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Share CCO Stephen Para picks his Desert Island Ads

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Stephen Para is the chief creative officer of Share Creative, a social advertising agency based in NYC and London. Desert Island Ads What I’m about to show you is a list of ads I love, but would NOT bring to (what I imagine is) a remote, jungle island with cocktail service and nothing else. This.

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Gods of Advertising is on hiatus so I can devote more energy to completing a book (please inquire if interested), as well as writing for my clients. Perhaps you? S ervices include copy writing, brand manifestos and creative direction. I’m passionate about helping clients develop powerful creative business ideas. This is my portfolio My portfolio.

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Event Diary: InMobi InDecode - Decoding Mobile Fraud Jakarta 2017

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InMobi regularly hosts, 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 the InMobi InDecode workshop held on “Decoding Mobile Fraud” in Jakarta, Indonesia.

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Miami Is for Dolphins and Cuban Coffee, Not Ad Agencies of Record

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What starts in Miami doesn’t necessarily stay in Miami. That’s the story out of Miami, where creative powerhouse Crispin Porter & Bogusky was born 35 years ago. According to The Drum and other media outlets, CP+B/Miami is closing its doors. The announcement affects 75 employees in total, mostly in finance and accounting. Those functions will […].

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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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Ford is the question WPP needs to answer to justify Sorrell’s ‘horizontality’ strategy

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WPP boss Sir Martin Sorrell touched on his biggest current problem – the group’s relationship with Ford – at a UBS conference in New York this week. Ford has said it’s re-evaluating its marketing model, which currently means using WPP for most activities including creative through bespoke agency GTB (‘Global Team Blue’).

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Joseph Coughlin: The Longevity Economy

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"Old age (as a concept) is made up. Most of it was invented by human beings for short-term, human purposes over the past century and a half. Today, we’re stuck with a notion of oldness that is so utterly at odds with reality that it has become dangerous. It constrains what we can do as we age, which is deeply troubling, considering that the future of our older world will naturally hinge on the actions of the older people in it." – Dr.

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BMW lines up creative stars for US ad review

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BMW has launched its long expected US agency review out of MDC’s KBS and, according to Adweek, has an interesting list of contenders: Droga5, Wieden+Kennedy, Goodby Silverstein & Partners, Anomaly and Hill Holliday. MDC is still in the frame then with Anomaly but FCB, which handles BMW in the UK and Europe to an extent.

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Budweiser celebrates Repeal Day with booze ban

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Prohibition reigned in the US from 1920 to 1933 – but what if it came back? Budweiser and David Miami suppose it has in this diverting number, showing the rather alarming reaction to such a move in this raucous American bar. To mark Repeal Day. Makes your blood run cold, even if it is Budweiser.

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YouTube reveals its UK Christmas winners

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Christmas seems to come earlier every year – some titles have announced their agency of the year already and it’s only the start of December (ours will be next week) – and YouTube has released its list of top UK Christmas ads. We’ve noted all of these before and also that the overall viewer numbers.

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Volvo plays Thor for lightning-activated poster

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Digital posters can do most things these days but here’s an interesting wheeze from Volvo; harnessing lightning Thor-style in stormy Bangkok to illuminate a poster for the new S90 plug-in (and directing the lightning harmlessly to the ground it seems). Whatever next? One that comes on in Manchester when it stops raining?

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

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Joe Alexander quits The Martin Agency

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Here’s a funny one – funny peculiar that is. The Martin Agency’s CCO Joe Alexander (below) has abruptly departed after 26 years in various roles at the agency, with only a terse announcement to mark his departure. The affable and capable Martin has made a huge contribution to the Richmond Virginia based agency over the.

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Colle McVoy Takes “Minnesota Nice” To Another Level

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When Jen Stack, Director of Communications at Colle McVoy, sends me something, I pay attention. I pay attention because Colle McVoy in Minneapolis sends the best branded merchandise, a.k.a. gifts, of anyone in the business. Whether it’s a packet of notecards, chocolates, or a new planner for 2018, it’s always well-made, thoughtful and useful.

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Alexander’s surprise departure result of staff complaint

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It appears that the surprise departure of creative boss Joe Alexander (below) from The Martin Agency was the result of a sexual harassment complaint. Martin is owned by Interpublic. Martin says: The past year has revealed some painful but important truths about workplaces all over America. It’s clear that the environment women have too often.

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Brothers and Sisters enlists “most popular” Schofield for WeBuyAnyCar debut

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WeBuyAnyCar.com has a decent proposition, so much so that it’s being copied all over the place. So it’s turned to indie London agency Brothers and Sisters for some more distinctive branding and they’ve spirited up ITV host Philip Schofield, supposedly Britain’s most popular man. We don’t actually get Schofield in the flesh, just a sort.

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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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Coca-Cola in Greenpeace sights for allegedly wasting Xmas

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Coca-Cola is getting a fair bit of stick this Christmas with UK councils and others talking of banning its humungous Christmas trucks, touring the country fully of sugary stuff and, it’s said, targeting poorer areas where kids have bad teeth already. Greenpeace is also having a go with this ad pointing out that Coke produces.

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Hornby makes triumphant reappearance at own bash

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Was stunned to see a report on the Sunday Times Business News’ Christmas party with no picture of CHI/ The&Partnership’s Johnny Hornby, traditionally captured schmoozing the great and not so good of the business world. Had something untoward occurred, we thought anxiously. Thankfully all is well and here he is with, among others, Peter (Lord).

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Wieden+Kennedy sets out to win the World Cup for England

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Advertising a football team or, indeed, any sports team, is a potential nightmare: what if they don’t do very well? Which will be on the mind of Wieden+Kennedy as the agency takes on the UK’s Football Association, specifically the England men’s team as it prepares to compete at the FIFA World Cup next year in.

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St John finds the Recipe for cardiac arrest campaign

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What do you do if someone has a cardiac arrest or heart attack? Most of us wouldn’t have a clue so St John Ambulance and agency Recipe have created four short films including one with some useful advice as to where to find a defibrillator (clue: Google Maps probably won’t help). The campaign’s called C.A.R.E.

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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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Bain Capital seals ADK victory

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Bain Capital has won its bid for Japan’s third largest agency ADK, which it was always going to do once WPP, a 25 per cent shareholder, had changed tack and decided to accept the offer. WPP originally opposed the bid. The deal values ADK at about $1.3bn. 87 per cent of shareholders accepted the bid.

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Heather Andrew of Neuro-Insight: the John Lewis effect is good for John Lewis but bad for copycats

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Where the Coca-Cola truck was once the marker of Christmas, John Lewis now seems to own the mantle as the official opener of the festive season. That isn’t new news to those in the industry, who are all too aware of John Lewis’ winning advertising formula; the retailer’s emotionally charged narratives have long been held.

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Paul Simons: has John Lewis been rumbled by other Christmas advertisers in the “Ah” war?

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The editor asked me if I could write an opinion piece on this year’s crop of Christmas advertising on TV, something I have been circumspect about for a few weeks. Not like me as I have jumped in over recent years but not this one. I think the reason why is I feel as though.

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BBC goes off-piste for Christmas film

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The BBC is getting in on the Christmas act with an in-house film directed by Elliot Dear through Blinkink. Weird and (maybe) wonderful it is too, with a swipe at a too-busy parent thinking filming their offspring at a Christmas concert is enough. The point being to show that we’re all missing the point? Quite.

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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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Staples joins to spearhead Mother’s west coast ambitions

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Long-serving Wieden+Kennedy creative Joe Staples (below), who left in March, is joining Mother’s nascent LA operation as ECD and Partner. Mother New York CCO and partner Corinna Falusi says:“We are so excited to welcome Joe to our Mother family out west. Our first year in LA has already been amazing and with Joe we believe.

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Tom Denford and David Indo from ID Comms: what will happen in 2018?

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On this #MediaSnack special Tom and David celebrate the 100th episode by by taking a look back at the highlights of the last two years before laying down three big predictions for media in 2018. It’s been a challenging time but Tom and David say the major positive has been that media has risen higher.

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“Price for Life” from Centurylink Is Real

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Facts. The American public is increasingly resistant to them. This sad state of affairs make governing impossible, and selling next to impossible. The offer: Centurylink Price for Life is real. Your internet rate won’t change as long as you keep your CenturyLink Price for Life plan. Pay the same monthly rate year after year. The […]. The post “Price for Life” from Centurylink Is Real appeared first on Adpulp.

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