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Every letter can save CO2.

Anyone who has ever attempted to print out a website is familiar with the problem: What appears as an attractive page on the screen emerges from the printer in totally chaotic fashion and therefore generally goes straight into the garbage. Printfriendly is a free web app that enables users to design the content of web pages to be user-friendly. So you can save paper, toner – and carbon.

Advertising Agency: Leo Burnett, Frankfurt, Germany
Creative Director: Hans-Juergen Kaemmerer
Art Director / Illustrator: Michael Fluhr
Copywriter: Manuel Rentz
Published: January 2014

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Every letter can save CO2.

Anyone who has ever attempted to print out a website is familiar with the problem: What appears as an attractive page on the screen emerges from the printer in totally chaotic fashion and therefore generally goes straight into the garbage. Printfriendly is a free web app that enables users to design the content of web pages to be user-friendly. So you can save paper, toner – and carbon.

Advertising Agency: Leo Burnett, Frankfurt, Germany
Creative Director: Hans-Juergen Kaemmerer
Art Director / Illustrator: Michael Fluhr
Copywriter: Manuel Rentz
Published: January 2014

LinkedIn’s Penry Price: We’re Not Competing With Facebook


LinkedIn brought on Penry Price — a long-time Google sales executive who most recently was president of the ad-tech startup Dstillery — as VP-global sales for its ad business at a key moment six months ago.

The company was in the midst of a transformation into a vehicle for content marketing, powered by “sponsored updates,” or native ads that be slipped into user streams alongside updates from connections and posts by high-profile writers like Bill Gates and Richard Branson. (It recently announced it will open up the “influencer” program to the masses, letting anyone post long-form content on LinkedIn.)

Launched last July, sponsored updates are an area of strategic focus for the company, but it hasn’t disclosed how much revenue they’re bringing in.

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Love Knows No Bounds for Budgie and Cat in Charming British Spot

Cat and budgie—sworn enemies in the real world, last time I checked—join forces to tout British TV service Freeview in these extremely silly spots from Leo Burnett London.

Kitty paws open the birdcage and the pair perform a soulful duet of of the Marvin Gaye/Tammi Terrell tune "You're All I Need to Get By." Their owner's thoroughly baffled, and a voiceover tells us, "Entertainment—it's even better when it's free. Ninety-five percent of the nation's top TV, no monthly cost. Freeview. How good is that?" Not nearly as good as a singing cat and budgie, I'm sure. (Or a singing cat and kid, but that's a different ad.)

Phillip Meyler and Darren Keff, the Burnett creatives who crafted the campaign, tell AdFreak they took their inspiration from examples of real-world entertainment that people enjoy all the more because they are free, such as watching pets play together. A cat and budgie were chosen because the grandmothers of both Meyler and Keff have this particular "classic" pairing of pets.

The fun effort from director Ne-O at production house Stink is exceedingly cute—and cute critters almost always score in ads. But there's implicit tension that gives the commercial something extra. On first viewing, I wondered if the cat would ultimately eat the budgie. Or vice versa. Maybe in the sequel. Or else Freeview could add a Kinky tadpole from last year's spot and make it a trio. 

A series of 20-second clips introducing the "Budgiecat" are even stranger than the minute-long centerpiece spot. Here, the creatures don't just duet, they physically meld, like a matter-transporter experiment gone awry, into a mischievous feline-faced feathered freak. You know you want one.


    



Hey, Bob Winter Has Landed a New Gig as Well

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Yes, word is out that Bob Winter, former Y&R (what was then Chicago) CCO who left for Crispin Porter + Bogusky in late 2012, has found a new gig at VSA Partners. Winter, who helped create the Bud Light “Real Men of Genius” campaign while at DDB and led wins on Dave & Buster’s and Famous Footwear during his stint at Y&R, will now take on the role of partner/executive creative director at VSA, which houses offices in its homebase of Chicago as well as Detroit and NYC.

In a statement, said agency’s CEO, Dana Arnett, says, “The addition of this world-class marketing talent just continues to advance VSA’s legacy of designing powerful, human-centered experiences across channels that are realized to the highest creative and strategic standards. When those dots are effectively connected, clients and consumers always benefit.”

As mentioned before, during his career, Winter also served as a creative director at Goodby and an SVP/CD at Leo Burnett.

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After Facebook: Meet 11 Hot Messaging Apps Eating the World


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About: WhatsApp is ubiquitous in places like the Netherlands, Spain, South Africa, Brazil and Mexico. It has robust group-messaging functionality and allows users to share video and audio clips. Facebook is paying $19 billion for it.

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Mini Law Lesson: How Brands Can Use Hashtags Without Getting Sued


Is it okay to use a hashtag for a media event your brand doesn’t sponsor? What about making a hashtag out of a competitor’s brand name? Attorney Brian Heidelberger breaks it down.

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Pley, um ‘Netflix dos Legos’, aluga pecinhas em planos mensais

Para que gastar uma pequena fortuna adquirindo Legos para você ou para os seus filhos – e depois ter que se preocupar com a limpeza das peças, ou então onde estoca-las –  se você puder simplesmente alugar o seu kit favorito, e depois até trocá-lo por um novo, com outras peças?

A empresa Pley, lançada há pouco menos de um ano, se oferece para ser exatamente essa facilitadora. Quem já entrou em lojas de brinquedos atrás de Legos sabe que eles custam uma pequena fortuna, com kits temáticos batendo a casa das centenas de reais. E não ache que é culpa do ‘custo Brasil’ – fora do país o brinquedo também não é tido como um dos mais baratos, ainda que crianças e adultos pareçam se divertir tanto quanto com as pecinhas. A Pley surge com o conceito de ‘Netflix dos Legos’ – você escolhe o kit de acordo com as suas necessidades, e a Pley te deixa com os Legos emprestados durante um mês inteiro.

A vantagem, segundo Elina Furman, co-fundadora da Pley, é que os pais (ou você, né?) podem ter acesso a uma maior variedade de kits de Lego, inclusive os temáticos, sem precisar gastar rios de dinheiro. A bagunça também é menor, já que quando enjoar das pecinhas, basta devolver o kit e trocar por outro mais bacana, sem ficar entulhando as pecinhas pela casa.

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A empresa também se preocupa com a higienização das peças, que segue critérios da FDA para evitar contaminações. Como o foco são as crianças, perder pecinhas também não é um problema para a Pley – eles sabem que os pequenos se preocupam mais em brincar do que cuidar do brinquedo, e não há cobrança adicional se faltarem até 15 pecinhas no kit. As assinaturas são razoavelmente acessíveis, partindo de 15 dólares para um kit pequeno, 25 por um Lego médio e 39 pela maior assinatura da Pley, que inclui Legos temáticos ou com mais peças

A ideia deu tão certo que a Pley acaba de receber 6,75 milhões de dólares em uma rodada de investimentos. Desde a estreia da Pley, em abril do ano passado, já foram realizadas mais de 15 mil assinaturas do serviço, e mais de 75 mil kits de Lego foram entregues.

Apenas me fez pensar: será que chega no Brasil? 🙂

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Carte Noire: Rose

Advertising Agency: Proximity BBDO, Paris, France
Creative Director: Valérie Levy-Harrar
Associate Creative Director: Audrey Tamic
Art Director: Rémi Jamin
Music Composer: Aymeric Lepage
Art Buyer: Francine Jiminiga
Directors: M. Roulier et P. Lhomme
Production: Le Potager Prod.
Food Designer: Emmanuel Turiot
Style Designer: Sylvie Bagros
Editing: Bruno Herlin
Sound design: The Hot Line

BlackBerry Turns to Ads to Get Back In the Social Messaging Race


It’s hard to believe, but BlackBerry once had a huge headstart on the hottest new thing in tech. The Canadian device-maker unveiled BlackBerry Messenger, a mobile chatting platform, in 2006, three years before WhatsApp was even born.

But BlackBerry bet on its hardware—and lost. When handset sales plummeted, Messenger, later shortened to BBM, a service stuck on one operating system, saw rivals zoom past. WhatsApp claims 450 million users, next to 85 million for BBM. On the day that BlackBerry executives spoke with Ad Age, Tango, one of a cornucopia of popular messaging apps, picked up a $280 million investment from Alibaba and boasted a user base of 200 million.

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British Ads Capture the Often Brutal Horrors of Police Work

Police often find themselves in high-stress, high-stakes scenarios—facing unruly drunken mobs, drivers stuck in cars about to explode and knife-wielding maniacs.

This series of videos from ad agency Brain Candy for the Scottish Police Federation, a professional trade group, wants you to consider how you'd handle yourself in a cop's shoes. The ads work hard to build the sort of suspense that will actually make you feel uncomfortable. They do a pretty good job of it, too—particularly the first brutal spot below.

The personal details about the officers help anchor the ads. The only question is whether they could have done it a little more quickly. The ads clock in at between 1:45 and 2:30, which means what you might do is nod off before they get to the kicker.

Warning: These ads contain violence and may be upsetting.


    



Carte Noire: Fire and Ice

Advertising Agency: BETC, France
Creative Director: Manoëlle Van Der Vaeren
Copywriter: David Soussan
Strategic Planning: Elisabeth Jamot
TV producers: David Green, Marie Stéphanie Perdriat
Production: Moonwalk
Director: Tarsem
Published: March 2013

DigitasLBi Welcomes New Creative Lead in Chicago/SF

morgandiglbiRemember the name Kevin Drew Davis? If not, here’s a refresher: KDD was the creative lead at DigitasLBi’s Chicago and San Francisco, but left the agency last summer. Now, said agency has finally found his replacement in 20-year creative vet, Morgan Carroll, who succeeds Davis in the role EVP/executive creative director of both aforementioned offices. Carroll (pictured), who will officially assume his role on April 21 and will report to DigitasLBi Chicago/SF president, Doug Ryan, joins the agency after spending well over a decade at Deutsch, where he last served as EVP/group creative director on GoDaddy (remember this one?), Microsoft, Degree for Men, etc.

During his career, Carroll (pictured), also held the title of interactive CD at Saatchi & Saatchi, where he was a founding member of its Digital Darwin offshoot, over saw the interactive creative department in NY and worked with clients including P&G and General Mills.

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Inside the Case for First-Party Data


Third-party behavioral data has been a key ingredient of digital-ad targeting for years. Indeed, the maze of ad-tech firms has grown even more complex as new types of companies emerge to serve the third-party-data market, from ad exchanges and data-management platforms to tag-management firms. But not everyone is enamored of cookie-based third-party data.

“Using cookies to drive online advertising is like using a chainsaw to do brain surgery,” said Scott Howe, CEO of data giant Acxiom, at RampUp, the annual event held by data firm LiveRamp, in February.

Put simply, third-party data is information gathered through outside sources and stored on cookies. It might represent web pages users have visited, such as product descriptions, or indicate the types of content they’ve shared via Facebook and Twitter. Audience-targeting firms use this data to segment users for ad targeting and create look-alike models to extend the reach of those audiences.

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One-Touch Operational Luggage – This Compact Carryon Luggage From Torq is Scratch Resistant (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) If you’re travelling and need light and compact carry-on luggage, the Torq International Spinners is versatile and compatible with airport regulations.

The Torq international carry-on spinner is…

Water Imitated by a Wood Automaton

Découverte de ce petit automate en bois qui est destiné à imiter l’effet d’une goutte d’eau tombant sur une masse d’eau. La pièce a été créée par le designer britannique Dean O’Callaghan. Un objet « Water Imitated by a Wood Automaton » à la fois esthétique, et ludique à découvrir en détails en photos et vidéo.

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Kimberly-Clark CMO: It’s Time for Marketers to Let Go of TV-Driven Past


When it comes to digital marketing, marketers are like trapeze artists trying to grab the next bar without letting go of the last one, and the results could be embarrassing or dangerous as Kimberly-Clark Corp. Chief Marketing Officer Clive Sirkin sees it.

Despite growing investment in digital marketing, marketers are still clinging to methods and models better suited to analog TV advertising, Mr. Sirkin said in an interview, previewing his keynote speech at the Advertising Age Digital Conference April 1.

Kimberly-Clark, maker of Kleenex and Huggies, is a top-100 advertiser in the U.S. with measured spending of $404 million on advertising in the U.S. in 2012, the last figures that are available to Ad Age Datacenter.

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ADT Taps New Chief Marketer


ADT has tapped Jerri DeVard as its new CMO, replacing Tony Wells.

Ms. DeVard, who has held senior marketing roles at Nokia, Verizon and Citi, will begin at ADT on March 31. She will be charged with leading ADT’s marketing efforts across its residential, small business and health business units and will oversee all brand advertising, digital marketing, communications, lead generation and sponsorship initiatives.

Ms. Devard had been consulting following her departure from Nokia in mid-2012, amid news the brand would cut 10,000 employees. She has also spent time at Revlon and Harrah’s.

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Banksy empresta sua garota com um balão vermelho à campanha contra a guerra na Síria

Uma das obras mais conhecidas de Bansksy, a garota com um balão vermelho tem sido, desde sua criação em 2002, um símbolo de esperança para muitas pessoas. Agora, o stencil ganhou uma releitura para a campanha “With Syria”, que lembra que a guerra civil na Síria já está em seu terceiro ano.

Com criação da Sunshine e produção da RSA Films, a animação é narrada por Idris Elba e conta com trilha sonora da Elbow. Nela, somos lembrados que os conflitos já mataram, nos últimos três anos, mais de 100 mil pessoas, entre homens, mulheres e crianças.

Misturando informações sobre a triste realidade enfrentada pelo povo sírio, “With Syria” incentiva as pessoas do mundo inteiro a não se calarem diante dos horrores da guerra naquele país, manifestand0-se por meio de balões vermelhos ou colaborando de qualquer outra forma que ajude a por um fim nos conflitos.

A animação é de arrepiar, assim como outros filmes sobre o tema que vimos recentemente aqui e aqui.

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Government rejects call for ban on daytime TV payday loan ads

The government has said it will not ban payday lenders such as Wonga and Peachy from advertising during daytime and children’s TV.