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Out of home giant Kinetic sets up sustainability division

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WPP’s out of home giant Kinetic is launching Kinetic Future, a new division aimed at sustainability-focused clients. The division has grown from Kinetic’s worldwide corporate social responsibility initiative, dedicated to advancing sustainability in four key areas: social responsibility; the environment; professional development and company culture.

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Minor King

AdPulp

Advertising, and especially copywriting, has been the entry point of quite a few authors in the past. Clive Cussler, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Salman Rushdie, et. al. Since we like to highlight the modern day people who come from the industry, let me direct your attention to Jim Mitchem. Jim Mitchem is the author of the […]. The post Minor King appeared first on AdPulp.

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We Bet You Thought That AI Stood For “Artificial Intelligence”

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So you may be aware by now that the FTC does not like trade or professional associations setting rules limiting the way that association members compete, particularly when those rules limit the ability of the members to provide useful and non-deceptive information to consumers. They really do not like it. Since last Spring alone, there have been nearly a half dozen different complaints by the FTC where the FTC describes the allegedly anticompetitive rules (often termed “ethics rules”) in associa

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In honor of my father’s birthday (October 5th), a plug for his memoir in Adland…

Gods of Advertising

My 50 years in Advertising, Larry Postaer. I first wrote this post when dad’s book came out a few years ago. Happy to publish it again – the least I can do for a man who’s inspired me so much… In my father’s memoir on his career in advertising, Pickett, Plunkett & Puckett he mentions a test he had to take in order to qualify for a job as copywriter on the Sears’s catalog.

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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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Insurance giant Allianz tries to ‘restart’ young footballers in new Ogilvy Paris campaign

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A while ago a senior creative honcho at Ogilvy Germany suggested that ads should sell products rather than try to save the world. The French and Germans don’t always agree about everything and Ogilvy Paris is still intent on the latter, or making people’s lives better anyway. It’s produced a new campaign, ‘Restart,’ for German.

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Can Cadbury’s search for a new Milk Tray Man recapture past ad glories?

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Well, well.another blast from Cadbury’s advertising past. How serendipitous is that? ‘All because the lady loves Milk Tray’ was a famous long-running campaign and the last actor to play the mysterious hero, James Coombes in 1987, steps up to begin the search for a new ‘Milk Tray Man’ in a campaign from Fallon. Here’s one.

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UK broadband is a complete disaster under BT’s Patterson and Virgin’s Malone – should they be trusted with a ‘digital economy?’

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It’s been interesting listening to chancellor George Osborne at the Tory party conference outlining his plans for a wonderful new age of state-of-the-art British infrastructure. He’s wheeled in Labour peer Andrew Adonis to head a commission into same. Hmm. Having spent yet another day grappling with Virgin Media – and its forever collapsing broadband network.

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England’s Rugby World Cup woes show why sport isn’t just a matter of good business

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Ian Ritchie is CEO of the Rugby Football Union (RFU); not the governing body of world rugby (that’s the International Rugby Board – IRB) but the body that runs English rugby, the biggest and richest union in world rugby. Ritchie, whose previous job was head of the All England Club, which runs Wimbledon, has by.

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Carat wins lion’s share of Mondelez global media

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Dentsu Aegis-owned Carat has made its first big stride forward in the current round of global media reviews, essentially swapping roles with Publicis’ Starcom on the Mondelez business worth about $2bn a year. Carat will now handle Mondelez in North America, Europe and Asia Pacific while SMG gets Eastern Europe, Africa, Middle East and Latin.

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Aniston stars for Emirates as RKCR/Y&R flies again

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It’s your worst nightmare of course, getting on a plane and discovering there’s no bar and no shower. Can’t say I really expect it on most of the heaps I fly on but Jennifer Aniston, newly signed up for Emirates by RKCR/Y&R (part of WPP’s new ‘Team Air’) clearly does. Nice global work for and.

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

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Leo Burnett turns on the style for Freeview Play launch

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Overlooked this one, for some reason, the Freeview Play launch from Leo Burnett. Freeview Play offers things like on-demand and catch-up TV, usually associated with pay-TV services like Sky and Virgin (Grrr.). The point being that those of us who pay for these things are muppet-like lemmimgs, so free yourself from this nonsense with Freeview.

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Tesco sets bar high for BBH as it revives Dotty

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We’ve been waiting all year for a proper campaign from Tesco and new agency BBH and now, according to a report in Marketing, there is one: or, rather, a new version of an old one.

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Mastercard places a (possibly) winning RWC bet on Dan Carter and the All Blacks

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Now that England are out of the Rugby World Cup some of us will have to find someone else to support – New Zealand? Hmm. They’re absolutely brilliant at the game of course but there’s a kind of monastic intent about them that’s hard to warm to. So credit to McCann London for making one.

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McCain pioneers ‘shoot it, show it’ same day ads in new adam&eve/PHD campaign

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McCain, now styling itself the “nation’s favourite teatime brand,” is launching two new linked autumn campaigns. First off is a renewal of its sponsorship of ITV soap Emmerdale to 2018 and also this campaign from adam&eveDDB and media agency PHD showing real life Emmerdale fans (well there must be some) eating their high teas while.

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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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Tony the Tiger is back – and Kellogg’s knew nothing.

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Dunno how long this will be up for so grab it while you can. Courtesy of a Wieden+Kennedy tweet via Adweek here’s a new site, tonyisback.com, showing Kellogg’s Tony the Tiger helping out Frosted Flakes child fans who’ve fallen on hard times later in life. This one’s a hooker. A most professional effort. Who are.

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What’s going on at Wieden+Kennedy New York?

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On the face of it the Wieden+Kennedy mini-empire is enjoying a rich vein of form; winning Bud Light, Verizon and KFC in the States, the London office recovering from the loss of Tesco with lively campaigns for Arla, Honda and Three and new Nurofen business from RB. But the Portland-based creativos seem to have a.

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Arena wins Virgin Atlantic media business

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Havas-owned Arena Media has won the Virgin Atlantic media account. The creative business moved to adam&eveDDB from RKCR/Y&R last year. Arena won the business in a seven-way competitive pitch. Arena will handle planning and buying across online and offline channels for the UK and pay-per-click campaigns in the airline’s destination cities.

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George Parker: any more clients like Kraft Heinz and it’s time to return to playing the piano in a brothel!

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I shall return to playing the piano in a brothel! Yeah, so the headline is a “homage” to Jacques Seguela’s 1979 book… “Please don’t tell my mother I work in advertising, tell her I play the piano in a brothel.” Amongst his other notable quotes are “Everyone has a Rolex. If you don’t have a.

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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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Droga5 hires David Kolbusz for revamped London team

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Ahah, so we now know why David Kolbusz has quit Wieden & Kennedy New York, the former deputy ECD of BBH (a Canadian, left) is coming back to London as CCO of Droga5. Kolbusz replaces London office founder Nik Studzinski, who left to join Karmarama as CCO in May. The other founder, Kevin Dundas, left.

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Giles Keeble: let’s find out if creative teams can be conceptual artists too

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I went recently to the Ai Weiwei exhibition at the Royal Academy, well worth seeing with some wonderful things. It was hard not to compare it to Damien Hirst’s show a few years ago at the Tate. Both Weiwei and Hirst are conceptual artists and use a variety of materials. I believe the idea that.

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Peston for ITV – a coup or an own goal?

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ITV has secured a coup – or has it? – by poaching the BBC’s high profile economics editor Robert Peston (left) as its new political editor. Apparently Pesto is to present an ITV Sunday morning show, up against the Beeb’s Andrew Marr. Pesto has secured his share of scoops in his time, most notably breaking.

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Mother reprises Scott’s ‘boy on bike’ for Hovis debut

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Mother is making its debut for Hovis (won from JWT last year) with an ad that bravely references Ridley Scott’s epic for CDP 40 or so years ago. It’s for Hovis ‘Good Inside’ which has Omega 3 and stuff (doesn’t everything these days) and features three kids getting outside as their house expands alarmingly. Bit.

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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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Apple’s in-app Been Choice fuels ad blocker farrago

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The ad blocking fire has been stoked a few degrees higher with Apple’s decision to approve a new app, the oddly-named Been Choice, which blocks in-app ads, as opposed to conventional mobile ads. So with Been Choice (and all your other heavy artillery) you can get rid of mobile ads for ever. Been Choice makes.

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72andSunny finds Trumpish topical twist for old Carl’s Jr

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Oral gratification of one sort or another plays a part in many food ads – fair enough – although there’s sometimes more of the other. Cadbury’s Flake (below) being a celebrated example from the mists of UK ad history. Carl’s Jr. burgers in the US have been rattling cages for years now and with 72andSunny.

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Wim Wenders reprises ‘La Dolce Vita’ for Persol

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Italy in the 1960s is irresistible for film makers and Italian sunglasses giant Persol has signed celebrated German director Wim Wenders (who makes an appearance) to enjoy himself in this new Fellini homage from Paris agency Publicis 133, ‘Vai paparazzo.’ Which translates, more or less, as ‘clear off paparazzo.’ I suspect Italian life in the.

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Bob Dylan makes lyrical debut in big new IBM campaign

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Sir Martin Sorrell, big data’s biggest fan, will love this one. Don’t know if he’s a Bob Dylan fan but the great troubadour makes his biggest ad appearance so far, debating his song lyrics with IBM’s Watson in a new global campaign from WPP’s Ogilvy & Mather. (Watson is a ‘cognitive thinking’ thingy, a bit.

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Solving the Biggest Tech Challenges in RevOps

In this eBook, we’ll run through real-world examples that show how RevOps teams can benefit from modern solutions for the access, management, and activation of their GTM data. Whether you need to improve lead response times, boost adoption of core tools, improve lead qualification, or target and automate your GTM motions, you’ll find examples of how revenue teams are solving some of the toughest problems in modern business.

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Wieden+Kennedy conjures up spirit of Pheidippides for Nike’s marathon runners

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Running a marathon is, indeed, a painful business: as Wieden+Kennedy HQ points out in this campaign for Nike+Run, the first marathon runner died (one Pheidippides bringing the good news about victory over the Persians at the battle of Marathon back to Athens, a distance of 26 miles and 385 yards – 42km in modern Greece).

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WPP ups the stakes in contest for Australia’s STW group

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Sir Martin Sorrell’s WPP may be an eyeing a full bid for Australia’s STW Communications. STW Communications is Australia’s biggest agency group. STW stands for Singleton Thompson (after J. Walter Thompson) WPP, reflecting the co-ownership of WPP companies Ogilvy, JWT and media agency Mindshare in Oz. WPP has just increased its stake in quoted STW.

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Court Finds FTC’s Effort to Hold Bayer in Contempt to Be Gaseous

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By Mike Mozart [ CC BY 2.0 ] via flickr The FTC suffered a resounding defeat late last month in the U.S. District Court in New Jersey in its effort to hold Bayer Corporation in contempt of a 2007 court order. The 2007 order resulted from allegations that Bayer made unsubstantiated representations for its One-A-Day WeightSmart product in violation of a 1991 order.

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FTC Considers Advertising of Homeopathic Drugs

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On Monday, September 21 st the Federal Trade Commission (“FTC”) held a workshop entitled Homeopathic Medicine & Advertising (“workshop”). The workshop consisted of three panels: one discussing the homeopathic industry parameters generally, one discussing the science of homeopathic medicine, and the last discussing the legal and regulatory issues surrounding the marketing of homeopathic medicines. .

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Drive GTM Efficiency with Tech Stack Consolidation

Consolidating your tech stack is an effective cost-saving measure that drives GTM efficiency and adds value to your enterprise. With a cohesive, integrated tech stack, your revenue teams can deliver an excellent customer experience that sets you up to win faster than your competitors.