Ad Review: Why Poo-Pourri's Stinky Santa Belongs on the Nice List


Everyone poops.

It’s not just the name of a children’s book by Taro Gomi, it’s a simple fact of life. But it’s not something you’d pick up if you watched toilet-related advertising. Take toilet paper, for example. If you were an alien anthropologist who sat through three decades of toilet paper advertising, you’d be hard-pressed to explain what toilet paper was used for other than squeezing or rubbing on your cheeks (the facial ones).

The only toilet paper — sorry, bathroom tissue — ads in recent memory that even hint at what goes on in there are the ones from Charmin featuring the bears. Watch those, and you can infer that the paper is used somewhere in the vicinity of the backside. (But they bring up a host of other questions about what cartoon bears do in the woods.)

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Santa Is a Hipster, and a Pretty Funny One, in This Agency's Holiday Video

Is Santa Claus a hipster? He’s got the unkempt mane and alternative lifestyle down pat. Yet he seems too obsessed with consumer goods and fourth-quarter commerce to qualify.

It feels like hipster humor played out years ago. Still, there’s much to enjoy in “Hipster Santa Goes South,” an affable two-minute spoof from Door Number 3 that celebrates the holidays and the independent Austin, Texas, agency’s 20th anniversary—which happens to be today, Dec. 9.

“We thought about throwing a party,” says agency president M.P. Mueller, “but creating something fun to share beat out warm beer, flowery speeches and tepid toasts.”

Bill Wise—a bespectacled, middle-aged dude rocking a plaid scarf, matching sneakers and just a smidge of facial hair—plays Kringle. His laid-back, cranky delivery really scores as he bikes around East Austin, quipping about “free-range reindeer” and his sled running on “penguin tears and pure Santa sweat.” At one point, he informs a young passerby, “I made my list, I checked it twice—you still have to move back to California.”

“Bill generates one-liners like he’s just picking dog hair off his pants,” says Mueller. “He could make a sudoku tournament funny.” (Wise most recently played Uncle Stevie in Richard Linklater’s Boybood.)

Hipster Santa even has some helpful advice for folks planning to make him a snack on Christmas Eve: “If you’re leaving milk and cookies, I’m lactose intolerant—make it soy, gluten free. And as far as fruitcake bars are concerned, I’m into cleanses, but just not this time of year.”

This schtick—directed in suitably casual, faux-doc style by Steve Mims—rates a six-pack of PBR at the very least. Though purists say that a different hipster is more emblematic of the season. Ho!

CREDITS
Agency: Door Number 3
Executive creative director: M.P. Mueller
Copywriters: Bill Wise, M.P. Mueller, Steve Mims, Karen Reiner
Art directors: Ines Morel, Sally Robb
Director, editor, cinematographer: Steve Mims
Cinematographer: Steve Mims
Production artist: Nicole Eckles
Production coordinator: Melissa Hilgendorf
Sound: Alex Herrera
Gaffer: Kakii Keenan
Assistant camera: Christian Benavides



Mobile Is Shaking Up Traditional Loyalty Marketing Programs


Loyalty programs have been incredibly enduring — from that very first American Airlines frequent flyer program in 1981 to the Starbucks Card Rewards program nearly 30 years later. The average U.S. household now takes part in 21.9 loyalty programs every year, according to Colloquy research.

Yet mobile is shaking up the traditional loyalty model, just as it’s shaken up so many other things. The mobile phone has become the remote control for life, and we’re using it to change channels on our loyalty programs as well. More and more digitally-savvy consumers are giving up on traditional one-size-fits-all loyalty programs and choosing mobile-driven offerings that fit their specific needs.

And that’s very good news for brands. Because the mobile phone is where brands can reach consumers anytime and anywhere — where they’ll find engaged users who are ready to receive valuable and relevant messages.

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Scottish Fire & Rescue Service: Fire spreads

Advertising Agency: The Union, UK

Fundación Adoptar: Cage, 1

In Argentina more dogs are adopted than 6 years old children .

Advertising School: Brother Ad School, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Art Directors / Copywriters: Carla Navascues Sebastian Damore, Fernando Siri
Photographer: Celeste Martearena Godoy
Additional credits: Murilo Viviurka Marcondes
Published: December 2014

Fundación Adoptar: Cage, 2

In Argentina more dogs are adopted than 6 years old children .

Advertising School: Brother Ad School, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Art Directors / Copywriters: Carla Navascues Sebastian Damore, Fernando Siri
Photographer: Celeste Martearena Godoy
Additional credits: Murilo Viviurka Marcondes
Published: December 2014

Blackout City

Après avoir voyagé en Norvège, le vidéaste Nicholas Buer, spécialisé dans les time-lapses le jour et amateur d’astronomie la nuit, a réalisé un beau time-lapse intitulé « Blackout City » qui présente des villes du Sud de l’Angleterre quand tout est calme et noir. Quand les lumières de la ville s’éteignent, c’est au tour des lumières du ciel de s’allumer : l’invisible est rendu visible.

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Photograph These Ingenious Ads, and You'll Learn How to Save Kids From Eye Cancer

If you take a flash photograph of a child, and one of his or her pupils looks white in the resulting image, it can indicate an eye tumor. In the U.K., a series of ads uses reflective ink to illustrate that warning sign, in the hope of teaching parents how to recognize it.

The ads, located at doctors offices and day care centers, feature kids who actually survived retinoblastoma, a rare but potentially fatal form of eye cancer that in most cases affects infants, toddlers and young children. If you snap a flash picture of the poster, you can see what to watch out for in pictures of your own kids.

Childhood Eye Cancer Trust, aka CHECT, is the nonprofit group behind the campaign. Agency Wunderman created the ads. There’s also an social component—Fast Company has more details on the awareness push, and the production process, which presented a unique challenge.

It’s an incredibly smart, simple use of media, given how many people carry smartphones, and the fact that early detection can save a child’s life or eyesight.



Tráfego no BuzzFeed advindo de mídias sociais já é 5x maior do que o que vem pelas buscas

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Sites de notícias e publicações em geral já sentiram essa mudança faz tempo: as mídias sociais são responsáveis hoje por grande parte do tráfego, ultrapassando acessos diretos e até resultados de busca.

Ou seja, de repente as estratégias de SEO se tornaram menos relevantes, dando espaço a uma corrida em busca do melhor jeito de se tornar relevante dentro das redes sociais, em especial do Facebook. O principal desafio? Se tornar relevante o suficiente para ser compartilhável e aparecer nos feeds sociais da audiência.Ou ao menos é o que o BuzzFeed prega em seu relatório de tendências de 2014.

“Aqui no BuzzFeed, nós não paramos para falar sobre a nossa página principal, nos concentramos em falar sobre Facebook e Twitter e compartilhamentos”, conta Will Hayward, VP do BuzzFeed na Europa, em entrevista ao Journalism.co.uk.

Até mesmo o New York Times já percebeu essa mudança de comportamento da audiência, revelando em seu relatório de inovações que o número de visitantes na home caiu pela metade, enquanto o acesso via mídias sociais estava em crescimento. No caso específico do BuzzFeed, o tráfego social já se mostra 5x maior do que o tráfego advindo de buscas, por exemplo.

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Nesse sentido, a estratégia do BuzzFeed é mais abraçar essa realidade do que rechaçá-la. “As pessoas pensam que o segredo do BuzzFeed são as listas e quizzes, quando na verdade não, na verdade é sobre pensar em compartilhamento, é aceitar que as pessoas vão encontrar o seu material em feeds sociais”, defende Hayward.

Entre as estratégias para isso, estão um foco exclusivo, localizado, interessante ou surpreendente, bem como pequenos detalhes que podem engajar a audiência, como ouso de URLs customizadas voltadas para o social ao invés de feitas para robôs de busca. É o caso da escolha de URLs como  buzzfeed.com/maggyvaneijk/your-emotions-are-valid ou http://www.buzzfeed.com/jarrylee/snapechat.

Outra estratégia apontada como positiva é estabelecer presença onde a sua audiência está, como em aplicativos mobile. Nesse sentido, o BuzzFeed agora tem presença oficial no app de mensagens WeChat, e mantém um botão “compartilhar no WhatsApp” nas suas matérias há quase 1 ano.

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Quão importantes são essas medidas? Difícil dizer ao certo, mas todas elas juntas já dão ao BuzzFeed o posto de mídia com mais alcance mensal nos EUA do que a CNN, por exemplo. “Acho que a maioria das empresas de mídia está subestimando o quanto as coisas vão mudar”, profetiza, ainda que com base em muitos dados, Hayward.

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O relatório de tendências do BuzzFeed pode ser conferido na íntegra nesse link.

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Detailed Airplane Made of Paper

Le designer basé à San Francisco Luca Iaconi-Stewart a toujours rêvé de posséder son propre Boeing 777. C’est désormais chose faite, avec ce modèle réduit réalisé à partir du papier des dossiers manila. Le moins que l’on puisse dire, c’est que la ressemblance est d’un réalisme impressionnant. A découvrir.

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See the Future and Build Your Career

Category: Hire & Higher
Summary: Building a successful career in marketing, media, or advertising is an exercise in making smart choices by anticipating constant change.

Technology, business processes, and economic conditions will be in continuous evolution or flux for the next fifty years. As the year winds down and many of us re-evaluate where we are and where we’re heading, accept this premise and prepare yourself to move ahead. Ask yourself three critical questions.

Royal Mail trials 3D printing tech

Royal Mail is trialling a 3D printing service at its central London delivery office in a bid to explore consumer appetite for the “embryonic” technology, printing items including shoes, jewellery, soap dishes and phone cases.

Neste fim de ano, não importa o que aconteça: sorria

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Por mais que a gente se esforce, nem sempre as coisas saem daquela forma perfeita como imaginamos, especialmente nas festas de fim de ano. Em algum momento, você vai sofrer pequenos acidentes domésticos, o papel vai acabar antes que você consiga embrulhar aquele último presente, a ceia vai queimar, você vai ganhar algo horrível… Enfim, as possibilidades de algo dar errado são infinitas. E mesmo que você solte um pequeno desabafo em forma de palavrão, lembre-se: não deixe de sorrir.

A singela mensagem é da Oral-B, que mais uma vez conseguiu sair do lugar-comum dos filmes de higiene bucal que tanto frustram os leitores do B9. Em vez de trazer dentistas recomendando esse ou aquele produto e escovas de dentes mostradas de todos os ângulos possíveis, a Publicis de Londres resolveu partir para o lado mais humano da coisa, mostrando um desfile de bocas-sujas (no sentido figurado) em Merry Beeping Christmas.

A ideia é boa e foi bem-executada, mas talvez tenha perdido um pouco de sua força com a assinatura final, como bem apontaram alguns leitores do Ads of the World. Em vez de finalizar com “Ao menos você não tem de se preocupar com seu sorriso”, a mensagem poderia focar em algo relacionado com as bocas-sujas… Certamente teria sido bem mais divertido.

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Conheça os indicados ao primeiro B9 Grand Prix

B9 Grand PrixSelo Indicado B9 GP

Durante os seus anos de existência, o B9 tornou-se referência em comunicação, inovação e criatividade. Desde 2002, mais de 10.000 publicações destacaram grandes ideias do Brasil e do exterior e foram motivo de orgulho para as agências.

É por isso que estamos lançando hoje o B9 Grand Prix, um prêmio de comunicação do B9 para celebrar as boas ideias que nascem no mercado brasileiro. A intenção é destacar os cases mais interessantes e os usos mais criativos de mídias diversas que aconteceram durante o ano, independente do formato e/ou plataforma.

Para 2014, a equipe do B9 selecionou a dedo 12 indicados. Ideias que, segundo a nossa opinião, merecem reconhecimento pela criatividade, originalidade e produção. Não coincidentemente, são criações que fizeram sucesso também com a nossa audiência.

No próximo dia 19 de dezembro, revelaremos o Grand Prix – que levará o troféu – após votação interna que está sendo realizada com os editores e colaboradores do B9. Fique de olho.

Confira os indicados* em: brainstorm9.com.br/grandprix

* A exibição é feita em ordem aleatória

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PETA's bukkake "don't swallow" ad pulled

PETA; true to their tasteless sexist form decided to erect a billboard in Nottingham protesting milk. “Some bodily fluids are bad for you. Don’t swallow. Ditch Dairy.” the line read, next to an image of a woman whose face and hair had chunks of white stuff sprayed all over it. Yes, it looks like bukkake, and considering the cheeky line, that was the point.

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State Farm's Latest Push Shows It's Not Just an Auto Insurer


State Farm’s latest campaign goes beyond auto insurance to offer solutions for life. The push, which captures moments like getting married or dropping a child off at college, is part of an effort to expand the conversation around the brand to include all of its products and services.

State Farm is widely known for auto insurance — it was the top private passenger auto insurer last year, in terms of premiums written with 18.5% market share, according to the Insurance Information Institute — but it also offers financial services, like retirement plans and estate planning, as well as products like life and health insurance.

“It’s important for us to shift the way people think about us instead of just reinforcing what they already think,” said Patty Morris, director-marketing and brand content at State Farm. “It’s all about the balance.”

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Media Guy Bids Farewell to Beloved 'Stephen Colbert'


I can’t quite imagine living without “Stephen Colbert.”

Yes, we’ll still have Stephen Colbert — the actual human being who has been playing a blowhard pundit on Comedy Central’s “The Colbert Report” for 10 seasons (and before that on “The Daily Show With Jon Stewart”) — when he takes over for David Letterman on CBS’s “Late Show” sometime in 2015 (date TBD). But with the series finale of “The Colbert Report” on Dec. 18, we’re losing Stephen Colbert’s trademark “Stephen Colbert” character.

This makes my heart and my head hurt.

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Holiday Promotions Squeeze Verizon


As the promotional war raged in the wireless industry, Verizon largely stayed out of the fray. But not anymore.

On Monday, the nation’s largest carrier — and sixth-largest advertiser — admitted the competitive pressures of the holiday season are eroding profits. “The company expects that the fourth-quarter impacts of its promotional offers, together with the strong customer volumes this quarter, will put short-term pressure on its wireless segment [earnings],” the company said in a filing.

Verizon did note an acceleration in subscriber upgrade to 4G plans and an uptick in its Edge installment plan. Yet as more subscribers gravitate toward discounted phone offerings it will lead to slimmer margins “in this highly competitive and promotion-filled fourth quarter,” the company noted.

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72 Gifts for Insomniacs – From Spontaneous Thought Diaries to Scientific Sky-Mimicking Lamps (TOPLIST)

(TrendHunter.com) With the holiday season right around the corner, many are starting to figure out what presents to buy their loved ones, and if their loved ones are sleep-deprived, gifts for insomniacs.

Luckily…