Inside Outdoor Advertising’s Digital Makeover


NEW YORK (AdAge.com) — Want a glimpse of the future? We suggest you take a look at the campaigns that grace the 60 pages of our print edition, and the sampling of them here. They are, in short order: post digital, hyper local and incredible incubators of word-of-mouth and social-media buzz.

For Pubs, Going Global Comes With Challenges


NEW YORK (AdAge.com) — U.S. publishers looking to grow their print market are increasingly finding themselves in the export business, bringing their brands to big, developing countries where magazines are still growing, and the internet has taken less of a bite out of revenue.

Agencies and Clients Must Stop Talking Change, Start Making It


After a number of global agency reviews, I asked myself whether my company had learned anything in these reviews about where the crafts of advertising, media and communications planning are heading. My conclusion? It's time we stop talking about fundamental issues the advertising community needs to face and start making some changes.

Why Agencies Aren’t Delivering on Price Promises to Marketers

Media agencies have been winning big international reviews by promising major cost savings to marketers — but now they're having trouble delivering on those discounts.

The Global CMO Interview: Lorraine Twohill, Google


NEW YORK (AdAge.com) — Google is not known for its marketing; the product markets itself. But as Google attempts to translate its one mega-success — search advertising — into other lines of business, marketing is becoming a more important part of what the search giant is all about.

Five Reasons Why I Love the 2010 World Expo in Shanghai


In honor of the World Expo's recent official opening in Shanghai, P.T. Black, a partner at Jigsaw International, offers five things to get you excited about the Expo.

The Global CMO Interview: Trevor Edwards, Nike


CHICAGO (AdAge.com) — As Nike's top marketer, Trevor Edwards, VP-global brand and category management, has helped the world's leading footwear and apparel company grow its market-share lead by becoming possibly the world's most accomplished digital marketer.

Why Japanese Youth Want to Be ‘Otaku’ and What It Means


You may have heard of otaku. The old stereotype was an obsessive male manga fan who is a bit of a shut-in. For those under 30 it now means having real street credentials. A recent McCann Pulse survey found that more than two-thirds of young adults want to be seen as otaku.

Profiling the Facebooks of the World

NEW YORK (AdAge.com) — Facebook is rapidly overtaking even the strongest local social-media brands to become the first truly global brand in this space. But there are still holdouts, prompting Ad Age to enlist ICOM, a global network of independent ad agencies, to answer the question, "Who's your Facebook?"

Advertising Industry Focusing Efforts on All the Wrong Places


The marketing industry should be looking neither toward Cannes nor Johannesburg. It should be looking toward Athens — and Lisbon, Madrid, Brussels, Copenhagen, Budapest and even London. That is where its immediate and intermediate future is being written.

The Global CMO Interview: Rick Bendel, Walmart


LONDON (AdAge.com) — Walmart is the biggest company in the world, but it operates under 54 different brand names across the continents. Rick Bendel, Walmart's international chief marketing officer, works hard to keep the company's values consistent without losing the hyper-local relevance it believes is the key to success.

Does Real-Time Social Media Make Us Less Globally Inclined?

I've been realizing lately that the social web reinforces local navel-gazing, mainly because the social web is increasingly so "real-time" focused — and time zones are, obviously, the enemy of real-time.

Young Creatives Design Ad Age’s Global Cover


NEW YORK (AdAge.com) — Salina Cole and Garret Dafferner submitted this week's cover, "Gears," for the Ad Age Global Issue cover contest for creatives under 30. After evaluating 220 entries from all over the globe — Vietnam to Romania, Canada to Colombia, Switzerland to San Francisco — the Ad Age staff picked a winner from its own backyard.

The Global CMO Interview: Keith Weed, Unilever


BATAVIA, Ohio (AdAge.com) — Simon Clift is a hard act to follow as Unilever's chief marketing officer. But Keith Weed, who set out to do that in April, is doing it with some added power.

The Global CMO Interview: Alfredo Gangotena, MasterCard


YORK, Pa. (AdAge.com) — Alfredo Gangotena has been MasterCard CMO for only two months, but don't let that novice status fool you. The quintessential global CMO — born in Germany, raised in Latin America — he has lived on four continents, speaks four languages and has marketed products globally from diapers to Disneyland France.

Despite Its Familiar Name, Bolivian Cola Is No Coke



BUENOS AIRES (AdAge.com) — Makers of a new Bolivian soft drink called Coca Colla are hoping the Bolivian government will help them find financing to expand production of the coca leaf-based soft drink and maybe hire an ad agency.

Braincast: Banner perfumado, sobreposição de lacticínios, logo da Copa

E no Braincast 16 comentamos os posts mais retweetdos do Brainstorm #9 na semana retrasada (seremos mais atuais no próximo, aguarde sem reclamar).

Tem banner perfumado da Natura, logo da Copa 2014 e o fim da indecencia geométrica dos lacticínios do Subway. Aperte o play.

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WWF: Comic Noir

Advertising Agency: Leo Burnett, Madrid, Spain
Executive Creative Director: Chacho Puebla
Creative Director: Francisco Cassis, Sergio Lobo
Copywriter: Francisco Cassis
Art director: Alejandro Hernán
Creative Advisor: Tura
Ilustrator: Deja Vu Collective
Account director: Ricardo Del Campo
Account supervisor: Carmen Corujo


“Distronic Plus” Safety innovation

Advertising Agency: Impact BBDO, Dubai
Executive Creative Director: Jennie Morris, Jeremy Southern
Art Director: Andrej Arsenijevic, Mark Held
Group Account Director: Fadi El Aswad
Account Manager: Albert Lorenzo
Copywriter: Darren Mccall, Grant Mcgrath, Jeremy Southern
Graphic Designer: Squirtel
Illustrator: Jun Capati

Top 50 Trends of the Week (Jun 13) – From Ultra Thin iPhones to Papercraft Apartments (COUNTDOWN)

(TrendHunter.com) For the week of June 13th, these are the Top 50 trends, which include Ultra Thin iPhones, Sleek Video Mobiles and Human Trafficking Fails. The rankings are based on hundreds of thousands of views and 574…