Hasta La Creative!

Rolls-Royce, the BMW-owned car marque, has begun a search for a new social media agency.

Après les photographies de l’espace, c’est autour d’images satellites de villes prises de nuit par la NASA que Slow Factory (Celine Semaan Vernon) sort sa nouvelle collection de foulards en soie. Paris, New York et Londres figurent sur les foulards. Une collection réalisée à l’occasion de l’Independance Day, à découvrir.

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Fondé par Niels Buschke, le studio allemand Santiago Design a imaginé pour Markenfilm Berlin Production une création visuellement impressionnante, représentante une phrase connue du philosophe Marshall McLuhan « The Medium is the Massage ». Une intention artistique mélangeant les formes et les matières à découvrir dans une série d’images dans la suite.

Marie Curie Cancer Care has hired Saatchi & Saatchi London ahead of a repositioning for the charity that looks after the terminally ill.

VSO, the development charity that helps people volunteer to relieve poverty abroad, is speaking to creative and media agencies ahead of its first brand campaign since 2011.

Britvic has put the advertising brief for Tango up for pitch.

The & Partnership, the WPP-backed micro-network that includes CHI & Partners and M/SIX, is launching in Canada on the back of winning the country’s Telus telecoms account.

ASOS, the online fashion retailer, has launched a review of its European media account after the resignation of the incumbent, Carat.

Derek Allison, head of customer centricity at Sony Europe, finds that challenging conventional wisdom helps him focus.

When five seconds just aren t enough
Trevor Beattie notoriously shocked adland with his bold declaration that ads should be no longer than five seconds, but his latest project is a full 12 minutes long and could potentially get a lot longer. The BMB founder has executive-produced a film his third since Moon , directed by David Bowie s son, Duncan Jones called Dating Eliza . It features a woman who may or may not be called Eliza on a date that goes awry when her parents turn up. Beattie is hoping it can develop into a full-length feature after a tour to film festivals. But he s not straying too far from his ad roots: the writer and director, Peter Lydon, worked with Beattie on French Connection s “FCUK” campaign in 2000.
VCCP pitch proposal gets Burned by Fox
It s kind of poetic. VCCP, the agency that forged its reputation with a meerkat, has been outdone by a fox. Well, the Fox network. VCCP was pitching for the Smart Meter account and is said to have blown the client away with its plan to use Mr Burns from The Simpsons to front the campaign the sort of excellent idea its planning guru Charles Vallance (pictured) would have approved of. Alas, at the last minute, Fox denied VCCP the image rights. And who was there to stick the ball into the open goal? Abbott Mead Vickers BBD OH (sorry).
Departing staff leaves some good vibrations
Which creative executive and former branded content chief left a dildo behind the leather settee in his office when he left his agency? Sadly, libel laws prevent us from naming him. However, his loss was someone else s gain as the Tom Dixon Bone productwas put up for auction last week by former colleagues. The buyer who does not wish to be identified snapped up the item, which retails for 200, for a bargain 25. “I guess it was used. And it lacked a charger,” the buyer lamented. The money raised went towards a round of drinks.