Agency holiday parties are back in full swing this year

Despite the newest coronavirus variant, many shops are throwing in-person bashes—with precautions.

Campus Party Brasil anuncia criação de revista científica

CPBR

Um dos maiores eventos de experiência tecnológica que conhecemos acaba de anunciar que vai desenvolver uma revista cientifica, a “Revista Campus Party“. O objetivo é garantir espaço a textos científicos de qualidade, além de atrair conteúdos relevantes e que estejam na vanguarda de suas áreas para debates nas edições da #CPBR. Segundo comunicado à imprensa, …

Leia Campus Party Brasil anuncia criação de revista científica na íntegra no B9.

International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC): React For Real

The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) has served the people of Afghanistan for 30 years. And it’s not stopping now. The organisation remains operational across the country, together with their partner the Afghan Red Crescent Society.

To generate much-needed support for the organisation, Wunderman Thompson has created a data-led film, ‘React For Real’. Inspired by the timeless expression, ‘If I had a dollar for every time…’, the film demonstrates the potential monetary value of our reactions on social media.

The team conducted an intensive data analysis of social media reactions as well as research on real-time needs in Afghanistan for ICRC. Anonymous data was garnered, studied, and analysed to highlight the emojis and hashtags that were most commonly used in response to this crisis.

Wunderman Thompson Dubai worked together with teams in Sydney, Seattle, London, and New York to bring this global

Video of ICRC React for Real film, 2021 – Director’s Cut

Clubhouse Tweaks Room Composer, Giving Users Setting Up Rooms More Options

Social audio application Clubhouse revamped the process of creating and setting up rooms on its platform. A spokesperson said in an email, “You know that feeling of slight panic that sets in when you open a room and you’re trying to entertain everyone piling in, while simultaneously setting up pinned links, setting your audio quality…

Milano Cookie's new holiday ad features a fancy Santa

Holiday spot kicks off ‘Fancy a Milano?’ campaign for the Pepperidge Farm cookie brand.

IHOP puts creative account into review

The business was previously handled by Droga5, which is not defending.

 

Zé Delivery promove amigo secreto com “Zés” famosos valendo 1 ano de bebida grátis

Zé Delivery

Amigo secreto de Natal todo mundo conhece, mas e o “Amigo Zécreto”? O Zé Delivery, aplicativo de entrega de bebidas no Brasil, acaba de lançar a prova que precisávamos de que o amigo secreto deste ano pode ser só sucesso – sem correr o risco de comprar um presente e receber outro nem tão legal …

Leia Zé Delivery promove amigo secreto com “Zés” famosos valendo 1 ano de bebida grátis na íntegra no B9.

Twitter’s highest-profile users get VIP treatment when trolls strike

Code-named Project Guardian, the internal program includes a list of thousands of accounts most likely to be attacked or harassed on the platform.

Instagram: How to Use the Chill Chat Theme

Instagram released a Chill chat theme that adds a snowy winter background to conversations. Our guide will show you how to use the Chill chat theme in the Instagram mobile application. Note: These screenshots were captured in the Instagram app on iOS. Step 1: Open the conversation you want to customize and tap the conversation…

As Out of Home Recovers, OAAA Builds Up Leadership Team

The out of home category appears to have reversed the deep declines of 2020. So the Out of Home Advertising Association of America (OAAA), the national trade group representing media sellers, agencies and platforms, is preparing for greater gains next year by expanding its leadership team to sharpen its analytics and creative focus. The new…

App Annie: Worldwide App Downloads Will Reach Nearly 140B in 2021

Mobile analytics company App Annie released its latest report, which analyzes the use of mobile applications in 2021. The report showed that worldwide global spending across the iOS App Store and Google Play is expected to hit $135 billion in 2021, up from $112 billion in 2020. Mobile app downloads also increased in 2021. The…

Bumble Moves Into Retail With Gear for Dating

Figuring out what to wear on a date to make the best impression can be a struggle. Dating app Bumble is trying to make it easier by launching Bumble Shop, a collaboration with marketing production house Juice Marketing that sells apparel, accessories and games. “When Bumble was founded in 2014, we originally created our merchandise…

Coca-Cola Launches First U.S. TikTok Challenge

For brands seeking widespread appeal, it’s good to have a presence where the shoppers are. And right now that’s the video-sharing platform TikTok, which surpassed 1 billion monthly active users around the globe in September. In its debut U.S. TikTok challenge, #ShareTheMagic, Coca-Cola has enlisted Grammy-nominated artist Khalid to ask users to express themselves by…

How BDG’s Parent Portfolio Creatively Helps Brands Put Purpose Over Products

When Geico teamed with Fatherly and Scary Mommy early this year, it wasn’t to sell insurance to parents. Instead, the brand recognized a disparity between the rise of certainly disability diagnoses in young children and the lack of accessible resources for parents wanting to educate themselves. In response, the team created The Fatherly Guide to…

Watch the newest commercials from Amazon Prime Video, State Farm, Disney+ and more

A gamer complains about the cost of in-game purchases in the latest from State Farm.

 

7-Eleven: Sweet Lovin'

7-Eleven Sweden and agency Åkestam Holst NoA just launched its latest campaign for brownies and muffins, and it’s really passionate.

Fika – a somewhat more relaxed and spontaneous version of the brits afternoon tea – is as Swedish as ABBA. It’s a daily tradition where you gather with your friends to enjoy pastries and coffee. To say that swedes simply like their fika is an understatement. They love it. In this campaign, 7-Eleven Sweden depicts their customers’ passion for pastries – taking it all the way – by showing passionate sweet-toothed swedes giving their fika some sweet lovin’.

Video of Sweet Lovin’: Muffin | 7-Eleven, eng

Video of Sweet Lovin’: Brownie | 7-Eleven, eng

LinkedIn Shares 2022 Predictions on B-to-B Marketing, Sales Intent

As 2021 draws to a close and the focus shifts to 2022, LinkedIn shared some predictions about what business-to-business marketing and interpreting buyer intent signals will look like in the new year. LinkedIn Marketing Solutions vice president Gyanda Sachdeva believes b-to-b digital advertising will never look the same. She wrote, “Before, b-to-b marketers could tap…

Ad Hoc Measures Don’t Cut It for Brand Safety Anymore

Brand safety measures tend to be premised on avoiding negative ad environments as opposed to supporting websites and platforms that foster trust in addition to mindfully delivering news and images. In tackling the issue, marketing trade association MMA Global wants to do more than issue another set of dire warnings about guarding against sites that…

Roku and YouTube End Lengthy Standoff as YouTube TV Returns to Platform

Roku and Google have finally settled their months-long disagreement, coming to a long-term carriage deal for both YouTube and YouTube TV on the connected TV platform. Top line The companies, whose stalemate threatened to shake up the connected TV landscape, reached the deal just a day before the previous deal for the YouTube app expired…

Twitter Shares 2021’s Most Tweeted About Brands in US by Vertical

Twitter followed up its Best of Tweets list for 2021, released earlier this week, with another list, sharing the most tweeted about brands across a selection of verticals. The list was made up using internal data on total tweets by U.S. users that mention the brand’s main Twitter handle from Jan. 1 through Oct. 31….