How Did a Meerkat Bowl Over Brits? It’s Simples


LONDON (AdAge.com) — Car insurance aggregator sites are not usually the kind of marketers to inspire a nation's affection, but with the help of an aristocratic meerkat named Alexandr Orlov, Comparethemarket.com has become part of British pop culture while turning around its own fortunes.

Selling Ciao Bella’s Premium Gelato on a Plain-Vanilla Budget


NEW YORK (AdAge.com) — Ciao Bella's Deborah Holt sat down for a gelato and an interview with Ad Age recently at the Ciao Bella counter in New York's Grand Central Terminal, where she talked about expansion, competition and wooing consumers to a premium brand in a recession.

The Creativity Awards Report


NEW YORK (AdAge.com) — Every year, once the gold dust has settled, Ad Age's Creativity combs through the results of the leading global ad awards to determine which people, companies and campaigns claimed the most hardware.

Mother Births New Model for ‘Mass Roots’ Marketing

NEW YORK (AdAge.com) — Mother, New York, the creative shop that has added fast-food entrepreneur, music-festival organizer and product designer/consultant to the job description of ad agency, is spinning off a new unit that aims to reshape the local-media space.

Mullen Was a Shoo-in: Grasping Zappos’ Culture Key to Shop’s Win

NEW YORK (AdAge.com) — Zappos' recent agency search, and Mullen's win, was interesting mainly because this was possibly the first time that a company with social marketing baked into its DNA had set out to vet and choose the best of a bunch of ad agencies.

Perhaps Pop Culture Could Help the Ad Industry’s Diversity Issue


You know what might help the diversity effort in the ad industry? A TV show or online video series. OK, stop laughing. And put away your angry e-mails until I explain.

Advice to B-to-B Publishers: Don’t Lose Personal Sales Touch


Instead of providing access to their responsive and involved audiences, B-to-B publishers now find themselves being paid on a per-lead basis.

Do We Still Buy the Myth of the Can-Do Celebrity CEO?


Last week, former eBay CEO Meg Whitman officially launched her campaign for governor of California, hoping to clinch the Republican nomination. And a rash of bad news about her former company followed.

Desperate Spokeswives: A New Marriage With Ads


NEW YORK (AdAge.com) — As the TV networks launch shows for the 2009-2010 season, they are working feverishly to make the ads look just like the shows upon which they intrude.

Media Brands Bringing Licensing Dollars Home

NEW YORK (AdAge.com) — The beleaguered media business is still marching aggressively on at least one front: store shelves at a big retailer near you. More and more media-branded consumer goods are squaring off against similar products from rival media brands.

New Fall TV Crop Reaps Solid Ratings


NEW YORK (AdAge.com) — Early ratings for a larger-than-average new slate of fall TV shows show signs of life for what is arguably a crucial season for broadcast TV, now in a post-DVR, Hulu and cable environment.

Red Robin Calls in a Facebook Favor From 1,500 Fans


CHICAGO (AdAge.com) — Casual-dining chain Red Robin has begun using GoRecommend, an application that asks consumers if they'd like to post a recommendation on their Facebook page when they seem to have had a particularly pleasant experience. The chain is addressing a challenge many brands are trying to tackle in social media: how to turn passive fans into real brand ambassadors.

Can Vevo Monetize Music Videos and Help Save the Major Labels?

NEW YORK (AdAge.com) — The plot to save digital music — or one of them anyway — is being hatched in midtown Manhattan, where Vevo, a digital joint venture between two labels representing nearly 60% of the U.S. recorded music market — Universal Music Group and Sony Music Entertainment — is gearing up for a planned December launch.

Cruel Weather. Arab Middle East Film Festival

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Cruel Weather explores artistic responses to crisis and the role of the moving image in today’s Middle East. The festival showcases a series of award-winning documentaries, experimental and mixed genre work continue

Reebok libera download grátis de game

Parece que a Reebok ouviu os últimos mandamentos do editor da Wired, Chris Anderson.
A marca está oferecendo gratuitamente o DLC (downloadable content) “AFL Legacy Pack” de Madden NFL 10.
O jogo é um dos mais novos lançamentos da Eletronic Arts, que comemora os 50 anos da liga profissional de futebol americano dos EUA, a NFL, e atualiza o núcleo do game com uma série de uniformes antigos e uma filmagem mais “retrô”.
Para baixá-lo, a Reebok disponibilizou um site onde o usuário se cadastra para conseguir um código de acesso ao download gratuito.
O DLC custa originalmente 6,99 dólares em lojas virtuais do Xbox Live e PlayStation Network.

:: Via Joystiq

Glamorous Seaside Apparel – Emilio Pucci Spring 2010 Ready-to-Wear Brings on the Glam (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) It’s clear that the inspiration behind the Emilio Pucci Spring 2010 ready-to-wear collection shown at Milan Fashion Week is the sun-drenched shores of retro Capri, with a number of fashions that are inspired…

Cigarette Collages – Sharad Haksar Intricately Shows the Dangers of Smoking (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) Sharad Haksar has meticulously arranged numerous used cigarettes in a way that illustrates the overwhelming dangers of smoking. Sharad Haksar’s photos point out that cigarettes account for 20 times more…

Guinness | Passport To Greatness

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A última edição da revista HSM Management traz uma ótima matéria de capa: um dossiê da chamada “era mobile“. Dentre vários artigos, alguns cases de sucesso aparecem como referência desta disciplina ainda incipiente aqui no Brasil. O case que mais me chamou atenção foi o da marca de cerveja Guinness.

Enquanto rolava a edição 2008 de um importante campeonato internacional de rúgbi, em Hong Kong, os torcedores ficaram atentos não só ao jogo, mas também em avisos de letreiros luminosos dos estádios: “Envie rúgbi para 508507“, patrocinados pela Guinness

Após enviar a mensagem de texto, o usuário recebia instruções para baixar em seu celular o Guinness Passport to Greatness, um guia com informações sobre o campeonato (programação diária das partidas, tabelas, estádios e horários de transportes coletivos, dados turísticos da cidade, e um aplicativo que fornecia a descrição de bares, endereço, telefone, mapa e a opção de ouvir pelo celular, o nome do estabelecimento em cantonês (língua oficial de Hong Kong), para que seja comunicado ao motorista de taxi.

Criado pela agência OgilvyOne, o Guinness Passport to Greatness conseguiu obter uma boa taxa de retorno. Cerca de 30% de resposta – em sua maioria jovens fanáticos por rúgbi – que logo se empolgaram para participar da ação interativa. Para saber mais detalhes da campanha, assistam o vídeo case acima.

Diggly tone from Wataniya Telecom

Advertising Agency: Impact BBDO, Kuwait
Via [Ads2Blog]

Tylenol cria iPhone app para medir o sono

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Uma tendência evolutiva e que transforma radicalmente o nosso mercado, são as app stores, ou lojas de aplicativos. Movimentando bilhões de downloads, as principais delas como a Apple App Store, o BlackBerry App World e a OVI Store, da Nokia, criaram um novo ecossistema que facilitou o processo de desenvolvimento, publicação e consumo de aplicativos.

Vimos aqui vários exemplos e cases criativos de marcas que se apropriaram desse ecossistema, e vamos continuar trazendo boas referências, até porque a premissa do blog não é só inspirar os leitores, mas principalmente alertar para as “novidades” que surgem no mundo da comunicação e das marcas.

Na onda dos brand apps, a Tylenol, da farmacêutica americana Johnson & Johnson, criou um aplicativo gratuito, para iPhone, bastante inteligente.
O “Tylenol PM Sleep Tracker” convida o usuário a criar um diário do seu tempo de sono e perceber o reflexo que isto gera em seu humor. Informando quantas horas de sono e o humor que teve a cada dia, o aplicativo desenha um gráfico resumo customizável com um panorama das noites de sono dos usuários, e dicas de como melhorar as noites de insônia.

Poucas semanas após o lançamento, foram mais de 3.000 downloads do aplicativo.

:: Via Mobilepedia