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MARCH 24, 2017
Dentsu Media employee Jiro Inao has committed suicide in Indonesia, through the pressure of overwork according to police. Inao, 48, was a senior manager. His family have refused an autopsy. Dentsu’s CEO in Japan resigned last year over a similar scandal. Dentsu has expressed its regret. Inao’s tragic end is another PR and reputational disaster.
Gods of Advertising
MARCH 20, 2017
The best thing about this mildly amusing parody of those “Real People/Chevy” commercials, which have been running endlessly on TV, is that it proves I’m not the only one who loathes the source material. And I do. Unreservedly. I’m not sure why I (and others) dislike these advertisements so much. On the surface they are but showroom testimonials. Hardly creative but hardly nefarious either.
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AdPulp
MARCH 20, 2017
Agencies are notorious for being the pauper’s child when it comes to promoting their own brand. But The PIA Agency, a woman-owned agency in San Diego, isn’t playing the avoidance game. “Our great country was built from brilliant minds and resilient souls from all over the world,” says David Clark, PIA’s executive creative director.
InMobi
MARCH 23, 2017
InMobi regularly participates in and contributes to a series of events, meetups, webinars, sharing best practices with partners and thought leaders, across the globe. In this edition of the InMobi Event Diary, we are looking at the highlights and developments from “Winning the Mobile Moments,” an event organized by TUNE on the eve of ad:tech in New Delhi, India.
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AI adoption is reshaping sales and marketing. But is it delivering real results? We surveyed 1,000+ GTM professionals to find out. The data is clear: AI users report 47% higher productivity and an average of 12 hours saved per week. But leaders say mainstream AI tools still fall short on accuracy and business impact. Download the full report today to see how AI is being used — and where go-to-market professionals think there are gaps and opportunities.
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MARCH 21, 2017
I know we’re all supposed to haggle these days but if you go into a decent restaurant and say you’re only prepared to pay a tenner for the turbot then you won’t get any – and likely be shown the door. But clients have been doing this to agencies for years and most agencies deliver.
MediaFuse
MARCH 21, 2017
In the early 2000’s, Supply Side Platforms (SSPs) came to the foreground. These SSPs helped publishers aggregate their ad network demand into one platform. In 2017, the rise of header bidding has left publishers with a highly advanced, yet familiar problem: how to efficiently manage multiple demand sources. If the concept of header bidding is unfamiliar to you, we suggest you view this article to learn more.
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InMobi
MARCH 21, 2017
During the summer of 2016, consumers in India were gearing up for the upcoming holiday travel season. To encourage affluent Indian travelers to visit Singapore, Mastercard, collaborated with the Singapore Tourism Board to offer exclusive “Mastercard offers” on a range of experiences, including shopping, hotel bookings and restaurants, that could be redeemed upon arriving in Singapore.
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MARCH 21, 2017
By Michael Lee I recently posted who I thought were the best ever creative directors in advertising. One of those creative directors was Remi Babinet (below), the Chief Creative Officer of BETC in Paris. I have known Remi since the early ’90s when we were both part of EURO/RSCG’s (now HAVAS) Worldwide Creative Board. I.
All About Advertising Law
MARCH 22, 2017
Criminal charges against six individuals allegedly involved in a telemarketing scheme targeting elderly people were brought today by the US Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York. According to the Complaint, the defendants contacted elderly consumers with business opportunities requiring nothing more than a simple cash investment.
AdPulp
MARCH 19, 2017
Butler, Shine, Stern & Partners is one of the few ad agenices in America worthy of admiration. The reasons are many, and now we have a new one. Forced to defend the account once again, BSSP is walking away from BMW Mini after 11 years. According to Campaign, agency CEO , Gret Stern said: There […]. The post Used Mini Blowout In Sausalito: Act Now While Supplies Last appeared first on AdPulp.
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MARCH 23, 2017
March 26 marks Nike Air Max “Day” it seems (we thought it was Mother’s Day – how last year), marking the 30th birthday of the famous brand. So Benjamin Potter (left), co-founder and creative director of sports content specialist Clickon has kindly sent us what he deems to be seven of Nike’s most influential commercials.
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MARCH 22, 2017
In-house agency specialist Oliver has teamed with ISBA and research consultancy Future Thinking in a new piece of research – to be announced at Advertising Week Europe today – that purports to show that 62 per cent of advertisers are shifting towards stronger relationships with fewer suppliers and about 40 per cent have or are.
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MARCH 22, 2017
US agricultural giant Dole is launching its first UK ad campaign – through independent agency 101 – to support the launch of its new frozen fruit range, aimed at, among others, the burgeoning ranks of home smoothie makers. We might have expected some wholesome rural types traversing sunny fields in search of raspberries. Instead we.
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MARCH 20, 2017
Burger king has been chosen as the Cannes International Festival of Creativity as its Creative Marketer of the Year ( lots of “creative” here, if you haven’t got the message). No surprise there in the sense that there’s an element of Buggins’ Turn about these choices but Burger King is interesting all the same. One.
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AdPulp
MARCH 23, 2017
As a signature event celebrating Canada’s 150th anniversary, this year’s National Canadian Film Day 150 will see more than 1,500 screenings in schools, theatres and public squares across the country and in consulates and embassies around the world. To help promote and drive participation in the festival on April 19, Reel Canada, the nonprofit that […].
AdPulp
MARCH 18, 2017
Wexley School for Girls won Best Of Show at the 2017 American Advertising Awards Seattle (still known as the ADDYs) for the following War Dragons spot. Ads for adventure-focused video games tend to stay pretty straightforward, which is partially why the dark humor and unexpected twists of this spot work so well. It’s also a […]. The post War Dragons And Wexley Emerge Victorious At The Seattle ADDYs appeared first on AdPulp.
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MARCH 24, 2017
On this week’s #MediaSnack (not that anyone in adland will see it, having decided to boycott of YouTube), Tom and David sink their teeth into the juicy story that won’t go away, the ‘scandal’ of Google allowing advertisers to be placed against extremist and unsavoury content. So, who is actually to blame? Well, it’s marketers.
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MARCH 24, 2017
It’s already a busy year for media agencies with clients on the warpath and the media agencies themselves in hot pursuit of Google and Facebook (we all love an enemy just when we need one) and it’s going to get busier with more big media reviews. They don’t come much bigger than AB InBev, the.
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Incorporating generative AI (gen AI) into your sales process can speed up your wins through improved efficiency, personalized customer interactions, and better informed decision- making. Gen AI is a game changer for busy salespeople and can reduce time-consuming tasks, such as customer research, note-taking, and writing emails, and provide insightful data analysis and recommendations.
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MARCH 24, 2017
Virgin Media is taking the bull by the horns in its new campaign from BBH, claiming its fibre network is the fastest way to all the goodies on the internet and elsewhere, especially entertainment. So it has bunch of B-team “entertainers” (there are a lot of these around, maybe Super Heroes and the like are.
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MARCH 23, 2017
Do you ever remember any of those ads – and there seem to be more of them than ever – featuring bright young things jigging about in the cause of fashion or, more recently, the wonders of their latest mobile? Not very often we’d surmise (although we’re hardly in the target market), especially in the.
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MARCH 23, 2017
There’s no doubt which campaign would win the Extra Cheese award of the past decade – Mother’s for MoneySuperMarket (although Gio Compario for rival Comparethemarket might run it close). Mother’s last iteration had chaps in hot pants – which led to a touch of controversy so that had maybe run its course. This time it’s.
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MARCH 23, 2017
The 2016 UK Top 100 agencies league table was published recently and it reveals some of the changing landscape of the industry if you dig a bit deeper into the information. One overarching caveat prior to commenting, I fully recognise the league table is based on Nielsen’s analysis of media spend by client, and not.
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In today’s ultra-competitive markets, it’s no longer enough to wait for buyers to show obvious signs of interest. Instead, sales teams must be proactive, identifying and acting on nuanced buyer behaviors — often before prospects are fully ready to make a purchase. In this eBook from ZoomInfo & Sell Better, learn 10 actionable ways to use these buyer signals to transform your sales strategy and close deals faster.
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MARCH 23, 2017
Green Flag, the breakdown recovery brand of Direct Line Group, has appointed WCRS to its £12m advertising business following a competitive pitch. WCRS has worked worked with DLG on the Churchill business for eleven years. Saatchi & Saatchi handles Direct Line. Green Flag moves from CHI which won it in 2010. Direct Line Group head.
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MARCH 23, 2017
We all thought the Sainsbury’s consolidated media account worth £115m – it now owns Argus too – had gone to The&Partnership’s m/SIX media agency with Sainsbury’s moving from Omnicom’s PHD and Argos from WPP’s Mindshare. T&P is 49 per cent owned by WPP and m/SIX (below) uses WPP’s GroupM for some of the media heavy.
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MARCH 22, 2017
Media agencies have taken a fair old pummelling recently – although currently they’re on the front foot hammering Google/YouTube and Facebook – but a new threat is emerging from a NASDAQ offshoot, the New York Interactive Ad Exchange (NYIAX). In essence this buys and sells ad space through a combination of NASDAQ trading architecture and.
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MARCH 21, 2017
The ASA received 23 complaints from individuals believing that the game content for No Man’s Sky (“NMS”) was not the same as was advertised on Steam (Steam is an entertainment platform where, among other things, video games are advertised to Steam’s gaming community). The Complainants challenged a number of advertised NMS features including that: (1) the gameplay footage on Steam misrepresented the game; and (2) the in-game graphics did not match the advertisement.
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As prospects define their problem, search for solutions, and even change jobs, they are generating high-value signals that the best go-to-market teams can leverage to close more deals. This is where signal-based selling comes into play. ZoomInfo CEO Henry Schuck recently broke down specific ways to put four key buying signals into action with the experts from 30 Minutes to President’s Club.
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MARCH 21, 2017
Here’s The&Partnership’s Johnny Hornby on the trail of Google and Facebook again, in one of his regular appearances on Sky News. He wants Google and Facebook to decide whether they’re “platforms” or “publishers” (publishers are legally responsible for their content of course) and to allow all their content, especially their inappropriate stuff, to be verified.
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MARCH 21, 2017
We’ve had one helping of BETC Paris already today with my friend Michael Lee’s interview with founder and CCO Remi Babinet (below). But that’s no cause for discrimination when it’s just produced what might be the most original DIY ad in years, for France’s Leroy Merlin. It’s school of IKEA (which I wouldn’t call a.
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MARCH 21, 2017
Was trying to find an ad with the late great Chuck Berry (one of the inventors of rock’n roll) in it. This is all I could come up with – for Diet Coke. ‘Strewth, what a waste. The agency should have been shot. Chuck could probably have handled that too, for the right money.
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MARCH 20, 2017
Will this be the year that the adam&eveDDB takes over the world as, to an extent, it has the UK? The agency, which has just opened in New York, has bagged Coty’s global Max Factor account against competition from incumbent Leo Burnett, Anomaly and CHI. Procter & Gamble sold Max Factor along with a gaggle.
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Sales and marketing leaders have reached a tipping point when it comes to using intent data — and they’re not looking back. More than half of all B2B marketers are already using intent data to increase sales, and Gartner predicts this figure will grow to 70 percent. The reason is clear: intent can provide you with massive amounts of data that reveal sales opportunities earlier than ever before.
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