Cadbury sells a chocolate bar in Australia called Boost. Droga 5 in collaboration with BE VIACOM, Ignite Media Brands and Carat sold Cadbury a cat video. Sadly, it's a mocumentary that's been done before. According to Campaign Brief, the three-part series, cleverly titled "Meme Myself and I," is running on MTV Australia. The video also has nearly 60,000 views on YouTube. A comment on Campaign Brief …
Wunderman Tries To Look Natural At Cannes
The 59th Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity doesn't need a commercial, but Wunderman made Cannes one, because Wunderman can. And Wunderman isn't stopping there. This is 2012, every company is a media company, including global marketing services agencies. Ergo, a team of 30 of "citizen journalists" from AdPeople, Blast Radius, Designkitchen, Futurecom, These Days and Wunderman, will descend on …
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Creative People Need To Think Strategically. Right?
I will absolutely not make judgments on agencies that appear on "The Pitch" based on how the show makes them look. The heavily edited, overly dramatic, trainwreck of a reality TV show has taken some decent people and make them look awful. I've met some of the participants on a few of the shows so I prefer to trust my personal judgements over some editor. But I do want to focus on one very glaring takeaway from the …
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Interestingly, TV Reviewers Aren’t Buying “The Pitch”
I've said it before: The creative process at advertising agencies simply isn't very interesting. So the heavily edited AMC show "The Pitch" doesn't really make for compelling television. I have watched both episodes mostly because I know a bit about the agencies and the participants. TV critics and commenters seem to really dislike the show. Here's Hilary Busus' take in Entertainment Weekly: The show’s …
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Pennsylvania Lottery Scratches Off Its New Agency
Whenever I think I'd love to run my own agency, with all the ups and downs that come with it, it's the thought of dealing with crap like this that make me rethink that plan. The Pittsburgh Tribune-Review reports on the Pennsylvania Lottery's decision to rescind awarding its account to Brunner in favor of re-upping with its current agency, MARC USA: CEO Michael Brunner called the decision "extremely disappointing" …
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McKinney v. WDCW, Tonight on AMC
Fuck "Mad Men." I want to watch "The Pitch," and that's precisely what I'll be doing this evening at 8:00 PST. Each episode of this new reality show on AMC matches two agencies against one another as they pitch a client project. Tonight's sneak peak (the show starts in earnest on April 30) pits McKinney against Wong Doody Crandall Wiener. You may have heard that many top dogs in the ad biz didn't bark …
Can “The Crowd” Compete?
Just two and a half years after crowdsourcing agency Victors & Spoils was formed from Crispin's rib in Boulder, Colorado, the company has sold a majority stake to Havas. That's rapid return on investment. Which begs the question what is so special about this agency and its controversial business model? John Winsor, V&S's CEO has one answer. "Collaboration, co-creation and crowdsourcing are the future of not …
Goodby and McCann To Share Chevy
Even though Goodby is more capable than 99.99% of all agencies located on Earth, Chevy is too big, and too important to be handled by Goodby alone. And the client doesn't want bickering between agencies, it wants cooperation. Ergo, something new has been formed. Commonwealth, a hybrid of Goodby and McCann, which are owned by Omnicom and Interpublic, respectively. GM Vice President and Global Chief Marketing …
