Veloz: Kicking Gas

Superconductor is proud to launch its first campaign ever for Veloz, a non-profit group dedicated to increasing electric car sales. “Kicking Gas” is an integrated campaign starring Arnold Schwarzenegger that mimics the launch of a summer blockbuster. Created in collaboration with Oak Productions and Bullitt, and directed by Emmy-Award winning Josh Greenbaum, the films feature Schwarzenegger going undercover as a colorful, moustache-wearing used car salesman on a mission to sell gas-guzzlers. Rickett & Sones is the director/photographer duo responsible for all still photography.

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How Media Buyers Are Downsizing Their Number of Ad-Tech Partners

Approximately 80% of display ad spend is now powered by ad tech, according to eMarketer, with the phrase “programmatic” rising from a niche term used by digital marketers in the late 2000s to a mainstay of contemporary marketing parlance. The initial sell is a no-brainer: using software and data to power ad targeting, thus increasing…

NRATV Shuts Down, Further Severing Ties Between the NRA and Its Longtime Agency

The National Rifle Association has halted “live TV” programming on NRATV, its online streaming network. CEO Wayne LaPierre said in a statement on the NRA’s website that the organization is “undergoing a significant change in our communications strategy.” The move marks the latest breakdown between the NRA and longtime agency Ackerman McQueen, which handled programming…

Korean Ecommerce Brand Soko Glam Is Reinventing the Makeup Aisle With Its Pop-Up Shop

For Charlotte Cho, co-founder of Soko Glam, a Korean beauty and skin-care ecommerce company, skin care is personal–and that’s not just because she helped make the infamous Korean 10-step skin-care routine mainstream in the U.S. or literally wrote the book about it. Between Soko Glam, running the accompanying educational skin-care website The Klog and rolling…

Burger King: Whopper Diamond

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Brewers Association: Sunburnt, Meatless, No Show

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Meat Made From Veggies? Nah, Arby’s Would Rather Invent Veggies Made From Meat

Few food trends are as buzzy right now as plant-based meats, like the patties from Impossible Foods being added to menus at Krystal, Burger King and more. But Arby’s, which has built its brand in recent years on a simple premise–“We have the meats”–is going in a very different direction. The chain today unveiled its…

Comparably Reveals Its Top CEOs for Diversity and Women and Best Leadership Teams

Workplace culture and compensation monitoring site Comparably released its lists this week of top CEOs for diversity and women, as well as best leadership teams overall. Comparably’s diversity rankings were derived from ratings provided by non-Caucasian employees who anonymously rated their CEOs between June 7, 2018, and June 7, 2019, with a minimum of 75…

Amazon’s Prime Day Proves Everything Old Is New Again

Details are starting to emerge about Amazon’s fifth Prime Day, which will kick off July 15 at the stroke of midnight PT and, over the following 48 hours, become the longest-running Prime Day. Each year it gets a little bigger, a little longer and a little more star power. Yet even though Prime Day is…

3 Ways Secret Messages Spark Positive Change in Health and Wellness

Around the corner from the main Palais at Cannes Lions is a meeting of uber experts, health and wellness leaders who work every day to fuel life-changing creativity. The major trends in their conference this year focused on a new age of inclusivity, unexpected new ways to get people involved in topics they might prefer…

Arnold Schwarzenegger Kicks ‘Gas’ as a Used Car Salesman in This Parody for Electric Vehicles

It’s no surprise that a cheesy used-car salesman like Howard Kleiner, sporting a man-pony, a Hawaiian shirt and a porn ‘stache, would be into throwback gas guzzlers. For him, it’s V8 or nothing, and if you pick the wrong vehicle on his lot, he may hand you a snide bumper sticker that says, “Carpool lanes…

Como o mercado reagiu à Libra, a criptomoeda do Facebook

Já faz pouco mais de uma semana que o Facebook anunciou ao mundo a Libra, sua própria criptomoeda que servirá de moeda oficial da rede social nas transações financeiras que passarem pela sua plataforma. O plano da empresa com a nova moeda é claro, usando-a de base para tornar o site numa verdadeira central de …

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Husqvarna: Faster Cuts

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Campaign addresses the power of Husqvarna chainsaws, so you can cut a tree very fast.

Start Today

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In celebration of the International Day against Drug Abuse and Illicit Trafficking, we want to push on the idea that the best time to quit drugs is not tomorrow and not next month; it’s right now.

ALS League: The Swimming Pool

The ALS league and their creative agency Publicis Brussels, plunge us into an especially stressful situation. How would you feel after immersing yourself into the skin of an ALS patient for 30 very long seconds?

ALS is a degenerative disease that paralyses the muscles one by one until the death of the patient, on average 3 years after the diagnosis.

The very least we can say is that this spot will not leave you indifferent. It has already been banned from broadcasting in Belgium.

In order to continue the research to help patients, don’t hesitate to share.

Breathfresher: Bad Times for Bad Breath

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Did you hear bad news for bad breath? Breathfresher. Peppermint breath refreshment.

Finding Inspiration at the Cannes Lions 2019 Awards Show

CANNES, France–It’s hard not to be inspired in a theater full of some of the most innovative–and most awarded–creative professionals in the world. Adweek had a front-row seat to the 2019 Festival of Creativity Awards show last Friday evening, where we heard from the likes of Jeff Goodby and Rich Silverstein, honorees of the Lion…

Socialdeviant adds GS&P, Publicis and Mekanism Vet Hart Rusen as CCO

Socialdeviant, the Chicago agency launched by former MRM CEO Marc Landsberg in 2012, welcomed Hart Rusen as chief creative officer. Rusen joins Socialdeviant following a brief stint in-house as creative director for REI Brand Lab. He is an industry veteran of over two decades. He joined REI from Mekanism last August, after spending over two…

Ads Are Coming to Instagram’s Explore

Instagram is kick-starting the process of monetizing its Explore tab with the gradual introduction of ads, but they won’t appear on the initial Explore screen. Users of the Facebook-owned photo- and video-sharing network won’t see ads in Explore until they click through to further investigate content, after which they will appear in the results feed–photo…

Parceria entre Skol e Pantone traz latas da cerveja nas cores da bandeira LGBT+

A Skol e a Pantone anunciam uma parceria para celebrar este Mês do Orgulho LGBT+ com o Pride Pack, uma edição limitada que traz seis latinhas da cerveja nas cores da bandeira LGBT+ e design inspirado nas famosas cartelas de cores da Pantone. Desenvolvido pela R/GA, cada um dos seis tons recebeu o nome “Pride” …

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