam apenas 16% do total gasto no país.

No entanto, esse valor só não é maior por conta de um detalhe crucial das métricas do online: a fraude. O Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB) estima que 36% do tráfego na web é fake, com robôs gerando impressões e cliques sem que nem uma pessoa sequer tenha sido impactada. Ou seja, mais de um terço do valor investido em campanhas online está basicamente sendo jogado fora, já que não está cumprindo o propósito básico de divulgar ou estabelecer uma presença da marca ou produto.

Mesmo sabendo disso, o esforço para mudar o cenário é pífio. Isso porque todo mundo ganha no processo, exceto o anunciante – com um bocado de impressões falsas, o tráfego dos veículos é visto como alto, as ferramentas de monitoramento de espaços publicitários levam a sua porcentagem pela administração das impressões (mesmo as falsas), e as empresas que compram mídia podem fazer um relatório com números astronômicos, fazendo as agências repassarem aos clientes resultados que parecem bons. Nada como um CTR alto, mesmo que boa parte dele tenha sido realizado por robôs.

O investimento em publicidade digital só não é maior por conta de um detalhe crucial das métricas do online: a fraude

“Eu fico indignado. Estamos aqui, tentando fazer a coisa certa, e precisamos lidar com o dilema de trabalhar com uma concorrência que mostra resultados incríveis, mas que advêm de tráfego fraudulento”, reclama Tom Phillips, CEO da Dstillery, uma empresa especializada na venda de espaços de mídia que preza pela confiabilidade dos veículos da sua rede, em entrevista ao AdAge.

Isso acontece porque grande parte dos anúncios online são adquiridos ‘programaticamente’, ou seja, através de um software que encontra locais em que o tráfego esteja de acordo com o plano de mídia do cliente. Só que os ‘robôs’ que compram o tráfego não sabem identificar os outros ‘robôs’ que visitam o site para gerar visitas falsas.

“Os clientes com quem trabalhamos iriam adorar investir mais em publicidade digital. Mas até que possamos oferecer a eles mais controle e transparência sobre como esse dinheiro está sendo gasto, eles vão continuar receosos e manter o investimento baixo”, explica Quentin George, co-fundador de uma empresa de consultoria em tecnologia de publicidade digital, em matéria do Wall Street Journal.

Enquanto esse cenário de fraude e visitas fake não conseguir ser resolvido, as marcas provavelmente continuarão investindo, mas cientes de que existe uma enorme margem de erro de 36%. Alguns anunciantes já começaram a incluir em seus contratos cláusulas que estipulam um reembolso caso a audiência das impressões seja falsa, mas o custo de realização de uma auditoria pode fazer com que o contrato seja pura formalidade.

Com isso, deve aumentar ainda mais o interesse por novos formatos, como a publicidade ‘nativa’ (ou customizada) e o investimento em anúncios para as mídias sociais, já que a audiência da web em geral anda tão em descrédito.

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Atmospheric Desert Editorials – The Vogue China April 2014 Photoshoot Stars Isabeli Fontana (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) Utterly enchanting, the Vogue China April 2014 editorial takes place in a white hot desert that has been given an atmospheric aesthetic through the lens of photographer Boo George. Artistically…

Marketers Cite Personalization as Most Important to Marketing in Coming Years


When asked to prioritize one capability that will be most important to marketing in the future, personalization topped marketers’ lists, according to a new study from Adobe.

The study, “Digital Roadblock: Marketers Struggle to Reinvent Themselves” highlights the issues facing marketers at a time when 64% expect their role will change in the next year and 81% anticipate it will change in the next three years.

Adobe CMO Ann Lewnes expressed surprise that personalization trumped hot areas like mobile, big data, social and real-time marketing.

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Kiss FM: Endorcism


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Advertising Agency:AlmapBBDO, São Paulo, Brazil
General Creative Director:Luiz Sanches
Creative Director:Andre Kassu, Marcos Medeiros
Art Director:Benjamin Yung Jr
Copywriters:Marcelo Nogueira, Sophie Schoenburg
Producing company:Stink
Executive Producer:Fernanda Curi, Cecilia Salgueiro
Directors:Jones and Tino
Photographer:Carlos Ritter
Art Direction:Vicente Saldanha
Editor:Jones+Tino, Danilo Abraham
Final Art:ClanVFX
Audio producing company:Satelite Audio
Producer:Equipe Satélite
Maestro:Equipe Satélite
Account:Fernanda Costa, Marina Castilho, Ricardo Taunay, Italo Neto, José Maria Fafe
Voice Over:Michael Hayes
Rtv:Vera Jacinto, Rafael Motta, Elisa Mello, Diego Villas Bôas
Media:Juliana Melo, Carolina Pimentel
Approval:Tais Abreu, Bárbara Conte

One/x Unveils Pig Gamer for Farm Sanctuary

One/x has released a new stop-motion animation advertisement for Farm Sanctuary demonstrating the intelligence of pigs and telling people to go vegan.

All the characters in the spot were created with folded paper in an attempt to marry form and function, exemplifying the theme of “pigs going from being seen as one-dimensional beings—which makes it easier for people to justify their exploitation—to the emotionally and cognitively complex, multi-dimensional beings they truly are.” The spot shows a pig beating both a chimpanzee and young child at a video game while quoting university studies that found pigs excelled over chimps and three-year old children at video games involving a joystick. It concludes with the tagline (perhaps borrowed from great white shark Bruce’s fish eating mantra in Finding Nemo), “Pigs are friends, not food” before a “Go Vegan” message pops up.

While the spot cleverly demonstrates the intelligence of pigs, in a visually striking way, there’s not a lot to support the leap from “Pigs are smart” to “Go Vegan.” Plenty of other animals people eat really do seem to lack intelligence. As Werner Herzog said, “Look into the eyes of a chicken and you will see real stupidity. It is a kind of bottomless stupidity, a fiendish stupidity. They are the most horrifying, cannibalistic and nightmarish creatures in the world.” Still, if convincing people that pigs are intelligent creatures and not mindless bacon machines was the main intent, then One/x has done a good job here. Credits after the jump. continued…

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Weight Watchers Australia: Awaken Your Incredible

Advertising Agency: Reactive, Australia
Image Partner: Getty Images

Caninocross: Tongue, 3

Come and run with your dog.

Advertising Agency: Gitanos Studio, San José, Costa Rica
Creative Director / Art Director: Daniel Montiel
Photographer: Eloy Mora
Published: March 2013

Caninocross: Tongue, 2

Come and run with your dog.

Advertising Agency: Gitanos Studio, San José, Costa Rica
Creative Director / Art Director: Daniel Montiel
Photographer: Eloy Mora
Published: March 2013

Caninocross: Tongue, 1

Come and run with your dog.

Advertising Agency: Gitanos Studio, San José, Costa Rica
Creative Director / Art Director: Daniel Montiel
Photographer: Eloy Mora
Published: March 2013

65 Crazy Japanese Restaurants – From Eroticized Coffee Shops to Toilet-Themed Restaurants (TOPLIST)

(TrendHunter.com) Aside from being pretty novel on their own, these Japanese restaurants seem to be in a contest to out-weird one another. Most of the time, it’s the quirkiness of the restaurant design that draws…

‘Just Me and Him’: See Honey Maid’s New ‘Wholesome’ Ad and Last Night’s Other New Spots


Every weekday, we bring you the Ad Age/iSpot Hot Spots, new and trending TV commercials tracked by iSpot.tv, a company that catalogs, tags and measures activity around TV ads in real time. The New Releases ran on TV for the first time yesterday. The Most Engaging ads are showing sustained social heat over the past week, ranked by SpotShare scores reflecting the percent of digital activity associated with each. See the methodology here.

Honey Maid, which has held a place on the Most Engaging chart since March 19 with its initial “This is Wholesome” spot — one of a crop of recent ads that reflect a more diverse picture of consumers — extends the campaign with a shorter version focusing on the single dad and his son. Honey Maid previously posted a two-minute mini documentary about this dad and his son on its YouTube channel.

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100 Fun Food Molds – These Cooking and Baking Molds Make Fun Food Shapes (TOPLIST)

(TrendHunter.com) If it’s true that we eat with our eyes first, these fun food shapes turn breakfasts, snacks and drinks into truly tasty visual treats. With these shapers, you can kiss away conventional geometric…

Apple Hires Bob Kupbens From Delta for Its E-Commerce Arm


Bob Kupbens has left his post at Delta Air Lines as VP-marketing and digital commerce to join Apple, according to his LinkedIn page and people familiar with Apple. His LinkedIn page says his title at Apple is VP-Apple Online Store, although the people familiar with the move did not confirm that.

Mr. Kupbens did not immediately respond to voicemails seeking comment.

In October, Apple hired Burberry CEO Angela Ahrendts as senior VP-sales and online retail, a position that Apple CEO Tim Cook created. E-Commerce is on the upswing for the company. Sales of “iTunes, Software and Services,” the company’s non-hardware products, were up 19% to $4.4 billion, according to first-quarter 2014 filings.

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Turner Merges TV and Digital Ad Sales Under Donna Speciale


Turner Broadcasting is restructuring its ad sales team, merging its TV and digital sales under Donna Speciale. She assumes some duties that had been handled by Greg D’Alba, who is leaving after 27 years at Turner, the company said.

The changes come about two years after Ms. Speciale joined Turner as president of Turner entertainment and animation ad sales. At the time, Mr. D’Alba was elevated to president, news and Turner digital ad sales.

Ms. Speciale now becomes president of Turner Ad Sales, effective immediately, adding digital and CNN to her existing purview of entertainment, kids and young adults.

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