IMM Expands Leadership Team with Additions of Corien de Jong and Grenadier Founder Rob Hofferman

Boulder full-service indie digital agency IMM expanded its leadership team with the appointments of Corien de Jong as senior vice president, executive creative director and Grenadier founder Rob Hofferman as senior vice president, client services. 

Rob founded Grenadier with five other partners in August of 2012, serving as partner since then and brining in clients such as SunnyD, Waterpik, Hunter Douglas, Woody Creek Distillers and Rio Grande Mexican Restaurants. He spent three years as a managing partner at Sterling-Rice Group before leaving to form Grenadier. Prior to Sterling-Rice Group he spent almost eight years serving as a senior vice president with Grey New York, leading the agency’s Canon, Aetna and Santa Margherita wine accounts. Before joining Grey he held account director roles with Korey Kay & Partners and Hill Holiday. 

Corien joins IMM from Denver-based Ogilvy agency Leopard, where she has served as vice president, creative director since February of 2013. She originally joined Leopard as an associate creative director in October of 2008, following over a year in that position with McClain Finlon. Prior to that she held senior art director roles with Modem Media/Digitas and FCBi. Over the course of her career, which has spanned over two decades, she has worked with brands including MetLife, Monster and Delta Airlines.

“Rob and Corien bring a wealth of industry knowledge to IMM,” said Sean Baker, IMM Chief Client Officer. “As we continue to deliver on our mission to combine people and technology to create campaigns that get smarter every day, their experience is an invaluable addition to our team.”

For the record, Grenadier continues to operate as usual following Hofferman’s departure.

Decolar.com: Kraken

Decolar.com: King Kong

EPM: Sun hats

Women From Venus, Men Still From Mars on Facebook, Study Finds

A study of 10 million Facebook posts found that American men more likely to swear, express anger and argue; women used kinder yet more assertive language.

BBDO Belgium Knows Exactly How to Piss Off Its Clients’ Top Marketers

Ugh, CMOs. Aren’t they the worst??

Nah, not really. Sure, many of them earn big bucks, but they don’t have much in the way of job security, and we can only imagine how annoying and stressful it must be to have to find some way to keep telling your boss that you’re increasing sales so he can spread the word to investors and so on.

But BBDO Belgium came up with a mildly interesting way to confuse and irritate marketing managers by intentionally replacing mentions of their brands with their biggest competitors. The point was to promote client JCDecaux, which often deals with the same problem.

Yes, it’s another case study video. Deal with it.

Well, obviously it wasn’t. That was the whole premise of your case study.

That project was honestly not as impressive as we’d hoped, but we get it. And of course it’s always fun to take the piss out of your perceived adversaries, even for a minute. Also, “the worst mailing in the history of direct mail” feels a bit redundant.

Something tells us American marketing chiefs would be less amused, though.

CREDITS

Creative Director: Arnaud Pitz & Sebastien De Valck
Associate Creative Director: Klaartje Galle
Creative Team: Toon Vanpoucke & Morgane Choppinet
Account Supervisor: Isabel Peeters
Account Manager: Marleen Depreter
Strategic Planner: Tom Vingerhoets, Jan Van Brakel
Advertiser Supervisor: Veerle Colin (JCDecaux), Els Desmedt (JCDecaux)

Artista faz Pirâmide do Louvre desaparecer usando fotos em preto e branco

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A partir de hoje e até o dia 27 de junho parte do Museu do Louvre ficará escondido para os turistas. Quem passar pela praça do Cour Carrée, que é onde fica a icônica pirâmide de vidro do museu, verá ela completamente coberta por fotos preto e branco, em uma intervenção do artista conhecido apenas […]

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KFC: Seal

Thai Health Promotion "HELPMET" (2016) 2:00 (Thailand)

Thailand is second in the world when it comes to nasty motorcycle accidents. Problem is, when you’re thrown from your motorcycle you often lose consciousness, so it’s impossible to call for help. Introducing: HELPMET. The first helmet that calls for help when you are unconscious. Each HELPMET is linked to an SIM card number containing all the information the rider has entered. When an impact occurs and the driver loses consciousness, an SMS alert is sent to emergency services as well as contacts. Really cool idea– but what if your phone is damaged, too? Will it still work?

Estudiantes De Caracas "Littlekicks" (2016) 2:13 (Venezuela)

Cute campaign for Estudiantes De Caracas, a professional soccer team and academy that raises the next generation of potential stars. They got moms in their 28th week of pregnancy when the baby really starts moving, hooked them up to some sensors, and had a soccer match based on the unborn babies’ kicks.

Bejeweled Stars "Shiny place" (2016) :30 (USA)

A curling enthusiast gets denied the chance to watch his beloved sport and retreats to his “shiny place,” i.e. playing the mobile game Bejeweled Stars. In it he imagines putting the wifey and dog in place while he rides atop a giant curling stone.

McCann and the Lottery Find a Way to Make New Yorkers Hate Each Other Less

Following last November’s “You’d Make A Way Better Rich Person,” McCann New York launched a new campaign for the New York Lottery entitled “Get Drawn Together,” emphasizing how state-sanctioned gambling “draws New Yorkers together, in a fun way.”

Three spots then differentiate the New York Lottery from some less fun ways New Yorkers can be drawn together.

The approach works best in “Airport Motel,” which provides the most reasonable premise. Three guys are forced to share the last motel room when their flight get canceled, and we see them shooting for who gets the middle spot in the room’s only bed (what, no cot?).

The other two spots, “Dog Wedding” and “Corporate Retreat” are, to put it mildly, less effective due to premises that stretch the logic of the campaign well past the breaking point in execution, if not in concept.

“Dog Wedding” tries to play to laughs with two friends clearly not enjoying a dog wedding by making the guy remark on how “at least the cake is good” only to learn that it is, in fact, dog food.

This might just make viewers forget all about the lottery connection. Why would you let human guests mistakenly take cake shaped like dog food? And, even worse, how could you possibly not know that it’s dog food after taking a bite, let alone enjoying two slices?

Still, as ridiculously over-the-top as it is, two dogs dressed in wedding garb is pretty damn adorable.

“Corporate Retreat” presents a ridiculous lost-in-the-woods scenario. Many do indeed fail to enjoy corporate retreats, but the over-the-top nature of the spot detracts from the campaign’s message.

Credits:
Advertising Agency: McCann, New York, USA
North American Chief Creative Officer: Eric Silver
Co-Chief Creative Officers: Sean Bryan, Tom Murphy
Executive Creative Directors: Mat Bisher, Dan Donovan
Creative Directors: Nic Howell, Geoff Bentz
Copywriter: Lex Singer
Chief Production Officer: Nathy Aviram
Senior Integrated Producer: Alexis Mead
Group Account Director: Lauren LaValle
Account Supervisor: Geordie Larratt-Smith
Account Executive: Alesy Iturrey
Assistant Account Executive: Denis Mahon
Executive Strategy Director: Mike Medeiros
Strategy Director: Laura Frank
Strategist: Cristina Pansolini
Senior Project Manager: Steve Marchione
Director: Randy Krallman / Smuggler
Partners: Patrick Milling Smith, Brian Carmody
Executive Producers: Shannon Jones, Jacqui Wilkinson
Head of Production: Andrew Colón
Producer: Ian Blain
Editor: Merritt Duff / Cutting Room
Managing Partner: Susan Willis
Producer: Lisa Starace
VFX: Light of Day
Color Correct: Lez Rutledge / Nice Shoes

Barber Martin Thinks You Might Want to Try the Virginia Lottery One More Time

Lots of gambling going on today in agency land.

In February, we noted that former Martin Agency GCD Deb Hagan had left to join another Richmond-based agency, Barber Martin. (She previously worked in art/creative direction at Fallon, BBDO San Francisco, TBWA and more before going in-house with Walmart.)

Her new shop just released its first work under Hagan’s leadership in the form of a campaign for the Virginia Lottery.

In 2014, the client chose Barber Martin as one of six new partners tasked with handling the work previously led by another Richmond shop, Big River Advertising. That was just a few months after founders Bob Barber and Bill Martin sold the shop to president/CEO Robyn Deyo.

The message in these two spots is that playing the lottery is a (completely healthy!) sort of compulsion, wherever it may happen. First there’s “Car.”

It’s not over ’til its over … and then there’s still another scratch-off that you missed!

The same scenario could also theoretically occur at your local pool.

The lottery is sort of a Green Eggs and Ham thing: it (almost certainly) will not happen in a car or in a bar or on a star … but that very tiny chance is what keeps people coming back, isn’t it?

The press release positions this campaign as indicative of the agency’s shift under creative lead Hagan, who “assembled an entirely Virginia based team” to work on the project under the slo-mo emotional connection theme.

“eXTRA Chances is such a unique game for the Lottery that really leverages a consumer insight. So by tapping in to the exaggerated truth of what it’s like to get another chance, we can really find the humor in the emotion,” Hagan said, adding, “Telling the story this way forces you to be very particular about what’s in each shot. We had to find just the right pieces of the close ups to capture the story and the emotional journey of the hero.”

The campaign also includes in-store POS, radio and digital spots.

Credits

Client: Virginia Lottery
Executive Director: Paula Otto
Director of Communications: Jill Vaughan
Director of Marketing: Gwen Dean
Strategic Games Manager: Katherine Cundiff
Creative Manager: Linda Jimenez
Marketing Manager: Molly Mascia
Marketing Project Manager: Virginia Parthemos

Agency: Barber Martin Agency
President/CEO: Robyn Zacharias
Chief Creative Officer: Deb Hagan
EVP/Director of Broadcast Production: Greg Simos
ACD/Art Director: Sarah Duke
Copywriter: Lauren Barrett
Account Director: Leigh Nance
Account Executive: Michael Foster
Project Manager: Michelle Slemmer

Production Company: Spang TV
Director: Whiskey Tongue – Chris Allen Williams & Matt West
Director of Photography: Mark Mervis
Executive Producer: Melanie Cox
Senior Producer: Jordan Rodericks
Associate Producer: Erin Surber
Production Coordinator: Christina Garnett

Editorial Company: Mad Box Post
Editor: Justin Tolley
Editorial Executive: Macy West
Colorist: Matt West

Audio Post Company: Red Amp Audio
Composer/Mixer/Engineer: Jody Boyd
Audio Executive Producer: Marna Bales

BBDO's Latest Ad for Snickers Ice Cream Bars Is a Real Scream

Can discordant screaming sell ice cream?

Snickers sure hopes so, because that’s the angle it’s going with this new spot for Snickers ice cream bars. Playing on the “I scream, you scream” rhyme, the ad shows a mom and son, a crab, a tattooed bodybuilder, his tattoo and the boardwalk caricature of a married couple all screaming at one of those ice cream trolleys you see around the beach.

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McDonald's Makes Green and Red Angry Birds Burgers, Just Makes People Angry

Time was, McDonald’s put toys in their Happy Meals to promote movies. Now they just dye their burgers, we guess. McDonald’s China is making chicken and pork sandwiches with special red and green buns in advance of the Angry Birds Movie, and they’re hardly a welcoming sight.

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Parkinson's NSW: Stairs

Parkinson's NSW: Tap

Parkinson's NSW: Lock