AfterGlow Lightsuit Segment

Partenariat entre Sweetgrass Productions, Philips TV et l’Agence suédoise de Ahlstrand et Wallgren, ce court-métrage nommé Afterglow vous propose une descente nocturne en hors-pistes avec des figures emblématiques de la glisse extrême dotées de combinaisons de LED. Réalisée entre L’Alaska et la Colombie Britannique, lumière et couleurs de haute voltige sont au rendez-vous : un beau clin d’oeil à la vidéo LED Surfer de Jacob Sutton parue il y a deux ans.

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Lundergan Grimes Chases McConnell Down The Stretch In Kentucky

It is hard to look away from the tight horse race for Mitch McConnell’s Senate seat. Pundits call the challenger, Alison Lundergan Grimes, 35, a long shot. If she’s such a long shot, why does the incumbent Senator need to appeal to Kentucky women with this charade of an ad? Perhaps, a new Courier-Journal/Survey USA […]

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Whole Foods "Values Matter Anthem" (2014) 1:00 (USA)

Have you guys heard about this new grocery store called Whole Foods Market? They’re all organic n’ stuff. They want you to know that they understand us demanding consumers.

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Rajar Q3 2014: Heart London breakfast crashes into sixth place

London’s commercial radio stations have taken a pummelling to their weekly audience figures, with the big four all shedding listeners year on year and Heart’s breakfast show sliding to sixth place.

Fotógrafo registra “a morte da conversa”

Babycakes Romero é um fotógrafo de rua que dedica-se a registrar tudo o que chama sua atenção no mundo ao seu redor. E, nos últimos tempos, o que tem chamado sua atenção é a forma como as pessoas estão cada vez mais distraídas por seus gadgets e não prestam atenção em quem está ao seu lado. Essa percepção é o ponto de partida da série fotográfica The Death Of Conversation, que ele publicou recentemente no Bored Panda.

No texto que acompanha as imagens, Romero explica que não é contra a tecnologia mobile, especialmente por conta das facilidades que ela proporciona. Por outro lado, ele acredita que o uso excessivo dos aparelhos têm tornado as pessoas seriamente entediadas – basta notar as expressões das pessoas que ele fotografou.

É fato que, com um smartphone na mão, a gente fica com as cabeças abaixadas muito mais tempo do que deveríamos – Gary Turk já havia mostrado isso em Look Up. Por outro lado, talvez seja exagero dizer que esta é a morte da conversa, já que as pessoas continuam se comunicando, só que usando outros meios.

No final, é sempre a mesma história: o problema não é a tecnologia, mas como as pessoas as usam. Bater um papo com quem está ao seu lado pode ser ótimo – ou não. Cabe a cada um descobrir o que funciona melhor para si mesmo.

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Dorothy te tira de enrascadas com três batidinhas de calcanhares

Sabe aquela situação desagradável, que você adoraria que alguém lhe ajudasse a se desvencilhar, ou aquela vez em que você adoraria chamar um táxi sem precisar interromper a conversa?

A iStrategyLabs pensou em um jeito fácil e prático de você resolver essas situações, inspirada na história do “Mágico de Oz”, e criou o “Dorothy”, um aparelhinho feito para ser afixado no seu calçado para executar funções pré-determinadas.

Assim, basta bater os calcanhares três vezes (sem repetir “não há lugar como a nossa casa”, para manter a discrição, né?) para acionar o recebimento de uma chamada falsa, chamar um táxi, enviar sua localização para seus amigos, entre outras possibilidades.

Por enquanto, o Dorothy é apenas um protótipo, e não existe previsão para chegada no mercado, mas é uma boa iniciativa de uso de um dispositivo de vestir (ou seria de calçar?) que permite interações discretas, que não interrompem ou incomodam quem está ao seu redor.

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It's Not Just About E-Commerce: How Alibaba Is Courting Hollywood


Chinese billionaire Jack Ma is stepping up his Hollywood dealmaking push, leading a team of Alibaba executives meeting with studios to acquire online content, people with knowledge of the situation said.

The Alibaba Group Holding founder will meet in coming days with Lions Gate Entertainment Corp., Walt Disney Co., Viacom Inc.’s Paramount Pictures, Time Warner Inc.’s Warner Bros., Sony Corp. and Comcast Corp.’s Universal, said the people, who asked not to be named because the talks are private. Hangzhou, China-based Alibaba will seek deals that give it the right to distribute U.S. movies and TV shows at home, or invest in studio stakes, the people said.

Armed with $25 billion from a September initial public offering, Alibaba is on the prowl for entertainment it can sell to Chinese consumers through its set-top boxes, which also offer goods from its e-commerce site, the world’s largest. Like Chinese peers Fosun International and Dalian Wanda Group Corp., Alibaba has expanded ties in Hollywood while navigating challenges such as piracy and censorship in mainland China.

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Auto Dealers Fume Over 'Insulting' Edmunds.com Ads


New YouTube ads from Edmunds.com, which suggest that car dealers are unethical hagglers, have provoked a backlash.

Kevin Frye, e-commerce director for The Jeff Wyler Automotive Family in Cincinnati, said the four videos perpetuate stereotypes of dealers as bargainers trying to take advantage of shoppers with outrageous markups.

Mr. Frye said Tuesday that he will cancel the Wyler dealership group’s Edmunds.com subscriptions. Dealers pay Edmunds to post their inventory online.

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DealBook: Ello Enshrines Ad-Free Status in Charter and Raises $5.5 Million

The budding social network Ello is reincorporating as a public benefit corporation whose charter forbids it from using ads or selling user data to make money.



Abbott Mead Vickers BBDO Crafts Choreographed Spot for Currys PC World

Abbott Mead Vickers BBDO has anew 60-second spot for Currys PC World featuring carefully choreographed household goods and computers.

In the charming spot, everything from refrigerators and vacuum cleaners to smart phones and computers engage in a tightly choreographed dance routine reminiscent of old-school Hollywood. Each item slowly makes its twirling exit until there is only one laptop left. “From our range of 10,000 products, we’ll help you find the one that’s just right for you,” says the voiceover, leading into the “We start with you” tagline. Set to music from The Artist, the spot evokes classic Hollywood in a fun way that shows the range of products at Currys PC World while also emphasizing their customer service. It’s all the more effective for letting the idea stand on it own, with only limited voiceover intrusion, and you can tell the agency had fun bringing this one to life.

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People With No Brains Star in Hilarious Ads for Other Kinds of Organ Donation

Next time you’re at a party and some bro is doing a kegstand on a diving board over an empty swimming pool, you might consider letting the situation play out. 

Ad agency Duval Guillaume and Belgian non-profit Reborn to Be Alive take an amusingly fresh approach to organ donation in a new campaign—with photos and videos of people doing seriously dumb and dangerous things, followed by the line: Eight of his organs can be donated. Luckily for us, his brain is not one of them.”

Take a look at the ads below, see these Darwin Award contenders in action.

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GIF Magnets from Famous Movies

Qui n’a jamais, au moins une fois dans sa vie, rapporter, de la ville phare de ses vacances, un souvenir iconique à coller sur son frigo ? « Impossible magnet » est une série de GIF animés qui fait référence à des villes imaginaires tirées d’œuvres cinématographiques mythiques. De Hill Valley à Gotham City en passant par Jurassic Park.

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Wild Animals in Cities

Le photographe irlandais Jason Mc Groarty est derrière cette très belle série de photos en noir et blanc intitulée « Totem ». Grâce à Photoshop, il a pu placer des animaux sauvages dans des endroits urbains tels que des bibliothèques, des églises, des couloirs et des casinos. Un rendu surréel, à voir dans la galerie.

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BtoB Case Study: How UTest Rebranded as Applause


When UTest rebranded as Applause in May, it had the challenge of bringing together three previously separate brands, while keeping its core brand intact.

UTest was known for its app-testing service UTest, as well as two other products — Applause, an app-quality service targeted at marketing executives, and Apphance, an app-testing service for the developer community.

“The objective was going from three different point offerings to a much broader, integrated solution,” said Matt Johnston, chief marketing and strategy officer at UTest. “The rebrand was about building a much larger umbrella we could fit more of the point solutions under, instead of fragmenting under different brands with different names.”

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Waterstones and Airbnb tie up for competition inspired by man locked in bookstore

Inspired by the plight of the man who found himself trapped in a London Waterstones store overnight, the bookshop has teamed up with Airbnb for a competition to let 20 people spend the night in Waterstones on Piccadilly.

Diageo uses mobile tech for Haig Club and rolls out gold Baileys bottle for Christmas

Diageo is plotting a “dual screen” campaign for Haig Club which will see mobile ads sent to consumers’ smartphones when they are in the vicinity of outdoor posters.

Rajar Q3 2014: commercial radio tightens the gap on the BBC

Commercial radio tightened the gap between it and the BBC, according to the latest Rajar audience figures.

Coca-Cola names new CMO as Joe Tripodi retires

Coca-Cola CMO Joe Tripodi is set to retire from the company to be replaced by senior Coke executive Marcos De Quinto.

Facebook Messenger convida a “dizer eu te amo” de um jeito diferente

O Facebook está mesmo empenhado em fazer o seu aplicativo de mensagens dar certo. Depois de obrigar os usuários a baixarem um aplicativo específico para conferirem suas mensagens privadas – deixando de usar a opção que vinha embutida no próprio app da rede social – agora circula em algumas cidades dos EUA uma campanha que reforça a marca do Messenger como aplicativo de mensagens independente.

Voltado para TV, cinema, online e também outdoors, o mote da campanha é oferecer formas de demonstrar o seu amor de um jeito descontraído, divertido e multimídia, com o uso de vídeos, mensagens de voz, fotos e stickers. A interação entre o casal é embalada por uma versão de “I can’t help falling in love with you”, de Elvis, tocada com um ukulele.

Por enquanto, a campanha circula especialmente em Los Angeles e Chicago, para testar a reação da audiência, e se tudo der certo, a área de exibição da propaganda deve ser expandida em breve.

Curiosamente, o foco da campanha norte-americana é bem diferente da feita recentemente na Ásia  – nos EUA, a intenção é manter o posto de terceiro app mais baixado (atrás apenas do Skype e WeChat) e, se possível, subir alguns degraus; no oriente, o objetivo é se fazer conhecido, já que o mercado asiático é onde residem os mais fortes concorrentes do Facebook.

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Comcast Slows Video Subscriber Losses


Comcast, the No. 1 U.S. cable company awaiting regulatory approval to buy No. 2 Time Warner Cable, reported profit that beat estimates as new high-speed internet customers more than made up for for declining video subscribers.

Third-quarter earnings were 73 cents a share, excluding tax adjustments and acquisition-related expenses, Comcast said today in a statement. That topped the 71 cents that analysts projected on average, according to estimates compiled by Bloomberg. Revenue rose 4% to $16.79 billion, just shy of the $16.81 billion estimated by analysts.

Cable operators like Comcast are relying more on broadband users for revenue growth as new TV subscribers are harder to come by. More content is being offered via online services like Netflix and HBO’s upcoming online subscription, encouraging cable customers to cut the cord. The increasing reliance on broadband sign-ups is helping boost profit margins, according to David Heger, an analyst at Edward Jones & Co.

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