CNN Fires Kathy Griffin From New Year’s Eve Broadcast Over Trump Photo

The actress has apologized for a photo shoot in which she posed with a mask styled to look like the severed, bloody head of President Trump.

38 Intuitive Healthcare Devices – From Heart-Monitoring Bras to Disease-Detecting Patches (TOPLIST)

(TrendHunter.com) These intuitive healthcare devices epitomize one of the greatest benefits to living in this millennium.

Our society puts such a strong emphasis on health and longevity that technology is always…

Walrus: My baby dumped me by text

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Walrus: Alone on Valentine's Day

Walrus: I got an unfaithful woman

Walrus: Bombed with emails night & day

Twitter vai transmitir campeonato de League of Legends

O Twitter firmou uma parceria esta semana com a Riot Games, produtora e distribuidora do League Of Legends. O acordo é para a transmissão de um campeonato do game realizado na Oceania, o League Of Origin. A competição será transmitida direto dos estúdios da ESL em Sidney e mundialmente no Twitter. Agregando times da Oceanic […]

> LEIA MAIS: Twitter vai transmitir campeonato de League of Legends

Anitta come Cheetos no videoclipe de “Paradinha”

Making of também é publicidade, oferecido pela Samsung

> LEIA MAIS: Anitta come Cheetos no videoclipe de “Paradinha”

Droga5 Art Director Hits GoFundMe to Recoup His Missing Production Expenses

Today in Inside Jokes, Droga5 art director Gage Young needs his money.

According to a GoFundMe page set up by colleague and junior copywriter Stephen Shocket, Young has yet to be compensated for the money that came from his own pocket to pay for expenses related to a recent Nature’s Bounty campaign. For shame!

From the page itself, which so far has succeeded in raising $10:

Dear Finance,

Hope you all are doing well and are enjoying the shorter work week.

Wanted to check and see if there were any problems or hold ups with my expense report #018997 “Nature’s Bounty Production.

I had submitted the report on 5/11 but did not see my expenses added onto my paycheck for this period.

Let me know if for some reason the expenses did not make it to you in time or if there are any other holdups.

Thank you!
Gage

We’re halfway there! But where did that $40 go?

This may all be a light-hearted attempt at humor, but expenses are a serious matter for people paying New York City rents.

As Young himself put it:

No it does not. Someone please help this man.

Terri & Sandy Encourage Women Everywhere to Masturbate Freely

Unlike Pied Piper and NotHotDog, Emojibator is a real business. And it was started by a man, which is somehow appropriate?

Anyway, its only products are vibrators inspired by the eggplant and chili pepper emojis you have seen elsewhere on the internets.

According to our trusty press release, art director Kyle Janisch of New York’s The Terri & Sandy Solution recently brought this amazing product to his boss’s attention, inspiring the agency to create a promo campaign based on a particular statistic regarding orgasms.

That was an advertisement. And here is another one, told from the male perspective.

Someone get these guys to an all-male screening of Wonder Woman, or something. Since advertising is obviously still a boys club, maybe they can just launch their own agency.

However you may feel about this company and/or the campaign, it does have a decent tagline: “Go fuck yourself. Literally.”

“If there’s a time to laugh, it’s during International Masturbation Month,” said agency co-founder Sandy Greenberg.

Who knew there was such a thing?

CREDITS

CLIENT: EMOJIBATOR
Founder: Joe Vela
Co-Founder and Chief Marketing Officer: Kris Jandler

AGENCY: TERRI & SANDY
Executive Creative Directors: Terri Meyer, Sandy Greenberg
Creative Director/Copywriter: Scott Rosenblit
Art Director: Kyle Janisch
Copywriter: Earl Myers
Account Supervisor: Dani Blevins
Senior Account Executive: Emily McCormick

PRODUCTION COMPANY: REFORM SCHOOL
Director: Evan Silver
Producer: Ryan Ennis

EDITORIAL: LOST PLANET
Editor: Mike Sobo
Assistant Editor: Juliana Rodzinski

SOUND: JEFF GORDON PRODUCTIONS
Sound Designer: Jeff Gordon

ICF Olson Parts with Chief Creative Officer and Other Executives in Its Minneapolis and Toronto Offices

ICF Olson, the collective formed when consultancy ICF acquired independent agency network Olson back in 2014, has parted with a group of C-level employees in its Minneapolis and Toronto offices over the past several weeks.

They include Olson chief creative officer Kevin McKeon, general manager Tanya Bennett and SVP of marketing Nicole Nye, along with president Mike Brown of Olson Canada.

Louise Clements, the former MRM//McCann president who became global agency lead across the network just over a year ago, confirmed the changes today.

She stated that McKeon and Bennett left the organization “to pursue other opportunities” and that Nye will soon begin a position with another agency after more than a decade with Olson, where she was previously director of accounts and VP of marketing.

Jurene Fremstad, who was recently promoted to chief strategy officer at the larger ICF Olson organization, has also stepped down from her position. According to Clements, she will remain with the company “in a part-time capacity” working on unspecified projects related to the network’s “anthrolytics” practice.

Clements clarified that the agency has not hired replacements for the departed leaders and that it does not plan to fill out its creative team at Olson. “We have significant bench strength across the collective,” Clements said, specifically referencing the marketing advisory company Trade, which was acquired late last year.

“We are a very nimble, flat organization,” she added in explaining why the creative agency will not seek a new CCO. Late last year, the agency also parted with president and COO Margaret Murphy and eliminated the former title.

McKeon went to Olson in July 2015 after spending more than a decade with StrawberryFrog, where he had been chief creative officer and partner. He previously worked at BBH, where Adweek called him one of “the best creatives you don’t know.” In a 2005 profile, he described himself in three words: “rock-hard abs.

Mike Brown has stepped down from his role leading Olson Canada. In a related LinkedIn post last week, he thanked colleagues for “a wonderful and moving sendoff” and discussed his plans to spend the summer with family before determining where he will go next.

ICF Olson currently consists of brand shop Olson, Olson 1to1 for loyalty and CRM work, Adobe global partner Olson Digital, and experiential, PR and social division Olson Engage. Its client roster includes Skittles, Oscar Meyer, Hyatt Hotels & Resorts and, of course, Adobe.

VB&P Compares the 2018 Audi S5 Sportback to Secretariat

Following the broadcast debut of “The Decision” at the beginning of April, Venables Bell & Partners is launching a new spot for Audi, comparing the 2018 Audi S5 Sportback to Secretariat, the 1973 Triple Crown winner widely regarded as one of the greatest racehorses in American history.

Directed by Marc Forster (Stranger Than FictionFinding NeverlandMonster’s Ball), the spot opens with archival footage of Secretariat finishing a race after leaving the competition in the dust. “What made Secretariat the greatest racehorse who ever lived?” the voiceover asks over newly-shot footage of a Secretariat stand-in. As the gates open, out bursts a 2018 Audi S5, and for the remainder of the spot footage of the vehicle is interspersed with the horse, making the visual metaphor obvious.

“Perspective is very powerful. The way we see something is how we define its meaning and value,” Forster said in a statement. “What I found most inspiring about the parallel between Audi and Secretariat is how this metaphor, this perspective, translates history into art and shifts how we think of something, so that we feel something.”

The spot, which will make its broadcast debut on June 5, concludes with the revelation that it wasn’t simply Secretariat’s strength or intelligence that made him stand apart, it was “a heart twice the size of the average horse.”

If our math is correct (and there’s a good chance it’s not), that would mean the 2018 Audi S5 Sportback’s 354 horsepower engine is the equivalent of 177 Secretariat hearts. Perhaps that could be on a billboard somewhere?

Credits:
AGENCY: Venables Bell & Partners
FOUNDER, CHAIRMAN: Paul Venables
PARTNER, EXECUTIVE CREATIVE DIRECTOR: Will McGinness
CREATIVE DIRECTOR: Justin Moore
ART DIRECTOR: Avery Oldfield
COPYWRITER: Adam Wolinsky
DIRECTOR OF INTEGRATED PRODUCTION: Craig Allen
ASSOCIATE PRODUCER: Emily Tarran
HEAD OF BRAND MANAGEMENT: David Corns
GROUP BRAND DIRECTOR: Chris Bergen
BRAND SUPERVISOR: Jessica Lo
BRAND MANAGER: Abu Ngauja
BRAND MANAGER: Hope Stadulis
GROUP STRATEGY DIRECTOR: Tonia Lowe
DIRECTOR OF BUSINESS AFFAIRS: Quynh-An Phan
PROJECT MANAGER: Leah Murphy

PRODUCTION COMPANY: Tool of North America
DIRECTOR: Marc Forster
MANAGING PARTNER: Oliver Fuslier
EXECUTIVE PRODUCERS: Brad Johns
HEAD OF PRODUCTION: Ian Flavey
PRODUCER: Lee Trask

EDITING COMPANY: Lumberyard
DIRECTOR OF LUMBERYARD: Raquel Bedard
EDITOR: Naomi Goodman
POST PRODUCER: Jenna Van Deventer

MUSIC COMPANY: Human
MUSIC COMPOSER/CREATIVE DIRECTOR: Gareth Williams
EXECUTIVE PRODUCER: Jonathan Sanford

FINAL MIX: 740 Sound
MIX: Chris Pinkston
ASSISTANT MIXER: Scott Pinkston
EXECUTIVE PRODUCER: Scott Ganary
PRODUCER: Jeff Martin
SOUND DESIGN: 740 Sound
SOUND DESIGNER: Chris Pinkston
VFX STUDIO: Framestore
VFX Shoot Supe: Chris Eckardt
VFX & COMP SUPERVISOR: Michael Ralla
2D ARTISTS: Alex Villabon, Kingsley Rothwell,
FLAME : Sarah Marikar, Ryland Bowen-Johnson,
CG LEAD: Todd Herman
CG ARTISTS: Katie Schiffer, Anthony Thomas
EP: James Razzall
VFX PRODUCER: Morgan MacCuish
VFX Coordinator: Jamie Runkle
HEIRO EDITOR: Jake Keller
COLOR CORRECTION: Company 3
COLORIST: Sofie Borup
PRODUCER: Alexandra Lubrano

Dentists Are Heroes, Not Villains, in Fun Ads for Aspen Dental That Won’t Hurt a Bit

Going to get a cavity filled doesn’t have to traumatize your wallet, says a new campaign from oral care chain Aspen Dental. Two new ads, created by CP+B Miami, make that case using humorous–if somewhat nonsensical–set pieces. In one, a dentist karate chops a bank robber, knocking the criminal out mid-heist. A mob of cynical…

Watch the Newest Ads on TV From Intel, T-Mobile, Popeyes and More


Every weekday, we bring you the Ad Age/iSpot Hot Spots, new and trending TV commercials tracked by iSpot.tv, the real-time TV ad measurement company with attention and conversion analytics from 10 million smart TVs. The New Releases here ran on TV for the first time yesterday. The Most Engaging ads are ranked by digital activity (including online views and social shares) over the past week.

Among the new releases, T-Mobile explains how you can “ditch Verizon but keep your phone” in a spot starring two women with (spoiler) really bad matching tattoos. Popeyes hypes its $5 special on Sweet & Crunchy Tenders. And Jim Parsons, in another one of his Intel ads, teams up LeBron James, who experiences a couple of embarrasing fails on the basketball court thanks to “old equipment.”

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Kathy Griffin Loses CNN New Year's Eve Show and Squatty Potty Deal


It had previously expressed strong dismay. “We found what she did disgusting and offensive,” a CNN representative said Tuesday. “We are pleased to see she has apologized and asked that the photos be taken down. We are evaluating New Year’s Eve and have made no decisions at this point.”

Her New Year’s Eve co-host, CNN star Anderson Cooper, had also already registered his upset:

For her part, Griffin also apologized in a Twitter post and video yesterday.

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12 Key Takeaways (and the Most Worrisome Slide) From Mary Meeker's 2017 Internet Trends Report


Recode rightfully calls Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers partner Mary Meeker’s annual Internet Trends Report “the most anticipated slide deck of the year.” At Recode’s CodeConference at the Terranea Resort in California this morning, PowerPoint groupies watched the influential analyst speed through the 355 — yes, 355 — slides in her preso. Click through the whole thing here and/or skim our marketer/media-centric fast take, below, on the more general front half of her deck. (For more about the internet in China and India, healthcare, the cloud, etc., dive into the second half of her deck at your leisure.)

The global smartphone is getting saturated (finally). Shipments of smartphones grew just 3% year-over-year in 2016 vs. +10% YOY in 2015 (slide No. 5).

Time spent using the internet on mobile devices ticked up again in 2016 to 5.6 hours, up from 5.4 in 2015. Desktop and laptop internet usage held steady at 2.2 and 0.4 hours, respectively (No. 9).

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Ads.txt Could Wipe Out a Legion of Programmatic Ad Players. That's Good


Ad tech is rife with shady characters. Until now, questionable behavior has frequently gone unchallenged. That’s about to change.

The Interactive Advertising Bureau”s Tech Lab has released a proposed standard called “ads.txt” that allows publishers to declare which businesses are authorized to sell their digital inventory. This lets the demand-side platforms, where buyers find inventory, to verify that the inventory for sale in ad exchanges comes from authorized sellers. As a contributor to this spec, I’m biased to its importance, but there’s a good reason why this standard has been proposed and why publishers should welcome this.

The industry has made it all too easy for bad actors to participate in the programmatic ecosystem. It’s like a party where the invite is distributed too widely. Everybody shows up to your house and you lose track of who is who. Inevitably, some bad actors wreck your house.

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Marketer's Brief: Once Banned, Sheryl Crow Sings for Walmart


What would Mrs. Brady say?

Conagra Brands is selling the Wesson oil brand to The J.M. Smucker Co. in a deal valued at about $285 million as the food marketer keeps tinkering with its portfolio to remodel itself into a house of brands. Conagra referred to Wesson, which it acquired in its 1990 purchase of Beatrice Co., as “an iconic edible oil.” Conagra will keep making Wesson products and provide other services during a transition period for up to one year after the deal closes. The sale reminds us here at Marketer’s Brief of Florence Henderson, who served as Wesson’s pitchwoman from the mid-1970s through the mid-1990s.

Donut vs. Doughnut

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CBS Announces Pelley’s Shift From ‘Evening News’ Anchor

Anthony Mason, a 25-year veteran of the network, will fill in on an interim basis while Mr. Pelley will work full time on “60 Minutes.”