The Brooklyn Brothers Brings Back Jason Sudeikis for NBC Sports

Jason Sudeikis reprises his role as coach Ted Lasso in The Brooklyn Brothers’ spot for NBC Sports’ coverage of the English Premier League, which starts August 16th.

Last year, Lasso went over the pond to coach London’s Tottenham Hotspur Football Club. Now, he’s readjusting to life back in the states. Lasso engages in some early drinking, has an afternoon tea, drives on the wrong side of the road, and turns his apartment into “Teeny Tiny England”. In the process, he meets Tim Howard and lands himself another coaching gig. While Sudeikis’ character is pretty funny and the spot has some amusing moments, it also feels drags a bit at over six minutes in length. Maybe save this one for afternoon tea.

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Wongdoody Taps Russell Wilson for Alaska Airlines

Wongdoody taps Seattle Seahawks quarterback Russell Wilson in a new spot for Alaska Airlines.

In the 60-second spot, Chief Football Officer Wilson puts the Alaska Airlines crew through training camp, remarking, “Alaska Airlines and I are basically one and the same: we’re always prepared. The separation’s in the preparation.” Wilson runs snackuracy and teddy bear tossing drills, and quizzes the team on routes and seat switching strategy. The airline training camp schtick is not a bad idea, and it is timely, but the full-length spot stretches the idea a little thin. It is much better served by the 30-second version, which we’ve included, along with credits, after the jump. (more…)

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Nike Salutes Paul George in Powerful Ad a Week After His Horrific Injury

Nike has a habit of picking its players up—with tribute ads—after major injuries. The brand did so with Kobe Bryant in 2013, and it has now released the inspiring ad above for Paul George following his gruesome leg injury a week ago.

The theme of the Wieden + Kennedy ad is the dreadful uncertainty—short term and long term—that followed George’s open-leg fracture. But the final lines of the ad put the 24-year-old Indiana Pacers star firmly on the path to recovery.

“Without the setbacks, the comebacks aren’t as sweet,” the brand wrote on Twitter. George hasn’t acknowledged the ad directly, but on that score, he certainly seems to agree.



80 Innovative Writing Tools – From Sophisticated Styluses to Eco-Friendly Pen Utensils (TOPLIST)

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? Jude Law estrela novo curta de Johnnie Walker

O que pode querer um homem que já tem tudo? A partir desse questionamento, Johnnie Walker Blue Label® brinda seus fãs com o curta-metragem “Uma aposta entre cavalheiros”.

O filme inspirador é protagonizado pelo ator Jude Law e coestrelado pelo italiano Giancarlo Giannini. A produção tem quase sete minutos e foi dirigida pelo talentoso Jake Scott.

O enredo traz Jude Law como um homem bem-sucedido que entra em uma aposta por algo que seu dinheiro não pode comprar: um barco único feito à mão e com valor imensurável.

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“A história por trás do filme é baseada em progresso e evolução, pontos que são cruciais em minha vida”, conta Jude Law. “Tive de aprender coisas novas para fazer essa campanha, como dançar, por exemplo, e a experiência de conhecer os locais onde gravamos, na companhia de Jake e Giancarlo, transformou isso em uma experiência única, rara de acontecer”.

Gravado em Londres e nas Ilhas Virgens Britânicas, essa é a primeira campanha que Johnnie Walker Blue Label® lança globalmente. Ao todo, ela vai circular em mais de 20 países.

O Brasil tem se tornado um mercado cada vez mais importante para a marca e hoje é o segundo maior no ranking global de Johnnie Walker. Assista agora a “Uma aposta entre cavalheiros”, acima ou aqui.

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Brokaw’s New Campaign Is Literally ‘So Gay’

Here’s an unusual campaign created by Cleveland’s Brokaw to promote client Gay Games 9, a sports festival launching this Saturday.

As Brokaw creative director Steve McKeown told Crain’s Cleveland Business, the purpose of the project is to win “millions of dollars of free unpaid media and international buzz” by turning a hateful phrase into a celebratory statement and showcasing the talents of participating athletes who just happen to be gay.

From McKeown:

 “We felt that it was time to transform an ugly and ill-received phrase and repurpose it into something that sheds a positive light on what these athletes work so hard to accomplish. We know people in Northeast Ohio understand the significance of repurposing — as evident by the transformation of the region these last few years.”

While the campaign may not have won millions of dollars in media attention attention so far, it seems to be working in niche pubs, earning a mention on SB Nation’s Outsports blog this week. More images below (pics by Kalman & Pabst Photo Group).

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Jason Sudeikis Hilariously Returns as the World's Worst Soccer Coach for NBC Sports

It was at this time last year that we first met Ted Lasso, an American football coach (played by Jason Sudeikis) hired to manage London’s Tottenham Hotspur Football Club—and manage very, very poorly—in a hilarious short film promoting NBC Sports’ English Premier League coverage.

Well, Coach Lasso is back. And he’s better—or rather, worse—than ever.

In this sequel from New York agency The Brooklyn Brothers, Lasso has lost his Tottenham job (he lasted just six and a half hours) and has given soccer sportscasting a try. That goes wretchedly too, though, as Lasso can’t get a grasp on the concepts of relegation, the offside rule or really anything requiring a modicum of basic intelligence.

So, he returns to America, where he creates a Little England in his own home, gets drunk with friends in the morning while watching the EPL (games kick off at 10 a.m. ET, or even earlier, on Saturdays) and finds his next great coaching gig. He even catches up with Adweek cover boy (and sometime professional goalkeeper) Tim Howard.

The original film was great, but this one might be even better. It’s even more packed with jokes, most of which hit the mark, and Sudeikis has settled even more comfortably into the role of clueless buffoon.

This is one wanker you don’t mind spending a little more time with.

NBC Sports’s EPL coverage returns for another season on Aug. 16.



Why is Jack From Jack in the Box Crying? (Watch the Newest Ads on TV)


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 here 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, tensions are rising between neighbors Craig Robinson and Jake Johnson in the latest spot from Dodge (Robinson has issues with Johnson getting near his Dart), while the announcer in a new Arby’s commercial — part of its new “We have the meats” campaign — bellows, “You are making a mistake!” (Watch the spot to find out why he thinks that.) Meanwhile, Jack from Jack in the Box is in tears. (Spoiler: Overpriced movie popcorn is involved).

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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Dear John Oliver: You're Wrong, Says Native-Ad CEO


Dear John,

As CEO of native advertising pioneer MGID, it is difficult to admit that I laughed as you hilariously skewered an important and innovative advertising tactic.

I understand and appreciate your point that ads placed on news sites that are delivered as news blur the necessary line between “church and state.” If unscrupulous editors are placing advertorials as news, and not labeling them as such, then certainly that needs to stop and is against already well-established FTC advertorial regulations that manage our media.

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Futebol, um amor que também machuca

Todo mundo sabe que amar de verdade não é brincadeira. Há momentos bons, é claro, mas também é preciso estar preparado para as decepções, arrependimentos e muito sofrimento. Mais ou menos como narra o clássico Love Hurts, do Nazareth, trilha sonora escolhida para o novo comercial do jornal The Sun lembrando do retorno da Premier League, no próximo dia 16 de agosto.

A ideia é retratar a maneira como torcedores se relacionam com seus times durante o campeonato, comparando o futebol a um relacionamento amoroso cheio de altos e baixos.

A criação é a Grey London, com direção de Martin Kalina, da Pulse.

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Netflix comemora ter ultrapassado a HBO em receita por assinantes

De uma iniciativa de aluguel de DVDs fadada à falência a concorrente da HBO. Superficialmente falando, essa é a história da Netflix, que comemora o que o CEO Reed Hastings chama de ‘pequeno marco’: ultrapassou a HBO em receita advinda de assinantes, de acordo com estatísticas do último trimestre.

A diferença é mínima, mas emblemática: enquanto a Netflix relatou renda de 1,146 bilhão de dólares vinda de assinaturas, a HBO alcançou ‘apenas’ 1,141 bilhão de dólares. Apesar dessa ‘vitória’ sobre uma marca que está no mercado há muito mais tempo, Hastings foi equilibrado ao lembrar que a Netflix ainda tem muito que percorrer para chegar no mesmo patamar da HBO: “Eles ainda detonam com a gente em renda [no geral] e em prêmios Emmy, mas estamos progredindo”, pontuou ele em postagem no seu Facebook.

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Como bem lembra a Wired, o que faz dessas empresas grandes nomes do setor de entretenimento são as produções originais de cada uma delas. Tanto que as assinaturas da Netflix tiveram uma alta de acordo com o sucesso dos seus próprios seriados, como é o caso de “House of Cards” e “Orange is the New Black”.

Em todo caso, para a equipe da Netflix, já é um sucesso se posicionar como concorrente direto da HBO.

And the butchery begins.

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7-Eleven: Wedding chapel

During this year’s Pride parade in Stockholm, 7-eleven wanted to show they’re open to everybody – literally. Thus, they transformed one of their stores into a wedding chapel where people could celebrate their love and get married for real. One of the very few openly homosexual Imams, Ludovic Mohamed Zahed, married a lesbian Islamic couple with massive support from the Swedish people.

Advertising Agency: Wenderfalck, Stockholm, Sweden
Creative Director: Linn Jacobsson
Art Director: Jens Johnsson
Additional credits: Isabella Rönnmark, Emma Singhoffer
Published: August 2014

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Advertising Agency: Machine, South Africa
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Creative Director / Copywriter: Kenneth van Reenen
Editor: Brian Scott
Designer: Cassandra Johnson

L.A. Clippers Launch Agency Review

In the wake of the Donald Sterling scandal, the Los Angeles Clippers are looking for a new agency to help them reposition the team’s brand, AdAge reports.

The team has launched a creative review, which is being led by Boston-based Pile & Co., with an eye toward Los Angeles-area agencies, according to sources familiar with the review. Irvine, California agency HeilBrice has been working with the Clippers since 1999, and it’s unclear whether they will defend in the review. A spokesman for the Clippers confirmed the review in AdAge, but didn’t offer any details, and executives at HeilBrice declined to comment to that publication.

In the RFP, the Clippers identify the need for an agency with experience “rebuilding an established, well-known brand,” language that insinuates the team is looking to distance itself from the Sterling scandal and reposition its brand with a fresh image. The team spent $433,500 in measured media last year, according to Kantar media.

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MOO Designs the Most Selfless Self-Promotion Ads Ever

Online printing company MOO.com, which some of you might remember from a video it made back in April, is doing some self-promotion with the oldest trick in the book. Wait, no, that’s prostitution. The second oldest trick in the book: flattery.

Designer Rob “Supermundane” Lowe has designed a run of fliers with compliments printed on them and posted them around artsy parts of London and in the Boston Design Museum. People are encouraged to take them and, you know, just feel good about themselves.

There are six designs altogether, with custom typography spelling out flummeries like “I think you’re splendid” and “You’re spectacular.” Are Upworthy and BuzzFeed just not enough for some people?

You can enter to win a signed-and-framed seventh flier through MOO’s social channels, which is how this whole project connects back to MOO.

That contest ends today, so enjoy the complimentary compliments while you can.



This Is The Weirdest Cracker Ad You Will Ever See

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Created by Strawberry Frog for Wasa Crispbread, we present to you, perhaps, the oddest cracker commercial you will ever see. And when we say odd, we don’t mean bad. We just mean, well, odd.

A woman on a business trip in Sweden decides to go to a yoga class. At first, she’s excited to see a bunch of hot men. Then she’s excited for a completely different reason. All the men are there because Sweden gives up to 12 months off work to new parents which is split between the mom and the dad. Hence all the dads in the yoga class.

Oh but that’s not all. The dads have brought their babies too. And the babies become part of the routine.

The woman, who is a bit amazed by all of this says, “We sent a man to the moon. What a waste when we could have sent him top the playground as our Swedish sisters do.”

It’s all very Zen.

Al Jazeera America One Year Later: Is Gaza the Turning Point?


As Al Jazeera America completes its first year on TV, it has some good news to celebrate. Prime-time audiences drawn to the network’s coverage of the Gaza conflict have leapt from an average of 15,000 in the week ending July 6 to 23,000 in the week ending Aug. 3.

That follows three straight quarters of household and audience growth, not to mention its strongest month yet for digital traffic in July and a growing body of awards for quality journalism, according to the network. “We have accomplished a lot,” Al Jazeera America CEO Ehab Al Shihabi told staff in a one-year-anniversary memo on Wednesday.

But twelve months into a mission to bring the U.S. “fact-based, in-depth coverage” of domestic and foreign news “without the punditry, opinion and ‘infotainment’ seen elsewhere,” as Mr. Al Shihabi’s memo put it, the network still works in margins of the program guide, little-seen by viewers and rarely bought by advertisers. And like other cable news networks that see audiences wax and wane as big news comes and goes, the big question is how much of its recent viewership bump Al Jazeera America can keep after open hostilities in Gaza subside.

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Luxe Potato Chip Branding – This Smithuis Flavoured Chips Packaging is Designed by Peter Braakhuis (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) Resembling traditional takeout containers, this Smithuis chips packaging by Peter Braakhuis makes the classic snack less low-brow and more upscale.

These artisan potato chip snacks are the result…

Uma tornozeleira que promete monitorar seu bebê e te dar tempo livre

Seguindo o mesmo princípio das pulseirinhas fitness que monitoram suas atividades físicas do dia, a nova tendência entre os pais e mães é o monitor de atividades de bebês. Um dos mais recentes deles é o Sproutling, uma tornozeleira hipoalergênica que promete acompanhar cada mexidinha dos pequenos e avisar os pais, através de um aplicativo no smartphone, se for preciso alguma intervenção.

O comercial do Sproutling apresenta um casal descolado e moderninho, que acaba de ter um garotinho, mas que não tem certeza se está tomando todos os cuidados necessários com o pequeno. O gadget de vestir aparece como uma opção para dar a eles mais segurança sobre a saúde do bebê, oferecendo tranquilidade e um pouco mais de tempo livre para outras atividades, como socializar com os amigos ou, quem sabe, dedicar um tanto mais de tempo ao parceiro.

Projetado para crianças de até dois anos, o Sproutling parece bem completo. Ele tem uma bateria com duração de três dias, base recarregadora sem fio, e a capacidade de analisar diversos dados do bebê, como temperatura, posição no berço (para evitar que a criança durma de bruços, o que não é recomendado pelos especialistas) e batimentos cardíacos

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Será que o excesso de informações vai tranquilizar os pais, ou deixá-los ainda mais aflitos com pequenas e quase imperceptíveis mudanças?

Usando esses dados, o gadget também consegue arriscar algumas previsões, como o padrão de sono do bebê, que horas ele deverá acordar e até mesmo o humor que ele vai apresentar. A base recarregadora também ajuda a monitorar a temperatura do ambiente, nível de luz e até de barulhos no local, avisando com notificações no app caso algum desses fatores esteja incomodando o bebê.

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O aparelhinho está em pré-venda, custando 249 dólares, e já dá conta de ter reservado 40% do primeiro lote. Como estamos cada vez mais afoitos por dados, métricas e monitoramentos da nossa própria vida, em uma busca pelo melhor para nós mesmos com base em estatísticas, o flanco em que a Sprouting quer atuar parece bastante promissor.

Nos EUA, 75% dos pais costumam comprar babás eletrônicas e dispositivos para monitorar seus bebês, o que evidencia a grande oportunidade de mercado.

Contudo, ainda me questiono se esse tipo de excesso de informações vai tranquilizar os pais e mães, ou deixá-los ainda mais aflitos com pequenas e quase imperceptíveis mudanças de temperatura, ou detalhes desse tipo.

No quesito médico, no entanto, essa pode se tornar uma importante fonte de informações detalhadas para os pediatras, que passam a ter acesso a dados detalhados sobre a criança, o que pode ajudar no diagnóstico em caso de doença. A Sproutling também espera que os pais possam disponibilizar dados anônimos sobre seus bebês, que poderiam ser utilizados por institutos de pesquisa e universidades que atuam no setor pediátrico.

Quem se interessar pelo gadget pode fazer a sua reserva pelo site. A previsão é de que as entregas aconteçam em março de 2015.

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Samsung – Everyday Day is Day One

Partenaire de l’ASP World Tour, la marque Samsung a décidé de mettre en avant la beauté du surf dans une jolie publicité réunissant plusieurs surfers professionnels comme Kelly Slater, Mitch Crews ou encore Gabriel Medina. De belles images réunies sous le nom de « Everyday Day is Day One » et réalisée par Mark Molloy avec l’agence hollandaise 72andSunny.

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