MySpace is collaborating with best-selling Brazilian author Paulo Coelho to make a user-generated movie of his book The Witch of Portobello. Users can submit videos focusing on one of the book's characters to MySpaceTV or Coelho's MySpace page, and up to 15 winning submissions will be molded into a video "mash-up" called "The Experimental Witch." Users can also submit songs for a soundtrack to the film, with up to …
Striving For Perfection
Peter Seligmann, CEO-chairman of Conservation International, delivered a keynote address at Advertising Age's Green Conference in New York yesterday, telling brand managers it's okay to be not perfect. In the current environment, accusations of "greenwashing" have become the norm, but that's no excuse to sit on the sidelines. None of us are pure. None of your brands are pure," he said. "We need an aspiration to be …
Anchors Away
According to The Wall Street Journal, square pegs don't fit into round holes. Walt Disney Co.'s ABC News is close to scrapping the current format of its daily "World News" Webcast, an online version of the evening news anchored by Charles Gibson, which the network trumpeted as a major step into its digital future when it launched two years ago. Network executives and media buyers say that broadcast news suffers …
Social Media Is Counter-Intuitive And Other Neat Slides
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Minus 2.0
Hugh MacLeod can be counted on to deliver humorous material. He tends to drop it in a cartoon, but today we look at his latest list—"10 THINGS I HATE ABOUT WEB 2.0." I'll cherry pick a few for our purposes here: 1. Reconciling the huge gap between how interesting and important you tell your clients it all is, versus how interesting and important you actually find it all yourself. 5. The well-intentioned but misguided …
Blogs and Candy
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From DaVinci To Synarchy To Enfatico
WPP has yet another new name for its new agency created to handle Dell. Here's the official press release. WPP, one of the world's leading communications services groups, today announced that Project Da Vinci, the global marketing services firm being built with Dell Inc. as its first client, has a new permanent name and identity: Enfatico. In musical notation, Enfatico (pronounced en-FAH-ti-co) means play each note …
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Lace Up Your Cons And Dance
According to Ad Age, Converse commissioned reclusive Strokes' frontman, Julian Casablancas, to help celebrate the brand's 100th birthday. The home of Chuck Taylor is hoping a new song, "My Drive Thru," featuring Mr. Casablancas, Pharrell Williams and white-hot indie songstress Santogold, can renew the century-old shoe brand's status as the indie music scene's footwear of choice. Geoff Cottrill, chief marketing …