Sat.Jan 09, 2016 - Fri.Jan 15, 2016

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Was Axe right to drop BBH’s ‘angels’ for 72andSunny’s ‘Find Your Magic’?

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Unilever’s Axe quit BBH for 72andSunny Amsterdam last year and here’s the debut global campaign from the new agency ‘Find your Magic.’ Apparently agency and client have been examining young men, to discover that “men still feel overwhelming pressure to conform to masculine ideals — and that male confidence is shockingly low.” Well, let’s face.

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Mobile India in 2015 : A Year in Review

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Currently the third largest smartphone market in the world, 2015 proved to be a significant year of growth for India's mobile economy. InMobi and TUNE teamed up to help you make sense of what India's mobile consumers did in the past year.

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How to Shoot and Upload Videos for PowerPoint Presentations

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If you’re looking for a way to improve stale PowerPoint presentations and make a memorable impression, using video in your slides is a great solution. But the technicalities of shooting a video and transferring it into PowerPoint put many people off, and the cost of hiring a film crew, actors, and a post-production studio to […]. The post How to Shoot and Upload Videos for PowerPoint Presentations appeared first on AdPulp.

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Lessons from the Lottery: The “root of all evil” runs pretty freaking deep.

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At least he was honest… The lottery has been trending, hasn’t it? No not the famous short story by Shirley Jackson. (If you haven’t read it you should.) Something about 1.5 billion dollars caught everyone’s attention. Biggest jackpot ever. A “call to action” if I ever saw one. Any direct marketer would salivate if he could generate the response that Powerball did.

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How to Stay Competitive in the Evolving State of Martech

Marketing technology is essential for B2B marketers to stay competitive in a rapidly changing digital landscape — and with 53% of marketers experiencing legacy technology issues and limitations, they’re researching innovations to expand and refine their technology stacks. To help practitioners keep up with the rapidly evolving martech landscape, this special report will discuss: How practitioners are integrating technologies and systems to encourage information-sharing between departments and pr

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Aussie lamb’s Operation Boomerang boomerangs

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Apparently it’s traditional in Australia to celebrate Australia Day by eating barbied lamb on the beach. That’s if you can evade the forest fires and sharks. So farming outfit Meat and Livestock Australia and Sydney agency The Monkeys devised ‘Operation Boomerang,’ a fantasy wheeze to round up Aussies abroad and whisk them back to the.

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WPP’s Sorrell on why we’re wrong to think creativity is just about so-called creatives

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Are wrong to assume that creatives are the people who produce 60-second TV commercials? Is that a relic of Mad Men days? One person who thinks so, you won’t be surprised to hear, is WPP’s Sir Martin Sorrell. In this NABS Tuesday Club interview with Alastair Stewart he enlarges on the point at about 50.

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Publicis weighs bid for Samsung agency Cheil

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Publicis Groupe wants to buy 30 per cent of Cheil Worldwide, the once in-house Samsung agency that still handles the bulk of the Korean electronics giant’s $5bn worldwide ad and communications business, according to reports. Samsung currently owns about 25 per cent. Cheil has a current market value of $1.9bn so Publicis would, presumably, have.

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Hornby calls for concerted industry action on ad fraud

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Johnny Hornby (below), boss of CHI&Partners and The&Partnership, is making another attempt to spur some action on ad fraud. Hornby interviewed a number of adland luminaries at Cannes last year on the topic and is now calling on the Advertising Association and others to actually do something, starting at the AA’s LEAD summit later this.

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Greenlight’s Andreas Pouros: are these new tech wonders from CES built to last?

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Greenlight COO and co-founder Andreas Pouros (below) picks the new technologies showcased at CES that will impact marketing investment now and in the future. CES, held last week in Las Vegas, is the annual global consumer tradeshow for techmarketers and gadget-obsessed technophiles. The show provides a snapshot into the new world of innovations and how.

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Is Typhoo’s Nigella the real thing or a waxwork?

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A new agency in Liverpool, SBAS, has announced itself with its first big piece of business, ‘Typhoo Moments’ starring Nigella Lawson. Quite a coup, has Nigella appeared in other ads? SBAS beat TBWA and Saatchi to the Moments brief, another coup. This follows hard on the heels of another new northern agency, Skinny, winning the.

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Retail media advertising: How e-commerce is becoming AdTech’s next frontier

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IPA’s Knox sets out his ‘here for good’ diversity targets

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That bold and parfit knight Tom Knox, the IPA’s new president, has enlarged on his ‘here for good’ agenda, saying that the IPA (the UK ad agency trade body) is setting a target of 40per cent of senior roles to be held by women with 15 per cent from BAME backgrounds (black, asian and minority.

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New IPA figures show sharp slowdown in ad growth

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Growth in UK ad budgets ground to a halt in the fourth quarter of 2015 according to the latest IPA Bellwether Report, produced by Markit. If we’re going to split hairs it shows that the number of companies planning to increase their ad budgets in Q4 rose by 0.5 per cent, showing that ad budgets.

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M&C restructures with sale of London agency shares

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Four top managers at M&C Saatchi have bought a 30 per cent stake in the quoted group’s London agency in a deal which values London at an estimated £25m. The deal has been effected by a company loan to CEO Tom Bazeley (left), chairman Tim Duffy, incoming CCO Justin Tindall, CSO Gabrielle Bell and managing.

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BBH wins Prostate Cancer UK, signs up Fernandez and Nicholls for sports marketing arm

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UK charities with an eye for an opportunity should have listened up when BBH resigned the Barnardo’s children’s charity last year after 16 years of mostly outstanding advertising. Prostate Cancer UK was clearly paying attention and it’s handed its account to BBH. Prostate Cancer UK director of communications Alison Day says: “A man dies of.

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ABM Evolution: How Top Marketers Are Using Account-Based Strategies

In times of economic uncertainty, account-based strategies are essential. According to several business analysts and practitioners, ABM is a necessity for creating more predictable revenue. Research shows that nearly three-quarters of marketers (74%) already have the resources needed to build successful ABM programs.

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Alarms ring at Volkswagen agency DDB Germany as top duo defect to Havas

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Havas is showing decided signs of ambition under Bollore family rule and the French-based network has just raided DDB Germany for two heavyweight hires: Thomas Funk, formerly CEO of DDB Group Germany, to be its new managing director Europe and DDB Germany’s CCO Eric Schoeffler as its new European ECD. Chris Hirst, who joined recently.

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Use SEM to Put Your Marketing Efforts Under the Microscope

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Marketing for SMBs used to be a simpler game. There were very few avenues where marketing efforts could be easily applied, and they were more simply understood than the marketing avenues of today. Let’s say you were a used car business in 1970. Available to you, you’d have local radio, simple publications like newspapers, […]. The post Use SEM to Put Your Marketing Efforts Under the Microscope appeared first on AdPulp.

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Venables Bell sets sail for Celebrity Cruise Lines

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Cruising (as in going on a cruise ship as opposed to any other form) is a huge and growing market, one aiming to spread its wings from oldies to younger versions. We weren’t terribly impressed by Rob Brydon’s recent outing for P&O, now it’s the turn of San Francisco independent Venables Bell to enter the.

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Tom Denford and David Indo of ID Comms: these will be the big media issues of 2016

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In the first of a series of weekly broadcasts Tom Denford and David Indo of media consultancy ID Comms review some of the big media issues of 2016: *The winners and losers in the Great Round of Media Reviews. *The frightening consequences of ad fraud in the era of programmatic media buying. *The acknowledgement by.

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ABM Success Recipe: Mastering the Crawl, Walk, Run Approach

Shifting to an account-based marketing (ABM) strategy can be both exciting and challenging. Well-implemented ABM motions build engagement with high-value accounts and drive impactful campaigns that resonate with your audience. But where do you begin, and how do you progress from crawling to running? Watch now as Demand Gen experts delve into the essentials of each stage of the ABM process.

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blowUP media gets bigger with MaxiPoster ad towers

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2016 is sure to see more consolidation in the media sector and German-owned European giant poster market leader blowUP media is kicking things off by buying B.A.B. MaxiPoster Werbetürme which has 12 high-visibility towers near Germany’s most frequented autobahns, with another under construction. MaxiPoster company generates more than 70 million contact opportunities per month in.

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VCCP sends up advertising for First Utility

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First Utility is a wannabe UK electricity provider, claiming to undercut the ‘big six’ energy producers by buying cheaper on wholesale markets. It has a deal with Shell, among others. So agency VCCP has taken the brave step of producing a campaign that starts off like the usual, and all too common, corporate guff (featuring.

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Memories of David Bowie

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David Bowie, whose death from cancer at 69 was announced today, made surprisingly little impact on advertising as a performer although his music appears in countless ads. But, as a genuine musical great, maybe he didn’t need to. If he’d been born later he’d have been producing ‘content’ left, right and centre. Characteristic of him.

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New Manchester agency Skinny wins Your Move

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New Manchester agency Skinny has announced itself by winning Your Move, claimed to be the UK’s biggest estate agency network. Skinny, co-founded by former CHI and Leo Burnett creative director Tony Durston beat TBWA Manchester and Leeds agency Home to the business. Skinny offers both creative and production under one roof, rather like Paul Weiland’s.

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How Intent Data Helps Marketers Convert A-List Accounts

One of the biggest challenges for any B2B marketer is understanding your prospects’ next move — who is most likely to buy and when. Without these insights, marketing campaigns can feel more like guesswork, with high investment and little return. We’re here to tell you there’s a better way. By tracking buyers’ digital footprints and online activity, such as website visits, product reviews, and spikes in content consumption, you can engage prospects with a message that really resonates.

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Wunderman UK boss Perry leaves in a hurry

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It’s been all change at Wunderman, which describes itself as a date-driven creative agency’ (it used to be a direct marketer) since former WPP digital boss Mark Read took over as global CEO a couple of years ago. But now it’s one of the new brooms who’s leaving – UK CEO Chris Perry (left), formerly.

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Is production agency Prodigious the key to Sadoun’s revolution at Publicis Communications?

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What’s the new improved Publicis Groupe going to look like? Much like the old one, with a dash of WPP, according to a report in Ad Age.

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BETC Paris does justice to Reporters Sans Frontières

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It’s easy to get depressed about the state of the world: cruel, controlling and anti-democratic regimes – and that’s just in good old Europe. We won’t go into jihadis and mad North Korean dictators or we’d give up on the notion of civilised progress entirely. One group of people we do depend on to bring.

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