Designers dos créditos de “Stranger Things” protestam no SXSW 2018 contra o “Pular introdução” da Netflix

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Introduzido há quase um ano, o botão “Pular introdução” se tornou uma espécie de salvação aos binge watchers da Netflix. Em meio a tantas maratonas, a oportunidade de poder cortar fora os créditos iniciais das aberturas evita que as pessoas sejam forçadas a ouvir a mesma música tema de novo e de novo até saberem …

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Stormy Daniels Offers to Return Payment to End Deal for Her Silence

An adult film star who says she had an affair with President Trump will return $130,000 she got from Mr. Trump’s personal lawyer if doing so means she can speak freely, her lawyer said in a letter.

The&Partnership Apologizes After Sexist 'Top 5' Email Goes Public


An email sent by a staffer at London agency The&Partnership, ranking women at the agency as “Top 5” in terms of attractiveness, is causing a storm in the U.K. advertising world.

Although the email was apparently sent as a “joke,” it has made public the fact that such “Top 5” emails were, at least until recently, common practice in U.K. agency culture.

Paul Martin, a departing planner at The&Partnership, sent the email Friday, including wording that ranked women at the agency as “Top 5” and “Bottom 5” in terms of looks.

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Watch the 'SNL' Promo for 'This Is U.S.,' a (Spoof) Tearjerker About All the Trump Administration Drama


The weekend’s broadcast of NBC’s “Saturday Night Live” included a promo (above) for an NBC drama with a very familiar look and feel, and an announcer declaring that “Millions of Americans have tuned into the show that’s captivating a nation.” The start of it will have you thinking you’re watching yet another ad for “This Is Us,” but then five seconds in Ben Carson (played by the episode’s guest host Sterling K. Brown) makes an appearance, followed by Sarah Huckabee Sanders (Aidy Bryant), Stormy Daniels (Cecily Strong), Jared Kushner (Pete Davidson) and Kellyanne Conway (Kate McKinnon).

This tearjerker, called “This Is U.S.,” is about “the real-life drama happening in our government every day,” as the announcer explains in voice-over. And just like a “This Is Us” ad, this promo quotes the reviews, like this (fake) one from Entertainment Weekly: “You’ll be laughing through tears. Except without the laughing. So I guess just regular crying.”

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5 Years After Publicis Merger, DigitasLBi Rebrands as Digitas and Adopts a New Mission Statement

Five years and one month ago, Publicis Groupe merged its Digitas and LBi networks, forming DigitasLBi. Today, the global digital agency officially dropped the LBi from its name and will now be known simply as Digitas. “In the last five years, we’ve worked seamlessly as a global network focused in mission, purpose and culture,” Digitas…

Dropbox Unlocks Creative Energy at SXSW With 3 Poignant Murals From Up-and-Coming Artists

Dropbox aims to inspire the world to unleash its creative energy–and it’s staying on brand at SXSW this year with three co-created murals (no, not quite Three Billboards-style) from up-and-coming artists. With the activation, Dropbox wants to “tell our story about helping people to collaborate, find flow and work together in a meaningful way,” said…

180 Female Agency Leaders Launch ‘Time’s Up Advertising’ to Address the Industry’s #MeToo Problem

Today, a group of 180 female CEOs, chief creative officers, chief strategy officers and other top agency executives announced the launch of Time’s Up Advertising, an official “vertical” aimed at discussing and addressing the industry’s pervasive problems with sexual harassment and gender inequality. Time’s Up Advertising said in a statement it will “drive new policies,…

Saldanha Joins Arnold, EVB Hires Reid


Arnold Worldwide is appointing Fred Saldanha as executive creative director, as one of its first new creative hires for Arnold under chief creative officer Icaro Doria who joined last August. Most recently, Saldanha served as executive creative director at Huge, where he led the agency’s Detroit office. His latest project was a Super Bowl commercial and a follow-up campaign for Rocket Mortgage. Saldanha also spearheaded the team that won the Anheuser-Busch business. Previously, he held various international positions, including chief creative officer at Brazil’s largest digital agency, AgnciaClick Isobar, overseeing its three offices in the country, and then the Americas region from New York. Prior to that, he served as executive creative director at Ogilvy Brazil, and earlier in his career, he worked at Wieden & Kennedy London and Grey Lisbon. Saldanha, who will now be based in Boston, has been awarded 38 Cannes Lions throughout his career.

EVB is appointing John Reid in the newly-created position of chief creative officer. Reid has spent the past two decades at agencies including Butler Shine Stern & Partners, Crispin, Porter + Bogusky, Cramer-Krasselt and others, working on brands such as Yelp, Google, Apple, Volkswagen, Burger King, Domino’s, American Express, Miller High Life and more,.

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Walt Disney World: After Hours

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Alert: Daylight Savings Time

The new campaign launched over the weekend with a timely activation around Daylight Savings Time. As the U.S. “sprung forward” an hour, Americans lost a precious hour of sleep. Alert Caffeine Gum’s long-form music video pokes fun at how much Daylight Savings sucks and suggests that viewers can get a much-needed energy boost from the caffeinated gum. In the coming weeks, there will be a total of 20 different social films featuring colorful characters and depicting that caffeine gum is “a thing now.”

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Jaguar: The 3.5 Sec Bumper Ads

Youtube Bumper Ads a 6 sec video ad – One of the most challenging formats. But sometimes a limitation presents an opportunity.
Jaguar presents: The 3.5 sec BUMPER ADS
For the Jaguar F-Type one of the fastest cars 6 sec is way too much time. So we decided to donate the spare seconds for those who need it most: 10 nonprofit organizations – for them every second of exposure is a blessing.

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As ‘60 Minutes’ Prepares Stormy Daniels Interview, Lawyers Wrangle

Lawyers for the president and the porn actress sparred over the weekend, as “60 Minutes” prepared to show an interview it conducted with her last week.

Monday Morning Stir

-BBC Creative celebrates two years of BBC Three online with a new “Perfect Day” spot set to the classic Lou Reed song of the same name (video above).

-Adweek lists 20 marketing execs driving innovation.

-SS+K launched a “Label Me” brand PSA campaign for NCAA.

-Unilver CMO Keith Weed explained the thinking behind his U.S. IAB address last month.

-Auto-play is here to stay.

-Google is launching its first-ever ad campaign, with an NCAA March Madness-fueled effort.

-Uber chief brand officer Bozoma Saint John promised more transparency.

MLS and Twitter Reached a 3-Year Content Agreement

Major League Soccer will play on Twitter’s digital pitch for the next three years. The league and the social network announced a three-year pact covering live matches (which had been livestreamed on Facebook last season), highlights and features. The two parties said at least 25 matches per season that are broadcast in Spanish on Univision…

Fox News Touts 'Real' News and Opinion in Marketing Push


Fox News is readying a new ad campaign with the tagline, “Real News. Real Honest Opinion.”

The cable news behemoth will release a teaser for the campaign on Monday on its own properties, with additional creative planned to be released next week.

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The Dance

Fox Studios & Viacom wanted to do an interpretive dance telling the dramatic story of the film ‘ Red Sparrow’.

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Slovak Official Quits Amid Uproar Over Reporter’s Murder

The interior minister bowed to pressure to resign days after mass protests. It is unclear if the move was enough to salvage the government of Prime Minister Robert Fico.

4 Ways to Fight Influencer Fatigue in an Increasingly Wary World

Facebook co-founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s announcement in January that the social network is changing its algorithm to highlight posts from friends and family members in News Feed, rather than posts from businesses and media groups, was no doubt a jab at pop-ups and banner ads. But it was also seen as a move to…

Goodbye, Boys' Club: Female Advertising Leaders Partner with Time's Up

A major initiative has been launched by more than 180 female C-suite advertising agency leaders, who have partnered with Time’s Up to form Time’s Up/Advertising to address sexual harassment and systemic inequality issues in the workplace.

The executives come from independent and holding company agencies and include Wendy Clark, DDB Worldwide CEO, Colleen DeCourcy, Wieden & Kennedy Global CCO, Kirsten Flanik, BBDO New York CEO and Chloe Gottlieb, R/GA CCO. All signatories can be viewed on timesupadvertising.com.

In an open letter about the movement this morning, which starts off, “Hey Sister, we know,” the group of industry leaders state: “As women in senior leadership positions in advertising, we’ve agreed that we have the power to change this business we love until it looks more like the industry we want to lead.

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The real price of 'Top 5' emails for women in advertising

The email from a departing planner at The & Partnership ranking women by their looks is a symptom of an industry culture which excludes and alienates women.