A Pair of Testicles Explores Freedom From Hair in Debut Veet Men Film

A buddy movie for a set of balls is essentially the outline for a brand campaign to promote Veet Men–an intimate hair removal kit targeting a new consumer base for the RB-owned brand. Veet is known as a brand which produces several hair removal solutions aimed at women for “different skin types, different styles and…

Amber Alerts Come to Instagram

Facebook teamed up with the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children to bring Amber Alerts to its News Feed in January 2015, and those alerts have now been expanded to Instagram. Meta director of trust and safety Emily Vacher said in a Newsroom post that the feature began rolling out Wednesday and will be…

Eva Neveau Appointed First Global CCO at Omnicom Content Arm Eg+ Worldwide

Omnicom’s global content and production arm, eg+ Worldwide, has appointed Eva Neveau as global chief creative officer, a new role for the company. Neveau joins to help unify the group’s three brands–eg+, Designory and Mother Tongue–from specialist offerings to a holistic content solution. Neveau will lead the group’s creative vision and help evolve the combined…

Recycled headline / La légende ne dit pas si c’est une copie

THE ORIGINAL?
Telefoot / Maradona – 2020
“La légende est dans la photo”
Source : Ad Forum
Agency : Ogilvy Paris (France)
LESS ORIGINAL
Adidas france / Benzema – 2022
“La légende est sur la photo”
Source : Twitter
Agency : In-House, Adidas (France)

Russian Journalist to Auction Nobel Medal to Benefit Ukraine

Dmitri A. Muratov, whose newspaper was shuttered in response to the Kremlin’s increasingly draconian censorship, will donate the proceeds to Ukrainian refugees.

Pinterest Opens Warsaw Office to Serve as Engineering Hub for Central Europe

Pinterest established its first-ever engineering hub in central Europe, opening an office in Poland’s capital city of Warsaw. The company said in a blog post that the impetus for setting up shop in Warsaw began with its acquisition of Vochi last December, as the video creation and editing application already had an office in the…

BeReal: How to Turn On Fast Camera

When users capture a photo in the BeReal application, there is a slight delay between the time when the user taps the capture button and when the photo is actually taken. If users don’t like this delay, they can turn on a “fast camera” setting from within the app’s settings menu. Our guide will show…

How Airbnb is marketing its new booking approach

After rolling out a new group of categories earlier this spring to support more flexible travelers, Airbnb is highlighting the changes in a new marketing campaign created in-house.

Stagwell Formalizes Constellation Network Offering With Leadership Changes

Stagwell’s Constellation network is expanding and formalizing its offering, and it has a fresh take on how a holding company can organize to serve its clients. As part of this process it’s investing in a leadership expansion, with 72andSunny founder John Boiler pivoting roles and welcoming a new digital leader to the top. Constellation is…

How Snapchat is trying to win more travel ad dollars

Dynamic travel ads will build on Snap’s location features.

IAB Is Building a Universal Framework for Domestic and Global Privacy Laws

Faced with the complexities of numerous privacy laws and associated compliance costs, the Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB) is devising a single comprehensive solution to streamline privacy consent and people’s choice signals or the permission to use data from sites and apps to ad-tech providers. Building on its Transparency and Consent Framework (TCF) launched in 2018,…

KitKat Challenges Gen Z to a Staring Contest With Cats, Owls and Goats

Nestl? chocolate brand KitKat has begun an artificial intelligence staring contest in which consumers will challenge a digital rival–including a cat, owl and goat–not to blink first. With the return of its “Have a break, have a KitKat” brand positioning, the “Blink Break” contest will aim to provide “a fun distraction” to players, according to…

Snap Introduces Dynamic Travel Ads

Snap Inc. Wednesday introduced its first category of Dynamic Ads outside of ecommerce, Dynamic Travel Ads, which were developed for airlines, hotels, online travel agencies and tours. “It’s been a challenging few years with travel restrictions and stay-at-home orders, but Snapchatters are ready to travel again,” the company said in a blog post, adding that…

Product grown from stadium soil / Faut pas pousser!

THE ORIGINAL?
Burger King “Mannschafts Whopper” – 2017
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Source : Cannes Lions BRONZE
Agency : Grabarz & Partner (Germany)
LESS ORIGINAL
Lays “Golden Grounds” – 2022
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Source : Superbowl, Best Ads on TV
Agency : TBWA Chiat Day New York (USA)

Carvel seeks Father’s Day boost with personalized Fudgie the Whale shoutouts

How the ice cream brand is continuing its nostalgic marketing push behind its 45-year-old mascot.

Sports Streaming Service DAZN Hires BT Exec Pete Oliver as CMO

Sports streaming service DAZN has named Pete Oliver as its global chief marketing officer, joining from British communications giant BT as the business aims to build momentum and deepen its customer relationships. With its headquarters in London, DAZN claims to stream around 1 billion hours of sports each year across more than 200 countries and…

How brands can mitigate iOS data loss

A tool kit for 2022 and beyond.

Vox Media Relaunches and Expands Group Nine’s Performance Marketing Solution

Vox Media announced Wednesday the launch of VM Connect, a rebranded and expanded version of the performance-marketing solution G9 Direct, which Vox Media inherited from Group Nine Media after it acquired the digital media company in February. As G9 Direct, the platform enabled brands to purchase direct-response ads on the Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat, YouTube and…

See Justin Bieber’s new ‘Biebs Brew’ ad for Tim Hortons

The chain tries to keep its Bieber momentum going with marketing for new cold brew.

Briner League Baseball: How the Portland Pickles Crafted a Marketing Franchise

How do you turn a collegiate summer baseball team with 24 home games a year into a 365-day multiplatform brand? Putting a marketing agency in charge doesn’t hurt. When the Portland Pickles were sold in 2017 after just two years in existence, the headlines generally featured new co-owner and former Seattle Seahawks punter Jon Ryan….