Hasta La Creative!

General Mills made headlines this week by revealing on Tuesday that it has specific diversity requirements for the agencies competing in its creative review, requiring the creative departments of its future agency partners to include 50 percent women and 20 percent people of color.

Today we’ve learned that HP CEO Antonio Lucio sent out a letter to current agency partners with a similar call to action regarding diversity on August 30. After making an effort to foster diversity internally, with a specific eye toward closing the gender gap with female hires, HP is now asking the same of its agency partners. Among the recipients of the letter were BBDO, FleishmanHillard, Gyro, Fred&Farid and Porter Novelli.

“Diversity gives HP a competitive advantage. It helps drive new business, fuel innovation, and attract and attain the best employees,” an HP representative said in a statement offered to AgencySpy. “This letter is a call to action. Now that we have built our business case and begun to put our own house in order, we are relying on our agency partners to do the same; we are expecting these marketing and communications leaders to actively embrace diversity and actually do something about it.”

HP is expecting its agency partners to act fast on plans to increase diversity. “We have called upon each of our agency partners’ CEOs to develop a plan that significantly increases the representation of women and people of color in top creative and strategic roles,” the representative added. “Without exception the responses we have received are of true enthusiasm and commitment. Our agency partners now have 30 days to deliver their plans and 12 months to make good on those plans – and we intend to monitor each firm’s performance along the way.”

While the letter makes reference to a “a scorecard that will track multiple levels of diversity,” which HP has implemented for its own efforts and now expects to be adopted by its agency partners, it’s unclear if HP has specific diversity quotas for its agencies, as with General Mills’ demands in its creative review, or if it is working with its agency partners to determine the best way to reach its ultimate diversity goals. It’s also unclear if HP is echoing General Mills’ targeting of creative departments in particular. But it is clear that the company has set out a very specific timeline for agencies to set up and implement plans for increased diversity.

We’ve included the letter in full below:

A Challenge to Agency Leadership

August 30

Dear Friends,

Earlier this month I spoke with you — the CEOs of all of HP’s advertising and marketing agency partners — to ask

that we all join in making an important commitment to radically improve the percentage of women and people of

color in leadership roles in our organizations. I’m delighted that without exception you gave your enthusiastic

support for this pledge.

 

How successful we are will define our legacies. So, as you set your goals and make your plans, I ask you to keep

these points in mind:

 

At HP, our vision is to make technology that makes the world a better place for everyone, everywhere. But we

recognize that we can’t realize our vision if our business leaders don’t represent everyone, in color, gender, and

geography. We take great pride that HP has the most diverse board of directors in the technology industry, and

that we make diversity an explicit business goal. Yet I know we can do even more. I know we must do more.

Including women and people of color in key roles is not only a values issue, but a significant business imperative.

HP thrives on innovation. Study after study confirms that innovation is improved and accelerated by broad

perspectives and diversity of thought. Marketers are expected to have deep understanding and insight about their

markets, about decision makers, and about customers.

 

We are more likely to create solutions that amaze our customers if our workforce represents the communities we

serve. As a global company, we need to take a broad view of diversity as increased representation will take

different forms in different countries. We have decided to start by addressing women.

 

We make printers and personal computers. Who buys them? Women: 53 percent for computers, 45 percent for

printers. We are focused on ensuring that our marketing department has the right talent composition to capture

our business opportunities. Over the last 12 months we have invested in programs designed to ensure that at

least half of our top marketing jobs are held by women. It is important to understand that these were not random

moves to increase representation. Instead, they were new opportunities for high-potential people and strategic

hires and the quality of our team output has never been better.

 

To measure our own efforts, we are creating a scorecard that will track multiple levels of diversity of our own

global marketing organization. We are far from perfect, and I know there will be challenges, but I am committed

to immediate, global, impact, rigorously measuring our performance and being transparent about the gaps to

overcome.

 

I am asking the same of each of you.

My expectation is that in the next 30 days, you will deliver formal plans – and within 12 months make good on

those plans. Thank you for working to significantly increase the percentage of women in top creative and

strategic roles on our account.

 

We owe this to ourselves, to each other and to future generations. By making the important and necessary

changes today, together we can bend the arc of history in favor of inclusion and opportunity.

Now comes the proof of our commitment. Thank you for joining us.

 

Antonio

Antonio Lucio

Chief Marketing & Communications Officer

HP Inc.

If you’ve got killer programming chops and a closet full of ill-advised sartorial selections, Betabrand might be the workplace for you.

HP took some heat this week for reportedly telling enterprise developers to comply with the company’s “smart casual” dress code. In a comical response, crowdsourced retailer Betabrand (whose founder was recently named to Adweek’s Creative 100 for stellar branded content) promoted its own job openings by highlighting the extremes to which it’s willing to let employees dress.

So, if you have an interest in wearing nipple tassels and undersized kitten shirts, or just want to work somewhere that finds dress codes laughable, check out the jobs at Betabrand.

We rely on our hands to get us through our various daily projects, whether it’s typing on a computer, creating works of art or instructing others to follow a plan. Now, HP wants us to use the power of our paws in the digital space.

HP’s Sprout is a new immersive computing platform that scans and senses the objects in proximity of the device to allow people to create in real-time 3-D. In simpler words, you can put things directly on the touch mat and, thanks to a projector above, wave your hands around to virtually mold the design you want on the screen. As the ad shows, that includes spilling coffee beans on the flat surface to get that effortlessly strewn artistic look.

Watch the ad below, and then give your hands a pat on the back for all the work they do.

CREDITS
Client: Hewlett-Packard
Spot: “Hands of Time”
Agency: 180LA
Production Company: Park Pictures
Director: Vincent Haycock
Director of Photography: Mattias Montero
Head of Production: Anne Bobroff
Executive Producer: Jackie Kelman Bisbee
Executive Producer: Mary Ann Marino
Producer: Valerie Romer
Original Music by human

Aujourd’hui sort le premier album du collectif de DJs C2C appelé Tetra. A cette occasion, nous vous proposons de découvrir la pochette réalisée par « LVL Studio » utilisant une photo de Wang Chien-Yang que les membres du groupe ont découvert sur Fubiz. Voici les visuels de l’album et un concours spécial C2C x Fubiz.

Photos du livret de C2C – Tetra : Baudouin

/ Concours

Fubiz vous propose de remporter 10 albums, 10 vinyls édition limitée, et 5 places de concerts pour leur Zénith à Paris (1er mars 2013). Les différents moyens pour participer sont : retweet du compte Twitter, en réagissant sur la page Facebook Fubiz et par tirage au sort dans les commentaires jusqu’au 10 septembre.

/ Album

Le nouvel album de C2C – Tetra est disponible sur iTunes depuis aujourd’hui.

No próximo sábado, a HP estreia seu campanha com nova assinatura, “Let’s Do Amazing”, incluindo sete filmes para TV e internet. É mais um passo da marca em busca da personalização e humanização da tecnologia.

Estrelados pelo comediante Rhys Darby da série “Flight of the Conchords” (e você deve conhece-lo também por ter sido o melhor personagem daquele filme fraco do Jim Carrey, “Sim, Senhor!”), os comerciais mostram um personagem que parece um mala, mas que para a HP, é “gente que faz”.

É o que a marca chama de “Revolution of Doing”, já que a tecnologia e internet permite que qualquer pessoa “faça”, e isso o que Darby sai em busca, de um monte de “fazedores” em seu habitat natural. A campanha é divertida e simpática, com a participação de Annie Leibovitz, Dr. Dre, e de empresas que utitilizam soluções HP, como UPS, Venetian Hotel e Dreamworks.

Porém, o destaque mesmo nunca será veiculado. É o filme interno de apresentação do novo slogan para os empregados da HP, em que Rhys Darby faz piada com a companhia, e diz que pensava que HP queria dizer “Have a Printer”.

A criação é da 72andSunny.

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Coup de coeur pour le rendu et travail de ces 2 étudiants Matt Robinson et Tom Wrigglesworth dans le cadre de leurs études à Kingston University, en Angleterre. Une véritable performance avec plusieurs imprimantes HP, toutes rythmés en musique.

O astro da NBA, Kevin Garnett, estrela esse novo comercial da HP para sua linha de notebooks. É praticamente igual a tudo da campanha “Hands” que acompanhamos nos últimos anos, mas ainda continua sendo muito bonito.

A criação é da Goodby, Silverstein & Partners, mas essa beleza digital tem um nome: Psyop.

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A HP lançou um novo hotsite para promover a sua linha de PCs TouchSmart. No “Wake Up Your Feelings” você deve despertar os seus sentimentos, cada um representado por um personagem, que ficaram adormecidos depois que você os abandonou na vida adulta por estar sempre ocupado.

Para literalmente acordar cada emoção, o usuário pode escolher uma série de ações e depois transforma-lá em papel de parede, avatar, widget, etc. A idéia é falar do Power Of Touch, da relação mais humana e criativa com a tecnologia que um computador HP promete.

A criação é da XM Asia Pacific, com produção da Kilo Studios. Bem feitinho.

Advertising Agency: Publicis Malaysia

Advertising Agency: Publicis Malaysia