Poste Italiane Postepay Rock in Roma 2014: Monuments


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Print campaign for a big rock event in Italy – probably the most popular in Rome. Discounted for Postepay card owners, every Roman can finally experience Rock.

Rock in Rome discounted by 15%. It conquers everybody.

Rock in Rome discounted by 15%. It’s all true.

Advertising Agency:McCann, Rome, Italy
Creative Director:Alessandro Sciortino
Art Director:Alessandro Polia
Copywriter:Niccolò Lucchino
Retouch:Lucy CGI

Human Rights Foundation: War shows the worse side of life


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War brings out the worst.
Bring out your best.
Help us defend human rights.
Take action, get involved.

 

Advertising Agency:Grey, Sao Paulo, Brazil
Creative Directors:Mariangela Silvani, Sérgio Fonseca
Art Direction:Felipe Leite
Copywriters:Felipe Leite, Leandro Leal
Illustration:Fuze Image
Account Executive:Caio Volpe
Media:Davi Monteiro, Fernanda Massa, Ronaldo Camargo

X-Men Meet Mad Men in Quiznos’ Newest Pop Culture Sandwich

Quiznos' Toasty.tv, a branded content hub that got an early boost from a popular Game of Thrones-House of Cards mashup, is once again pounding together two pop culture icons.

The results of Mad X-Men: Don Draper's Future Past are mixed, but one theme is consistent with the previous video: The main actor (Ross Marquand, who also played Quiznos' Frank Underwood and Rust Cohle in a spot-on AT&T parody) may not look the part, but he sure talks the part.

Somewhat ironically, the video's best scenes are almost pure Mad Men homage, with a random X-Men reference thrown in at the end. (If you're going to put that much effort into Mystique special effects, why waste it being awkward and quasi-homophobic? Eh, it's your money, Quiznos.)

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BSSP Launches New Gel Liner Pen for Benefit

Sausalito, California-based agency BSSP teamed up with production company Biscuit in a new campaign launching Benefit Cosmetic’s new “They’re Real! Push-up Gel Liner Pen.”

In the 60-second spot, a diamond thief is caught by police. While in the back of the car on her way to the station she maneuvers her hands inside her cuffs, thinks about reaching for a bobby pin in her bag (which the cops have conveniently left right next to her), and instead reaches for her gel liner so she can look fab in her mugshot. There’s no indication of whether she’ll be able to take her cosmetics with her into her cell.

“The Benefit make-up brand has an edge. Its personality is a little bit feisty, so for its first-ever broadcast campaign we thought we could have fun and tell a story that connects with the Benefit consumer in a playful way,” explained Steve Mapp, creative director at BSSP.

“This spot has the feel of a cinema trailer – a true testament to the influence of director Noam Murro and a fantastic idea by BSSP,” said Hannah Malot, creative director of Benefit. “We think it will have enormous appeal around the world and will be shared and liked by our global audience through social media and word of mouth. The product is a true innovation in the marketplace.”

The spot “inspired Benefit to create a series of in-store displays, postcards and print ads that feature the jewel thief in handcuffs, applying the gel liner,” which will be available this summer. Stick around for partial credits after the jump. continued…

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Rotring 800+ The Future Of Paper

La marque allemande Rotring a récemment dévoilé son outil pour les créatifs avec cet objet Rotring 800+ qui fait à la fois portemine mais aussi stylet pour les appareils tactiles. Un objet au design facilement reconnaissable car reprenant les éléments de la marque à découvrir dans une série d’images et en vidéo.

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Shape-Changing Light Fixtures – The Filo Lamp by Laura Modoni is Full of Different Expressions (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) Pixar has shown the world that inanimate objects are as full of personality as humans are and the Filo Lamp follows suit. It is a ceiling-suspended light fixture that changes change in order to…

Oakley Taps Ad Agency Eleven for Brand Campaign


Now Oakley gets a chance to create its own version of Just Do It.

The sports eyewear company has selected Eleven, San Francisco, as it new ad agency after a review that initially included more than 15 shops.

Colin Baden, CEO of the Foothill Ranch, Calif.-based company, previously said the winning shop would be asked to create a “company-wide mantra around the brand.”

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Sculptural Sofa Beds – The UP-LIFT Sofa Bed Design Goes from Chair to Bed in an Unusual Way (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) The average sofa bed design is chunky and not nearly as attractive as the UP-LIFT range from Prostoria. The design is an Interior Innovation Award 2014 winner and it’s quite easy to see why….

Jordan Zimmerman REALLY Wants to Meet You

Are you a social media wizard? Do you need some help learning how to build a dream, whatever it might happen to be? Most importantly, do you love Fort Lauderdale as much as everyone else on Earth does?

If you answered “yes” to any of those questions–and even if you didn’t–then self-described “maverick advertising icon” Jordan Zimmerman would LOVE to meet you.

In the past Mr. Zimmerman has offered his thoughts on politics and the state of the union–but in this case he simply wants to impart some of the wisdom that comes from building a “$3 Billion empire” and provide you, lucky John or Jane, with “a priceless look into the business world that few seldom see.”

Trust him–this will be worth your while.

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Illusional Wall Paintings

Le designer et peintre iranien Mehdi Ghadyanloo nous offre de gigantesques et magnifiques fresques colorées, jouant avec intelligence sur l’environnement pour tromper le passant et nous faire découvrir les bâtiments d’une autre façon. A découvrir en détails et en images dans la suite.

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Your Backyard Misses You. Maybe Go Spend Some Money on It?


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.

Among the new releases, Home Depot moves the focus of its ongoing “Let’s Do This” campaign to your backyard, Travel Channel foodie Adam Richman sells you some “all-natural steaks from Walmart” to grill up in your backyard, and Lowe’s encourages you to build a new deck in your backyard. Oh, and Beauty Rest shows a guy snoozing through the job of mowing the grass … in his backyard.

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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Nestlé Nido: #undibujoparamamá


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Every year we celebrate Mother’s Day in a special way. This year we choose the simple way using the most basic gift: The drawing. Because NIDO believes that all mothers deserve one.

Advertising Agency:McCann, Santiago, Chile
General Creative Director:Guido Puch
Creative Director:César Aburto
Art Director:Nicolás Briceño
Copywriter:Diego Tolin
Additional Credits:Cinemagica

Amil Health Care Plan: Shapes


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Amil, a health care plan, introduces the program “Practicing Health” that invites people to make exercises and live a healthy life.

Change your routine. Change your body.

Advertising Agency:Artplan, Rio De Janeiro, Brazil
Chief Creative Officer:Roberto Vilhena
Creative Director:Alessandra Sadock, Gustavo Tirre
Creative Supervisor:Marcelo Coli
Art Director:Erik Machado
Copywriter:Guilherme Machado
Illustrator:Erik Machado

Quirky Re/Max Ads Suggest Your Dream Home Isn’t What You Think

Re/Max's first ads since it went public are here, and they're Zooey Deschanel-grade quirky.

Four new spots by Leo Burnett in Chicago, which the 40-year-old company tapped in August, feature eager people looking for their dream homes and Re/Max agents guiding them to something even better—though in a different way—than what they'd imagined.

The tagline is, "Dream with your eyes open," but one spot puts it best: "With a Re/Max agent, you'll see how much better than a dream home the right home can be."

While the ads have an odd (and vaguely annoying) rhyming pattern in the voiceover, there's something endearing about the heart of the message. Re/Max is pitting expectations against reality, and trying to show that sometimes the reality can be better.

Credits below.

CREDITS
Client: Re/Max
Agency: Leo Burnett/Lapiz USA
Ad or Campaign: “Dream With Your Eyes Open”
Executive Creative Director: Laurence Klinger
Creative Director: Manuel Torres
Associate Creative Director, Art Director: Flavio Pina
Associate Creative Director, Copywriter: Lizette Morazzani
Executive Producer: Ken Gilberg
Producer: Mariana Perin
Senior Music Producer: Chris Clark
Executive Vice President, Director of Planning: Wells Davis
Vice President, Strategy Director: Howard Laubscher
Strategy Director: Felipe Cabrera
Executive Vice President, Account Director: Richard Roche
Vice President, Account Director: Ernesto Adduci
Account Supervisor: Sara Abadi
Account Executive: Spencer Colvin
Production Company, Visual Effects: MPC
Directors: Paul O’Shea, Dan Marsh
Executive Producer: Asher Edwards
Line Producer: Zak Thornborough
Post Producer: Diana De Vries




Because Bouncing Boobs And Benefit Cosmetics Eyeliner Are Must-Haves When Getting Arrested For Stealing Diamonds

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So what’s a girl to do when she’s running from the cops, drops her stash of diamonds, gets arrested, get placed in a cop car to be hauled off to the police station to be arrested and have a mug shot taken? Stealthily slip out of her handcuffs while seated in the back of the cruiser so you can apply eye liner so you look great for that mug shot.

Really. It’s that simple. And looking good no matter the situation is a good thing, right? Which is apparently how the agency behind the work, Sausalito-based BSSP, thought it should go down.

And according to Benefit Cosmetics Creative Director Hannah Malot, it’s going to be BIG!!! She gushes,”This spot has the feel of a cinema trailer – a true testament to the influence of director Noam Murro and a fantastic idea by BSSP. We think it will have enormous appeal around the world and will be shared and liked by our global audience through social media and word of mouth. The product is a true innovation in the marketplace.”

Good luck with that. You might want to switch your YouTube video from Unlisted to Listed, though. Just sayin’

Miller Lite, Guy Fieri Form Unholy Alliance

This one has been around for  a while, but we just couldn’t resist.

Agencies GMR (who handled talent selection, negotiation and management) and Integer (execution across retail) teamed up to bring together human keg stand Guy Fieri and watery swill Miller Lite to form an unholy alliance of annoying proportions. God have mercy on us all.

Fieri — who Anthony Bourdain once described as the product that would result “if Ed Hardy f*cked a juggalo” — is hosting a series of Miller Lite branded content on his site, Grill With Guy. One would assume that the toxic levels of hair gel Fieri applies would render himself extremely flammable, but Fieri just shares some summer grilling recipes, such as the beef and beer cheese nachos featured in the video, which we’ve left til after the jump.

Surprisingly, not all of the recipes call for Miller Lite, like the “Asian Style Grilled Salmon” (surprise: Fieri knows what mirin is), which instead ends with the instruction “Enjoy with a cold Miller Lite.” (Obviously you should never trust a recipe that ends this way.)

While it’s alarming to think that anyone who takes cooking advice from a man with a racing stripe on his refrigerator would be allowed near an open flame, it’s at least somewhat of a relief that they will have a watered-down lite beer on hand to extinguish the blaze should things get out of hand. Miller Lite and Fieri plan to keep their relationship going after the summer, with “flavorful ideas for football season” (whatever those might be).

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Holland’s Pim de Koel is Back to Teach Americans How to Experience Cool

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Holland is back! And it’s even cooler! Or at least it wants you to experience all the cool Holland has to offer. Following Episode 1: Can Cool be Taught?, spokesperson Pim de Koel is back with Episode 2: Can Cool be Experienced.

Well, according to Koel, yes it can. All you have to do is experience everything that’s served up rapid fire in this video. The bikes. The windmills. The books. The food. The architecture. The scenery. The flowers. The planes. The KLM planes to be precise. The craftsmanship. And more.

The campaign is a 3-year joint effort sponsored by the Netherlands Board of Tourism and Conventions, KLM Airlines, Schiphol Airport and Amsterdam Marketing and aims to increase tourism from America.

How’d They Do That? Remarkable British Ad Goes in Utero to ‘Film’ an Unborn Baby

If you happened to catch this PSA on television in Britain this month, you might be left wondering if it is—could it somehow possibly be?—real footage. And that's the point.

The spot, from Grey London, shows an unborn baby drifting around inside the womb in what is surely the most real-seeming in-utero footage ever. It is, however, all CGI.

"The craft and technique that Digital Domain and [Radical Media director] Chris Milk put into making the ad was amazing, and the end result looks so brilliantly life-like that we hope people will walk away from it questioning whether it's real or not," says Grey deputy executive creative director Vicki Maguire.

The ad, for the British Heart Foundation, even has the baby do the voiceover (in a child's voice). She talks about how she might inherit a heart condition from her parents.

"I wanted to create a sincere and simple piece of film, forging a deeply emotional connection with a girl who needs saving even before she is born," says Milk, who also made Arcade Fire's stunning interactive experience The Wilderness Downtown. "The story is told in a world that is familiar but still a mystery. She's invited us in because she has something to say. Something vital."

Credits below.

CREDITS
Client: British Heart Foundation
Agency: Grey, London
Creative Director: Vicki Maguire
Copywriter: Clemmie Telford
Art Director: Lex Down
Managing Partner: Sarah Jenkins
Business Director: Eve Bulley
Account Manager: Grant Paterson
Account Executive: Isaac Hickinbottom
Agency Producer: Vanessa Butcher
Creative Producer: Gemma Hose
Planner: Ruth Chadwick
Media Agency: PHD, London
Media Planner: Monica Majumdar
Production Company: @radical Media
Director: Chris Milk
Visual Effects: Digital Domain
Editor: Brian Miller
Producers: Ben Schneider, Sam Storr
Postproduction: Digital Domain
Soundtrack Composer: Vampire Weekend
Audio Postproduction: Grand Central




Times Issues Response on Abramson Pay

Arthur Sulzberger Jr., The New York Times’s publisher, denied that a disparity in Jill Abramson’s pay compared with predecessors figured in her being replaced.



Conteúdos patrocinados do NYT são tão populares quanto os conteúdos editoriais

A habilidade de contar histórias é um talento que serve bem tanto ao jornalismo quanto à publicidade. Entre uma coisa e outra, existe uma vasta zona acinzentada, em que não se sabe exatamente se o material é jornalístico (já que existe alguém patrocinando, pode haver um viés) ou propaganda com conteúdo.

Esse tipo de história não é novo, mas a sua adoção por grandes veículos é razoavelmente recente, e os primeiros resultados chamam a atenção.

Em uma apresentação em um fórum da American Associaton of Advertising Agencies, Meredith Levien, VP de propaganda do New York Times, revelou que os conteúdos patrocinados da publicação têm alcançado audiências tão boas ou melhores que os seus conteúdos editoriais. Desde janeiro deste ano, o jornal fechou parcerias com 8 anunciantes, que patrocinam conteúdos que levam sua marca ou que falam sobre algum de seus produtos ou serviços.

É o caso da matéria interativa sobre os Jogos Olímpicos de Sochi, que foi produzida em parceria com a United Airlines, e que recebeu cerca de 200 vezes mais visualizações que uma matéria editorial do mesmo nível.

Em paralelo ao caso de sucesso de propaganda nativa do NYT, o Yahoo também lança um novo modelo de anúncios em seus sites, que foram apelidados de unidades ‘in-stream’. Feitos para se misturarem ao conteúdo editorial, esses anúncios aparecerão claramente marcados como propaganda, mas podem ‘enganar’ quem passa os olhos, já que eles usam uma linguagem,  estilo de redação e design bem semelhantes aos conteúdos editoriais do site.

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Com essas estatísticas, executivos como Jonah Peretti, do BuzzFeed, ganham um reforço para a teoria de que conteúdos patrocinados não pioram o jornalismo, mas melhoram a publicidade – com uma mãozinha de quem sabe contar histórias, o material da propaganda fica mais atrativo, e retém a atenção da audiência. Para os diretores de jornais, é uma prova de que a publicação não fica ‘queimada’ com o leitor (já que, afinal de contas, eles estão ativamente consumindo conteúdo patrocinado).

 Anúncios nativos aparecerão claramente marcados como propaganda, mas podem ‘enganar’ quem passa os olhos, já que usam uma linguagem,  estilo de redação e design bem semelhantes aos conteúdos editoriais.

Na outra ponta da história, os mais ferrenhos apontam que o principal problema é que a propaganda nativa quer ‘parecer’ jornalismo sem o ser, e parte desse pressuposto de se disfarçar de algo que não é. Bob Garfield, do The Guardian, elenca as publicações que já estão trabalhando com conteúdos patrocinados: The Economist, Forbes, The Atlantic, The Huffington Post, Washington Post, Time, NYT, Yahoo, antes de afirmar que o conteúdo patrocinado é uma das últimas estratégias de tentar trazer dinheiro para uma indústria que está com o pé na cova.

O professor de jornalismo Anton Harber também acredita que esse modelo baseia-se em ludibriar o leitor, na esperança de que “ele perceba nesse tipo de conteúdo a mesma credibilidade e autoridade de uma notícia”.

Diante desse cenário, eu não consigo concluir se é o jornalismo que se vende ou a publicidade que melhora. Certamente o jornalismo não será, nos próximos anos, o mesmo jornalismo que conhecemos hoje em dia, com as mesmas premissas e códigos de ética. A publicidade também dá sinais de precisar ser mais encorpada, e não uma vã historinha para boi dormir.

A única certeza que me resta, nesse quesito, é que a habilidade de contar uma boa história está cada vez mais valiosa.

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