Mollie's Fund: Free killer tan

Advertising Agency: Area 23, USA
Executive Creative Director: Tim Hawkey
Creative Directors: Elliot Langerman, David Adler
Copywriters: Josh Eastman, Laura Coalwell, Jon Katz
Art Directors: Sarah Katz-Liebowitz, Sam Pizarro, Alex Tam
Digital Producer: Jenee Bautista
Developers: Henry Johnson, Liz Kozak
Director: Tom Kettells
Producer: Anna Lopez
Camera Op 1: Mark Smith
Camera Op 2: Harrison Crown
Camera Op 3: Ronnie Caltabiano
Go Pro Supervisor: Will Utley
Editor: Mike Goodenow

McDonald's: McMuffin Sunrise

Advertising Agency: Cossette, Vancouver, Canada
Creative Director: Michael Milardo
Art Director: Cameron McNab
Copywriter: Kate Roland
Director of Production: April Haffenden
Production Supervisor: Sue Barteluk
Published: November 2014

Aegean Airlines: New Year's Eve in the Air

Advertising Agency: OgilvyOne Athens, Greece
Creative Director: Franceska Galafti
Art Director: Christina Koundouri
Copywriters: Olympia Krampoviti, Thodoris Nikolaidis
Head of IT: Manolis Mavrikakis
Programmer: George Alatzas
Production Company: Foss Productions
Account Director: Christina Alifakioti
Account Manager: Marinos Klouras
Published: December 2014

Heart & Stroke Foundation: A race to save lives

Advertising Agency: Piro, New York, USA
Creative Directors: Mike Kirkland, Tim Piper
Art Director: Mike Kirkland
Copywriter: Daniel Rosenberg
Producer: Natalie Galazka
Director: Paul Constantakis
Director of Photography: Kris Belchevski
Editor: Graham Chisholm / Married to Giants
Music+Sound: Apollo Studios
Published: January 2015

Dulux: Dulux Color Run

Advertising Agency: Fortune Indonesia, Jakarta, Indonesia
Creative Director: Reza Ardiansyah
Art Director: Luddy Gilang R
Copywriter: Reza Ardiansyah
Graphic Designer: Diandara
Technology: Fian Kurniawan, Ryan Rianto
Account Director: Firzi Abidin
Account Team: Adinda Avrilya, Ress Westhi
Published: November 2014

Diesel Footwear: Photobomb, 1

Advertising Agency: Imaginarte, Spain
Creative Director: Antonio Piñero
Art Director: Victor Izquierdo
Copywriter: Nacho Macho
Photographer / Producer: José Campello
Published: February 2015

Diesel Footwear: Photobomb, 2

Advertising Agency: Imaginarte, Spain
Creative Director: Antonio Piñero
Art Director: Victor Izquierdo
Copywriter: Nacho Macho
Photographer / Producer: José Campello
Published: February 2015

Russian Olympic Committee: Share your warmth

10 machines in 10 Russian cities will allow anyone to keep warm by doing some simple physical exercises and pass on the heat created to other cities – to complete strangers.

Advertising Agency: MOST Creative Club, Moscow, Russia
Idea: Daniil Filin, Solomon Shlosman, Mikhail Gerasimov, Pavel Mishkin
Executive Producer: Solomon Shlosman
Implementation: Eugeny Shurshikov, Igor M.Namakonov, Linda Kosichkina, Radik Rahimov, Eugeny Khrolenko, Solomon Shlosman, Matvey Shurshikov
Head of Web Development: Alexander Myasoedov
Video production: Ivan Omelchenko
Published: January 2015

FCC Chair Unveils Net Neutrality Proposal That Verizon Dubs Radical


U.S. Federal Communications Commission Chairman Tom Wheeler said he will propose utility-style rules to ensure Internet service providers don’t interfere with subscribers’ Web traffic.

Mr. Wheeler, in an article published Wednesday on Wired.com, also said he would apply “bright-line rules” to mobile services for the first time. He said the agency would not seek to regulate pricing and would seek to modernize rules to encourage investment and competition.

“The Internet must be fast, fair and open,” Mr. Wheeler wrote Wednesday. “That is the message I’ve heard from consumers and innovators across this nation. That is the principle that has enabled the Internet to become an unprecedented platform for innovation and human expression.”

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What a Ballerina's Beat-Up Feet Have to Do With A Chinese Tech Brand


Chinese brands have struggled to capture the attention of international consumers: Just 22% of consumers outside China can name one, according to research this year by Millward Brown and WPP. For Americans, that figure is 9%.

So for a Chinese brand, how do you build awareness and global brand identity? Huawei, the Chinese telecommunications equipment giant, has a new ad out that’s much bolder than the average corporate image campaign.

It shows a ballerina’s feet, one in a satin pointe shoe, the other bare and battered, with bits of bandage clinging to it.

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Futuristic Supercar Concepts – The Alpine Vision Gran Turismo Celebrates the Brand's 60th Birthday (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) The Alpine Vision Gran Turismo is not your average supercar concept. The virtual vehicle is inspired by speed-chasing video game Gran Turismo 6 and was recently unveiled during the International…

Blue Man Group Turns 25, Lives in ‘Full Color’

Blue Man Group’s new campaign message isn’t inspired by a certain popular 90’s sketch comedy show; it is, rather, a celebration of the silent yet frenetic troupe’s 25 years of live performances.

BMG partnered with brand consultancy firm Oberland (co-founded in 2014 by JWT/Cossette alum Bill Oberlander) in an attempt to “revist…the mission at the core of [its] creation” and dare the masses to “live in full color.” The end result is a series of spots and a variety of out-of-home work emphasizing messages like “Avoid Beige” and “Safe is Too Dangerous.”

From Oberlander, whose new shop practices “madvocacy” for purpose-driven organizations like BMG and The Robin Hood Foundation:

“‘Dare To Live In Full Color’ is a mission to inspire people inside and outside the theatre to reconnect with their inner-sophisticated child-self, to remember a time when they felt invincibly creative, happy and fearless.”

The “Dare” effort does consistently stick to the vivid concepts throughout the various components.

Chris Wink, co-founder of Blue Man Group — which had humble beginnings off-Broadway before evolving into a global entertainment brand — waxes poetic about the campaign:

“If you are a member of the human race, chances are you desire to be a part of a tribe, to express your creativity and most importantly, you seek out experiences which make you feel fully alive. Over time, life seems to temper that desire, we often suppress it. The Blue Man Group performance was created and is continually re-created with that basic human need in mind. Ideally, we can have a collective euphoric experience together.”

Here’s a second spot:

 

Droga5 Begins Teasing Newcastle’s 2016 Super Bowl Ad

Droga5 has built campaigns around lampooning big budget advertising for Newcastle since its digital “If We Made It” campaign for the 2014 Super Bowl. This year, the agency attempted to crash Doritos’ “Crash the Super Bowl” campaign and enlisted the aid of Aubrey Plaza to get brands to join its “Band of Brands” regional big game ad. Now, the agency is looking towards the future, parodying brands’ tendency to tease their ads far before the big game by already teasing its 2016 effort.

With “just 52 short weeks” until the next Super Bowl, the teaser, narrated in a robotic voice, asks viewers “to prepare yourself to prepare yourself” for the brand’s “ad from the future.” Newcastle promises the ad will feature “2016’s hottest trends,” such as telepathic horse races, electric trumpet, mind-yodeling and, of course, high-speed cheese.

Looks like it’s going to be a pretty crazy year…

If You're Feeling Dumb, This 'Social Media Marketing For Dummies' Book Is For You

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Here Are the Top 10 2015 Super Bowl Ads Based On Reach And Sentiment

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As pundits on TV, around water coolers, and in sports bars debate the merits of the calls from this Sunday’s Super Bowl, advertisers are making their own calls on whether their ads scored a touchdown or missed the goal line by inches.

Adknowledge’s TriVu media took it upon themselves to crunch the numbers to arrive at an understanding of the the real Super Bowl Ad winners based on data and true “video buzz”.

To assemble the list of top ten TriVu worked in partnership with data science firm TeraCrunch to analyze over 200 million views and nearly a million comments on YouTube. The analysis takes into account views, likes, dislikes, subscriptions and sentiment.

Why YouTube? It’s the dominant social marketing platform during Super Bowl Sunday. Consider the following:

– Facebook boasted 65 million posts about game-related content within the first 24 hours after the Super Bowl.
– Twitter tapped out 28.4 million related tweets.
– As of Monday evening, YouTube views of Super Bowl ads were over 188 million.

YouTube is also a great predictor of the valuable 18-34 demographic since this demo spends 44% more time watching online video and 36% more time watching YouTube than the average online user, according to comScore.

When compiling our their ten list, AdKnowledge looked at two different dimensions: magnitude and positive sentiment.

“Magnitude” represents the effective reach of an ad; specifically, it measures how many consumers viewed the spot. You can have an amazing ad on Super Bowl Sunday, but if only 10,000 saw it online, your advertising ROI will be less than you hoped. To calculate magnitude, the analysis took the straightforward “view number” through 48 hours after the Super Bowl aired.

“Sentiment” is defined by the degree of emotional response viewers feel for an ad. At the end of the day, positive or negative sentiment and the intensity of that feeling is what motivates people to act. When people feel intensely about something, people tend to want to share it. The more intense the emotion, the more likely it is to become part of your memory. To calculate sentiment, we looked at likes, dislikes, comments, subscriptions and sentiment.

Predictably, Budweiser’s “Lost Dog” spot has the highest combined score. Indeed, it also scored in the top spot on the USA Today’s Ad Meter and was in the top ten of Adobe’s social media buzz. The ad has been seen over 24 million times and has a positive sentiment (intensity) score of over 97%.

Close behind in second place was SuperCell’s “Clash of Clans” ad, featuring actor Liam Neeson. The spot is a parody of the “Taken” movie franchise in which Neeson threatens to go after another player who is trying to take his gold. The ad has been seen over 20 million times and has a positive sentiment (intensity) score of 96%

In third place is Bud Light’s “Pacman”, followed by BMW’s “Newfangled Idea” and Mercedes-Benz’s “Fable”.

Top ten ads are:
1. Budweiser’s “Lost Dog”
2. SuperCell’s “Clash of Clans: Revenge”
3. Bud Light’s “Real Life Pac Man”
4. BMW i3’s “Newfangled Idea”
5. Mercedes-Benz’s “Fable”
6. Snickers’ “The Brady Brunch”
7. Nissan’s “With Dad”
8. Fiat’s “The FIAT Blue Pill”
9. Coca-Cola’s “#Make It Happy”
10. Mophie’s “All-Powerless”

Plotting these ads across two dimensions looks like this:

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“These ads did well on YouTube because they had a great creative concept and effective online video marketing strategy that resonated with their audience,” says Paul Calento, co-founder of TriVu Media.

Conclusions

As the Super Bowl hype finally dies down, advertisers and brands can use the game as a case study as they finalize their planning for the next big event–be it the Oscars, Final Four or NBA Finals.

1. Magnitude is good, but not always at the expense of sentiment

Some of the most watched ads also had the greatest level of negative sentiment. Ads such as T-Mobile’s “Save the Data” and Nationwide’s “Boy Accident” each received more than 60 and 75% negative sentiment respectively.

Magnitude is “reach.” And reach is nice, but so what? We all see hundreds of ads a day; most of them wash over us and fade away. We want to deliver advertising experiences that are intense, affecting and “sticky.” If a few viewers are motivated enough to engage with a video rather than just watching it probably indicates that the overall level of experience intensity is higher, and that the message is more likely to stick for more people.

2. Early is better

Six out of the top ten ads were released prior to the Super Bowl. Indeed, if it aligns with your business goals, brands should release their ads online before big events, whether it’s for the upcoming MTV Music Awards or the NCAA’s March Madness.

Consumers watched Super Bowl ads 86 million times before Sunday’s kickoff. With over 50 ads in the game, plus a need to refill your beverage and guacamole dip, it’s hard to watch every single commercial. Last year, commercials released on YouTube before they aired during the Super Bowl drove 2.5x more views on average than those released on game day. In fact, consumers are beginning to expect it. Last year, we watched one in five ads before the game. Expect that number to be higher when the numbers are tabulated this year.

3. Scorecards differ between offline and online

The ads that performed the best on TV are not the ones that necessarily do the best online. In fact, Square Space’s “Om Sleep” starring actor Jeff Bridges was a hit online but was one of the worst ads as rated by the USA Today Ad Meter. Conversely, Microsoft and Dodge were top ten TV winners but didn’t generate the same kind of online video or social buzz as other Super Bowl advertisers:

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In a sponsored content study AdKnowledge published in a recent AdAge article it was found that the Super Bowl advertisers that amplified their brands online days and weeks after the Super Bowl had greater recall than those that just promoted their spot with a burst of advertising. 1,000 people were surveyed and it was found that the brands employing this strategy had 2X better recall than those that didn’t.

4. Targeting online is key in social networking and video marketing

Ads are created to guide audiences to take an action. On TV, advertisers buy time on programs, but they’re essentially buying an audience. Buying advertising at the actual video (URL) level on YouTube is important because you can understand–at the most granular level–which placements get the best response from viewers.

Last year, TriVu Media managed a large automaker’s Super Bowl YouTube campaign and found that content from specific artists, gaming and sports had better view-through rates than others. TriVu used this to help the advertiser make recommendations for the next big sports-related media buy. Based on this data, TriVu makes on-the-fly optimizations, as well as provides recommendations to be leveraged in future media buys.

5. Skip the brag deck and conduct a Super Bowl post-mortem.

Every agency should provide their brands with at least 10 things they would do differently next year; what they learned from targeting and which plays they will steal from a competitor or fellow Super Bowl advertiser in the future.

The most important metrics are the ones that are most important to the brand. Many brands are lulled into the false notion that impressions, views and clicks are the ultimate barometers of success. Metrics are less important than specific outcomes. A brand should figure out what it specifically wants: sales, engagement, emails, etc. Then work backwards from there.

This guest article was written by AdKnowledge TriVu.

Poo-Pourri Flushes All Rivals With the Most Popular Radio Ad of the Super Bowl

While you were loving and hating the Super Bowl TV commercials on Sunday, there was a whole other game going on—the radio ads on Westwood One. And now, AdFreak has an exclusive look (or rather, listen) at the winner of the second annual Westwood One Super Bowl Sound Awards, honoring the best radio spots of the game.

The champion this year is Poo-Pourri, the before-you-go toilet spray that can eliminate odors that stink even worse than Pete Carroll’s play calls. The spot itself won’t be accused of being overly sophisticated (this brand’s viral videos aren’t, either), but it was a hit with the fans who voted. Have a listen here:

THE WINNER:

THE RUNNERS-UP:

Last year’s winner, Motel 6, placed two ads in the top five this year, with longtime spokesman Tom Bodett humorously trying to update his pitch for a new generation. The AutoTune one is quite funny. Listen to those spots here:

Finally, Subway and Exergen rounded out the top five:

More than 40 advertisers participated in the Super Bowl Sound Awards. The ads were available on demand for a week before the game aired Sunday on the more than 700 radio stations broadcasting Westwood One’s Super Bowl XLIX coverage, as well as on SiriusXM Radio, NFL.com/Audiopass, NFL Mobile from Verizon and the American Forces Radio Network.



National Geographic – Women of Vision

National Geographic a sorti une sélection de 11 photo-journalistes femmes, à travers la catégorie « Women of Vision », afin de mettre en avant leur point de vue délicat et féminin face aux événements et à l’actualité. Des femmes armées au Yemen aux prostituées en Inde, en passant par une femme italienne qui lit le journal dans un café ; des photos variées à découvrir.

Prostitutes, who are known as cage girls and are often sex slaves, display themselves on a Mumbai street in India, 2004. Photo by Jodi Cobb/National Geographic.

Longtime Ocean Grove visitors take a dip in the roiling Atlantic surf in Ocean Grove, N.J., 2003. This image is featured in National Geographic’s exhibition “Women of Vision: National Geographic Photographers on Assignment”, on view at the Palm Beach Photographic Centre, Jan. 22 – Mar. 22, 2015. Photo by Amy Toensing/National Geographic.

Nujood Ali in Sana’a, Yemen, February 2, 2010. Nujood stunned the world in 2008 by obtaining a divorce at age ten in Yemen, striking a blow against forced marriage. Photo by Stephanie Sinclair/VII Network/National Geographic.

Comatose and on a ventilator, a bird flu patient who was not expected to live made a remarkable recovery in Hanoi, Vietnam, 2012. Photo by Lynn Johnson/National Geographic.

A lieutenant in the elite female counterterrorism unit patrols the women’s barracks, Sana’a, Yemen, November 13, 2012. Photo by Stephanie Sinclair/VII Network/National Geographic.

A farmer and his children play in a water-starved where his livestock once grazed in Booligal, Australia, February 6, 2008. Photo by Amy Toensing/National Geographic.

Wome, mostly widows, train for police force jobs at a firing range near Kabul, Afghanistan, April 13, 2010. Photo by Lynsey Addario/VII Network/National Geographic.

A woman in Florence, Italy, savors the message on a large greeting card in 2010. Photo by Jodi Cobb/National Geographic.

The photographer’s mother, Madje Steber, suffered severe memory loss during her final years at a Florida facility, February 24, 2006. Photo by Maggie Steber/National Geographic.

A Sami in Sweden mourns the loss of two reindeer that starved after locking horns in a fight for dominance. Photo by Erika Larsen/National Geographic.

After working himself into a trance, a man leaps through a flaming pyre in Venezuela, October 12, 2009. Photo by Kitra Cahana/National Geographic.

Nestled in their bed in Miami, Florida, four young sisters nap on a Sunday afternoon after attending church, December 6, 2009. Photo by Maggie Steber/National Geographic.

In Hotan, China, a Uygur town with a rising Han Chinese population, Uygurs socialize at their own nightclubs, November 21, 2008. Photo by Carolyn Drake/National Geographic.

To guide their decision-making, the Kyrgyz often seek out shamans to read their fortune with cards in Talas, Kyrgyzstan, September 17, 2010. Photo by Carolyn Drake/National Geographic.

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How Rupert Murdoch's grandson wants to sell news back to millennials

Anyone interested in the future of news tends to keep an eye on what the millennial generation – loosely defined as those born after 1980 – are up to.

Mitsubishi "#ProtectThePie" (2015) 2:40 (USA)

Mitsubishi gave a pizza guy in Boston a Mitsubishi Outlander to drive around during the Super Bowl to protect both driver and pizzas.

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Guess Which Brand Is Already Teasing a 2016 Super Bowl Ad


It’s never too early to start teasing 2016 Super Bowl ads. Actually, it is absurdly early, which makes it the perfect time for Newcastle Brown Ale to do just that.

The brew, which has mocked conventional Super Bowl ads for the past two years, on Wednesday released the first video of what it promised to be a “year-long tease.” Because as Newcastle says, the game is coming “in just 52 short weeks.”

This year’s Super Bowl campaign by Droga5 was highlighted by a “crowdfunded” Super Bowl ad that crammed 37 brands into a single TV ad that aired only in Palm Springs, Calif. Despite the lack of a national ad, Newcastle’s pre-game teasers ranked tenth for earned views at 5,477,756, according to data from iSpot.tv. That put the brew ahead of some brands that aired national Super Bowl spots, such as McDonald’s and Toyota.

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