Some Notes I Have Been Too Swamped To Post:
NABS in Toronto has an RFP (request for proposal) due August 28th.
An internship for CP+B just sold for $17,655 on eBay, which I’m sure will help give Black, Hispanic, and low income voices a needed bump.
Coke Zero produced a spot over a year and a half ago with W&K: It’s pretty much amazing and only ran in Brazil.
It’s a weird world out there.
Make Videos – Get Job
Advertising Week in NYC above and beyond the best event for our community. From cocktails to talks with some of today’s best minds it’s an investment.
Print yourself about a 1000 extra business cards and head down. You’ll need them,
And if your a junior creative, the opportunities abound, Crispin Porter + Bogusky, Ogilvy in New York, Proximity Atmosphere and Saatchi & Saatchi Wellness to create a value ad for juniors.
Check out the video to find out more:
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More on BioShock2 – virtual to real world marketing
Back when I posted about the BioShock2 website, people all over the internet guessed at where the marketing team behind the project was taking this event.
Now there is more on the BioShock2 ambient and digital advertising.
Long story short it’s brilliant:
How to attract top teir creative talent – Make an intern rap video
Amazing, I look back on my start in this business sometimes and dreamed of working so hard that it would become habit.
That pain would be creative character and create office culuture like this.
I don’t care what you think of the work or the hype.
Every office should be this much fun.
Great minds – Think
Hot on the heels of BMW’s Expression of Joy:
Toyota iQ has used a car to create a font.
I have to give credit to Toyota here, using a similar technique for a down market car takes some of the thunder out of a premium brand is a strong strategy in a ubiquitous category like automotive.
Then creating something I can take home and use, is something I wish more advertisers would seriously consider. I own this font now. I’ll use it but it will be forever tied to the brand that created it.
iQ just became part of the dialog – by creating content to fuel the consumption of content.
Marketers who have got it right: TV and Film
I have been amazed recently.
Not by the combination of witty picture with funny headline that your average Creative Director wants to see from young creatives book but by the zany consumer first schemes of the movie and television industry.
Seriously. We talk a good game about putting the consumer first but I can’t wait till every product is as daring and as strategic as those of our film and movie marketing brothers.
Right now, this very second the internet is awash in the creation of content to fuel the consumption of content.
Wrap your head around that.
Creating content in a verity of media and public spaces to encourage the consumption of revenue generating content.
Welcome to Hype Machine 2.0
The hit television show Lost brought commercials to a comic con. An event awash in marketing messages. This backwards strategy has payed off large and might never show up at Cannes.
Meanwhile at the San Diego Comic Con Disney created a fully interactive world and photo experience for guests.
Locally an abandoned Queen Street store front has been converted into a Harry Potter Set for the upcoming film.
These brave souls are rewarding their consumers and honestly making them apart of the experince.
I’ll even admit that I never watched a potter film, or Lost, but both of these experences caught my eye. I’ll consider them in the future.
For to long marketers have acted like the guy with a gutiar at a house party. Demanding the attention of the room and making it impossible to have a conversation. I hate those guys. It’s really hard to charm someone when your fighting with Under the Bridge for the 100th time.
Sometimes when I see great work on the internet, I still can’t shake the feeling that some CD’s are still bringing their gutiar to the party. Sure sometimes it works and you get a sing along most of the time you just still look like a wanker.
If we are commited to social spaces, we need to be commited to the people that make up those social spaces. Put down the gutair and hire an event planner or two – then get really crazy and let them into the creative breif.
Agency Culture: How Poke Stays Brilliant
Every AD should want to work at Poke, any culture that can commit to branding the looses of an agency game and still have fun doing it is a place that fosters creativity.
Seriously.
Poke Quick Draw Championships
AMC creates online (themed) casting call.
It is what it sounds like. If you’re a fan of the show MADMEN and you have a few curves and a dream you owe it to yourself to fire off a picture.
Although it means competing with this girl!
She sortta looks like an Asian Mary Wells.
