November 29, 2005

Eurobest 2005



TBWA\Lisboa, Bates Red Cell e BBDO Portugal - finalistas TV no Eurobest 2005.

KitKat "Fantasma"


JWT, Italia

Hilux "Invincible"


Saatchi & Saatchi, UK

Food for thought

"Hoje a Archive é só uma bobagem bem impressa que exalta a publicidade que não foi feita como se ela tivesse sido feita."
- Washington Olivetto

November 20, 2005

WONGDOODY: "LA Traffic"



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Agência: WONGDOODY
Brief synopsis:
"Los Angeles and traffic are inseparable. No matter where you are going, there is always the outside chance that you will be staring at the back of a Pontiac Aztec for the next 2 hours. In an effort to entertain these frustrated motorists and possibly educate them on how to avoid these situations, we created extremely long, handwritten billboards. When you are crawling along at 4mph, you have nothing but time. Each execution takes drivers inside the head of an outspoken and very talkative individual. The kind of person that chats you up on a five-hour airline flight across the country. After you take the time to read this individual's opinions and observations, you are left with a choice. Stay informed with the KNX 1070 traffic report or continue to read the ramblings of your new traffic buddy."

FCB, Lisboa: "ACA-M"


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Agência: FCB, Lisboa
Cliente: Associação de Cidadãos Auto-Mobilizados (ACA-M)
Direcção Criativa: Luís Silva Dias e Duarte Pinheiro de Melo
Criação: Amândio Cardoso e Will Silva

November 13, 2005

"Bloody smart"


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A Londrina MC Saatchi perdeu recentemente a conta da British Airways para a BBH. Um cliente com 20 anos de relação com a agência; uma conta de vários milhões.

O que é que a Saatchi fez? Publicou um anúncio com uma colagem de notícias sobre a BA em 1982 (quando a Saatchi ganhou a conta) onde se podia ler "BA is bloody awful" até aos dias de hoje (quando perdeu a conta) "BA becomes the world's most profitable airline".

A assinatura: "Now taking new airline bookings".

Uma boa táctica, portanto!

Red Cell: "National Geographic"


Director de Arte: Joana Faria Copywriter: José Quintela

Food for thought

"41% of Europeans say that their house says the most about them as a person, followed by 19% saying their job and 12% their car."
Changing Lives in Europe/nVision, 2005

November 09, 2005

"Os 100 mais"



"The fourth annual list of the most influential players in the art world. Find out who's in and who's out in 2005."

[Fonte: Art Review Magazine]

November 06, 2005

Agência contrata Kate

kate moss

Um anúncio de recrutamento no mínimo engraçado.

November 04, 2005

Pocket Hercules



A agência que não tem medo dos "grandes".

November 02, 2005

iPod Nanos no metro

Campanha recente da Apple Japão. Uma maneira inteligente e eficaz de fazer com as pessoas levem consigo um "ipod nano" em tamanho real, conquistando o precioso "share of mind".

"Perto do bolso, perto do coração".







[Fonte: Cult of Mac | Brand New]

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

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[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?

October 24, 2005

Channel 4, UK

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.

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 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.