Sat.Apr 30, 2016 - Fri.May 06, 2016

article thumbnail

Links for 2016-04-29 [del.icio.us]

Fuel Lines

Sponsored: 64% off Code Black Drone with HD Camera. Our #1 Best-Selling Drone--Meet the Dark Night of the Sky!

100
100
article thumbnail

BMB hires Engine’s Chalkley as new CCO

More About Advertising

Jules Chalkley, creative director at Engine, is joining BMB (formerly Beattie McGuinness Bungay) as CCO. At Engine Chalkley headed its government business, working closely with agency WCRS on accounts including the Royal Navy. Before Engine he worked at RKCR/Y&R. Chalkley says: “Engine has been a brilliant time in my life. I’ve been very lucky to.

Agency 75
Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

Trending Sources

article thumbnail

A true story and a parable for the malcontents in Adland.

Gods of Advertising

Looking for my next gig, I have visited a fair number of agencies. Typically, I meet with people representing the management team. It’s a bit of a gauntlet. In that context, one expects a positive attitude throughout, from both the interviewee and the interviewer(s). However, that is not always the case. At one agency, a number of the folks I’d met were pretty down on their company and told me so.

article thumbnail

Developer Economics Survey 2016

InMobi

We’re proud to be supporting the new developer survey run by our friends at VisionMobile. This is the 11th developer survey and it’s entitled Developer Tools Benchmarking - as you can understand, the focus is on developer tools. The survey features questions on topics like programming languages, platforms, app categories, tool categories, revenue models, IoT verticals - and, of course - tools!

article thumbnail

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

article thumbnail

How to Avoid #Translation Fails in Your Next Marketing Campaign

All About Advertising Law

It is no surprise that each year more advertisers are turning to bilingual and foreign language advertising to market their products. According to U.S. census data, over 55 million Americans speak a language other than English in the home. Spanish language advertising, in particular, has increased over the years, in response to the growth of the Spanish-speaking audience: Hispanics constituted 17 percent of the nation’s total population and had a current spending power of about $1.4 trillion as

article thumbnail

Michael Lee of Madam: are these the ten greatest creative directors ever?

More About Advertising

Firstly, let’s start with a question; what’s the criteria for being a member of this rarified club? Here’s my stab at it: The Creative Director was the very heart and soul of the agency. They were the one that every prospective client wanted to meet and every departing client tried to avoid. The one who.

Agency 74

More Trending

article thumbnail

Sunsilk Pop Up Salon : An Award-Winning Ad Campaign

InMobi

Watch the Mob-Ex 2016 Award-winning Campaign

Pop-Up 52
article thumbnail

Coffee Talk with Elaine Kolish: CFBAI Director Looks Back and Forward

All About Advertising Law

Our friend Elaine Kolish, Director of the Children’s Food and Beverage Advertising Initiative is stepping down shortly after a remarkable ten year run. So we thought this was a great opportunity to sit down with Elaine and look back over her accomplishments, what might be coming next for the organization, and lessons that companies in other industries might draw from the CFBAI.

Food 40
article thumbnail

Oliver Group’s Brian Cooper picks his Desert Island Ads

More About Advertising

Brian Coopper is chief creative officer of Oliver Group UK. He has held executive creative director posts at Dare, Ogilvy and Wieden+Kennedy, working on Nokia. He led Apple’s iAd business in Europe and is one of the few creatives to take charge in both traditional and digital agencies. He began his career as a copywriter.

Agency 64
article thumbnail

Best ads of 2016: Coke and adam&eve’s Top Cat for Halifax lead the way in April

More About Advertising

April was far from the cruellest month for ads, particularly from UK agencies. After a slow start to the year there was a rush of good to great ads in April: JWT’s Rembrandt recreation by its Amsterdam office, Martini from AMV BBDO, Maynards from Wieden+Kennedy London, iD from CHI and Fosters from adam&eveDDB to mention.

Agency 56
article thumbnail

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

what retail media advertising is what a retail media network is how the changes in the privacy landscape benefit retail media networks how retail media network functions market overview of retail media networks

article thumbnail

Ogilvy produces a doggy triumph for Kronenbourg

More About Advertising

Someone at Ogilvy has remembered that what we now call German shepherd dogs were once known as Alsatians (because they came from Alsace, maybe) and the supercharged mutts are the heroes of the latest instalment of Kronenbourg’s Eric Cantona campaign. Cantona and Kronenbourg are a marriage made in heaven: seeing the famously irascible footballer send.

Agency 53
article thumbnail

Samsung opens a virtual reality world of storytelling in new global campaign by BBH

More About Advertising

Samsung is launching a new global campaign ‘Launching People’ – through BBH, trying to put on a human face on virtual reality. It’s ‘discovered’ that a third of parents aren’t there to read their children bedtime stories – but now you can, with a couple of rather daunting Samsung VR headsets. Which are doubtless OK.

Agency 53
article thumbnail

Harvey Nichols gives ‘great men’ a style makeover in new adam&eveDDB campaign

More About Advertising

Adam&eveDDB, fresh from its triumph with 100 year-old model Bo Gilbert for Harvey Nichols/Vogue, is launching Harvey’s new Menswear Destination with an integrated campaign ‘Great Men.’ The late Peter Marsh would have had one thing in common with A&E: half the job is to get your ads talked about and the new campaign, featuring various.

Agency 49
article thumbnail

New R3 report shows global impact of new business

More About Advertising

Global marketing consultancy R3 Worldwide has produced its review of the first three months of 2016 and, among the goodies therein, is an interesting tally of new business wins – for creative agencies, media agencies and holding companies. Most interesting, perhaps, is the holding company table (we’re having a bit of a holding company week).

Agency 49
article thumbnail

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.

article thumbnail

Who are the runners and riders in the race to replace WPP’s Sir Martin Sorrell?

More About Advertising

One of the biggest dogs that didn’t bark in adland was the succession to founder Sir Martin Sorrell (below) at WPP. Once a year WPP told its shareholders that, of course, a succession plan was in place but never said what it was. Probably because there wasn’t one. Now new chairman Roberto Quarta has caused.

Finance 45
article thumbnail

RKCR/Y&R hymns summer for M&S but a turnaround there needs more than ads

More About Advertising

The internet has already laid waste to swathes of the UK print industry and, finally, it’s wreaking havoc on the high street. The BHS debacle is partly due to business moving online – but only partly – while even Next, the best multichannel retailer, is struggling this year. In a way this helps the new.

Retail 40
article thumbnail

WPP doesn’t want McDonald’s – could this be an opportunity for FCB?

More About Advertising

Ad Age reckons that WPP has pulled out of the holding company review for the $1.4bn McDonald’s creative account, cutting the field down to Omnicom and Publicis Groupe, owners of the two McDonald’s incumbents DDB and Leo Burnett (both in Chicago) respectively. On the face of it this looks like a most un-WPP thing to.

Agency 40
article thumbnail

Tom Denford and David Indo of ID Comms: the big concerns for US media – live from the ANA in Florida

More About Advertising

On this week’s #MediaSnack Tom and David discuss the ANA’s Advertising Financial Management conference in Florida, the financial struggles of MDC and the first-ever ID Comms Media Transparency Webinar. Tom opens the show reporting from the Florida event while David asks the questions from the comfort of the ID Comms London office. Tom highlights the.

Media 40
article thumbnail

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.

article thumbnail

Ciesco: IPG sets the pace in the first quarter of 2016 with impressive organic growth

More About Advertising

By Ciesco. IPG set the pace in Q1 but it was Publicis who surprised the market with above expected growth. Interpublic Group’s reported revenue increased 3.9% to $1.7bn. As with full year 2015 results, IPG enjoyed the highest organic growth of the four largest holding companies in Q1 2016, with 6.7%. Net acquisitions accounted for.

article thumbnail

New newspaper New Day finds a new way to fail

More About Advertising

Trinity Mirror’s new newspaper New Day has closed after two months. Well there’s a turn up. The cheaply produced paper saw its circulation plummet from two million free copies on the launch day to 40,000 when its price rose to the planned 50p. Trinity was aiming for 200,000. The only surprise about this is that.

Finance 40
article thumbnail

W+K Amsterdam plucks a new Milka cookie from its jar

More About Advertising

Wieden+Kennedy Amsterdam is certainly pulling out all the stops for big new client Milka. Last month it launched a new global platform ‘Tenderness Is Inside’ and now it’s produced ‘Take Them Home,’ a Europe-wide cookie jar competition in which Facebook fans go into a draw to win a not very European sounding cookie jar. So.

Cookies 40
article thumbnail

Havas Media Group boosts North America management

More About Advertising

Hyper-energetic Havas has been ringing more changes, this time in Havas Media Group. North America CEO Lori Hiltz is moving up to be CEO global brands, handling a number of the agency’s biggest accounts, to be replaced by Colin Kinsella (left), former CEO of WPP media agency Mindshare in North America and, before that, Publicis.

Media 40
article thumbnail

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.

article thumbnail

BETC Paris produces another winner for Air France

More About Advertising

Air France is launching Cinema to Go, celebrating its 36-year partnership with the Cannes Film Festival, by offering some its customers the opportunity to watch or finish watching their film from its Cannes Film Festival selection after their flight on tablet, smartphone or PC with a gift code. The service is available on-board all longhaul.

Agency 40