In India, the pull-out method is the most preferred contraceptive among couples. It is considered convenient, and much more pleasurable than using a condom, as there is no ‘latex’ feel. However, this is a highly unreliable method of contraception. Kamasutra, a popular condom brand in India, wanted to tell people just how unreliable and risky this method is. And wanted to urge them to use Kamasutra’s SuperThin condoms instead.
In India, the pull-out method is the most preferred contraceptive among couples. It is considered convenient, and much more pleasurable than using a condom, as there is no ‘latex’ feel. However, this is a highly unreliable method of contraception. Kamasutra, a popular condom brand in India, wanted to tell people just how unreliable and risky this method is. And wanted to urge them to use Kamasutra’s SuperThin condoms instead.
SeymourPowell has brought home the UK’s only gold Product Design Lion for “creating the world’s first modular smartphone” on behalf of client Fairphone.
Here’s a brief and mildly amusing response to the completely justified outrage (OUTRAGE!!!) over Publicis Groupe’s decision to stop competing for fancy statues, much to the dismay of its creative class.
An anonymous reader who may also be the poster in question directed us to a very recently added Craigslist entry offering to sell all trophies formerly owned by a certain French holding company.
OK, that was a funny joke. Now what’s the price? Please say free or close to it.
Some might ask why one needs such “positive reinforcement” in the first place, but we hear from people working in fields like media that busting your fucking ass all year without any recognition can sometimes feel a little … what’s the word … infuriating?
Anyway, we hope everyone makes it through this trying time and sends us a bunch of self-righteous rants that we may well publish on our WORD PRESS PLATFORM.
And yes, we know that’s an American flag in the awesome trophy case. Did you really need to see another Lion?
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Arnold Worldwide hired Jennifer Alfson as an executive creative director in its New York office.
In the position, Alfson will work closely with Arnold New York managing director Tenny Pearson and oversee work on the Kao portfolio of brands, which includes Jergens and ohn Frieda.
Alfson joins Arnold from the New York office of Fallon, where she served as a senior creative director on the agency’s Revlon account. Before joining Fallon in August of 2014, she spent around three years as creative director on Pantene for Grey New York. Prior to that she spent over a decade with McCann New York, rising from assistant art director to vice president, associate creative director while focusing on the L’Oreal Paris account, followed by a brief stint with Gotham, Inc. as vice president, associate creative director on Maybelline.
“Jennifer represents Arnold’s shift in focus, moving from creatives to creators,” Jason Peterson, chairman and CCO of Havas Creative U.S. said in a statement. “Her beauty experience, matched with a competitive desire to move our industry forward, made her the perfect choice. I am most excited to see Jennifer’s passion for ideas based in current culture come to life, blending the best of beauty advertising with beauty influencers.”
“In order to do great work, you need to be part of a culture that fuels creativity, collaboration and passion,” added Alfson. “I believe Arnold is a place that greatly values all of those things, and I’m looking forward to working with the Kao team to continue to build momentum.”
-RPA and Los Angeles Dodgers third basement Justin Turner find mascot Toomis a summer job for convenience store chain ampm (video above).
-Marco’s Pizza selected Chicago-based HY Connect as its agency of record, following a review.
-Verizon awarded its recruitment marketing business to Somervile, New Jersey-based BNO, following a review.
-New General Mills CMO Ivan Pollard says he wants to “find out what’s working” before trying to change anything.
-U.S. Open Golf sponsors dominated Kantar Media’s list of last week’s top spenders on broadcast placement for new creative.
-HP says its push for more diversity from its agency partners is working.
-Unilever’s Keith Weed says CMOs should share responsibility for brand safety issues.
It started with Occupy – our modern incarnation of mass political protest. On September 17th people descended into the streets, crowding out the public space, occupying monuments of power, camping out to make their voices heard, and demanding change by placing their bodies on the line. They practiced direct democracy, and said no to the status quo.
The police, those military-clad officers of the State, responded with force. They attacked, assaulted, harassed, and cleared the streets of any sign of unrest. They arrested crowds of protesters, shuffing them into parked school buses to be shipped off to the penitentiary. For many, Occupy was their first time being arrested, and it remains one of the greatest mass arrests in American history.
Now, six years later, the State has not budged. Last week the Supreme Court refused to hear a case that claimed the NYPD’s mass arrests during Occupy were unconstitutional.
Now, as social movements gather storm, and mass political protest once again becomes a tactic of resistance, this decision grants impunity to those same police officers killing, maiming, and arresting peaceful protesters. The State once again has defended its monopoly of violence. It has affirmed its stance towards its citizens: vermin to be swept asside for the sake of the perpetuation of neo-liberalism.
So let us make a promise: we will not stop swarming in the streets to demand change. We will be there and we will be arrested as we are meant to: together, en masse, fighting for a better world for everyone.
-The Blackspot Collective
God I’m Lonely
Rodale, the publishing company responsible for Men’s Health, Women’s Health and other wellness brands, has opened itself up for a possible sale.
The company is exploring “strategic alternatives” to its current business plan that could include selling Rodale as a whole or in part, it said on Wednesday. The company employs roughly 700 employees in New York City, its Emmaus, Penn., headquarters and other satellite locations.
“We are excited to explore opportunities for potential buyers of our business who can build on the strong foundation of our commitment to inspiring health, healing, happiness and love by enhancing core capabilities and resources for our brands,” CEO Maria Rodale said in a statement.
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, Samsung shows how a wannabe astronaut — a little girl in full space suit — can live out her dreams of exploration, fueled by blue “rocketsicles,” thanks to the help of the household Family Hub refrigerator. Apple brings us two spots, with the first for its iPhone: a touching tale of an archivist carefully curating a family’s memories (cue baby laughing) using old-school techniques to create a modern piece of technology — an iPhone Memories video. (Creativity has the backstory on the spot.) The second, for Apple Music, spotlights 19-year-old R&B artist Khalid and his song “Location” as part of Apple’s monthly Up Next program introducing new artists.
Amsterdam – hometown of Heineken – is visited by thousands of tourists every day.
And they all kick off their trip with the same thing: a beer.
As the popularity of microbreweries is rising, we set out to start every man’s trip with the only original Amsterdam beer: Heineken.
On the eve of the largest ecological festival “Pasternak” in Belarus, the team of organizers together with the designer Alexey Kolbunov developed a cheerful and really ecofriendly set of stickers for a messenger Telegram.
The heroes of this eco-story are:
– Carrot bodybuilder
– The enamored radish
– Detective Senor Eggplant
– Pensive tofu cheese
– Rebel corn
– Stylish parsnip
– Adrenaline tomato
– Eco-meeting of vegetables
A set of eco-friendly stickers for Telegram is available on the link
Adidas’ spot featuring Snoop Dogg and Stormzy and set to a cover of Frank Sinatra’s My Way has taken the Grand Prix at Cannes in Entertainment for Music.
Channel 4 has scooped a gold Lion in the Entertainment category for its Paralympics campaign, “We’re the superhumans”.
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