ABC's 'Rising Star' Gets Lackluster Start


“Rising Star” brought in just about 5 million viewers for ABC when it bowed on Sunday night.

It’s a lackluster start for the much-hyped singing competition series, which allows viewers to vote via an app in real time. During the same time period, NBC’s “America’s Got Talent” was watched by about 8 million viewers.

And in the all-important 18-to-49 demographic, “Rising Star’s” preliminary 1.5 rating fell below the network’s most recent attempt at a music competition series, “Duets,” which did not get a second season. A single ratings point represents 1% of the total number of TV households.

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Ideas to Steal incentiva o reaproveitamento de ideias

Logo na home do site Ideas to Steal.Today, chama atenção uma foto de Pablo Picasso ao lado da frase “Bons artistas copiam, grandes artistas roubam”. O roubo, entretanto, é só um modo de colocar o real objetivo desta plataforma: o reaproveitamento de ideias que foram inicialmente rejeitadas em um contexto, mas que merecem uma segunda chance e que podem se encaixar perfeitamente em uma outra situação.

A mecânica é simples: os membros da comunidade devem estar logados para fazer o upload de imagens ou vídeos que apresentem o conceito de sua ideia, com uma pequena descrição. O projeto, então, passará pela aprovação dos moderadores e ficará disponível no site, de acordo com sua categoria (mobile, impresso, rádio e mídias sociais).

Agora, e se alguém se interessar por uma dessas ideias? Há duas regras, que infelizmente não há garantias de que se serão seguidas. A primeira é que o interessado em utilizar aquela ideia deixe um comentário para o autor. A segunda é que, quando o projeto for publicado, que o autor original seja creditado de alguma maneira.

A plataforma ainda está no começo, e é difícil prever seus desdobramentos. Ainda assim, vale conhecer.

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Visionlab: The sun isn't what they say it is

Advertising Agency: Lola, Madrid, Spain
Executive Creative Director: Chacho Puebla
Creative Directors: Nacho Oñate, Néstor García, Sito Morillo
Art Director: Himar Ordoñez
Copywriters: Sito Morillo, Nacho Oñate
Client Service Director: Daniele Cicini
Account Executive: Laura Gerpe
Account Director: Elena Garces
Head of Delivery: Asier Garcia

Visionlab: Tomorrow

Advertising Agency: Lola, Madrid, Spain
Executive Creative Director: Chacho Puebla
Creative Directors: Nacho Oñate, Néstor García, Sito Morillo
Art Director: Himar Ordoñez
Copywriters: Sito Morillo, Nacho Oñate
Client Service Director: Daniele Cicini
Account Executive: Laura Gerpe
Account Director: Elena Garces
Head of Delivery: Asier Garcia

Visionlab: Sunset

Advertising Agency: Lola, Madrid, Spain
Executive Creative Director: Chacho Puebla
Creative Directors: Nacho Oñate, Néstor García, Sito Morillo
Art Director: Himar Ordoñez
Copywriters: Sito Morillo, Nacho Oñate
Client Service Director: Daniele Cicini
Account Executive: Laura Gerpe
Account Director: Elena Garces
Head of Delivery: Asier Garcia

The House Worldwide Does Euro Intrigue for GHD

How frustrating is your hair dryer?

In a campaign set to cover 12 markets across Asia, Europe and the Americas, The House Worldwide and its husband/wife directorial team hint that every woman simply needs a good excuse to break up with her hair dryer in the most dramatic fashion possible.

The answer to the problems faced by these sleek, passionate women is–of course–the GHD Aura. Whatever it does, it’s surely must be better than the archaic pastel pieces that lead them to “[destroy] their hairdryers in order to get the must have hair accessory.”

Credits after the jump.

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Helsinki Transport Region: see everything with one ticket.

With Helsinki Transport Region, all you need is a ticket and a camera, and you can travel freely on the metro, buses, commuter trains and the ferry. I love the simple idea of using the ticket at a camera ot photograph typically touristy things (and typically touristy tourists.)

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Ad Chat: Luke Sullivan on creative culture and not being an asshat

Luke Sullivan needs no introduction, really. We’ve shared with you his books in the ad books section; both his biography and the many editions of “Hey Whipple”.

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Lego-built bus stop celebrates birthdays of London's buses

A bus stop constructed entirely from pieces of Lego and appropriately situated outside iconic toy shop Hamley’s on London’s Regent Street has been erected to celebrate Transport for London (TfL)’s Year of the Bus.

Felix Dennis remembered: 'Bon viveur and force of nature'

The media and advertising industries have been paying tribute online to the late Felix Dennis, the founder and chairman of Dennis Publishing, who passed away on Sunday (22 June).

Animal Child Series

La photographe Shelly Mosman s’est intéressée aux enfants et aux animaux pour sa série « Animal Child ». Sur des fonds floraux ou des petites scènes de villes, elle fait poser des enfants aux visages intenses et candides, à côté de leurs animaux de prédilection. Une série pleine de sensibilité à découvrir.

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Jennifer Lyn Morone™ Inc, the girl who became a corporation

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Jennifer Lyn Morone has turned herself into a corporation and collection of marketable goods and services. Everything she is biologically and intellectually, everything she does, learns and creates has the potential to be turned into profits. Jennifer Lyn Morone™ Inc is a graduation project in Design Interactions but as Jennifer underlines, this is not a speculative project continue

Cheesy Pizza Bedding – This Bedding by Claire Manganiello is Designed to Make Your Bed Delicious

(TrendHunter.com) Thanks to Claire Manganiello, home owners and children alike can enjoy snuggling up inside an enormous pizza bed every night. That’s right, Manganiello has done the unthinkable and covered a…

Google AdWords agora segmenta audiência que tem filhos

Uma preciosíssima informação agora está disponível para quem faz campanhas no Google AdWords: saber se a sua audiência tem ou não filhos.

A opção aparece no painel de controle, oferecendo três diferentes status – ‘é pai ou mãe’, ‘não é pai ou mãe’ e ‘desconhecido’ – e funciona como mais um critério de segmentação da audiência, assim como outras características como idade e gênero.

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Parece algo pequeno, mas saber inferir se um determinado usuário já é pai ou mãe é valioso demais no mercado de marketing:  segundo Janet Vertesi, uma professora de sociologia de Princeton que se esforçou para ‘esconder’ sua gravidez dos motores de busca,  uma segmentação de publicidade para mulheres grávidas é 15 vezes mais cara do que uma segmentação tradicional.

Para Larry Kim, cientista de dados da WordStream que reparou na novidade, essa fragmentação da audiência pode chegar a níveis ainda mais detalhados, o que pode gerar situações complicadas. “Será que poderemos, eventualmente, ver segmentos demográficos baseado em raça, ou orientação sexual? Quanto mais dados os anunciantes tiverem acesso, melhor (para eles), mas será que o Google vai chegar a esse ponto?”, questiona Kim.

Em comunicado enviado ao BusinessInsider, o Google garante que não vai ultrapassar alguns limites éticos em prol de dinheiro. “O Google AdWords usa o mesmo sistema baseado na visitação de sites desde 2009, e os usuários podem escolher aceitar ou não esses anúncios na nossa página de configurações de anúncios. Como sempre, não admitimos que anúncios sejam segmentados para categorias sensíveis, como saúde, raça ou sexualidade”.

Ao que parece, eles estão seguindo a famosa política do ‘don’t be evil’. Ao menos por enquanto.

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WPP Will Double Its Spending Budget on Twitter in 2014

In another headline from Cannes-Lions, WPP Grand Poobah Sir Martin Sorrell told the world that he will double ad spending on “The Twitter” (as he may have called it) from $50 million to $100 million.

The news was announced when Sorrell moderated a discussion between Twitter’s Dick Costolo and Viacom’s Philippe Dauman. Of course he took a jab at rivals Omnicom and Publicis for their recent ill-fated “merger of equals,” but he focused mainly on the differences and commonalities between digital-first and the legacy media giants.

After citing the impressive market valuations and financial stats associated with Twitter’s recent IPO, Sorrell noted that WPP’s GroupM will double its spending with the microblogging platform, boosting its ad spending from $50 million last year to $100 million this year. Based on Sorrell’s figures, that means GroupM contributes nearly a fifth of all of Twitter’s advertising revenues.

Now what would you do with that kind of budget? Maybe not spend it all on Twitter?

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Campaign Spotlight: Hotel Brand Hopes ‘Unlocked’ Theme Will Unlock Room Doors

Le Méridien is beginning a $6 million rebranding campaign designed to entice travelers looking for boutique accommodations.



Vizeum UK expands innovation team

Vizeum UK has hired MEC’s James Schad and Enzo Annunziata, the founder and creative director of the babywear company Susie and Toto, as directors of its innovation department.

Flying Formation Collages

L’artiste Shaun Kardinal est de retour avec une nouvelle série appelée « Flying Formation » qui rend hommage aux vols des oiseaux, d’une manière très originale. Il crée des collages numériques d’images trouvées sur Instagram, Facebook ou Google Images et construit différentes formes d’envols. A découvrir dans la galerie.

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Whose Existential Crisis Is More Severe? Adland's or the Media World's?


A marketer recently tweeted me: “Hey Media Guy, when am I going to stop advertising on TV? Or do you think five years from now we’ll still be tuned in?”

Good questions! My answers: Not only will you still be advertising on TV in five years, but CBS President-CEO Les Moonves, for one, will figure out a way to get you to pay even higher rates for it. And his salary will finally hit the $100 million mark — up from the $66.9 million in compensation he pulled down in 2013, as disclosed in an April regulatory filing.

In other words: Suck it!

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Timeless Sheath Wedding Dresses – The BHLDN Fall 2014 Bridal Collection is Flowy and Feminine (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) Many women may have dreamed about wearing Cinderella’s ballgown on their wedding day, but the style has become a lot more natural as shown in the BHLDN Fall 2014 Bridal collection. In place of…