Deadline Alert: Enter the Q Award, a New Creativity Awards Honor, by Thursday


The Creativity Awards are adding one more new honor this year, the Q Award, created in partnership with sponsor Quantcast.

The Q Award will recognize a team of up to 3 people who challenge the status quo, question everything and strive to break conventional wisdom. The winning team will have discovered new insights and implemented a new strategy, campaign or product that ultimately resulted in increased brand awareness, growth and sales.

This award is open to teams whose roles include:

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CKE launches Carl's Jr. ads from new agency Havas


Havas quickly put together a commercial featuring the Western Bacon Cheeseburger and the voice of actor Matthew McConaughey. Yes, the same voice that sells high-end Lincoln automobiles is now selling hamburgers. In the Carl’s Jr. work he’s only heard, not seen.

“That’s the call of Carl’s. Pick up,” McConaughey says to end the spot.

His voice also plays a major role in the radio spots.

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Mainland: The Mainland 2000-Piece Voucher

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Domino's Unseats Pizza Hut As Biggest Pizza Chain


Domino’s Pizza finally has the title it has been hungering for: top pizza seller.

The chain wasted no time crowing about unseating Pizza Hut as the leading pizza chain both in the U.S. and worldwide. Domino’s not-so-subtly inserted the phrase “the largest pizza company in the world based on global retail sales” into the very first sentence of today’s fourth-quarter earnings release.

Domino’s says its global retail sales exceeded $12.2 billion in 2017. Pizza Hut, owned by Yum Brands, earlier this month reported global system sales of $12.03 billion (see graphic, below).

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American Tourister: Cristiano Ronaldo

For their first global campaign, American Tourister features new Brand Ambassador: five-time Ballon D’Or winner Cristiano Ronaldo, a fashion icon whose global adventures will be captured by American Tourister throughout 2018.

The world’s most marketable footballer reflects the bold, vital, colorful and modern spirit of American Tourister. At the heart of American Tourister’s 360 degree marketing campaign for 2018, the spot is a callout for all world travelers to “Bring Back More” from their journeys.

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Video Advertising Puts Super Bowl Campaigns in the Rear View


The weekly Viral Video Chart has shaken off the after-effects of the Super Bowl, with only one campaign from the game remaining in our top 10 most-viewed brand efforts online. (That’s the Turkish Airlines ad at No. 2 below.) In the chart a week earlier, populated by data collated by Visible Measures, seven Super Bowlers rook up spots.

The chart counts both views for paid ad placements and so-called “organic” views.

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Comedian J.B. Smoove Explains What Goes Into Being the Face of Bic Men’s Razors

When indie creative shop Jomo won the Bic Flex 5 men’s razors assignment in August, its leaders knew they had to find a unique voice that would showcase the product’s quality and value while setting the brand apart from its many competitors. Jomo found that voice in J.B. Smoove, a.k.a. Jerry Angelo Brooks, the actor,…

Hypergiant Aims to Be Artificial Intelligence Concierge to Fortune 500

Move over, Sam Malone: Flanagan, the AI mixologist is here to serve up cocktails. Artificial intelligence-solutions company Hypergiant helped develop a new AI bartender/mixologist program for TGI Friday’s called Flanagan (named for Tom Cruise’s character in the 1988 film Cocktail). Flanagan, which interacts with both TGI Friday’s smartphone app and its loyalty accounts, makes drink…

What KFC’s Chicken Delivery Fiasco in the U.K. Will Mean for the Brand

KFC found itself in a precarious situation over the weekend when, somehow, its U.K. stores ran out of chicken. Seriously, most of its 900 locations had to temporarily shut down because there was no chicken to serve due to a snafu with a new delivery partner. (KFC recently switched over to work with DHL.) Over…

Wizo: There Are Some Flowers That No Woman Should Receive

WIZO (Women’s International Zionist Organization), the largest women’s association in Israel, the Families of Murder Victims organization alongside the advertising agency Gitam BBDO aimed to change the law related to domestic violence and targeted influent politicians on Tu B’Av, the Hebrew Valentine’s Day, by sending them flowers, but not regular roses or just colorful bouquets.

The ministers and the Parliament members got dried mourning flowers, taken from the murder victims’ graves, women killed by their partners In a burst of rage, jealousy or temporary insanity.

Tens of women sadly were killed during 2016, and with a relaxed punishment for the perpetrators, the phenomena just got worse over the next year and the number of murdered women by their own spouse continued to increase.

Something had to be done in order to impact the decision-makers in Israel to change a very relaxed law and prevent any more domestic violence deaths.

The campaign was shot and produced in collaboration with some of the murdered women’s children. Although a very emotional and personal journey, they were committed to the cause and believed in its purpose.

In just a few days, the campaign became viral, with thousands of shares and hundreds of thousands of comments to a very heated discussion that started online.

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Albertine: The Best Bookstore In France Is In NY, 1

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Albertine is a French bookstore in NYC. It offers a huge selection of books in French and English and hosts events with some of the most renowned French authors, philosophers, and directors. It has also one particularity since it’s part of the French cultural services—even though it’s in NY, it’s technically on French soil.

Albertine: The Best Bookstore In France Is In NY, 2

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Albertine is a French bookstore in NYC. It offers a huge selection of books in French and English and hosts events with some of the most renowned French authors, philosophers, and directors. It has also one particularity since it’s part of the French cultural services—even though it’s in NY, it’s technically on French soil.

Albertine: The Best Bookstore In France Is In NY, 3

Albertine Outdoor Ad - The Best Bookstore In France Is In NY, 3

Albertine is a French bookstore in NYC. It offers a huge selection of books in French and English and hosts events with some of the most renowned French authors, philosophers, and directors. It has also one particularity since it’s part of the French cultural services—even though it’s in NY, it’s technically on French soil.

Video Advertising Puts Super Bowl Campaigns in the Rear View


The weekly Viral Video Chart has shaken off the after-effects of the Super Bowl, with only one campaign from the game remaining in our top 10 most-viewed brand efforts online. (That’s the Turkish Airlines ad at No. 2 below.) In the chart a week earlier, populated by data collated by Visible Measures, seven Super Bowlers rook up spots.

The chart counts both views for paid ad placements and so-called “organic” views.

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Video: 4 Ways Mobile Marketers Are Using Interactivity to Engage Customers

With mobile video expected to grow nearly 9 percent over the next year, how can brand marketers take full advantage of reaching customers on the go? Some brands have found making videos that are interactive will lead to increased engagement and lift sales. In our new video series, The Pivot, we take a look at…

Carl’s Jr. and Matthew McConaughey Skip the Sex Appeal and Go Straight to the Bacon in New Ads

As if it weren’t clear that burger chain Carl’s Jr. was pivoting away from the over-the-top sexuality that defined the brand for years, the first campaign from its new agency of record reinforces that. Havas focuses on the bacon, with help from the voice of Matthew McConaughey, he of the reflective car ads and fireside…