Music moves people. Live music moves people deeply. The experience lingers for days, weeks, sometimes for years. Naturally, brand marketers would love to gain some of this attention for their own purposes, and increasingly they’re turning to experiential marketing to deliver. Which is why it is not surprising to learn that WPP has ponied up [...]
No One Was Hurt During The Making Of This Invasive Advertising
March 14, 2013 By Leave a Comment
Would you stand up for a friend? No, seriously, if a friend called in the middle of the night and needed you to bail them out of a poker game gone wrong, would you rush over there with the ransom money to free your homey? Carlsberg drinkers would. Will Burns, CEO of Ideasicle loves the [...]
Do You Point, Shoot And Edit On The Fly?
August 27, 2012 By Leave a Comment
Content marketing, and online video in particular, is the well we return to again and again. Because it’s an exciting new opportunity for brands, and for the storytellers they hire to weave their brand-sponsored narratives. Increasingly, brands are bypassing the agency option altogether, and going directly to production companies or media companies for content solutions. [...]
Lots of Small, But Interested Audiences. What’s A Brand To Do?
June 18, 2012 By Leave a Comment
With both YouTube and Hulu investing large sums in original serial content, there’s a sizable opportunity for brand integration, brand-sponsored content and an opportunity for content companies to be born and built. In Los Angeles today, the production community is well aware of the potential in video, but it’s not like the hits are rolling [...]
Coke Zero Pops The Lid On Open Source Advertising
June 6, 2012 By Leave a Comment
Dr. Pepper was once the soda brand orchestrating elaborate dance numbers. Today, Coke Zero that has people dancing in a campaign from Ogilvy & Mather Paris and the brand’s community of “doers and believers.” Witness “The Toe Tappy,” a new side-to-side toe-tapping dance created by American street dancer Joey “Knucklehead” Turman. With Coke Zero’s help, [...]
Not Your Father’s Dealer Advertising
March 2, 2012 By Leave a Comment
Joel Ewanick, GM vice president and Global Chief Marketing Officer, hopes you will find Chevy’s new online content offering, “Under the Blue Arch,” funny, charming and interesting. Of course, that is a lot to ask. “We want America to get to know these characters and develop a relationship with them,” Ewanick told Detroit’s CBS affiliate. [...]
UCLA Verus USC Verus Every Other Elite University in The World
February 17, 2012 By Leave a Comment
Colleges and universities really ought to have incredible advertising to support their brands. UCLA isn’t quite to incredible with this new work from Philadelphia-based 160 Over 90, but they’re pretty far ahead of the pack, regardless. According to Stuart Elliott of The New York Times, the work underscores the growing presence of universities and colleges [...]
Scion Invests In Lifestyle Content, And Lets Zeus Do His Thing
September 29, 2011 By 1 Comment
Every company is a media company. According to The New York Times, Toyota’s Scion brand is taking the EC=MC equation seriously. Scion is acting very much like a record label, sponsoring a full campaign of record releases, videos and tour support for about 20 acts. Incidentally, it’s the exact thing I asked RJR’s Camel brand [...]
Brandvertainment On The Rise
August 15, 2011 By 2 Comments
A new survey from the Association of National Advertisers, finds that nearly two-thirds of client-side marketers—63 percent—plan to participate in branded entertainment projects in 2012. The top three reasons why client-side marketers are finding branded entertainment, a.k.a. “brandvertainment” beneficial: The ability to make a stronger emotional connection with the consumer (78 percent) The ability to [...]
Advertainment Has To Sell, Or Brands Won’t Continue To Fund It
July 28, 2011 By Leave a Comment
Jonathan Salem Baskin stirred the Ad Age pot by questioning the value of W+K’s Old Spice “Man on a Horse” and “Mano a Mano in El Bano” campaigns in sales terms. “Every CMO needs to see this exercise for the time-waster it is,” Baskin argues. “Cart without horse. Medium without message. Marketing without purpose. Is [...]
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