'A Book Is a Gift Like No Other,' Says Barnes & Noble (See 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, Lowe’s serves up another in its series of wry how-to spots with a new installment titled “How to Make a Snowman While Eating a Turkey Leg” (spoiler: it’s surprisingly easy!), while Google’s Android emphasizes the diversity of its ecosystem (“All kinds of phones for all kinds of folks”) in a quirky animated commercial. And Barnes & Noble wants to remind you to give books as Christmas gifts (but you were already planning to, right?).

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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Updating facebook in realtime via your bracelet x2

You remember the “real life like buttons that Coca Cola used in their amusement park back in 2010? A very simple idea, user data in IDF bracelets, allowed teens to “like” things as they enjoyed the park, and it updated their facebook in realtime. The park itself enjoyed the ability to brag about the most “liked” rides and the extended social media outreach gossiping teens provided.

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Airbnb and KLM turn jet into 'pimped out' hotel

Airbnb and KLM Royal Dutch Airlines have joined forces to offer holidaymakers a chance to stay on a luxurious “pimped out” jet to raise awareness of both brands.

Asos interactive YouTube film lets users flit from colour to colour

An interactive video on YouTube that lets users choose to view scenes in red, yellow green, blue or black, punctuated by a disco groove from girl band Juce!, forms the basis of a promotion for online fashion retailer Asos.

Watch: Ant and Dec star in Morrisons' festive campaign

Ant and Dec, the television presenters, star in Morrisons’ musical Christmas campaign.

John Lewis uses Shazam to hijack M&S and Debenhams Christmas ads

John Lewis is quietly undermining its competitors on music recognition app Shazam, placing an ad for its Monty’s Christmas app against tracks used for the M&S and Debenhams Christmas campaigns.

DigitasLBi is on hunt for new media leader as Ling exits

Ed Ling is leaving his dual role as chief media officer and UK media director at DigitasLBi at the start of 2015.

Designed Carpets Paper

Voici une superbe série de sculptures en papier de l’artiste Lisa Nilsson. Ces représentations de tapis à l’impression symétrique sont réalisées de l’intérieur vers l’extérieur, à travers un processus fastidieux de plusieurs mois pour compléter une seule pièce. A découvrir.

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Electrolux – Explosion – (2014) :60 (USA)

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Fatty terribly yummy foods explode in slow motion as a twee french song plays…

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John Lewis Christmas ad gets three times more views than Sainsbury's in first 24 hours

Sainsbury’s “Christmas is for sharing” ad managed less than a third of the online views achieved by John Lewis ad in its first 24 hours.

Cocktail party etiquette will help with content marketing, says Yahoo ad boss

Blending in with conversations on social media, or using “cocktail party etiquette”, is the best way to develop content marketing, according to Patrick Albano, the vice president of EMEA advertising solutions at Yahoo.

Illustrations by Mike Lee

Découverte d’une partie du travail de Mike Lee, illustrateur californien : Que dire de plus que ses dessins réalisés au graphite ou au crayon de papier sont tout simplement sublimes, d’une minutie rare et interloquante. A découvrir ci-dessous pour le plaisir des yeux.

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Hollard – Caravan – (2014) :30 (South Africa)

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Ensure that your family loves you… forever. M&C Saatchi Abel says “Life insurance adverts are always doom and gloom. So we decided to look at the category from a different perspective.”

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Black Friday gains traction in UK, with 72% of consumers aware of the term

Nearly three-quarters of UK consumers have heard of Black Friday, the nickname given to the Friday after Thanksgiving when retailers cut their prices and offer promotions, according to research from eDigitalResearch.

Amazing Landscapes by Jerome Berbigier

Le photographe français Jérôme Berbigier capture depuis quelques temps de très belles photographies aux quatre coins du monde. Des clichés de paysages impressionnants et des prises de vue vertigineuses qui nous font voyager, jouant parfois avec la retouche photographique pour y ajouter une touche de mystère. A découvrir.

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Underwater Posters for La Rose Des Vents Arts Center

Le studio de design français Les Produits De L’épicerie a collaboré avec le photographe Ludovic Florent pour réaliser les documents de la saison 2014-15 pour le centre artistique lillois La Rose Des Vents. A partir de portraits en immersion sous l’eau, les designers ont pensé des posters, des catalogues ainsi que toute une direction artistique.

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Sainsbury's marketing boss on WWI Christmas ad: We wanted to bring it to life sensitively

Mark Given, Sainsbury’s head of brand communications, spoke to Marketing about the development of the supermarket’s epic ad and the sensitivities of using the First World War to advertise a brand.

Gradient Painted Piece of Wood

Ces petites sculptures sont des fragments de bois récoltés sur des arbres malades. Comme pour leur rendre hommage, l’artiste Victoria Wagner à l’origine de ce projet, a transformé ces morceaux en pierres taillées, qui comme des pierres précieuses qu’elle a peint avec de beaux dégradés, émettent une lumière vive et colorée. À découvrir.

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WWF by Ogilvy Gurgaon

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Advertising Agency: Ogilvy & Mather, Gurgaon, India
Executive Creative Director: Ajay Gahlaut
Creative Directors: Gaurav Nautiyal, Jossy Raphael, Nitin Srivastava
Copywriter: Anu Gulati
Art Director / Illustrator:Umesh Baldaniya

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Bits Blog: Reddit Chief Executive Resigns as Company Shuffles Top Ranks

Ellen Pao will be the company’s interim chief executive. One of its co-founders, Alexis Ohanian, is also returning to Reddit full-time.