Heineken Man Really Only Feels Comfortable Stealing American Girls

You're just the average Heineken drinker. A 35-year-old hedge-fund manager who hit it big betting against the market in 2007. You're doing your jet-setting around the world thing, party hopping the most exclusive clubs in Vietnam and Nigeria. Because Thursday night is the new Friday night, and you work hard but you play hard, too. Anyways, of course the hottest ladies in the room are always gonna beeline it for you. Because come on, look at you, and because those private dance lessons you've been taking are really paying off. But see, it's just your luck that your would-be local flings always have jealous local boyfriends, who are also wealthy and thuggishly possessive. They don't take kindly to your grinding all up on their dates. It's cool, though, man, because, whatever, you're not looking for any trouble, everybody's just here to have a good time. You'll go sit at the bar and cool off with a Heineken, which by the way comes in this sexy new bottle, with a longer neck, instead of that old, stubby, chubby design you'd have never been seen holding in public.

When your global party circuit takes you back to New York—that is to say, to civilized society—where you're confident that stealing some mustachioed doofus's woman won't result in parts of your body turning up in seven different roadside ditches outside Ho Chi Minh City or Lagos, you're totally fearless, because what would 007 do? A little bad luck—or is it something more nefarious?—impedes and humiliates your rival. You meet your new dance partner at the bar. There, you'll each have a Heineken, bartender, because a $2 bottle of beer is definitely what the bombshell in the $10,000 dress at the cocktail party always finds most charming, cause she's just really cool and down to earth like that.

The spot is Heineken's latest from Wieden + Kennedy—and the first in its dazzling "Open Your World" campaign to come out of the agency's New York office (prior installments were created by W+K Amsterdam and by TBWA\Neboko). The ad was directed by Rupert Sanders, also director of Snow White and the Huntsman and, to the dismay of Twilight zealots everywhere, snogger of Kristen Stewart. The new bottle is already available in 170 markets, and is now coming to shelves across the U.S.

Yacht and pheromones not included.

HERB the Robot Separates Oreo Cookie Before Turning on His Creators

For the fourth and final Oreo Separators video, Wieden + Kennedy got a nonhuman to separate the Oreo cookie from its creme. Say hello to HERB (short for "home exploring robotic butler"), a robot built by scientists at Carnegie Mellon. After some trial and error, HERB is given an algorithm that allows him to perform the task fairly well—impressive, given that he can't even pronounce "Oreo" properly. (And what's with the British accent? You're from Pittsburgh.) More ominously, HERB displays some anti-social tendencies here, including being quite argumentative when it comes to his "precious creme." He's not quite HAL-like yet, but I wouldn't let him hold that giant knife in the future.

Conceptual Artists Get Their Chance to (Poorly) Separate Oreo Cookies

"Maybe you should just use? a knife." That's one of the less charitable reactions to this latest Oreo Separators video from Wieden + Kennedy—part of a series in which inventors and technologists develop machines and tools that are much more complicated than a mere knife to separate Oreo cookies from their creme. (Yes, I know, what's even the point of doing that at all?) In this third video, a couple of guys from the London conceptual-art collective Dentaku do their best with a Ferris-wheel-style contraption that—well, to be honest, it's a disaster at first, though the guys do redeem themselves somewhat at the end. Our favorite is probably still the video with the toy scientists.

Toy Scientists Are Much Better at Separating an Oreo Than Ad Guys

Oreo just released the second video in its Oreo Separators series from Wieden + Kennedy, dedicated to finding absurdly mechanical ways of separating the cookie part from the creme part. The first video featured "physicist" (also, W+K creative) David Neevel, who came up with a seriously involved contraption in his Portland, Ore., workspace. This time, the intrepid experimenters are Barry Kudrowitz and Bill Fienup, described as "toy scientists" from the Midwest. And you have to hand it to them—their machine is a lot slicker, and simpler, than Neevel's. Their solution involves popping off the top cookie with a swift jab of plastic, then melting and spraying off the creme part. Fienup, the creme lover, gets a little messy in the process, but it's worth it. It turns out these guys were perfect for the job. As students at MIT in the mid-2000s, they helped create the MIT Toy Lab, funded by Hasbro, which developed new concepts for Nerf and Supersoaker products. (The idea for the Nerf Atom Blaster came from the lab.) As he mentions, Kudrowitz is a product-design professor at the University of Minnesota now, though his areas of research are decidedly offbeat, including "play and humor in design." Kudrowitz and Fienup's previous collaborations include a remote-controlled ketchup-squirting car.

Southern Comfort Ad Is a Little Different When Re-enacted on a Freezing Irish Beach

It's relatively easy to feel comfortable walking mostly naked on a beach if you're in the tropics. It's less easy when you're in Ireland. Huby Harton, an Irish singer who's probably been told a thousand times that he looks like the guy from the Southern Comfort ad, decided to embrace the resemblance—and re-enacted the classic Wieden + Kennedy spot one winter's day on Dollymount Strand in Dublin to promote his latest album. Hey, whatever's comfortable. The video made it to Southern Comfort's Facebook page today.

Nike – My Time is Now

Voici la nouvelle campagne publicitaire de Nike Football a l’occasion de l’Euro 2012. Intitulée « My Time is Now », elle s’articule autour des nouveaux talents et de nombreux joueurs Nike comme Cristiano Ronaldo ou Franck Ribéry. Produit et réalisé par Wieden Kennedy et The Mill. A découvrir dans la suite de l’article.



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Nike : Write The Future

Voici la nouvelle campagne mondiale de Nike, avec leur nouvelle signature “Write The Future”. Un excellent travail de l’agence Wieden & Kennedy dans ce spot de 3 minutes, produit par Independent Films London et Anonymous Content. Une réalisation d’Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu.



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Ils participent à cette nouvelle campagne Nike : Cristiano Ronaldo, Didier Drogba, Wayne Rooney, Fabio Cannavaro, Franck Ribéry, Andres Iniesta, Cesc Fabregas, Theo Walcott, Patrice Evra, Ronaldinho, Roger Federer, Kobe Bryant et même Homer Simpson.

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Nike Human Chain

Une belle publicité pour la marque Nike réalisée par le studio Mass Market dans le cadre de la campagne “Human Chain” axée sur les talents et la synergie des différents sportifs. Produit par l’agence Wieden + Kennedy, sur une bande son du groupe The Hours – Ali In The Jungle.



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Honda Civic Campaign

Voici le nouveau spot TV de la marque Honda, par l’agence Wieden + Kennedy London. Une série de visuels et un montage efficace afin de souligner l’ampleur de l’innovation entre les véhicules, les motos et les robots. Dirigé par Scott Lyon, sur une post-production de The Mill.



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Careerbuilder Surprises “AdLand”

First, Current TV put it’s RFP out to everyone on Twitter. Now, CareerBuilder (CB), a company with no less than five Super Bowl ad appearances, has dumped its agency and gone “public.”

Wieden-Kennedy, CB’s most recent agency, did not lose the account to another agency, but to the general public. CB is asking for the creative 25-second spots via a promotional drive that will be on their website. The winning spot will air in the upcoming Super Bowl (February of 2010). cb-promo-ad

“For a brand like CareerBuilder, which is about helping people get to their next great position, this made sense for us, and with the situation [the country is] in economically,” says Richard Castellini, the company’s chief marketing officer.

CareerBuilder, like any company that chargers employers to advertise job postings, has lost money during the tough economic climate, reporting a 27% revenue loss during Q1 2009. By removing their agency, CB will save about 20% in annual marketing costs.

However, the gambit comes with risks. Although Frito Lay’s recent Super Bowl spot contest was won by two brothers over several highly creative shops, one spot certainly does not an advertising strategy make. In the short-term, though, CareerBuilder is most likely looking for a few good advertisers…

Jeff Louis: Strategic Media Planner, Project Manager, and New Business Coordinator. His passion is writing, contributing to BMA as well as freelancing. He’d love to hear from you: linkedin.com or twitter.com.


W+K Gets A Radio Station

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W+K’s Portland shop has launched their very own radio station today. Dan Wieden once hosted his own radio talk show in Portland before he became an advertising god, so really, this is a return to their roots. The station’s mission is to:

“The radio extension exists to inspire creativity through provocative conversations, interviews and artistic expressions relating to arts, culture, media, and music. We’re starting small with minimal programming hours, with a goal to eventually share an equal amount of programming between our seven different offices and their communities worldwide.”

I’ve been listening for about 20 minutes and the music selection is pretty rad. Just as one would expect, those smarty-farty kids have excellent taste in music. Take a listen here.

More: BBDO’s Starbucks Spot Reflects W+K’s “The Girl Effect”

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