Securite Routiere: The last class


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Securite Routiere

Advertising Agency:La Chose, Paris, France
Interdepartmental Delegate to Road Safety:Emmanuel Barbe
Creative Director:Pascal Grégoire
Copywriter:Charles Flamand
Art Directors:Alexandre Fort, Guillaume Ganty
Tv Production:Nicolas Buisset
Agency Management:Eric Tong Cuong, Pascal Grégoire, Eric Zajdermann, Pamela Taconet, Gloria Amzallag, Marina Flammie
Strategic Planners:Eric Tong Cuong, Céline Bonnefond
Director Of Communication:Barka Zérouali
Pr:Barka Zérouali
Production Company:Quad Group
Director Of Photography:Bruno Aveillan
1st assistant director:Tatum Drouilhat
Executive Production:Martin Coulais
Production Director:Claudia Traeger
Post Production Manager:Nathalie Aveillan
Post Production:Fix Studio
Sound Production:The
Composers:Mirwais
Art Buyers:Laure Bouvet, Julie Dure

Georg Jensen: You can never be too much you


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Georg Jensen

Advertising Agency:Forsman & Bodenfors, Stockholm, Sweden
Art Directors:Kim Cramer, Karina Ullensvang
Copywriter:Rikke Jacobsen
Account Supervisor:Viktoria Wallner
Account Executive:Jenni Füleki
Agency Producer:Magnus Kennhed
Artwork:Karin Nolmark, Camilla Häggman
Pr:Robert Johnsson
Media Agency:Be On
Director:Laerke Herthoni
Director Of Photography:Mattias Rudh
Editor:Peter Brandt
Production Company:Folke Film
Executive Producer:Joi Persson
Producer:Morgan Röhl
Local Production:Story, Barcelona
Post Production:Glassworks, The Talent Group
Music:Seinabo Sey, Magnus Lidehäll
Styling:Karin Smeds
Interview Film:Ruben Sznajderman
Quote Cred:Danielle LaPorte

Rodale Poaches Matt Bean From Time Inc. to Edit Men's Health


They say you can’t go home again, but don’t tell that to Matt Bean, who will be returning to Rodale as editor of Men’s Health magazine, the company will announce Friday.

Mr. Bean, 38, starts work Monday, after finishing up at Time Inc. Friday. He joined Time Inc. from Rodale in 2012, and has served in a number of roles over the last few years, most recently as senior VP-editorial innovation. He’s also edited Entertainment Weekly and served as managing editor of Sports Illustrated digital.

He first worked at Men’s Health as an associate editor back in 2004, later taking posts as articles editor and brand development editor, during the heyday of then-editor-in-chief David Zinczenko.

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Unilever in Talks to Buy Jessica Alba's Honest Co. for $1 Billion


Unilever has expressed interest in buying Honest Co., the household-products company co-founded by actress Jessica Alba, according to a person familiar with the matter.

The process is at an early stage, said the person, who asked not to be identified as the matter is private. Honest Co. is also working with Goldman Sachs Group Inc. and Morgan Stanley on an initial public offering, people familiar with the matter said earlier this year.

A spokesman for Unilever declined to comment. Santa Monica, California-based Honest Co. didn’t reply to a call and email placed outside of normal business hours.

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A Depressed T-Rex and His Tiny Arms Find Relief in This Oddly Wonderful Audi Ad

“You think things are gonna stay the same, then one day, boom, 25 million hits in two days.”

The Tyrannosaurus Rex is real. And we have ruined his life by teasing him, en masse and without shame, over his useless little arms. “I became a laughingstock,” our friend laments. (To be fair, we thought he was extinct, but maybe that’s a callous excuse.) “I lost the lust for life that I had. I just couldn’t go out anymore.” 

This unexpected heartbreaker of an ad goes on to explore the depths of T-Rex’s debilitating depression. He stares dejectedly out the window and spends all his time in bed. Sports don’t help, and basic homemaking is just too difficult. His pillows are covered in deep slashes, like the shredded portrait of the bereft prince in Disney’s Beauty and the Beast. 

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U.K.'s Informa Agrees to Buy Aviation Week Publisher Penton for $1.6 Billion


Informa, the U.K.-based business information provider, has agreed to buy Penton Information Services for 1.18 billion pounds ($1.6 billion) to add exhibitions and professional services in the U.S.

The company will fund the purchase through new debt and equity, according to a statement Thursday. The sellers, MidOcean Partners and Wasserstein & Co., will receive about 1.1 billion pounds in cash and 76 million pounds in Informa equity.

Informa has accelerated its expansion under CEO Stephen Carter, a former head of U.K. media regulator Ofcom who was named CEO in 2013. Informa, which has a market value of about 4.5 billion pounds, employs more than 6,000 people globally across five divisions: Business intelligence, academic publishing, knowledge, events and support, according to its website.

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Rodale Poaches Matt Bean From Time Inc. to Edit Men's Health


They say you can’t go home again, but don’t tell that to Matt Bean, who will be returning to Rodale as editor of Men’s Health magazine, the company will announce Friday.

Mr. Bean, 38, starts work Monday, after finishing up at Time Inc. Friday. He joined Time Inc. from Rodale in 2012, and has served in a number of roles over the last few years, most recently as senior VP-editorial innovation. He’s also edited Entertainment Weekly and served as managing editor of Sports Illustrated digital.

He first worked at Men’s Health as an associate editor back in 2004, later taking posts as articles editor and brand development editor, during the heydey of then-editor-in-chief David Zinczenko.

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Allstate: The workout

Allstate: The klutz

NFL: Two places

That Padres Pitcher in ‘Pitch,’ She’s Got a Mean Screwball

The show, which begins on Sept. 22 on Fox, stars Kylie Bunbury and was made with the cooperation of Major League Baseball.

Friday Morning Stir

-All we know is this is an ad for Yamato Transport starring a bunch of black cats (video above). Stay weird, Japan.

-Coty appointed Publicis Media as its lead global media agency. Zenith will lead the assignment.

McCann WorldGroup Lima turned the front and back covers of Grupo el Comercio-owned newspaper Peru 21 into protest signs with slogans such as “Violence is not love,” “To be silent is to be an accomplice,” and “Nobody has the right to touch you” in an effort combatting violence against women (video above). 

Brexit? Whatever. It’s Scotland’s time to shine.

Copyranter Mark Duffy somehow managed to find the time and stamina to dig deep enough to find casual sexism in the advertising industry.

-The Drum examines “The thorny problem of succession for Publicis and WPP.”

PrideAM founding president Scott Knox asks, “Are LGBT+ people being airbrushed from advertising?

-“Are Millennials Special?” is an actual research piece headline. Burn. It. All. Down.

Conan Made This Hilarious and Perfect AirPods Ad Spoofing the iPod Silhouettes

When Apple introduced its wireless AirPod earphones at its media event last week, there was immediate suspicion that these cute little gizmos might pose a particular problem for consumers. Conan O’Brien latches on to that criticism in very amusing style with the parody ad below—spoofing Apple’s famous iPod “Silhouettes” ads from the early 2000s.

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This Surreal British Airline Commercial Takes You on a Wild Trip Indeed

Travel has become more accessible for Londoners, thanks to easyJet, whose latest “Why Not?” campaign by VCCP has a pretty basic premise: It’s the story of the many adventures awaiting a woman whose flight is about to take off. 

Strange little details give the ad unexpected vivacity. It opens with a molting man made of flowers running across the runway like Alice’s White Rabbit. He’s late, he’s late! Suddenly our heroine is yanked right out of the plane and into the hangar, where tropes of a European vacation—open-air markets, street artists—are given the Gulliver’s Travels treatment, transforming the exotic into the surreal. 

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Marketer MVPs: NBA Wins Twitter With Allen Iverson's 10 Greatest Plays


The NBA proved the most engaging brand on not one but two major social media platform in the week through Tuesday. Its post observing the 15th anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks generated the most engagement of any marketer message on Instagram, while a look at Allen Iverson’s most memorable plays fared better than any other brand post on Twitter. Iverson was inducted into the NBA Hall of Fame last Friday.

Check out the week’s other most-engaging brand posts on major social-media platforms, and click on the chart to see the original posts in their native social habitat.

Methodology: Marketer MVPs surfaces the individual brand posts, both paid and organic, that generated the most engagement on Facebook (defined as likes, shares and comments), Twitter (retweets and likes), Instagram (likes and comments), Tumblr (original notes) and YouTube (official views, comments and thumbs-ups). Brands tracked are the 200 most-advertised brands by U.S. measured-media spending in 2014, per Ad Age Datacenter, in addition to the top 500 brands as identified in the Redbooks 500.

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Bridgestone: Performance, 1

Bridgestone: Performance, 2

Bridgestone: Performance, 3

Bridgestone: Performance, 4

Bridgestone: Performance, 5