Global Road Entertainment, the recently launched independent theatrical and TV studio (formed by Tang Media Partners), has chosen MullenLowe Mediahub as its media agency of record. The shop will handle media planning and buying for the studio’s feature film slate, which includes teen drama Midnight Sun (to be released March 23), CGI family comedy Show…
Dish Network has launched a creative review, a source with direct knowledge of the matter confirmed to Adweek. The source added that the review is being handled by New York search consultancy Avidan Strategies, is still in its early stages and includes “a long list” of unspecified agencies. It is unclear if incumbent Camp +…
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After years of working in various roles in the advertising industry, Sarah Hooper and Matthew Goldman noticed a glaring issue with the traditional agency model. As it goes, senior executives win pitches, assure clients they’ll see their projects through, and then dump the work on junior staff. “It just seemed like a farce to me,”…
While it’s true HBO is not an ad-supported network, Last Week Tonight’s John Oliver made an exception Sunday, uttering the words rarely heard on the premium cable network: “We’ll be right back.”
Of course what followed wasn’t a real commercial, but instead a GM ad parody created to punctuate Oliver’s hilarious (and disturbing) dissection of internal practices at GM, where a long list of defects in cars over the past decade led to an even longer list of no-go words and phrases compiled in a memo, which blacklisted phrases like “deathtrap,” “defective,” “catastrophically flawed,” “Hindenburg”—you get the idea.
Obviously the point of the memo was to make sure none of those words ended up associated with the cars once they got to the market—a sensible notion, from a branding perspective, but probably not a directive that was terribly wise to put on paper. So after a lengthy segment eviscerating GM (remember, this is the guy who stretched potshots at quetionably healthy drink Pom Wonderful over two episodes), Oliver cut away to a fake GM ad containing almost all those words the car company didn’t want associated with its brand.
Just to tie a bow on the whole takedown, HBO is even running Oliver’s GM bit as a lengthy pre-roll ad on YouTube this week. From a comedy perspective, the segment is gold. From a marketing perspective, it’s like watching a Hellraiser movie.
While it's true HBO is not an ad-supported network, Last Week Tonight's John Oliver made an exception Sunday, uttering the words rarely heard on the premium cable network: "We'll be right back."
Of course what followed wasn't a real commercial, but instead a GM ad parody created to punctuate Oliver's hilarious (and disturbing) dissection of internal practices at GM, where a long list of defects in cars over the past decade led to an even longer list of no-go words and phrases compiled in a memo, which blacklisted phrases like "deathtrap," "defective," "catastrophically flawed," "Hindenburg"—you get the idea.
Obviously the point of the memo was to make sure none of those words ended up associated with the cars once they got to the market—a sensible notion, from a branding perspective, but probably not a directive that was terribly wise to put on paper. So after a lengthy segment eviscerating GM (remember, this is the guy who stretched potshots at quetionably healthy drink Pom Wonderful over two episodes), Oliver cut away to a fake GM ad containing almost all those words the car company didn't want associated with its brand.
Just to tie a bow on the whole takedown, HBO is even running Oliver's GM bit as a lengthy pre-roll ad on YouTube this week. From a comedy perspective, the segment is gold. From a marketing perspective, it's like watching a Hellraiser movie.
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