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As we all know,…
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A href=”http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/22/business/media/22carr.html”David Carr/a of The New York Times shares a quaint story about a small newspaper making its way in the world with no help whatsoever from the web.
blockquotea href=”http://trinews.com/”TriCityNews/a of Monmouth County, N.J., is prospering precisely because it aggressively ignores the Web.
“Why would I put anything on the Web?” asked Dan Jacobson, the publisher and owner of the newspaper. “I don’t understand how putting content on the Web would do anything but help destroy our paper. Why should we give our readers any incentive whatsoever to not look at our content along with our advertisements, a large number of which are beautiful and cheap full-page ads?”
Mr. Jacobson is more than happy to be known as the Fred Flintstone of the publishing world. “There may come a time when the Web is all there is, and we will try to adapt,” he said, “and if we don’t, well, hey, we had a great run. But right now, the Web makes no business sense for us.”/blockquote
To quote Bartle Bogle Hegarty, “When the world zigs, zag.”
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Rappelant la vidéo Action Figure, voici un rendu surprenant et très efficace pour cette carte de v?ux à l’occasion des fêtes de Noël. Une captation en slow-motion réalisée avec la caméra Phantom.
Dans le même esprit : Slow Motion
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LONDON – Fiat, the Italian car manufacturer, is set to realign its £150m European media business into WPP-owned agencies, a move that will see Mediaedge:cia take the £10m UK account from Publicis Groupe’s Starcom.
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The story immediately below this post talks about Cesario Migliozzi‘s plan to create an eight-way ad for the upcoming Superbowl. Yesterday, AdWeek published NBC’s statements on the issue, which noted that the deal was “dead” and “and there is no way” is was going to happen. The agency is now asking NBC (via lawyer) to retract those comments, calling them “defamatory.”
“At this time we are demanding a full retraction of these statements by NBC,” states the letter.
A source close to the matter told AgencySpy that as of Monday, all signs were go for the co-branded plan (recall, eight brands would buy-in to a $3 million spot during the SUperbowl) — and that almost overnight, arrangements that were made with NBC had completely dissolved. Leading up to yesterday’s news that NBC was not playing ball, we’re told network sales reps. were more than intrigued by the opportunity and the creative strategy CM was employing to sell their ad space.
“(The agency’s plans) were basically protecting (NBC’s) rate card,” said a source familiar with the matter, referring to the plan to charge each contributor $395,000. The spy went on to say that NBC was even offering kick-off time slots, space that’s highly sought after.
Reasons for NBC’s decision to pull out of the deal (and negate it as a possibility) are speculative at best. But if we were spending $3 million and found out we could have bought placement for um, 10 percent of that cost, we’d be pissed at NBC. Just sayin’.
The statements at issue are as follows: “Furthermore, an NBC rep said it was never in the cards,” and “‘It’s dead,’ reinforced an NBC rep, who insisted that the agency was never upfront about the exact plan until it went public yesterday.”
In a letter to NBC, CM’s lawyer writes, “These statements are untrue and desperate attempts to quell complaints from your existing advertisers to the detriment of my client. My client has been very forthcoming about its intent to co-brand the advertisements…”
According to the letter, Michael Migliozzi, who is the CM staffer that was dealing with NBC’s LA office, left a voice mail with Seth Winter at NBC, explaining his intent. That was “on or about” Dec. 15. Corbin Snelleman of NBC Sports and Olympic Sales Los Angeles returned the call, at which time he and Mr. Migliozzi apparently had “open and frank” conversations about the co-branded plan.
“For (NBC) to turn around is bullshit,” said our source.
Following the aforementioned conversations, CM issue a press release on Dec. 19th, last Friday, further detailing their plans. But by late evening the following night, the whole thing had basically disintegrated. AgencySpy is told that at least six brands were “firmly committed,” and a handful of others were being considered. Word from our source is that those negotiations have likely fallen through, meaning lost revenue for CM.
As best as anyone can tell, the groundwork was laid for this plan to succeed. But NBC’s reversal suggests greater concerns are at play — or at least that the network has taken issue with CM’s plan to dice up the ad space, so to speak. Maybe they didn’t want to start a trend, or as we mentioned earlier, fears of how clients would react may have been at play. Whatever the case, Cesario Migliozzi feels they were defamed.
Click continued to see the cease and desist we received.
We’ll have more for you on this matter as it happens.
More: “NBC Sacks 8-way Superbowl Ad“
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Here’s a personal collection of things I’ve been wanting to blog about for a while, and it seems like the right time of the year to put them all together. Enjoy!
Yulia Brodskaya Amazing paper illustrations by the Russian designer (now living in London)
Knitta Please – Urban guerrilla knitting group. Illegal? Doesn’t look that illegal when it’s so colorful and harmless, right? 
Here’s a little interview to the artist themselves:
Aspen Boutique (formerly Aspen Traders) – A long-standing tradition of mailing fanciful holiday cards to their customers, since 1987. Beautiful and creative X-mas cards designed by Gardner Design
Happy Holidays everyone!!!
Sources:
Yulia Brodskaya
Knitta Please
Aspen Boutique
Gardner Design
Graphic Exchange
Free Image Hosting
Deputy Dog
Reuben Miller Blog
Flickr
(TrendHunter.com) 42 Windspire wind turbines will silently produce power as part of a garden construction project at Quinnipiac University’s York Hill campus in Connecticut.
The sculptural towers stand about 30 feet tall…
NEW YORK (AdAge.com) — Book serialization has come into vogue again, 170 years after Charles Dickens popularized it with "The Pickwick Papers" and "Oliver Twist." Funny enough, it's the 19th-century author who is championing the form in 2008: His "A Christmas Carol" is one of more than 1,000 titles available through DailyLit, a digital serial book publisher that shares books with nearly 150,000 subscribers in short, customized installments via email and RSS feed. And now it's opening its virtual pages to advertisers.
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