Hasta La Creative!

Some of the best marketing embodies the brand promise you’re trying to communicate. This is especially true of well-crafted products, whose advertising had better be well-crafted, too. Droga5 takes that idea to impressive lengths with a new interactive site for Hennessy V.S.O.P Privilège (the agency’s first work for this particular Hennessy brand).

V.S.O.P Privilège is known for its remarkable consistency—it’s precisely the same cognac in every glass and every bottle, year after year—despite myriad variables at play during its creation. So, Droga5 set out to tell this story of creating harmony from chaos through the digital experience.

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Jordan Spieth knows when to come in from the rain.

With the pro golfer’s first outdoor commercial shoot for Coca-Cola cancelled because of a torrential downpour, and a deluge forecast for the makeup date, the creative team, led by Wieden + Kennedy and RSA Films director Terence Neale, went to plan B.

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Imagine walking down the street, going about your business, and seeing a car-towed box trailer whizzing past—backwards.

You might imagine you had stumbled onto the set of an action movie. Or perhaps it’s a Norwegian Volkswagen campaign from agency Try Oslo that picked up four Lions last week in Cannes, including gold in the Promo category, as well as silvers in Outdoor and PR and a bronze in Film.

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Apple and TBWAMedia Arts Lab are back with more “Shot on iPhone” billboards. And this time, the focus in on the color—deep reds, oranges, yellows, blues, purples and greens, all hand-selected for each out-of-home location around the globe.

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Lots of Orangina’s marketing is about shaking up bottles of the stuff—to mix up the pulp, which makes the carbonated citrus beverage taste better.

“An advertising guy told me there was a weakness, and we’re going to make a strength out of this weakness by saying, ‘The bottle needs to be shaken,’ ” Orangina’s founder, Jean-Claude Beton, said in an interview a few years before his death in 2013. “Television offered an opportunity to shake things.”

Orangina’s most recent marketing coup, though, was not in TV but in packaging.

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Last November, Xbox celebrated the launch of Rise of the Tomb Raider in the U.K. with quite a sadistic stunt in London. It challenged eight Lara Croft fans stand on a billboard and get pummeled with harsh weather conditions, as voted for by the public watching online.

Last person standing would be the winner.

In the end, the McCann London stunt was a rousing success. And last week at Cannes, the work won 17 Lions, including five golds, becoming one of the most-awarded campaigns of the year.

We wanted to learn a little more about how McCann pulled off the stunt, which of course brought with it myriad logistical and medical concerns. Below, Lolly Thomson, co-president and chief creative officer at McCann London, tells us how it all came together—from the contestant who got hypotheriam to two others who found a love connection. 

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When it comes to sports, girls are often discouraged from continuing to play because of their gender. That’s a message that’s not worth listening to, says this new Olympic-themed spot from Procter & Gamble’s Always. 

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When creatives judge their fellow creatives in awards shows, one might argue it’s a good way to ensure strong work is appreciated. Others might argue it gets a bit … incestuous. 

To promote the fact that the Epica Awards are the only major ad industry honors judged solely by journalists rather members of the creative industry, Epica has launched a new call-for-entries ad campaign that somewhat subtly satirizes the better-known events like the Cannes Lions, One Show and Clio Awards (the last of which, I should note by way of disclosure, is owned by Adweek’s parent company but operated independently of this magazine). 

In each ad—created by Paris-based agency Altmann+Pacreau—we see a text message being sent to a famous ad figure such as Wieden + Kennedy co-founder Dan Wieden or Leo Burnett global creative chief Mark Tutssel. The person sending the message is usually commenting on the ad star’s upcoming role on an awards juror, while subtly hinting at a bit of a quid pro quo arrangement that will help sway some votes. 

“When you serve on a jury, you receive lots of ‘friendly’ messages, trying to find out what’s going on and putting a gentle pressure on your judgment,” said one of the campaign’s creators, Altmann+Pacreau co-founder Olivier Altmann. “So we built on this insight to promote Epica, one of the few worldwide awards that most agencies support specifically because of its singularity.”

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Indian digital agency Chimp&z has figured out who each Game of Thrones character would be if they were advertising professionals. As a bonus, they even imagined who the clients are. With perfectly selected quotes and adorable vector graphics, they make the best case I’ve seen for a Mad Men GOT crossover series. I mean, I’d watch it.

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There’s a mix of food porn and adorable babies in the new Gerber national TV and print campaign. Think Anne Geddes, without the over-the-top schmaltz.

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