Colleen DeCourcy’s New Digital Lodge Gets Five Stars From Dan And Dave

After 15 months on the job as Wieden + Kennedy’s new digital marketing maven, Colleen DeCourcy, has been named partner at the Portland-based global agency.

According to Adweek, each of the 11 W+K partners has an equity stake in the independent agency and helps shape its priorities.

One of DeCourcy’s priorities coming in to the agency was to avoid being labeled as the “digital chick.” Given that W+K is the world’s best TV shop, I can see how this might be a concern.

Can you imagine being the best at what you do, but getting too little respect from colleagues who can’t help but see you as “other?” Speaking for myself, it would annoy me to no end but also propel me forward.

Traditional creative directors at W+K and elsewhere want to see your reel, and they want to be made jealous by its contents. Which is why I find DeCourcy’s comments related to her new partner status interesting.

“There’s no theory of anything. That means jack shit in this place,” DeCourcy said. “You make stuff or you don’t. What you do makes other people’s work better or it doesn’t. So, really it wasn’t about territory, decks, procedures or getting collusion.”

Asked about her goals moving forward, DeCourcy paused for a moment and replied: “We are in this place where we’re kind of questioning what’s going on with the industry. It’s not about getting more digital. It’s not about getting more social. It’s not about solving problems. It’s just, when did this industry get so boring?”

To recap, you either make interesting stuff or you don’t work at Wieden. Of course, this is rather simplistic, isn’t it? What interesting stuff do you make or not make? Interesting stuff that’s going to be on TV? Or interesting stuff that’s going to run only on YouTube? Like it or not, there is a difference and one is considerably more favorable to a great number of creatives hungry for recognition, promotions and money.

How long TV will remain on top of this pyramid is hard to say. We can examine the dollars spent and the hours watched, but the whole story isn’t found in the data. When we begin to see digital campaigns with a TV element, we can talk about a seismic shift in agency culture. For now, DeCourcy and her fellow pioneers go boldly where non-makers fear to tread.

Previously on AdPulp: The Marketing Opportunity In Social Pales When Compared To Spreading An Idea Virus

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Trouble Brewing in the Publicis Omnicom Camp

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Over the weekend you may have heard of some newfound uncertainty regarding the world’s soon-to-be-biggest agency: the bastard child of Publicis and Omnicom.

Let’s review the reports, shall we?

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A Website’s Chief Plays Down China’s Curb on American Shows

The Sohu chief remained hopeful that an order to remove several shows was a one-time tactic, and not the start of a worrisome trend for video sites.

Creative Ideas Die Messy Deaths in Ad School’s ‘Dumb Ways’ Parody

It's a bit surprising that no one's done this until now, but here it is—a parody of the megaviral "Dumb Ways to Die" train-safey video showing various ways in which creative ideas die ignoble deaths in the ad business.

Some of the joke writing feels a little off, or perhaps just lost in translation—the video was made by Young & Rubicam Brazil for Miami Ad School/ESPM in São Paulo.

Still, it's decently produced and comically relatable—every ad creative has a story about a dumb way in which his/her flash of brilliance was ruthlessly extinguished.




Burger King Names David Lead Global Agency


Burger King has tapped WPP’s David as its lead global agency.

Founded in 2011 by Latin American Ogilvy execs, David will help the fast-food chain execute global work so that the brand has a more consistent global image.

The move comes after close to three years of no global agency watching over the brand. MDC’s CP&B handled the chain’s U.S. work until 2011 and fielded some work overseas during its seven-year tenure as lead agency. But the scope with David will likely be more comprehensive and aim to create a more cohesive message around the world, said Global Chief Marketing Officer Axel Schwan.

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Toyota Moving U.S. Sales and Marketing HQ to Texas


After 57 years of being based in the trend-setting Los Angeles area, Toyota Motor Sales U.S.A. is moving its sales and marketing headquarters to Plano, Texas, sources close to the matter told Automotive News.

The move will occur in stages and take two years to complete, the people said. Most of Toyota’s 5,000 Torrance-based headquarters management and employees will be affected, several Toyota insiders said.

The transition was announced to a small group of Toyota executives on Friday, and the rest of the staff will be told today.

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Watch These Kids Build an Airport in Touching Turkish Airlines Ad

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On the innocence of childhood. And the power of that innocence as leverage marketers can use to get people to buy stuff. Phrased that way, it makes ads featuring kids seem crass. But thankfully, most ads featuring kids are simply beautiful. Like this one for Turkish Airlines.

In the ad, we see three kids looking up into the sky and watching plane pass over. In one translation, the kids wonder why the plane never lands where they are so they decide to build an airport to see if a plane will land. It does. But to the children’s surprise, it’s just over a mountain top at another airport.

It’s all about how the global airline also covers all its bases domestically as well.

LED Cycling Shoes – The Urbanized Cycling Shoe is an All-Purpose Shoe for Cyclists (GALLERY)

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BBDO NY Brings Together 3 Clients for Autism Awareness Month

BBDO New York collaborated with clients Johnson & Johnson, Campbell Soup Company and AT&T Wireless to create a commercial message designed to raise autism awareness and educate viewers of the importance of early detection, timed to coincide with the end of Autism Awareness Month.

Four 15 second spots that air sequentially combine to form a story arc of a child growing up with autism. Three of those spots also acts as ads for Band-Aid, Campbell’s Soup, and AT&T. Following the last spot, which features a recent graduate and his proud parents, played by a real autism sufferer and his parents (who appear in the other ads as well), the sequence concludes with the message, “You just saw how early diagnosis can make a lifetime of difference.  Watch again or learn the signs at www.autismspeaks.org/signs.” This sequence is scheduled to air one time today on the CNN program New Day, and will then live online at YouTube and the Autism Speaks website, with a digital extension expected to run courtesy of Undertone. continued…

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Mondelez Inks Real-Time Marketing Video Deal With NowThis News


Mondelez International has struck a deal with video-news provider NowThis News to help create content for an ambitious real-time marketing initiative.

As part of the deal, Mondelez has created “Blink Studios,” which the candy-and-snacks marketer describes as “a new-wave digital newsroom, allowing brands to plug in and react in real time with engaging, creative and newsworthy video content.”

The program is for the North American market and will cover brands including Halls, belVita, Oreo and Wheat Thins. Mondelez declined to disclose terms of the deal other than to say it was a “long-term” arrangement.

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Television Review: ‘Last Week Tonight,’ on HBO, Reviews the News

John Oliver’s new show, “Last Week Tonight,” on HBO, is the “All Things Considered” to Jon Stewart’s evening news.



Watch the Weekend’s New TV Spots From Kia, Intel, Sprint and More


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 over the weekend. 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.

Among the new releases, Nascar star Jeff Gordon does not want to join a hamster’s Sprint “Framily,” San Francisco street performing legend Edward Jackson plays his Intel tablet like a keyboard, and Jack McBrayer (Kenneth the NBC page from “30 Rock”) continues fighting crime (or planning to, at least) alongside Blake Griffin in Kia’s continuing Batman-and-Robin-ish campaign.

As always, you can find out more about the making of the best commercials on TV at Ad Age’s Creativity.

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Pegas Bicycles: The Internet of the People


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The “Pegas” bicycle brand was born during the not so cool Romanian Communism. But it became a love mark back then. (probably because it was a good product in times when choices were very thin). In order to make this heritage relevant to the young audience of today (overwhelmed with choices), we created The Internet of the People. The first ever website to show how the internet would’ve been like, if invented in Communist Romania – the Pegas bicycles’ glory days. Website: http://internetulpoporului.ro/

Advertising Agency:Publicis Bucharest, Romania
Chief Creative Officer:Razvan Capanescu
Group Creative Director:Dan Frinculescu
Copywriters:Dan Frinculescu, Mihai Costache
Art Director:Catalin Paduretu
Designers:Catalin Paduretu, Ciprian Frunzeanu
Illustrator:Filip Letinu
Programmers:Constantin Bunica, Tiberiu Bucovei
Account Executive:Ada Iftodi
Account Director:Alexandra Murray
Digital Managing Director:C?lin Buzea
Additional Credits:studioset.Tv

A saga de uma mãe que escondeu sua gravidez dos robôs rastreadores da internet

Basta uma simples cotação de passagens de avião para o feriado, ou quem sabe uma pesquisa rápida sobre pousadas em uma cidade próxima, para que as propagandas exibidas no seu Gmail, Facebook e em outros banners da sua navegação se tornem uma enxurrada de sugestões de itens relacionados.

Baseado nos dados rastreados das suas compras anteriores, itens pesquisados e até interações sociais, os anúncios de muitas plataformas digitais são segmentados para exibir conteúdos do mesmo ramo – o que, irritantemente, não te deixar esquecer nem por um minuto do seu interesse (mesmo que breve) naquele tema.

Janet Vertesi, professora assistente do curso de sociologia da Universidade de Princeton, nos EUA, não queria ter essa irritação durante os meses em que estava grávida. Para evitar ficar soterrada com propagandas de carrinhos de bebê, roupinhas, chupetas e toda sorte de itens para recém-nascidos, ela fez quase que uma cruzada pessoal contra o rastreamento de dados através de cookies e de robôs coletores de dados. Ela contou sua saga em uma apresentação na conferência Theorizing the Web, que aconteceu em Nova Iorque no último fim de semana. “Essa é uma história com uma perspectiva bem pessoal, sobre o esforço que é necessário para evitar ter seus dados coletados, ser rastreado e inserido em bases de dados”, explica ela.

O assunto é sério, mas ganha ares cômicos de acordo com que ela conta os detalhes das suas estratégias, como o uso de vales-presentes para compras online (para evitar que a bandeira do cartão de crédito identificasse os itens comprados), preferência por pagamentos em dinheiro, uso de serviços de emails pagos, entregas realizadas em uma caixa postal, e até mesmo o uso do navegador Tor, para evitar que seu acesso fosse rastreado.

“Eu praticamente concorri ao prêmio de Uso Mais Criativo do Tor. Ele ganhou má fama por ser usado para compra de drogas e de bitcoins, mas eu o utilizei para acessar o site BabyCenter.com”

Houve também toda uma força-tarefa para evitar que a gravidez fosse mencionada nas redes sociais. Janet fez ligações e mandou emails para todos os seus familiares, contando a novidade e pedindo a eles que não comentassem nada sobre isso no Facebook, nem mesmo através de mensagens privadas. “Muita gente não entendia que nem as mensagens privadas não eram realmente tão particulares assim”, contou, esclarecendo que chegou a tomar medidas mais drásticas, como remover um tio da sua lista de amigos do Facebook após ele ter enviado a ela uma mensagem felicitando pela chegada do rebento.

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Será que um futuro onde tudo o que fazemos pode ser rastreado, medido e monitorado é mesmo um caminho sem volta?

O mais curioso, contudo, é que parte do esforço dela em não ser monitorada e rastreada acabou ativando alguns alarmes das instituições financeiras e do governo. Ao tentar adquirir 500 dólares em vales-presente da Amazon para a compra de um carrinho de bebê, o marido de Janet foi avisado que aquela compra seria reportada às autoridades, por ser considerada um comportamento suspeito. “Essas iniciativas [de tentar evitar o rastreamento] são exatamente as mesmas que indicam que você poderia estar se preparando para uma atividade criminosa, e não apenas comprando itens para o seu bebê”, contou ela, que aproveitou para provocar: será que algum dia será possível fazer compras e navegar pela rede escolhendo quando queremos oferecer nossos dados pessoais de navegação para as plataformas?

Winter Mason, cientista de dados do Facebook que também estava nesse painel da conferência, não acredita que isso seja possível daqui para frente. Considerando que o uso de informações pessoais para exibição de publicidade é um dos pilares do negócio do Facebook, ele não poderia dizer nada diferente, né?

Será que um futuro onde tudo o que fazemos pode ser rastreado, medido e monitorado é mesmo um caminho sem volta?

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Drawing Animals using Moirée Patterns

Utilisant l’effet de contraste appelé Moiré, le milanais Andrea Minini a réalisé un certain nombre d’illustrations vectorielles représentant plusieurs animaux avec un design des plus réussis. Une série complète et des dessins d’une grande élégance à découvrir dans la suite de l’article en images.

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Microsoft work ‘underway’ on a new brand to replace Nokia

Microsoft has revealed it is developing a new “go forward smartphone brand” to replace Nokia, following its £4.6bn acquisition by the tech giant earlier this year.

Indian Identity Photos – The ‘An Indian from India’ Series Exposes Ethnic Differences & Stereotypes (GALLERY)

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Subservient Chicken Returns For 10th Anniversary. Will It Live Up to the Original?

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When Barbarian Group and CP+B unleashed Burger King’s Subservient Chicken ten years ago, the work was lauded as some of the best and weirdest ever to come from the brand. Well the brand is bringing the man in a chicken suit back for a redo. Sort of.

Last Thursday, Burger King posted a picture of Subservient Chicken on its Twitter account with the hashtag #tbt and “We miss you, Subservient Chicken.”

On Sunday, the brand ran missing persons ads in the New York Times, LA Times, Chicago Tribune, Houston Chronicle and others. And they’ve revived subservientchicken.com. But if you visit the site, the chicken is missing.Over a blurry flickering image of the Chicken’s living room, there’s just an old school pop up that says, “Help. There’s a chicken on the loose and we are desperately trying to find him.” Also on the site are grainy images of the Chicken’s last known whereabouts.

Bringing the campaign to current day status, a #FindTheChicken hashtag is put forth to be used by people helping to find the chicken. And on Wednesday morning, the brand will release a video focusing on the rise and fall of internet celebrities.

The Barbarian Group is not involved in this reworking of the campaign. The revised effort, which touts the chain’s Chicken Big Chicken, was created by Ogilvy’s David, Code & Theory and Horizon.

Clearly the brand hopes to bring back the viral success of the original campaign. But as history has proved in just about every segment of life, sequels rarely live up to the original.

But hoping for “50 Sequels That Were Better Than The Original” sort of success, Burger King CMO Eric Hirschhorn said,”It’s the 10 year anniversary and we want to celebrate our new Chicken Big King sandwich, truly in epic fashion. This sandwich is a big deal so it felt fitting to partner with the Subservient Chicken who is a pop culture icon.”

Vivid Symbolic Branding – Mild Whistle’s Crafty Branding Identity is Warm and Attractive (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) There is something so visually appealing about this new crafty branding identity for Mild Whistle. With a bold color palette that focuses on just three hues: a warm white, a turquoise blue and an…

ArtsBeat: ‘To Kill a Mockingbird’ Finally Becoming an E-Book

Harper Lee has agreed to let “To Kill a Mockingbird,” one of only a few classics currently available only in print, to be published as an e-book in July.