James Corden Is Full of Ideas, and Costumes, in Translation’s Push for Apple Music

Translation’s new spot for the Apple Music streaming service sees James Corden pitching all kinds of (mostly awful) ideas to Apple Music execs, who remained unimpressed with the comedian’s over-the-top suggestions.

His first suggestion, “What if I’m giving birth to Justin Bieber, who’s giving birth to Anthony Kiedis, who’s giving birth to a phone?” is immediately rejected. While Corden would like to dress up as David Bowie and the Spice Girls, they just want to let people know about Apple Music’s hand-picked playlists, offline functionality and 40 million songs.

As Adweek points out, this kind of meta approach is hardly new and we’re sure our readers can point to at least a half dozen examples of similar ideas. That said, actually seeing Corden act out some of the ridiculous ideas and do his best Bowie and Spice Girls impressions is fairly entertaining. And the obvious benefit in the format is getting both the over-the-top comedy from Corden and the straightforward explanations of what Apple Music has to offer. So while there it may not be the most original idea, there’s certainly a method to the madness.

Havas London’s Celebrates a Child’s First Flight in Heathrow Airport’s Debut Broadcast Ad

Havas London launched the first ever broadcast campaign for Heathrow Airport with the 90-second spot “The First Flight.”

“The First Flight” tells the undeniably story of a 5-year-old girl named Harriett’s first trip to Heathrow Airport. Set to the David Bowie song “When I Live My Dream” (from his 1967 debut), the spot follows Harriett through the airport, owl-shaped bag in tow, aviator hat and swimming goggles on her head. Unlike W+K New York’s “No Bag Left Behind,” for Delta in 2014, which similarly features a young girl’s animal shaped bag, the focus isn’t entirely on the luggage bag, although it’s certainly a scene stealer. 

The spot does an admirable job of communicating the childlike wonder of flight that adults take for granted, with more than a little help from the inspired music choice. Outsider’s Dom and Nic directed the spot, giving the mood and pace the right touch to capture Harriett’s excitement and wonder at her first trip to the airport — even if you could argue that it could have been accomplished in 60, rather than 90, seconds.

The spot rolled out on social media today and will make its U.K. broadcast on Thursday. Supporting the effort is a contest with Qantas asking participants to share Heathrow Airport memories for the chance to win one of 70 trips to Australia.

Credits:

Client: Heathrow Airport
Agency: Havas London
Executive Creative Director: Ben Mooge
Creatives: Barnaby Packham, Daniel Bolton
Group Business Director: Caroline Saunders
Senior Account Director: Julia Mahoney
Agency Producer: Kiri Carch
Assistant Producer: Femi Ladi
Production Company: Outsider
Directors: Dom and Nic
Producer: John Madsen
Director of Photography: Alex Barber
Editing: Ed Cheesman, Final Cut
Post: The Mill
Sound: Antony Moore, Factory

Cover de “Space Oddity” feito pelo astronauta Chris Hadfield agora é ilegal

Após alcançar mais de 22 milhões de visualizações, o vídeo do cover de “Space Oddity” feito pelo astronauta Chris Hadfield foi removido do canal oficial dele no YouTube.

Isso aconteceu porque a permissão para uso da canção, concedida por David Bowie depois de um esforço coletivo da NASA, da agência espacial russa ROSCOSMOS e da agência espacial canadense, venceu ontem, e apesar dos apelos dos fãs do astronauta, não foi possível renovar a autorização do cover.

“Estamos tentando renovar a licença, mas não existem garantias para vídeos gravados no espaço”, brincou Hadfield no Reddit, esclarecendo a situação aos seus admiradores e citando um artigo da Economist que detalhava a complexa questão do copyright ‘espacial’.

Pessoalmente, acho curioso que um vídeo de tamanho sucesso não tenha recebido a autorização de Bowie para continuar no ar oficialmente. Com a suspensão do clipe no canal oficial de Hadfield, o que acontece é a intensa proliferação de cópias, que agora estão disponíveis em canais não oficiais do astronauta.

Hadfield foi o mais politicamente correto possível, e acionou sua base de fãs avisando que ontem era o último dia para apreciar a canção gravada por ele no espaço, mas a verdade é que isso não existe na internet. Depois de publicado, um item dificilmente consegue ser completamente removido da rede. Não teria sido mais proveitoso se os representantes de Bowie e Hadfield tivessem chegado a um acordo, quem sabe oferecendo um link direto para a compra da música na versão do astronauta, revertendo parte do valor para Bowie?

 Hadfield fez um favor para Bowie, recuperando e de certa forma modernizando a canção para as novas gerações.

Arrisco até a dizer que Hadfield fez um favor para Bowie, recuperando e de certa forma modernizando a canção para as novas gerações (que talvez nem saibam que a canção é de David Bowie, mas tenham apreciado o timing e a sinergia entre o momento do astronauta e a profundidade da letra). Além disso, quando é que Bowie poderia ter um clipe de Space Oddity gravado do espaço?

Fica aqui o embed do vídeo oficial de Chris Hadfield, na esperança de que a equipe de Bowie reconsidere a questão, ouça o apelo dos fãs da versão espacial de Space Oddity e autorize novamente a divulgação do vídeo.

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Brandblack Teams Up With RSA Films, Jamal Crawford

Brandblack, the recently-launched “futurist performance sports brand” from David Raysse and Creative Director Billy Dill, teamed up with the L.A. Clippers’ “Sixth Man of the Year” Jamal Crawford and RSA Films, the production company founded by director Ridley Scott and Tony Scott, for a new campaign highlighting their high performance basketball sneaker, J.Crossover.

The global campaign, named “FUTURELEGENDS” after the opening track on David Bowie‘s 1974 album Diamond Dogs, centers around a 60 second spot of the same name. Directed by Antony Crook, the spot puts viewers in Crawford’s perspective in an examination of the “insightful and reflective approach he takes to each and every game.” Other heavy hitters tapped to collaborate on the project include creative director Glenn Kitson, executive producer Arrow Kruse, and director of photography Trent Opaloch (District 9Elysium, Captain America: Winter Soldier). The copywriting doesn’t quite live up to the production side of thing, with a somewhat predictable voiceover about being the ice “when they bring the fire” and finding order in the chaos. But it sure does look nice.

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VIA House Band Wants You to Help ‘Get it to Bowie’

Get it to BowieThe house band over at agency VIA have one very large Christmas wish: for David Bowie to cover one of their Christmas songs. They’d like to request your help in making that happen.

Visitors to the “Get it to Bowie” website can watch video of the band introducing the idea (which includes many terrible, and one decent, Bowie impression), listen to their Christmas songs, and spread the word via Twitter. There’s also a place to forward information to someone who knows Bowie (or knows someone who knows Bowie), and a button to click if you are David Bowie (which tweets to the agency that he’s agreed to cover one of their songs). Obviously, this is a far-fetched proposition, but there’s something appealing about VIA’s earnest enthusiasm. Good luck guys, but I don’t think it’s going to happen.

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Agency Writes Original Holiday Album, Pleads With David Bowie to Cover a Song

Speaking of Christmas miracles, The VIA Agency would like to make one of its own happen. The Portland, Maine, agency's house band recorded a six-track album of holiday music, and has launched a campaign to get David Bowie to cover one of the songs. Hey, it could happen.

The "Get It to Bowie" site is full of cheerful strategizing, including ways to tweet at Bowie's famous friends and get them to put the pressure on. There's also an amusing "Are you David Bowie? Click here" link, which populates a tweet field with the message, "@TheVIAAgency Yes! I'm in. #gotittobowie." (The project also has a charity element, as VIA is also asking for donations to support Maine veterans living with PTSD—and one of the songs is about a homeless veteran at Christmastime.) You can also, of course, listen to the songs, which are solid—a good mix of funny and heartfelt.

For now, the hashtag is the present-tense #getittobowie. It's a long shot, no doubt, especially now that Bowie is on the comeback trail with his well-received 2013 album, which got him three Grammy nominations. But who knows. Throw in an Angela Adams sea bag—actually, make that Louis Vuitton—and he might just go for it.


    

GE Goes ‘Back to the Future’ for New Ad That Will Spawn Dozens of Similar Headlines

It seems like there’s an awful lot of Back to the Future nostalgia invading the Internet these days, with posts about the series on sites like Reddit leading to listicles about the trilogy on nostalgia-aggregators like Buzzfeed which then go viral on Facebook and eventually find themselves on large emails your mom sends to her friends and CC’s you on for some reason. And, what with it being 2013 and all,  where advertising campaigns are becoming increasingly informed by memes, we get GE and BBDO NY using the “1.21 gigawatts” thing to sell you technology or something. Where we’re going, we don’t need roads to perdition; we just fly there through space and time.

And yet, nostalgia has a way of endearing you to things in a way totally out of your control. Call it manipulation, call it “effective advertising” using one of the oldest tricks in the book. Any way or slice it, it’s hard as even a casual fan of the series not to get a little giddy when you see what are ostensibly Marty McFly’s Nikes pop out of a souped-up Delorean. While Pepperidge Farm dares us to remember a time when people died of dystentary and snakebites like in Oregon TrailBack to the Future‘s original audience has aged to the point where brands see the 1980s as a way to get consumers on board 30-something years later.

In fact, I hope this becomes a whole campaign where GE powers David Bowie‘s castle from LabyrinthE.T.‘s glowing finger, and the computer from Weird Science. And, though it wouldn’t make much sense, maybe Michael J. Fox could narrate those spots too. Maybe in another 30 years, GE will power the ships from Avatar and Robin Thicke can provide us with his own deep-voiced VO. Trust me, it will make sense by then. Credits after the jump.

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Fubiz x Sony Xperia

Fubiz vous présente le smartphone Sony Xperia dans son corner dédié, rappelant avec ce spot que la marque a toujours été présente depuis 50 ans dans notre quotidien, du téléviseur au smartphone en passant par le walkman. Une campagne sur la musique « Sound and Vision »? de David Bowie à découvrir dans la suite.

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Londres ganha loja pop-up do David Bowie

Depois da lançar uma exposição com a retrospectiva de David Bowie em março, o londrino Victoria and Albert Museum, trabalhando em conjunto com a Selfridges, criou uma loja pop-up do David Bowie.

Aberta no início do mês, está vendendo uma variedade de produtos relacionados ao artista, um tributo ao seu lendário visual.

Peças especiais de estilistas selecionados como Alexander McQueen e Mary Kattrantzou também estão na loja, junto com a marca de cosméticos Illamasqua, que oferece demonstrações de maquiagem com looks realizados na hora por profissionais. Tudo inspirado no estilo de Bowie.

Além disso, é possível comprar itens de colecionador como obras de arte, fotografias, vinis e livros raros.

Trazendo uma experiência rica e colorida da vida, do estilo e das inspirações de Bowie, a loja pop-up tem como nome oficial David Bowie Is All Yours e está aberta na Selfridges, em Londres.

Alguns dos produtos estão disponíveis à venda no site da loja.

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