The Ringer, Bill Simmons’s Site, Will Switch Its Host to Vox

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Channel 4 calls on young adults to 'pop your voting cherry' in innuendo-laden election ad

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Industry pays tribute to Sir Paul Judge

The marketing industry pays tribute to businessman and entrepreneur Sir Paul Judge who passed away earlier this month.

Practice 'PR not ER' to win at Cannes

Having a campaign with a strong PR idea may be the key to winning at Cannes, argues Psona strategist Will Humphrey.

BBDO tops global Effie Index for fourth time

Omnicom’s BBDO has topped the Effie Index as the most effective ad agency network in the world, with Unilever and Vodafone named most effective marketer and brand respectively.

MINI Park Assist: Surgery


Film, Online
Mini

Advertising Agency:Publicis, Mexico City, Mexico
VP Creatives:Jessica Apellaniz, Diego Wallach
Group Creative Director:Luis Sordo
Art Director:Julio Cerón
Copywriter:Fernando Martinez
Director:Santiago Chaumont
Executive Producer:Alejandro Saevich
Production Company:Madre Foca

Advertising can't please all the people all the time

Brand apathy is twice as high for those who fail to involve themselves in consumer culture, so the more distinctive an ad is the better.

Campaign TV: Behind the scenes of Vodafone's Martin Freeman ad

Campaign spoke to Bilge Ciftci, brand director, Vodafone UK and Caroline Welsh, head of brand and comms, Vodafone UK about their new ad starring actor Martin Freeman.

BBC to livestream five #GE2017 specials on Twitter

The BBC will livestream five election specials on Twitter, a first for both channels.

Outbrain launches programmatic service

Outbrain Programmatic Access is available in collaboration with AppNexus.

Publicis' new P&G unit looks like a return to a full-service model

For both P&G and Publicis Communications the creation of a single dedicated unit makes sense, but emotionally, it might be something rather different.

BA flights back up and running but lost bags are another matter

British Airways said it has resolved the catastrophic IT failure resulting thousands of cancelled flights over the Bank Holiday weekend.

Guardian appoints head of fashion sales from the FT

The Guardian has hired Alexis Williams as head of fashion sales from the Financial Times where he was head of life and arts.

Visit Sweden – Sweden listed the whole country on AirBnB

Visit Sweden - Sweden listed the whole country on AirBnB
Sweden sets out to teach the whole world about “allemansrätten”, the freedom to roam, anywhere within the country as long as you leave only your footsteps behind and only take memories from it. The best part of this campaign is the media that is the idea. Through a unique partnership with AirbnB you can find listings of forests, lakes and scenery in Lapland among the real listings. The campaign is targeted to the US and this commercial has been created alongside the AirbnB ads.

Visit Sweden’s USA Country Manager Jenny Kaiser in a statement: “This is made possible thanks to a Swedish right guaranteed by the constitution — freedom to roam. Freedom to roam allows everyone and anyone to be free amidst Swedish nature with the right to access, walk, cycle or camp on any land, with private gardens and lands under cultivation being the only exception. The idea of free nature accessible to anyone is in the DNA of every Swede, but with great freedom comes responsibility. The general rule for spending time in nature is ‘do not disturb, do not destroy — just like in any other home.”

There are limits to the roaming freedom, of course. The Right of Public Access does not cover hunting or fishing, and farmers will get really pissed if you run around in cultivated fields. Berry picking rights are sometimes tricky, as land owners might have plans for their berries but locals will know where to go. Lots of flora and fauna can not be picked or collected, leave the frogs and blåsippor alone. You can put up a tent almost anywhere, which is evident in Stockholms green areas right now as hundreds of Roma are roughing it all around the city for years on end. Even in the dead of winter.

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Australia’s Real Estate Boom Has Wall Street Wooing a Newspaper Publisher

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It was the ad wot won it: three media moments that swung the vote

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What has been the transformational moment in your career?

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How Guinness and R/GA made a VR tasting experience for all five senses

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Marketers Struggle With Viewability IRL, Too


Procter & Gamble lit a brushfire in digital advertising this year when it said it was done paying for ads it couldn’t prove were served on-screen. “The days of giving digital a pass are over,” P&G Chief Brand Officer Marc Pritchard said.

But another medium with a huge share of marketers’ money has a “viewability” problem of its own: Corrugated paper displays in stores.

Promotional displays make it out of back rooms and onto display floors — let’s call it “in view” — less than half the time that they’re supposed to, recent studies have found.

Continue reading at AdAge.com

Marketers Struggle With Viewability IRL, Too


Procter & Gamble lit a brushfire in digital advertising this year when it said it was done paying for ads it couldn’t prove were served on-screen. “The days of giving digital a pass are over,” P&G Chief Brand Officer Marc Pritchard said.

But another medium with a huge share of marketers’ money has a “viewability” problem of its own: Corrugated paper displays in stores.

Promotional displays make it out of back rooms and onto display floors — let’s call it “in view” — less than half the time that they’re supposed to, recent studies have found.

Continue reading at AdAge.com