Indie rock and the Super Bowl? Thanks to Chevy and Goodby Silverstein & Partners, they do indeed mix. OK Go set up over 1000 instruments spread out over two miles of desert near Los Angeles. A Chevy Sonic was outfitted with retractable pneumatic arms designed to play the instruments, and the band recorded this version of "Needing/Getting," singing as they played the instrument array with the car. "Car …
Super Bowl Ad Rewind: Seven That Stick
I didn't see any great ads during the Super Bowl tonight. But there were a handful of good ads. Given the big stage, and the exorbitant cost to make and run these spots, there really should be a number of great ads every year. But no. Regardless, let's have another look at some of the best of this year's sub-premium lot. Volkswagen: The Dog Strikes Back (my favorite ad of the bunch) Budweiser: Return …
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Gary Vaynerchuk, Agency Head, Previews the Super Bowl and Puts Gas In the Entrepreneurial Engine
Gary Vaynerchuk of Vayner Media has some thoughts on this year's Super Bowl. As a Jets fan, he's unhappy to see the other New York team make it to the big game, which he will not be watching. However, he expects big things from the commercials, and better bridges to online where the story can continue. I'm not ready to say that "content" is what commercials are made of, but I do see Vaynerchuk's point, and for …
College Student Uses Physical Comedy To Win Super Bowl Ad Competition And Get His Idea On Air
Making Super Bowl commercials is an annual activity at Weiden + Kennedy, but there's another Portlander with a Super Bowl commercial this year, and he's not even out of school yet. According to The Oregonian, Lewis & Clark College student Remy Neymarc, 21, won a competition to make the Super Bowl spot via Poptent, a social network for videographers, directors and filmmakers that connects companies with creative …
Go Mobile Makes Sense Of The Medium We’re All Scrambling To Understand
If you read a lot of marketing advice these days, then you’ve seen the word “mobile” used as the key to the future – much the way “plastics” was in The Graduate. But for those businesses and brands that can’t quite grasp the mobile world, Jeanne Hopkins and Jamie Turner offer a good overview in Go Mobile: Location-Based Marketing, Apps, Mobile Optimized Ad Campaigns, 2D Codes and Other Mobile Strategies to Grow Your …
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Bacon Lovers Rejoice, Jack’ll Marry You Up
Regional media buys are often overlooked during Super Bowl advertising coverage. But not here. We leave few Super Bowl advertising stones unturned. Portland's office of StruckAxiom, combined forces with Secret Weapon Marketing, creative agency of record for Jack in the Box, to create a “Marry Bacon” campaign promoting their new BLT Cheeseburger Combo. The TV spot breaks on Super Bowl Sunday in …
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Oh Canada
Susan Krashinsky, Marketing Reporter for The Globe and Mail in Toronto, reports that this Sunday's menu of adverts won't be on air north of the U.S. border. The prevailing notion is that the game just does not have the cultural resonance here that it does in the United States. And yet, the Super Bowl was the third most-watched television program in Canada in all of 2011 – only the Stanley Cup Finals were bigger – …
Conceived, Incubated and Delivered in L.A.
David&Goliath and Siltanen & Partners in El Segundo; Saatchi & Saatchi in Torrance; Team One in El Segundo; RPA in Santa Monica; and Innocean in Huntington Beach. All have been toiling away on Super Bowl commercials for their clients. Meg James of Los Angeles Times notes that 20 of this Sunday's Super Bowl commercials, including those for Hollywood films, were made in Los Angeles. "We look at this as the …
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