October 30, 2005
October 26, 2005
October 25, 2005
Empregados que "blogam"

1. Why Blog?
2. Employee Blogs and Their Influence on Consumers
3. Characterizing the Nature of Employee Blogs
4. Use pf Employee Bloggers to Regain Lost Credibility
5. Employee Blogs as Internal Knowledge Management Tools
...
[Fonte: Edelman | Intelliseek]
Kevin "Love" Roberts
Lavar a roupa pode ser uma experiência emocional?
Kevin Roberts, CEO da Saatchi and Saatchi e autor Love marks esteve recentemente em Portugal onde apresentou o livro acabando por se desdobrar em entrevistas e opiniões pela media nacional.
Aqui fica um excerto de uma entrevista sua dada CNN e publicada no hidden persuader em Março de 2004.
SCHUCH (voice-over): From choosing soap powder to automobiles, Roberts believes that emotions are the key to every decision we make. Take the laundry, for instance. What makes Tide better than Cheer?
ROBERTS: Mystery, sensuality are vital, you know, and...
SCHUCH: We're talking about laundry detergent.
ROBERTS: But a laundry's an incredibly sensual experience. Think about it. When you see the water going onto the product, splashes up like a great big waterfall, you get this incredible vibrant fragrance. Clean clothes smell great. And you feel deep inside your heart, you're a better woman, better mother, better guy. This is a very emotional experience, the laundry.
SCHUCH: That's what you see in doing laundry.
ROBERTS: Absolutely right. And that's what women tell us. That's what -- I mean, you've got to penetrate, you know, people. They have three parts of their brain, right? They have the cortex, the neocortex, right, and then they have the limbic. Deep back there is the reptilian. And when you get into that reptilian brain, women like going down to the laundry. It's their private quiet time.
SCHUCH (voice-over): It's this kind of deeply personal detective work that Roberts thinks makes great advertising.
ROBERTS: Research is one of the biggest problems facing our business today. The research vampires are out there, and what they're doing is, they're measuring the wrong stuff. So they're measuring awareness, cut through communication, strategic benefits. All this nonsense instead of getting deep into the reptilian instincts of a consumer and saying, What is it you really feel? The only really question research should ask is, Do you love my brand more after seeing this commercial than you did before? Period. Do you love it more?
Kevin Roberts, CEO da Saatchi and Saatchi e autor Love marks esteve recentemente em Portugal onde apresentou o livro acabando por se desdobrar em entrevistas e opiniões pela media nacional.Aqui fica um excerto de uma entrevista sua dada CNN e publicada no hidden persuader em Março de 2004.
SCHUCH (voice-over): From choosing soap powder to automobiles, Roberts believes that emotions are the key to every decision we make. Take the laundry, for instance. What makes Tide better than Cheer?
ROBERTS: Mystery, sensuality are vital, you know, and...
SCHUCH: We're talking about laundry detergent.
ROBERTS: But a laundry's an incredibly sensual experience. Think about it. When you see the water going onto the product, splashes up like a great big waterfall, you get this incredible vibrant fragrance. Clean clothes smell great. And you feel deep inside your heart, you're a better woman, better mother, better guy. This is a very emotional experience, the laundry.
SCHUCH: That's what you see in doing laundry.
ROBERTS: Absolutely right. And that's what women tell us. That's what -- I mean, you've got to penetrate, you know, people. They have three parts of their brain, right? They have the cortex, the neocortex, right, and then they have the limbic. Deep back there is the reptilian. And when you get into that reptilian brain, women like going down to the laundry. It's their private quiet time.
SCHUCH (voice-over): It's this kind of deeply personal detective work that Roberts thinks makes great advertising.
ROBERTS: Research is one of the biggest problems facing our business today. The research vampires are out there, and what they're doing is, they're measuring the wrong stuff. So they're measuring awareness, cut through communication, strategic benefits. All this nonsense instead of getting deep into the reptilian instincts of a consumer and saying, What is it you really feel? The only really question research should ask is, Do you love my brand more after seeing this commercial than you did before? Period. Do you love it more?
October 24, 2005
Food for thought
"Appropriating existing marketing concepts is cheaper - and certainly quicker to implement - than developing new ones. The secret is bringing a great idea from another market or industry to your market or industry."- Randall Rothenberg, "The Power of Dumb Ideas"
iPod VS Telemóveis

Algumas razões pelas quais a integração do leitor de MP3 nos telemóveis representam uma ameaça futura e um substituto aos actuais leitores de MP3 (ex: iPod, Creative, etc).
1. "Portable music players do not sell 750 million units every year. Mobile phones do."
2. "Portable music players are not replaced every two years on average. Mobile phones are."
3. "People will acquire MP3 player ability almost by accident, simply as they replace their phones."
4. "Even fanatical i-Pod users don't carry the player everywhere everyday, but they do carry their mobile phones."
5. "Mobile phones are subsidised in most markets. That means that in most markets where buyers have to pay full price for the i-Pod, they can have the somewhat inferior music player "for free" with their next phone upgrade."
[Fonte: Communities Dominate Brands | Via: PSFK]
October 21, 2005
Neil French defende-se
Neil French, (ex) director criativo mundial do Grupo WPP, justifica a sua saída após comentários sexistas feitos no início deste mês em Toronto, no Canadá.What do you make of how the Toronto remarks have been interpreted?
It's death by blog, isn't it? You had to be there. I laugh a lot on stage and I say outrageous things, but people come to be entertained. They paid [$125] to sit there. If they wanted Martin Luther King, they went to the wrong gig. I'm well-known for being as outrageous as I can to make the point that I want to make. Advertising is hyperbole and I exercise hyperbole as much as I can, but I laugh when I'm doing it. You can't storyboard a smile, as somebody said.
[Fonte: Advertising Age | Ad-Rag]
CCP blog
O Clube de Criativos de Portugal juntou-se à blogosfera.
O novo blog do CCP, que se apresenta como um "espaço dos criativos substantivos aos criativos adjectivos", pode ser visto aqui.
O novo blog do CCP, que se apresenta como um "espaço dos criativos substantivos aos criativos adjectivos", pode ser visto aqui.
October 20, 2005
Imposto "Made for iPod"
De acordo uma notícia publicada no site IDG Now, os fabricantes de acessórios para iPod (célebre leitor de MP3 da Apple) terão que pagar 10% de toda a facturação dos seus produtos à dona do popular leitor digital portátil.As reacções de indignação por parte de alguns destes fabricantes são naturais. No entanto eu pergunto-me: um dos principais factores de sucesso e de vendas do iPod não residerá no facto do mesmo beneficiar precisamente de toda esta panóplia de acessórios e complementos que servem de "facilitadores" da experiência "iPódica"?
O Steve Jobs ainda não deve ter ouvido o termo "coopetição".
[Via: Viu Isso?]
October 19, 2005
WPP reestrutura RedCell
"Advertising giant WPP Group is in the process of unwinding Red Cell, the hodgepodge of agencies it hoped to turn into a worldwide network.WPP, which formed Red Cell in 2001, was attempting to recreate the global reach of industry legends such as Ogilvy & Mather, JWT and Young & Rubicam.
Red Cell, however, never lived up to its predecessors. Instead, it became the catchall for WPP, which parked some 65 agencies there that didn't fit elsewhere in the company. Without a shared culture or vision, the only thing the firms had in common was a name."
[Fonte: NY Post]
October 14, 2005
October 11, 2005
October 09, 2005
Beleza real = Vendas reais?


"If we're all fine the way we are, we don't need to buy anything. That's not what marketing is about."
- Mary Lou Quinlan, CEO of Just Ask a Woman
Do que li recentemente (vide NY Times e WSJ), o actual território de comunicação da Dove pode não ter feito ainda muito pelas suas vendas, no entanto em termos de "share of mind", notoriedade, buzz, etc. a Dove deixa muitas marcas do sector dos cosméticos/beleza para trás, disso não tenho a menor dúvida.
Esta nova tendência/território de comunicação apelidado de "hiper-realismo" tem como objectivos procurar valores de autenticidade, quebrar com padrões de beleza convencionais e aspiracionais que na maioria das vezes colocam as mulheres numa pressão angustiante de se tornarem "perfeitas" e lindas.
Em suma, esta nova linguagem estética tem a mais valia de ser diferente e como tal provocar reacções nas pessoas. Poucas são as que ficam indiferentes. A publicidade cumpre o seu papel de "desviar" a atenção das pessoas para a marca. Ponto final parágrafo.
Quanto ao seu impacto em termos de criar apetência ou propensão para que as consumidoras comprem a linha Dove, aí tenho algumas dúvidas. No seu íntimo, toda a mulher gosta de parecer mais bonita, de se sentir melhor com o seu aspecto. Como alguém disse, o sector dos cosméticos vende "esperança" e não a realidade com qual nos deparamos diariamente quando olhamos para o espelho.
[Fonte: CMO Magazine | BusinessWeek]
Um Logo, Um País

Um nome, uma ideia, um logo, uma bandeira ... é o suficiente para a Pentagram e um programa da BBC criarem um novo País ficticio, com direito a hino, constituição e passaporte. Porque os países também são "identidades corporativas".
Bem-vindos a Lovely.
October 07, 2005
October 06, 2005
"Dez Anos de Paixão"

O anúncio "politicamente incorrecto" da Playstation que obrigou a Sony a retirá-lo do ar e a fazer um pedido de desculpas.
objectivo: Celebrar os 10 anos de existência da Playstation no mercado.
[Fonte: CNN | Cnet News | Ad-rag]
Colocar nas prateleiras
... em vez de tirar.

Shop.Drop: "To covertly place merchandise on display in a store. Primarily used in guerrilla ad campaigns, tactical media projects and art installations."
[Shopdropping | CNN]

Shop.Drop: "To covertly place merchandise on display in a store. Primarily used in guerrilla ad campaigns, tactical media projects and art installations."
[Shopdropping | CNN]
October 05, 2005
September 28, 2005
Food for thought
"Reinventing the market means redefining the category."- John Grant, "After Image"
"Dialogue marketing works because it is based on a simple principle of human nature: people tend to interact with those they already know and trust."
- Allan Steinmetz, "The Art of Conversation"
September 27, 2005
Marcas = Envolvência?
Quando oiço as agências e os marketers falarem da palavra "envolvência" fico com a pulsação aceleradíssima.Principalmente quando olho para o estado actual da comunicação/meios utilzados para falarmos e "envolvermo-nos" com o consumidor.
Como é que uma marca consegue envolver-se com o consumidor? Apenas com spots de 30" que metem o pessoal a falar nas ruas a imitar os slogans, verbetins e piadinhas? Apenas com os mupis e outdoors que nos distraem no pára-arranca diário a caminho do trabalho? Apenas com o folheto informativo que nos atulha a caixa do correiro com as melhores ofertas que alguma vez teremos?
Quem tiver a ler esta linhas deve ter já antecipado o tema da conversa: "ele vai-nos falar de comunicação integrada". Não! Queria apenas constatar o óbvio com este post: Hoje o principal problema da publicidade e marketing é um problema de ligação ("connection") e não de conteúdo ("content")!
Envolvência requer uma comunicação "two-way", partilhada e participativa entre as marcas e os consumidores. E não apenas as marcas a berrarem USP's ("unique selling propositions") recheadas de benefícios e promessas, ou a projectarem imagens aspiracionais (que ainda continuam a ter efeito, mas limitado e efémero). Chama-se a isso uma "conversa autista", onde apenas temos um emissor: as marcas que dizem o que lhes interessa, na esperança de que o consumidor lá em casa ou nas ruas, compreenda que o que lhes estão a dizer é bom ... bom para ele, que vai ao encontro das suas necessidades.
Pois bem, para quem ainda não reparou (ou não quis aceitar), o consumidor de hoje não mudou muito em termos de hábitos de consumo (como decide a compra), mas mudou na maneira como filtra e escolhe as mensagens que quer ouvir. O consumidor de hoje não só está bem-informado (quando quer), como também quer aprender, ter uma voz activa, participar e que o envolvam no universo das marcas que entram no seu dia-a-dia. Há hoje um crescente número de marcas que apreenderam e que compreendem isso. A lealdade dos consumidores às mesmas é vísivel (até para que não quer ver).
Em vez de "falar para" as pessoas, que tal "falar com" as pessoas?
"O Momento da Verdade"

"A Procter & Gamble Co. acredita que os consumidores decidem se querem ou não comprar um produto em mais ou menos o tempo que demora a ler este parágrafo", diz-nos o Wall Street Journal num recente artigo entitulado "Shelf Promotion: In a Shift, Marketers Beef Up Ad Spending Inside Stores".
Os 3 a 7 segundos que levam o consumidor a decidir-se são designados como "primeiro momento da verdade" pela P&G. De acordo com a mesma fonte, a P&G criou há 18 meses, o cargo de director do "First Moment of Truth", para produzir mostruários mais dinâmicos, sofisticados e atractivos no interior dos supermercados e pontos de venda.
Sobre este artigo, a minha opinião pessoal é a seguinte:
1) Os consumidores tomam a maior parte das suas decisões de compra no próprio ponto de venda, muitas vezes induzidos pelo "brand recognition" que a comunicação da marca proporciona (seja TV, rádio, imprensa, folheto ou in-store).
2) A lealdade, ou compra repetida de uma marca traduz-se no número de visitas ao ponto de venda, onde a marca se encontra disponível. Como tal, a "brand loyalty" pode ser interpretada como "store loyalty".
Em jeito de conclusão, é naturalíssimo que multinacionais que se inserem na categoria dos Fast Moving Consuming Goods, ou seja, produtos de grande consumo e baixo envolvimento - queiram apostar em força na sua presença e comunicação dentro das próprias lojas. Até porque só assim conseguem criar maior envolvência e uma experiência mais positiva (quiçá participativa) do consumidor.
September 26, 2005
As suas últimas palavras
"No More Games. No More Bombs. No More Walking. No More Fun. No More Swimming. 67. That is 17 years past 50. 17 more than I needed or wanted. Boring. I am always bitchy. No Fun for anybody. 67. You are getting Greedy. Act your old age. Relax this won't hurt." - Hunter S. Thompson, Jul 1937 - Fev 2005
Como falar com as Mulheres
"Seven Tips for Successful Marketing to Women"Better real than ideal: "Female gender culture is all about finding something in common with others to build bonds, not aspiring to an ideal to set oneself apart."
Beware of talking about women's unique needs: "The problem with this approach is that women don't want to feel different. They want to feel taken seriously. The risk with the women's unique needs approach is that, unless it is subtle and respectful, women feel stalked, not wooed."
User focus trumps product focus: "For example, with cars, computers and consumer electronics (all categories where women make the majority of the purchases, incidentally), while a man may be mesmerized by the specs of high-tech widgets and gadgets, a woman is captivated by the person using the product."
Others matter: "Not only that, but helping someone else, which isn't mission-critical for most men, is second nature for women."
Make the world a better place: "She thinks you should be helping others as well. Numerous studies show women are more motivated than men by the goal of giving back"
Immersion instead of Topline: "Whereas men 'see' more clearly when key information is extracted and ?extraneous details? discarded, women better absorb information when it's presented in context."
Show some emotion: "Emotion-based advertising has a powerful pull for women -- people are always involved."
[Via: Ad Age]
September 21, 2005
Sobre o Motorola iTunes

"Why the iPhone won't rock your world"
"The reason people were so intrigued about the idea of an iPhone is that it had the potential to make three hitherto-parallel universes converge. First, there was Apple's iTunes - the first, and still the dominant, legal online music business (which has sold half a billion songs since it opened). Then there was the mobile phone - the one modern device that has become ubiquitous in our lives. And finally, there was the iPod, the iconic gizmo that has become the Walkman de nos jours.
Put these three together in a single device and - so the theory went - you had a truly revolutionary technology."
[Fonte: The Observer Business]
"The future of entertainment"
"The future of entertainment promises bigger shows and infinite choices to you, the master of this digital universe." "Entertainment is no longer linear," says Bennett. "You have to think in terms of a broader life cycle of a show - how it will play on TV or computer, in a game, on a phone - and you have to embrace a new kind of creative partnership with your audience."
[Fonte: Newsweek]
September 14, 2005
"Advertising Works" compendio
"The most effective campaigns from the first 25 years of the IPA Effectiveness Awards"Tabela de Conteúdos:
1. Foreword (John Bartle)
2. Introduction (Laurence Green)
3. Grand prix winners 1980-2004
4. The Client View (Niall FitzGerald, Chairman, Reuters)
5. 25 Years of Advertising Works (Laurence Green, Fallon)
6. The Value of Advertising Agencies (Tim Broadbent, BrandCon)
7. A True Story (Paul Feldwick, DDB)
8. Back to our Roots (Will Collin, Naked)
9. How to launch into an established market (Malcolm White, Executive Planning Director, Euro RSCG)
10. How to profitably revitalise your brand (Richard Warren, Director of Strategy, DLKW)
11. How to defy commoditisation in your category (Richard Storey,
12. How to profitably add value to your product (Neil Dawson, Executive Planning Director, TBWA)
13. How to use branding to orientate your organization (David Golding, Planning Director, RKCR)
14. How to profitably influence the size of your market (Guy Murphy, Deputy Chairman, BBH)
Sixty Magazine

Recebi hoje na agência o volume nº8 da revista Sixty. Uma excelente publicação sobre "music, trends, culture, life" a cargo dos alunos/criativos da VCU Adcenter.
Parabéns, bom trabalho! Leitura recomendada.
September 12, 2005
Vai um telemóvel multi-usos?
Video-chamadas, televisão, notícias online, MP3, email, fotografias, rádio ... Tirando alguns "early adopters", curiosos, geeks e executivos, será que o "mass market" realmente precisa ou procura todas estas funções, quando compra um telemóvel?"A recent In-Stat survey showed relatively little interest in new phone add-ons, such as video. Since most people upgrade their phone about every two years, they're looking for an easy-to-use device - not a pricey all-in-one (...) Still, cell phone companies persist with fancy phones. That's because: 1) Data is lucrative. 2) The market is huge."
[Fonte: USA Today | MobileTech News | Agenda News]
September 09, 2005
September 08, 2005
Cliches ' R ' Us
"1. Men are obsessed with sex but will forego sex in order to watch football or drink beer.2. Women are locked in a constant battle with their weight/body shape/hairstyle.
3. Career success is entirely based on your ability to impress your boss.
4. Mums are often harassed but NEVER depressed/unable to cope.
5. Any act of male stupidity (e.g. walking across a clean floor in muddy boots, putting the dog in the dishwasher, etc.) will be met with a wry smile, not genuine annoyance/anger.
6. Married men will flirt with other, younger women but NEVER act upon it.
7. Anyone with a scientific career will have a bad haircut and dreadful clothes. "
(...)
[Fonte: BBC News Via: Cup of Java ]
Glossário
The Smart Networker:
"That individual who embodies the person-centered values of the counterculture and the skill to use the new tools to express him or herself in a hundred different ways in the suddenly accessible public sphere.
Smart networkers seem driven to express, to take on do-it-yourself projects, to advise others about everything from good products to good health. They cultivate a host of public identities, equally at ease with podcasting their favorite tunes and their favorite religious messages."
[Fonte: Institute for the Future, "2005 Ten-Year Forecast"]
"That individual who embodies the person-centered values of the counterculture and the skill to use the new tools to express him or herself in a hundred different ways in the suddenly accessible public sphere.
Smart networkers seem driven to express, to take on do-it-yourself projects, to advise others about everything from good products to good health. They cultivate a host of public identities, equally at ease with podcasting their favorite tunes and their favorite religious messages."
[Fonte: Institute for the Future, "2005 Ten-Year Forecast"]
September 06, 2005
Shots em Portugal

Edson Athayde (Ogilvy), José Cabaço (W+K), Leandro Alvarez (TBWA), Pedro Magalhães (JWT), Alexandre Okada (Leo Burnett) entre outros são alguns dos criativos citados no artigo "Portugal. Flying or flagging?" da Shots, n.90.
No mesmo, temas como a criatividade lusa, a influência brasileira, o mercado publicitário, etc. são abordados e comentados.
September 05, 2005
"The Advertising Saturation Point"
"For every automobile, and maybe every product, there's a threshold beyond which your ad budget is wasted (...)But what if there was an optimal level of advertising spend for any given product - beyond which the money was completely wasted?"
[Fonte: "The Advertising Saturation Point", Strategy + Business]
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