Huawei: #Handible Mate 9


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Let us introduce the hand – a unique, unseparable hero in constant contact with the smartphone. Mobile devices adapt to the hand in its functionality and design. That is why we want to make it #handible. Just for you. Huawei technologies make your life easier. We care about your comfort to be in touch with the world and regardless of anything we “make it possible.”

Advertising Agency:DDB&Tribal, Warsaw, Poland
Creative Directors:Maciej Waligóra, Zuzanna Duchniewska-Sobczak
Art Director:Filip Berendt
Copywriters:Piotr Grzelak, Kasper Bajon, Ksawery Bajon
Production House:CutCut
Post Production:Platige Image
Director:Szymon Pawlik
Director Of Photography:Maciej Sobieraj
Creative Solutions Producer:Elzbieta Mielcuch
Senior Interactive Account Manager:Iwona Maksylewicz
Senior Project Manager:Maciej Wronecki
Senior Motion Designer:Krzysztof Kalbarczyk

Njuškalo: A Deal Too Good to Be True


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Advertising Agency:Size, Zagreb, Croatia
Art Directors:Jurica Koleti?, Marko Cvijeti?
Copywriters:Andrej Virant, Ivan Fistri?

Pentagono Security Doors: Search Bar

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Advertising Agency:Y&R, Buenos Aires, Argentina
General Creative Director:Martín Nino Goldberg
Creative Directors:Fefe Aubone, Ivan Zimmermann, Benjamin Tornquist
Art Director:Nicolás Montanaro
Copywriter:Lighuen Gorecki

Peugeot: When lions drive cars

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The first flyer to place lions as drivers.

Advertising Agency:Bruckner Yaar Levi, Tel-Aviv, Israel
Creative Director:Adam Peled
Art Director:Udi Ovadia
Copywriter:Dror lavi
Client Management:Vered Braverman, Liran Nissim
Strategy:Liron Schecter
Pr:Meidan Zwiebel

Sea Eye: Schlepperkönig


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Five thousand people have drowned in 2016 in the Mediterranean Sea while fleeing their countries, but this horror is not taken seriously anymore among young europeans. We announced a game about the drama in the Mediterranean Sea. We promoted the game called ‘Schlepperkönig’ (king of the human trafficker) on Facebook. This caused enormous outrage, Austria’s biggest newspapers reported. German and Swiss newspapers also hopped on the train. When the attention reached its peak, we showed the real scandal: The fact that a game causes more disgust than 5,000 drowned.

No game is more brutal than reality.

Advertising Agency:Virtual Identity, Vienna, Austria
Creative Directors:Jakob Wurzl, Christoph Hofbauer
Art Director:Klaus Seethaler
Project Manager:Sandra Ulrich
Pr:Thomas Bischof, Hans-Peter Buschheuer, Sea Eye
Graphic Designer:Roberto Krainz
Social media seeding:Katharina Landtrachtinger
Content Trainee:Patricia Wist
Trailer Design:Philipp Comarella, Matthias Heckesteiner, Salon Alpin
Sound:Fifth Music

SU22: Look


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The apartments that perfectly suit you and your family.

Advertising Agency:Media Storm, Moscow, Russia
Creative Director:Evgeny Turkin
Art Director:Evgeny Turkin
Copywriter:Evgeny Turkin
Production Company:Wireframe

TBWA: Fanatomy

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Advertising Agency:TBWAUNITED, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Creative Director:Ben Hartman
Art Director:Ewa Przybyla
Copywriter:Jan Emmens
Illustrator:Mark Powell
Account Manager:Melissa Da Silva
Planner:Rochelle Wang

Touche pas à ma pote: Her street view


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Advertising Agency:JWT, Brussels, Belgium
Creative Director:Xavier Bouillon
Art Director:Yagiz Ekren
Copywriter:Yves Cwajgenbaum
Illustrator:Renaud Lavency

Zoobrevivientes: Happy Tails

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Nothing would make a dog happier than being with you.

Advertising Agency:Y&R, Buenos Aires, Argentina
General Creative Director:Martín Nino Goldberg
Creative Directors:Fefe Aubone, Ivan Zimmermann, Benjamin Tornquist
Art Director:Nicolás Montanaro
Copywriter:Lighuen Gorecki
Graphic Producer:Fernando Costanza
Illustrator:Estudio Díaz Feich
Photographer:Estudio Díaz Feich

Mediator: After Ailes, the Pirate Flag Still Flies at Fox News

When Roger Ailes left as Fox News chairman, executives promised a cleanup. Reports of harassment claims and payouts make it hard to see what changed.

Vehicular Camping Bed Frames – The 'Camperbox' Backseat Bed Makes Car Camping a Comfy Experience (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) Avid car campers will love the design of the ‘Camperbox’ backseat bed as a means of transforming their vehicle into the ideal spot to catch some sleep.

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Amazon Prime Suits Up as NFL's New 'Thursday Night Football' Streaming Partner


The NFL is huddling up with a new live-streaming partner in Amazon, which has agreed to fork over $50 million to simulcast the 10 fall “Thursday Night Football” games broadcast by CBS and NBC.

Per terms of its one-year deal, the online retailer-cum-programmer will offer the Thursday night NFL games at no additional charge to subscribers of its Amazon Prime service, which boasts a membership of some 65 million U.S. consumers. That’s on an equal footing with the number of active stateside users of Twitter, which last fall became the NFL’s inaugural full-season live-streaming partner.

Amazon, which beat out the likes of Facebook and Google’s YouTube for the rights to carry the Thursday night games, will pay five times what Twitter invested a year ago for what is effectively the same package. Amazon will have the option to sell a smattering of ad inventory in each game, and it’s expected that a portion of those available slots will be used to promote homegrown shows such as “Sneaky Pete,” “Goliath” and “All or Nothing,” a doc series produced by NFL Films.

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Wahl Out as McDonald's U.S. CMO, Replaced by PepsiCo's Flatley


McDonald’s U.S. Chief Marketing Officer Deborah Wahl and two other U.S. executives are being replaced at the Golden Arches, with PepsiCo’s Morgan Flatley being named to the top U.S. marketer spot. Ms. Wahl is out after three years at McDonald’s. She joined in 2014.

The changes, announced Tuesday night, come after Chris Kempczinski was promoted to president of McDonald’s U.S., effective Jan. 1. Along with the U.S. CMO shakeup, Farhan Siddiqi was promoted to the role of head of U.S. digital and Starbucks VP Linda VanGosen is being brought in as McDonald’s head of U.S. menu. All three are set to begin their new roles this month, McDonald’s said.

Ms. Wahl, who helped the chain bounce back from a prolonged sales slump with marketing for All Day Breakfast, also led the selection and creation of a new dedicated creative agency for McDonald’s U.S. business, We Are Unlimited, last year. She could not be immediately reached for comment.

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Pepsi's Kendall Jenner-Joins-a-Protest Ad Sparks Backlash


Pepsi is taking some heat on social media and across the internet for its new ad that shows supermodel/reality TV star Kendall Jenner walking off a modeling shoot to join a nondescript peace march. Some critics are accusing the brand of making light of political protests.

A lot of the backlash is over a scene in which Ms. Jenner is shown handing a policeman a can of Pepsi. This is how Elle magazine put it:

The commercial co-opts protest as something new and trendy (We’re woke too! Resistance is lit! Buy Pepsi!), rather than a dangerous necessity. This scene, which invokes a now iconic photo of Black Lives Matter protester Ieshia Evans being arrested in front of police line in Baton Rougebut instead places a white, rich, supermodel in the focus, feels particularly egregious.

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Pepsi, enlists Kendall Jenner in what can only be described as the central casting music video for the social justice ethos, the resistance movement, and most likely, something-something Trump. Except of course, Pepsi is Pepsi so its hedging its middle-of-the-road bets by hosting a march for peace. There’s also a pissed off photographer in a hijab. And Kendall Jenner? Well she’s wearing a blonde wig and then rips it off and hands a Pepsi to a cop, I guess kind of like that famous photo at Kent State where the hippie placed a flower in the rifle of a national guard member. Or nods to Black Lives Matter. In other words it’s not tone deaf at all/
There’s a lot of negative press around this ad. It’s easy to see why. Kendall Jenner is not a great example of any sort of resistance movement. And mixing protests with Pepsi is just plain misguided. Pepsi of course has always stood for youth, and since the youth believe they’re all ‘woke,” now it only makes sense they’d try to make something revolving around that, as opposed to say, using Britney Spears.
But the negative press is as much a part of outrage culture as it is the inevitableness of advertising responding to the demands of consumers who insist their brands be more politically attuned. Or rather, not consumers, but people on twitter who spend their days being outraged.
It was only a few short years ago where Tweets demanding brands be more involved with causes and political moments du jour, no matter how polarizing they would be started popping up. So in order to sell you something, brands waded into the zeitgeist. Starbucks talked about race. And immigration. In the case of 84 Lumber’s Super Bowl spot, the CEO didn’t even believe in the cause but just wanted to “create conversation,” which is code for capitalizing on a trend.
This is Pepsi 2017 where kids march for peace and a cop sips a Pepsi (the new symbol of harmony, apparently) and Kendall Jenner smears her makeup. You wanted woke, you got it. And it’s your fault for demanding brands do this.

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Fire with Fire

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On April 2, the Los Angeles Times Editorial Board published Our Dishonest President, the first in a four-part series examining Trump’s 70-day presidency. The series pulls no punches, calling Trump out at a ‘narcissist’ and ‘demagogue’ in its first line.

“He is a man so unpredictable, so reckless, so petulant, so full of blind self-regard, so untethered to reality that it is impossible to know where his presidency will lead or how much damage he will do to our nation.”

While not quite time for ‘wholesale panic’, the editorial calls on activists, voters and lawmakers to stand up to the nation’s leader.

Earlier in March, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) announced it is offering a “Disobedience Reward” of $250,000 for individuals or groups taking part in “extraordinary disobedience for the benefit of society.” The University’s Media Lab cites anti-establishment activists like Pussy Riot and Ai Weiwei as examples of the kind of actions they would like to support.

This is the changing face of activism in Trump’s era.

Two weeks ago, we declared that the time for polite critiques and cautious journalism was over.

We wondered who is going to “be the first to throw a pie in that lying bastard’s face.”

We’re still waiting!

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