ABC News President to Be Top Disney TV Executive

Ben Sherwood, who will head the ABC Television Group, has drawn attention for his work at the news operation, notably the rise of “Good Morning America.”

    



How ‘Cheesepocalypse’ Helped Velveeta Bond with Its Biggest Fans


The “Cheesepocalypse” shortage of Velveeta products before the Super Bowl in January was pure gold for the brand, which not only basked in copious free publicity but also used the opportunity to locate some of the people who loved it most in social media, said an executive for Kraft Foods in a presentation at the Advertising Research Foundation Re:Think conference in New York today.

The shortage, first reported by Advertising Age and repeated in countless other news outlets (many of which noted the #cheesepocalypse social-media hashtag that emerged almost instantly) may actually have been a tad overblown. It affected only one-pound boxes of the processed cheese product, not the two-pound boxes that account for most brand volume, said Cannon Koo, director of analytics for Kraft, in an interview after his presentation. Nevertheless, he said, “It was great. It helped our sales.”

Absence, or even a remote possibility of absence, can make hearts of true brand fans grow stronger, and that clearly was the case with Cheesepocalypse, in which they lamented the impending doom of a Super Bowl without their favorite processed cheese.

Continue reading at AdAge.com

List Building and Email Marketing Goof ups To Stay away from

With the right components, you can do proper list building and become successful using email marketing. The benefits to any business are celebrated including expansion of each your business and your financial well being. There are a number of people who have difficulty with list building, and we know since we read about it almost every day. We will propose there are really only a few good reasons for list building failure, and perhaps the greatest is failing to develop a solid relationship. The worst type of thing any person can do is choose to build a list and not realizing what is important.

One of the most necessary things to get right with list building is to complete things in the right sequence. For example, you will find many people who decide to build their own list, and that is absolutely commendable on their part. It is our impression that a good deal of marketers put the cart ahead of the horse and do things a bit in reverse. So just envision what it could be like if you start finding subscribers, but you do not have all the steps in place. Maybe it is something like only having a few autoresponders in place rather than the whole series. You won’t even have your series for promotional offers lined-up, at this point. So that indicates you have not chosen what you will ultimately try to sell to them. So why don’t we stop there and wonder what other things are essential.

A lot of marketing on the net has undergone advancement in some ways. You have to seriously think of a means to get noticed among the crowd. People are weary of seeing the same types of free giveaways that have been the norm for so long. The best way to get people to stop and at a minimum look is if you put something together that appears and feels awesome. Exactly how have you done in that piece of the puzzle? Did you get the time to develop or get something truly impressive? We feel a lot of people do not put enough thought into this particular aspect of list building. We are taking part a lot and notice quite a bit that goes on, and it often can seem like an afterthought. Also take into account that if you are seriously rushing this process, then you will almost certainly not have something of good quality prepared.

Hopefully you have some sort of website or blog where you can easily send people who register. We are most certainly aware that some IM products will tell you no blog is needed, etc. However, we will admit that is correct in that you absolutely do not have to make use of a site. But you have to think about how people may respond to your email marketing if you do not ever send them to any kind of site. Our thinking is that you may be thought of as an beginner. Additionally think about that, an email marketer who does not have any kind of site that is relevant to his or her market. Consequently, of course we firmly suggest you have something in place that appears professional and has solid content material on it.

Treatings, um Tinder para buscar conselhos sobre carreira e negócios

Uma das principais dicas da maioria dos grandes executivos do mercado é buscar conselhos profissionais com colegas ou mentores. Só que nem sempre isso é fácil – depende da disponibilidade das pessoas, da sua área de trabalho e do quão afim elas estão de palpitar nas suas iniciativas e dilemas de carreira.

Visando facilitar essa conversa e criar pontes entre pessoas com interesses mútuos, surgiu a Treatings, uma startup nova-iorquina que é uma espécie de Tinder para negócios. O intuito básico é conectar na vida real pessoas que estejam trabalhando ou empreendendo em ramos similares.

O funcionamento é razoavelmente simples: você conecta a sua conta do Treatings com o LinkedIn, de onde o serviço puxa o seu currículo e principais habilidades, e depois pode marcar assuntos que te interessem e cafeterias ao redor que sejam as suas favoritas. A partir de então, o usuário pode tanto ativamente procurar profissionais específicos – quem sabe um desenvolvedor, ou um especialista em determinada área para avaliar a viabilidade da sua iniciativa – quanto aguardar que o sistema aponte outros profissionais que possam ser seus colaboradores, incentivadores ou ‘palpiteiros oficiais’.

O Treatings é como um Tinder para negócios: se houver interesse recíproco, o sistema coloca as pessoas em contato e sugere que tomem um café juntas.

O Treatings também usa um pouco da ideia de funcionamento de aplicativos de paquera online como o Tinder, permitindo marcar pessoas com quem você se interessaria em bater um papo e tomar um café. se houver interesse recíproco, o sistema coloca as pessoas em contato para agendar o encontro.

Por enquanto o Treatings tem cerca de 3 mil usuários cadastrados, a grande maioria deles dentro dos EUA. Tanto que ao tentar acessar o serviço, fui avisada de que não existem brasileiros (ou paulistas, ou joseenses) o suficiente para que o sistema possa me recomendar pessoas com interesses mútuos. No entanto, de acordo com que o Treatings for ganhando mais adeptos, a situação deve mudar.

Os fundadores da Treatings na cafeteria que mais gostam.

Os fundadores da Treatings na cafeteria que mais gostam.

Uma curiosidade é que a empresa, que foi fundada em 2012 por dois jovens profissionais do setor financeiro, funciona dentro da biblioteca da New York University. Ao invés de alugar um espaço caríssimo em Manhattan, Paul Osetinsky e Hayden Williams se tornaram ‘amigos da biblioteca’ e pagam uma taxa anual para poder utilizar o Wi-Fi, as máquinas de xerox e as salas de reunião do local. 

Quem sabe o Treatings pode ser uma boa pra quem já cansou a orelha dos amigos importunando sobre suas ideias que futuramente renderão milhões de dólares, ou quem está em busca de mentoria, mas não sabe onde buscar. Além disso, é uma ótima forma de trocar conselhos por cafezinhos. Porque como já diz o ditado popular, conselhos bons nunca saem de graça.

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Bro Chugs a Ton of Tabasco and Vomits in Worst Ad Ever for a Dating App

In what may actually be a decent metaphor for dating, a sweaty, red-faced bro who calls himself the L.A. Beast elected to keep chugging a gallon of hot sauce, even after he'd clearly had enough, until his body turned on him and rejected all the habañero-flavored Tabasco he'd just chugged.

And it's an ad for a dating app?

The 10-minute video below may teach a lesson about perseverance for the single women and men who might check out Hot or Not's dating app. But even with what sounds like inspirational piano and the use of time lapse, we can't imagine too many people sitting through all the vomit. There's a lot of it.

The app, which looks like a carbon copy of Tinder, is deemed by the L.A. Beast himself to be "an ingenious way to pick up the ladies." We can't say the same for the video.

Via Time.


    



Malbaie VIII Residence by MU Architecture

Après la résidence Malbaie V, les architectes de chez MU Architecture ont pensé la résidence Malbaie VIII « La Grange » à Charlevoix au Québec. Faite tout en bois, elle offre une vue imprenable sur la forêt, une rivière et une chaine de montagnes avec ses deux étages et ses deux terrasses. Une belle bâtisse à découvrir.

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Awkward: NYT Runs Underwater iPad Ad Above News of Airline’s Ocean Crash

Well here's a truly unfortunate ad placement. Right above the headline "Malaysia Says Jet Went Down in Ocean" on today's New York Times homepage, readers saw a large animated ad with divers using the Apple iPad Air underwater.

"See the unique ways people are using iPad around the world," notes the ad's closing headline, which lingered onscreen for several minutes above the update on missing Malaysia Airlines Flight 370. The ad was up for about two hours this afternoon before appearing to be removed around 3:30 p.m. Eastern. 

Click here to see a full-sized version of the ad placement.


    



Inner Beauty Seeking Agencies – This ‘Anti-Agency’ Wants Personality as Opposed to Good Looks (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) Lucy Greene and Pandora Lennard’s ‘Anti-Agency’ is a very modern take on traditional model agencies. The UK-based 24-year-old stylists started an agency that selects models based on personality,…

Sprint: Meet the Frobinsons

Advertising Agency: Figliulo&Partners, USA
Chief Creative Officer: Mark Figliulo
Creative Directors: Jonathan Mackler, Joe Ventura
Art Director: Craig Duffney
Copywriters: Jim Lemaitre, Allon Tatarka
Account Executives: Judith Carr-Rodriguez, Dena Graham
Planning: Caroline Krediet
Head of Production: Robert Valdes
Producer: Katherine Cheng
Art Producer: Carly Chappell
Print Production: Sarah Whinnem
Business Affairs: Samantha Norvin
Digital Agency: DigitasLBi
Creative Directors: Lewis McVey
Art Directors: Keith Henneman, Christine Monahan
Copywriters: David Shih, Nate Winter
Project Managers: Courtney Klein, Matt Hill
Account Executives: Davin Power, Alex Raymond, Caitlin Kelly, Cristin Jordan
Planning: Mark Kirby
Business Affairs: Dan Simonetti, Wilmien Blake
Technology: Tony Bailey, Paul Nagorney, Nathan Dill, Angie Khumdee
Media Agency: SMG
Media Spend: TBC
Media team: Terry Whitney, Tracy Reimers, Debbie Hutchings, Bridget Scanlan, Kandace Barker
Photographer/Designer: Emily Shur / Giant Artists
Production Company: Imperial Woodpecker
Director: Stacy Wall
Director of Photography: John Lynch
Executive Producer: Charlie Cocuzza
Line Producer: Betsy Oliver
Editing House: The Whitehouse
Editor: Lisa Gunning
Producer: Nick Crane

Sprint: Family Portrait

Advertising Agency: Figliulo&Partners, USA
Chief Creative Officer: Mark Figliulo
Creative Directors: Jonathan Mackler, Joe Ventura
Art Director: Craig Duffney
Copywriters: Jim Lemaitre, Allon Tatarka
Account Executives: Judith Carr-Rodriguez, Dena Graham
Planning: Caroline Krediet
Head of Production: Robert Valdes
Producer: Katherine Cheng
Art Producer: Carly Chappell
Print Production: Sarah Whinnem
Business Affairs: Samantha Norvin
Digital Agency: DigitasLBi
Creative Directors: Lewis McVey
Art Directors: Keith Henneman, Christine Monahan
Copywriters: David Shih, Nate Winter
Project Managers: Courtney Klein, Matt Hill
Account Executives: Davin Power, Alex Raymond, Caitlin Kelly, Cristin Jordan
Planning: Mark Kirby
Business Affairs: Dan Simonetti, Wilmien Blake
Technology: Tony Bailey, Paul Nagorney, Nathan Dill, Angie Khumdee
Media Agency: SMG
Media Spend: TBC
Media team: Terry Whitney, Tracy Reimers, Debbie Hutchings, Bridget Scanlan, Kandace Barker
Photographer/Designer: Emily Shur / Giant Artists
Production Company: Imperial Woodpecker
Director: Stacy Wall
Director of Photography: John Lynch
Executive Producer: Charlie Cocuzza
Line Producer: Betsy Oliver
Editing House: The Whitehouse
Editor: Lisa Gunning
Producer: Nick Crane

These Blatantly Racist and Fat-Shaming Ads Aren’t as Evil as They Seem

Do black people and fat people deserve to earn less money than skinny white people? 

Well, no, but the arguments in favor of such a wage gap are somewhat entertaining in two new spots from equalpayday.be, a Belgian organization whose mission is to raise awareness about equal pay for … another demographic. (You can probably guess where this is going, but we won't spoil the surprise.)

The comparison certainly isn't perfect, and this tactic likely won't win over many who are unconcerned with the real wage gap at issue. It also probably won't go over too well with people who earnestly do feel held back in their careers because of their race or weight. But with ads so joyously sarcastic, it's hard to hold too much of a grudge.

Via Creative Criminals.


    



UNIACC: Welcome, 3

Boost your talent, welcome to create.

Advertising Agency: El Living, Chile
Creative Director: José Francisco Tapia
Art Director: Sebastián Pamplona
Copywriter: Sebastián Leyton

UNIACC: Welcome, 2

Boost your talent, welcome to create.

Advertising Agency: El Living, Chile
Creative Director: José Francisco Tapia
Art Director: Sebastián Pamplona
Copywriter: Sebastián Leyton

UNIACC: Welcome, 1

Boost your talent, welcome to create.

Advertising Agency: El Living, Chile
Creative Director: José Francisco Tapia
Art Director: Sebastián Pamplona
Copywriter: Sebastián Leyton

Carl’s Jr. / Hardee’s: Mystique

Advertising Agency: 72andSunny, USA
Chief Creative Officer: Glenn Cole
Chief Strategic Officer: Matt Jarvis
Group Creative Directors: Mick DiMaria, Justin Hooper
Lead Copywriter: Mark Maziarz
Lead Designer: Anthony Alvarez
Designer: Gabo Curielcha
Chief Production Officer: Tom Dunlap
Director of Film Production: Sam Baerwald
Film Executive Producer: Molly McFarland
Senior Film Producer: Ann Parker
Film Production Coordinator: Jenny Jones
Group Strategy Director: Matt Johnson
Strategist: Josh Hughes
Production Company: RSA Films
President: Jules Daly
Director: Justin Hooper
Executive Producer: Marjie Abrahams
Line Producer: Josh Porter
Head of Production: Elicia Laport
Sales Representative: Holly Ross
Editorial: Beast
Editor: Paul Norling
Assistant Editor: Ryan Dahlman
Executive Producer: Jerry Sukys
Producer: Adrienne Tararin
VFX Supervisor: Kathy Siegel
Mystique VFX: Digital Domain
Commercial President: Rich Flier
EP/Head of Production: Scott Gemmell
Senior Commercials Producer: Tiffani Manabat
VFX Producer: Erika McKee
VFX Supervisor: Richard Morton
Telecine: CO3
Colorist: Mike Pethel
Producer: Matt Moran
Online: Brickyard VFX
Lead VFX Artist: George Fitz
VFX Artists: Patrick Poulatian, Mandy Sorenson, Chris Sonia
Rotoscoping: Nick Murillo
Producer: Diana Young
Sound Design / Mix: ON Music & Sound
Mixer: Chris Winston
Music: Hitlist
Composer: Jim Weber
Producer: Christy Van House

Watch Last Night’s Brand-New Chanel Commercial Starring Keira Knightley


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, ranked by SpotShare scores reflecting the percent of digital activity associated with each one over the past week. See the methodology here.

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GEICO: Bad news

Advertising Agency: The Martin Agency, USA
Chief Creative Officer: Joe Alexander?
Group Creative Directors: Steve Bassett, Wade Alger
Associate Creative Directors: Neel Williams, Justin Harris
Agency Executive Broadcast Producer: Molly Schaaf
Agency Producer: Alex Scheer-Payne
Agency Junior Producer: Emily Taylor
Business Affairs Supervisor: Suzanne Wieringo
Senior Integrated Production Business Manager: Amy Trenz
Group Account Director: Brad Higdon
Account Supervisor: Parker Collins
Account Executive: Meg Ingraham
Project Manager: Emily Masters
Production Company: Radical
Director: Steve Miller
Director of Photography: Eric Schmidt
Executive Producer: Gregg Carlesimo
Line Producer: Barbara Benson
Editorial Company: Whitehouse Chicago
Editor: Matt Wood
Assistant Editor: Caleb Hepler
Executive Producer: Dan Bryant
Editorial Producer: Dawn Guzowski
Telecine: Co. 3
Colorist: Tim Masick
Animation & VFX: The Mill
VFX Supervisor: Randy McEntee
Executive Producer: Zu Al-Kadiri
Senior Producer: Colin Blaney
Audio Post Company: Rainmaker Studios
Engineer: Jeff McManus

72andSunny Marries X-Men, Bacon for Carl’s Jr./Hardee’s

72andSunny have launched a new campaign for Carl’s Jr./Hardee’s’ X-Tra Bacon promotional tie-in for 20th Century Fox’s X-Men: Days of Future Past, which premieres May 23rd.

The X-Men themed campaign from 72andSunny features appearances from iconic characters using their mutant powers to take down the extra bacon on the  Western X-Tra Bacon Cheeseburger and X-Tra Bacon, Egg & Cheese Biscuit. 72andSunny’s campaign kicks off with “Mystique” in which Mystique takes on the Western X-Tra Bacon Cheeseburger, morphing into just some dude who loves Carl’s Jr. and back over the course of the spot. Additional spots starring two more characters yet to be revealed will be unveiled this April.

In addition to the broadcast campaign, Carl’s Jr. and Hardee’s are inviting fans to engage in “X-Men Digital Makeover.” By submitting a photo of themselves eating or drinking at a Carl’s Jr. or Hardee’s, on Instagram using the hashtag #EatLikeYouMeanIt (#That’sWhatSheSaid, replies @MichaelScott) fans get a chance of receiving a mutant makeover transforming them into an X-Men character. Stick around for campaign credits and the actual trailer for X-Men: Days of Future Past after the jump. continued…

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Journalist Receives Big Advance for Jann Wenner Biography

Joe Hagan, a contributing editor for New York magazine, will have access to the Rolling Stone publisher’s archives to research and write the book.

    



Symmetrical Face Photography – The Series by Alex John Beck Displays the Same Side of Someone’s Face (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) Photographer Alex John Beck shows us what we would look like if both sides of our face were the same. Since both sides of our face are different from each other, it is hard to know what we would…