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Who Wot Why unveils one of the ads of the year for GiffGaff

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When did you last see a good mobile network ad? We asked the same of car ads recently in noting Droga5’s splendid debut effort for Seat. Well another newish London agency has fronted up in mobile, Who Wot Why for Telefonica’s GiffGaff, hymning its no-contract offer. Held together by the brilliant choice of an epic.

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Case Study: OLX India Leverages InMobi To Acquire High-Quality Users At 50% Lower Costs

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As one of the largest online classifieds marketplace in India, OLX provides local communities in high-growth markets with vibrant online marketplaces: OLX connects local people to buy, sell or exchange used goods and services by making it fast and easy for anyone to post a listing through their mobile phone or on the web. Deciding to aggressively double down on acquiring quality users and to grow its engaged user base in India, here is how OLX leveraged InMobi to acquire and activate high-qualit

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Copyright Considerations for using Emoji in Commercial Ads

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Given the ubiquity of emoji, businesses have used them in commercial ad campaigns. Honda has used emoji in creative advertisements, releasing Aprils Fools’ ads in 2016 and again in 2017. Twentieth Century Fox created some buzz last year when it placed a billboard in Los Angeles advertising a movie release (guess which one) with the following message: Translation: “Deadpool.” Adweek wrote an article entitled: “Deadpool’s Emoji Billboard Is So Stupid, It’s Geniu

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Everyone (And Their Money) Is Welcome In Los Angeles

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Los Angeles is a welcoming city to people of every color, age, nationality and background. This is such an obvious asset for this great American city. Why bother to make it the center of an ad campaign? L.A. County could lose over 800,000 international visitors in the next three years, courtesy of the nation’s toxic […]. The post Everyone (And Their Money) Is Welcome In Los Angeles appeared first on AdPulp.

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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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Herezie brings noise of war to everyday life for David Lynch

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The David Lynch Foundation tries to help people cope with stress disorders and other problems through transcendental meditation. Thankfully there isn’t any meditating in this new film highlighting war veterans’ traumatic stress disorder from lively French agency Herezie. Everyday sounds recapture the horrors of the battlefield. Lynch is a great film director of course, so.

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The hustle and flow of freelance. Ready to rumble.

Gods of Advertising

Hit me up: [link]. Gods of Advertising. In absence of full time employment, I’ve been working my tail off. If this sounds contradictory it is not. As any freelance writer will tell you, the hustle is as crucial as the creation. Unlike fat and maybe-happy FTE’s the freelancer must work to get work before he can work. Ah, the hustle. It’s like the fisherman who has to both catch fish and sell them.

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This Week on The BeanCast: How To Improve Digital Customer Experience

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One of the reasons I enjoy being a guest on The BeanCast is Bob Knorpp’s expert presentation and handling of important marketing topics. This week’s show is a classic. We begin the hour with a robust exchange about the disconnect between what marketers think customers want from digital experiences and what customers actually want. From […].

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Mike Everett: why CDP’s John Salmon was much more than a man in the right place at the right time

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An appreciation of John Salmon by Mike Everett (left) Back in the seventies, Paul Smith and I asked John Salmon (below) how he got the job of creative director at Collett, Dickenson and Pearce. “I was in the right place, at the right time, with the right expression on my face” was his answer.

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Carlsberg goes global with Mads and Fold7

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Fosters is doing retro Australian cricket courtesy of adam&eveDDB and the not so famous Fold7 is doing eccentric Danish for Carlsberg with Mads Mikkelsen in a new global campaign. As with Fosters sometimes doing the obvious is the best thing to do. This is done rather well. MAA creative scale: 8.

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Sorrell gets the grumps as UK gears for another Brexit bout

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WPP boss Sir Martin Sorrell (below) struck a rather grumpy note on the BBC’s Today programme this morning, describing MP Theresa May’s decision to call a snap General Election in June “another excuse to do nothing” although he admitted that a win for May might lead to more sensible Brexit negotiations. He also pooh-poohed supposed.

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

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Tom Denford and David Indo from ID Comms: how to write the perfect media brief

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In this week’s #mediasnack Tom and David have been inspired to look at the art of media briefing. The trigger for this is recent research issued by the World Federation of Advertisers (WFA). The research asked leading marketing and agency professionals to rate the quality of briefing. It was a revisit from the same study.

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MediaCom strikes lucky in Boots exodus to WPP

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What does it feel like when a big account drops into your lap after a holding company deal? Better than one falling out of course but WPP’s MediaCom must have slightly mixed feelings about landing the Boots media business nine years after it departed for Omnicom’s OMD. Walgreens Boots Alliance has shifted all its work.

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Adam&eve sends Fosters to rescue the roasting Poms

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One of the strengths of adam&eveDDB is that it’s not afraid to do the obvious, when that’s the obvious thing to do. So Fosters came from Australia – originally – and the Aussies like nothing better than roasting the Poms at cricket. As here, only William and Ralph Foster rise to the rescue of the.

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FTC Formally Announces Influencer Sweep on “Word to the Wise Wednesday”

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We previously blogged a few weeks ago about the FTC’s sweep of influencers and warning letters being sent regarding whether material connections are disclosed, and if so, if they are done clearly and conspicuously. The FTC has issued a press release with more detail. We now know there were over 9‎0 such letters sent. For those who received a letter, the tendency might be to file it and move on, as the letters do not request follow up or require any action.

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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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Omnicom cuts back as it unloads under-performers in Q1

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We’ve noted before that the big marcoms companies, unlike their peers in other industries, just seem to get bigger, greedily snapping up any more-or-less related business assiduously. The pattern still holds, with both WPP and Dentsu acquiring half a dozen or so companies in the first quarter of 2017, but Omnicom may be reversing the.

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Levy strikes a brave valedictory note as Publicis struggles to make reorganisation pay

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Publicis Groupe chairman and CEO Maurice Levy made his last earnings call Today (he’s stepping down to be replaced by Arthur Sadoun, both below) and, as ever, produced a bravura performance despite some verging-on-grim numbers. Q1 revenue was €2.33bn with reported growth of 1.6 per cent but -0.6 per cent in constant currencies and organic.

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Brave and Framestore take Panasonic TVs back to cinema

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UK independent agency Brave has teamed with Framestore Pictures for a new campaign for Panasonic televisions promoting their cinematic quality. So we get a cinema-style commercial for “the greatest film you’ll never see.” The international campaign, ‘Hollywood to your home,’ with run in the UK, Europe (two separate places – nearly) and New Zealand. .

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BETC Paris produces kids’ version of raunchy Versailles

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Versailles is the rollicking/semi-pornographic (take your choice, it might be both) Louis XIV saga from Canal+, now back on BBC2. So if you’re worried about the kids being corrupted (children don’t seem to go to bed these days because then they’d just watch it on their iPads) Canal+ agency BETC Paris has helpfully produced this.

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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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Sapient’s Fernandez moves to M&C’s Lida

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M&C Saatchi CRM agency Lida has hired SapientNitro’s Pavel Fernandez as creative director. Fernandez (left) will work across all accounts including Royal Mail, IKEA and O2 and report to Trefor Thomas, Lida’s chief creative officer. He will oversee LIDA’s craft disciplines including visual and experience design as well as content origination. Thomas says: “He’s a.

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WFA says client/agency briefing is getting (a bit) better

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The World Federation of Advertisers (WFA), which struggles manfully to bridge the gap between advertisers and agencies (unlike some of its national peer groups) has been researching the vexed matter of agency briefing, in particular for “integrated accounts.” It concludes that global brands are improving their ability to brief for integrated communications but some familiar.

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“It’s Over, Stop Texting Me”: Class Action Suit Against Kohl’s Alleges TCPA Violations

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Breaking up can be messy, whether you are the one doing the breaking up or the one being broken up with. And, we all know about the different ways to break up with someone. “It’s not you, it’s me.”, “I need space.”, “I’m washing my hair that year.” However, when it comes to the proper way of breaking up with a telemarketer over text message, a New Jersey federal court is primed to shed some light on the issue.

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Tom Denford and David Indo from ID Comms: where does programmatic go now?

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Despite all the noise and negativity around programmatic, the narrative is slowly changing. Advertisers are starting to understand that programmatic is a marketing technique not a technology. In this week’s #MediaSnack Tom and David discuss three thoughts on the next steps for programmatic: 1. It is not going away. Marketers need to start getting excited.

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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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Why Kelvin MacKenzie blunder may derail Murdoch’s Sky bid

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Will the farrago over former Sun editor Kelvin MacKenzie’s bizarre (and highly offensive) column about Everton’s Ross Barkley – Mckenzie compared him to an ape on the anniversary of the Hillsborough disaster (below) – affect Rupert Murdoch’s bid for the 61 per cent of Sky he doesn’t currently own? Montage: Daily Record The Sun is.

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Bazeley bounces back at content outfit Hoot Comedy

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Former M&C Saatchi UK CEO and Lean Mean Fighting Machine founder Tom Bazeley is returning to Hoot Comedy, a company he helped to found in 2012, as CEO. Bazeley sold his interest in Hoot when digital agency Lean Mean was sold to M&C in 2014.

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