McDonald's McDelivery: Vulture, Bear Trap, Ovni, Game, Hanibal

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To unveil McDonald’s’ McDelivery service in the UAE, a series of simple images has been created, demonstrating in a humorous way different situations in which McDelivery can save your day.

McDelivery saves the day.

 

Advertising Agency:Leo Burnett, Dubai, United Arab Emirates
Regional Executive Creative Director:Andre Nassar
Creative Director:Andre Nassar
Creative Directors:Rodrigo Rodrigues, Tariq Ayass
Art Director:Sidney Araujo
Copywriter:Akhilesh Bagri
Illustrator:Sidney Araujo

Google's ad manager will move to first-price auction


Google is making a change to its programmatic exchange that will likely result in marketers paying more for their ads, at least in the short term until brands adjust.

Under a plan announced Wednesday, Google Ad Manager’s Adx will move to a first-price auction, a significant shift that will resonate across the $48 billion programmatic landscape.

“By simplifying our auction in Ad Manager, we can help make it easier for publishers and app developers to manage and get fair value for their inventory,” Google stated in a blog post.

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Bar fight: Clif challenges Kind Snacks to go organic, Kind fires back


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A bar fight is brewing in the snack industry.

Clif Bar is using high-profile ads to challenge Kind Snacks to use organic ingredients, even sweetening the suggestion by offering 10 tons of organic ingredients to its rival.

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Google Ad Manager to Offer First-Price Auctions, Simplifying Programmatic Buying

First-price auctions are coming to Google Ad Manager in a move that is reflective of the industrywide cry for greater simplicity in the murky world of programmatic buying. Google Ad Manager, the industry’s largest programmatic platform for publishers, which previously used the DoubleClick moniker, will offer publishers the option to sell their online media space…

Five key takeaways from Shoptalk


That’s a wrap on Shoptalk, the annual retail conference that ran from Sunday through Wednesday. Now in its fourth year, the Las Vegas event attracted 8,400 attendees as well-known brands took to the stage to talk about themes including partnerships, technology and customer experience. Below, a few takeways:

It’s the place to be for retailers big and small

When Shoptalk first started in 2016, it attracted only a fraction of the audience the 2019 iteration saw. It was largely focused on direct-to-consumer startups eager to break into the industry and gain larger followings. Ryan Babenzien, founder of Greats, a sneaker brand, attended the conference every year and notes how intimate it used to be. These days, however, the event touted executives from big names like Walmart, Nordstrom and Dick’s Sporting Goods, as well as newer players including Greats and Zola, a wedding company.

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McDonald's: McDelivery – Hanibal

McDonald's Print Ad - McDelivery - Hanibal

To unveil McDonald’s’ McDelivery service in the UAE, a series of simple images has been created, demonstrating in a humorous way different situations in which McDelivery can save your day.

McDonald's: McDelivery – Game

McDonald's Print Ad - McDelivery - Game

To unveil McDonald’s’ McDelivery service in the UAE, a series of simple images has been created, demonstrating in a humorous way different situations in which McDelivery can save your day.

McDonald's: McDelivery – Ovni

McDonald's Print Ad - McDelivery - Ovni

To unveil McDonald’s’ McDelivery service in the UAE, a series of simple images has been created, demonstrating in a humorous way different situations in which McDelivery can save your day.

McDonald's: McDelivery – Bear Trap

McDonald's Print Ad - McDelivery - Bear Trap

To unveil McDonald’s’ McDelivery service in the UAE, a series of simple images has been created, demonstrating in a humorous way different situations in which McDelivery can save your day.

McDonald's: McDelivery – Vulture

McDonald's Print Ad - McDelivery - Vulture

To unveil McDonald’s’ McDelivery service in the UAE, a series of simple images has been created, demonstrating in a humorous way different situations in which McDelivery can save your day.

R. Kelly Sent Back to Jail After Hearing on Child Support

Hours after the airing of his first interview since his arrest on sex abuse charges, the singer was taken into custody. He had been ordered to pay his ex-wife more than $160,000 in child support.

72andSunny lays off five percent of staffers in NY and LA


MDC Partners agency 72andSunny says it has laid off five percent of its staff in New York and Los Angeles news that comes a day after Ad Age first reported MillerCoors had launched a creative agency review for Coors Light, one of 72andSunny’s biggest clients. 72andSunny said it was not participating in the review.

“Today we parted ways with five percent of our staff,” an agency spokeswoman said in a statement Wednesday. “As our industry continues to evolve, we are reshaping 72andSunny to maximize the thing we believe in most: unleashing the power of unignorable creativity. This is the beating heart of our company and the highest value in today’s attention economy. We are sad to part with people from our team and thank them for their contributions.”

The agency has roughly 475 employees in the U.S. and nearly 700 globally.

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AI Visualization Projectors – The Conceptual Google Visual Assistant Enhances the User Experience (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) Smart speakers are quickly becoming a commonplace item in the home but are solely focused on audio feedback, so the conceptual Google Visual Assistant identifies what could be done to enhance the…

Timing Is Everything, Including for Publishers’ Videos on Twitter

Twitter global vice president and head of content partnerships Kay Madati said in late January that the social network was focusing on providing “reach, relevance and revenue” to publishers, and a feature introduced this week marks a step in that direction. Timing Is Everything, the first new insights tool in Twitter’s Media Studio, gives publishers…

“Cem Anos de Solidão” ganhará sua primeira adaptação para a TV pelas mãos da Netflix

Numa jogada das mais inacreditáveis, a Netflix anunciou hoje (6) a aquisição dos direitos de “Cem Anos de Solidão” e a produção de uma série baseada na famosa obra do escritor Gabriel García Márquez. A notícia pega todo mundo de surpresa dado o ineditismo do feito, marcando a primeira adaptação do livro do autor colombiano …

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Célebre em Paris, rua Crémieux pode ser fechada nos fins de semana devido a enxurrada de instagrammers

Quem já viajou ou morou em Paris provavelmente conhece a rua Crémieux, famoso local turístico da capital francesa que é conhecido por suas adoráveis casas coloridas em tons pastéis – um visual que sem dúvida atrai uma enxurrada de posts de Instagram, que só numa rápida busca pelas hashtags já acumula 31 mil fotos envolvendo …

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Sofía: Eat Forrest, Eat!

In Bolivia, pork consumption is very low (1.6 kg per person/month) due an array of paradigms that revolve around it, such as: fatty meat, too heavy for the stomach o too laborious to prepare. Our challenge was to show all the pork cuts available and their benefits, educating and encouraging the consumer to try it again.

Video of Sofia – Forrest

FAD: The Real Young

The new campaign of FAD (Help for Drug Addiction Foundation), a private non-profit Spanish institution with the fundamental mission to prevent the drug consumption and other risky behaviours of adolescents, appeals to breaking the stereotypes established over young people and empower them to become more than “what it is said”.

There is said that young people do not involve with anything, they do not make an effort, they do not enjoy culture, they are all skaters and they spend the weekends partying, among others. But it is just what it is said, not real truth, not the real young. #TheRealYoung wants to break with all those false stereotypes. Visit https://therealyoung.fad.es, discover all the pieces and join us!

Video of FAD Spot Ironies "The Real Young" (EN)

Mark Zuckerberg promises a new privacy-obsessed Facebook


In a new manifesto that reads like a response to Facebook’s many critics, CEO Mark Zuckerberg outlined a major privacy push, including a plan for encrypted messaging that would also unite communication across its various apps. He also promised less data permanence on the platform famous for its oversharing users.

On Wednesday, Zuckerberg posted the new strategy to his Facebook page, touching on topics that the company has signaled it would address for months, like connecting its two messaging apps, WhatsApp and Messenger, so people on both platforms can interact seamlessly.

Also, following the push into Stories, the video messages that disappear in 24 hours, Facebook will develop tools so people can set time limits and self-destruct any of their content like photos and text posts.

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Amazon is closing 87 U.S. pop-up electronics stores next month


Amazon.com Inc. is ending its experiment with electronics-focused pop-up stores, shuttering 87 kiosks located inside shopping malls, Whole Foods Market locations and Kohl’s stores around the U.S.

“After much review, we came to the decision to discontinue our pop-up kiosk program,” an Amazon spokeswoman said.

The closings are expected to be completed by the end of April, the Wall Street Journal reported earlier on Wednesday, saying it wasn’t immediately clear if any Amazon pop-ups outside the U.S. would be affected.

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