Production Cost-Cutting: How Low Can We Go?


As marketers increasingly use video to engage with customers and work to keep a steady stream of relevant and engaging content in the marketplace, conversations about production costs are reaching a fever pitch.

With advances in technology, marketers are seeing amateur camera buffs capturing some pretty impressive footage with their smartphones, GoPros and remote-control drones. So why aren’t ad agency and content provider production costs going down faster?

Ad Age recently reported, for example, that in an effort to trim more than $1 billion from its marketing budget, P&G had reached out to NASA “seeking a new way to produce moving images for TV commercials and digital video at costs significantly lower than today’s averages.”

Continue reading at AdAge.com

4 Reasons Hiring People With Criminal Histories Is Good for Business

Category: Hire & Higher
Summary: Coss Marte was running a 15-employee business and earning $500,000 a year by the time he was 23.

Then he went to prison.

Marte’s time in prison allowed him to reflect on his life as a drug kingpin and gave him the motivation to change.

The Big Future tenta responder às grandes questões sobre o futuro da humanidade

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É possível reverter a extinção de uma espécie? Será que é possível colonizar Marte? Podemos construir um cérebro melhor? Qual o futuro dos alimentos? Estas e outras perguntas fazem parte de The Big Future, nova série de animação do The Verge que tenta responder às grandes questões sobre o futuro da humanidade.

Com um gráfico belíssimo e uma linguagem acessível, The Big Future ajuda a ter uma ideia de como serão os próximos 100 anos – apesar de que dificilmente a gente imaginaria há 10 ou 20 anos que a tecnologia estaria tão presente em nosso dia a dia, enquanto que algumas descobertas científicas e a cura de algumas doenças parecem ter avançado pouquíssimo.

Para mentes curiosas, a série é um prato cheio.

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One for the road (bump) / On a découvert le “poteau rose” ?

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THE ORIGINAL? 
Taiba Hospital / Breast Cancer Prevention – 2008
“Felt the bump? Have your breasts checked”
Source : Cannes Archive, Adsoftheworld

Agency : JWT (Kuwait)
LESS ORIGINAL
One Wig Stand / Breast Cancer Prevention – 2014
“Check your bumps” #Pinkbumps
Source : Facebook

Agency : Unknown (Lebanon)

Organic Structure and Textile Art

Le studio Laokoon invente des matériaux aussi esthétiques qu’ergonomiques grâce à des associations de textiles, fils et structures. De ce fait, le studio conçoit à la main des mécanismes souples rappelant parfois la morphogenèse des écailles de Tatou. Des visuels de ses différentes créations sont à découvrir dans la suite en images et vidéo.

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1960s Adman Makes a Hilarious and Obscene Visit to a Modern Agency (NSFW)

We’ve already seen how Joan Harris (aka, Christina Hendricks) might adjust to life at a modern ad agency. Well, this guy is way more of a train wreck.

Canadian ad agency Zulu Alpha Kilo put together this crazy video for Wednesday’s Agency of the Year event in Toronto. It’s hilarious, if you don’t mind a little nudity, profanity and off-color humor.

It took some balls to make this. Well, one nasty, hairy, protruding ball.

Credits below.

Video is NSFW for various reasons, but watch it anyway.

CREDITS
Agency: Zulu Alpha Kilo
Creative Director: Zak Mroueh
Writer: Sean Atkinson
Art Director: Shawn James
Agency Producer: Tara Handley
Editor: Michael Headford
Accounts: Devina Hardatt
Director: Bruce McDonald
Production Company: Revolver Films
Producer: Luc Frappier/Rob Allan
Director of Photography: Johnny Cliff
Casting: Jigsaw Casting/Shasta Lutz
Transfer/Online: Alter Ego
Audio/Music: Pirate Toronto
Audio Director: Chris Tait



Pitch Horror Stories

Ad folk share their stories of pitch woe.

E se um homem caminhasse pelas ruas de NY por 10 horas?

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Há alguns dias, o grupo ativista pelos direitos femininos Hollaback divulgou um vídeo mostrando a difícil caminhada de uma moça pelas ruas de Nova Iorque. Em 10 horas de gravação, foram diversas cantadas, gente que incomodava a moça enquanto ela passava e vários tipos de assédio.

Parodiando esse vídeo, que chegou a atingir mais de 22 milhões de visualizações, o Funny or Die mostrou como ‘seria’ o inverso, quando um homem branco caminha pelas ruas da mesma cidade.

Exageros cômicos à parte, vale assistir e prestar atenção na mensagem final do vídeo.

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Windowless Plane

On a tous rêvé de s’envoler dans les airs en ayant la sensation de flotter dans les nuages. C’est presque chose faite avec l’entreprise de technologie anglaise Centre for Process Innovation et leur dernière invention le Windowless Fuselage Concept. Cette future génération d’avion prévoit de remplacer les conventionnels hublots par des écrans haute définition et flexibles permettant d’afficher la captation de caméras placées à l’extérieur de l’engin. A découvrir en vidéo.

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Compelling Ethereal Photography – Diggie Vitt's Latest Traveling Inspired Some Surreal New Photos (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) After raising more than $1,000 via Kickstarter campaign, photographer Diggie Vitt traveled across the country to complete his ambitious ‘365’ day photography project.

His first trip was…

Honda launches new Civic with interactive YouTube campaign

Honda has released an interactive film on YouTube that lets viewers switch between stories about a suburban school run and an art heist to promote the new Civic Type R model, which will be on sale in 2015.

Spooky Viral Chart: World's most-shared Halloween ads

To mark today’s spooky occasion, Campaign thought we would treat – not trick – you to the world’s most-shared Halloween ads.

Viral review: The potty-mouthed princesses sweary feminism film is bang on trend (NSFW)

Social video experts Unruly review the latest viral by FCKH8

Spotify launches first UK TV campaign

Spotify will launch a six-figure TV campaign to run during The X Factor ad breaks, as part of its ‘That Song When’ activity.

WPP posts 3 per cent rise in third-quarter revenue

WPP’s third-quarter revenues rose 3.1 per cent to £2.8 billion, according to the company’s trading report.

Halloween 2014: from Oreo to Ikea, a round-up of brands tapping into the supernatural

While Catholic priests have this week warned that celebrating Halloween could encourage satanism, brands in the UK and overseas clearly don’t share the clergy’s view.

Bottle it up or burn out

The performance psychologist Matt Follows asks why advertising no longer nurtures its creative misfits.

SodaStream boss says 'sorry' over banned Scarlett Johansson Super Bowl ad

SodaStream’s chief executive has said sorry and admitted the company “made a mistake spending millions of dollars on a Super Bowl commercial” that saw brand ambassador Scarlett Johansson say “Sorry Coke and Pepsi”.

Sofia Coppola dirige comerciais de Natal da GAP

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Recentemente, a GAP lançou sua campanha de outono apresentando a assinatura  “Dress Normal” com quatro belos filmes dirigidos por David Fincher que a gente mostrou aqui no B9. Para a campanha de final de ano, a marca volta a trabalhar com um grande diretor, desta vez Sofia Coppola.

Com criação da Wieden+Kennedy de Nova York e produção da The Directors Bureau, a campanha conta com mais quatro comerciais que fazem a gente pensar que famílias só costumam mudar de nome e endereço, mas costumam ser bastante parecidas entre si, principalmente na época do Natal.

Em Gauntlet, por exemplo, a garota se sente um peixe fora d’água entre os familiares, mas descobrimos que não é preciso entendê-los para presenteá-los com GAP. A mesma assinatura se repete em Mistletoe, Crooner e Pinball, que vão aumentando gradualmente o grau de estranheza.

É bonitinho, mas cá entre nós, os filmes de David Fincher foram bem mais legais.

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The Big BOO! What Fears are Holding You Back?

Category: Up Your Game
Summary: ‘Tis the season of ghosts and goblins — that special time of year that brings renditions of severed heads and mutilated faces, eyeballs and fingers without their bodies, werewolves, vampires, zombies, lunatics, and creepy dolls — striking fear in our hearts and our wallets (Americans spend $6.9 billion on Halloween each year).