July 29, 2009

"Anytime. Anywhere"






Cliente: Huggies
Agência: Ogilvy S.Paulo

[Nota: fotografias reais de bébés encontradas no Flickr]

July 27, 2009

July 21, 2009

"Food for thought"

"Marketing historically has been obsessed with the concept of positioning – how you are different to your competitors in your category. Increasingly, great brands are realizing that people don’t see categories and don’t obsess about them. What actually matters is having a point of view on the world, a cultural mission to ask people to rally around."
-- Gareth Kay, Modernista!

"Real Life Adventures"



Real Life Adventures by Gary Wise and Lance Aldrich

July 13, 2009

"Bank on substance"



Cliente: Barclays
Agência: Venables & Partners

July 08, 2009

"Food for thought"

"There are no bad cars built, milk is milk and laptops are laptops. They're all pretty much parity products now and I think companies are going to have to connect with consumers in a greater way than simply with their products. Emotionally and culturally they're going to need to be more significant."
-- Gary Koepke, Modernista (in Shots)

"Positive thinking"



Cliente: Volkswagen Passat
Agência: DDB, London

July 01, 2009

"Red Wires"



Cliente: Economist
Agência: Abbot Mead Vickers BBDO

June 27, 2009

"Advertising Eats Itself"



"If Ogilvy were alive, he would surely be cursing today’s creatives as nihilists: young turks hell-bent on annihilating the nobility of a medium that defined consumer civilization for the greater part of the last century. They are nihilistic not only because they seek to destroy the meaning of advertising but also because they believe that good advertising need not be a force of repetition, that it can bring about popularity through quality content alone."

[Fonte: Ad Busters]

June 26, 2009

"Slice of life"

"Today, I was cashiering at a grocery store when an elderly woman came through my line buying prune juice. She then whispered to me that last time she bought it, she "blew up her toilet".

Via Fuck my Life

June 24, 2009

"Panda"



Cliente: Fiat
Agência: Marcel, Paris

[Via:
Ads of the World]

"Vai um Unicórnio?"

Can you win a Unicorn? from One Shot Film Festival on Vimeo.



Times are tough [or so we’re constantly told] – marketing and media budgets are hitting rock bottom. But does this mean the end of TV and film advertising? Not a chance!

For a start, there’s more and more money pouring into online advertising, and there’s nothing an online audience likes more than moving pictures. The cutbacks just mean that us creatives have to be cleverer with the ideas – ads can still be amusing, involving, and make as much of a point without the big budgets.

So we thought it was time to celebrate simple cleverness in advertising. The Cannes awards are very fine, we all value our own Lions and hope to get more – the Unicorns will be something quite different.



--------------------- \ "The Unicorn Awards" / ---------------------

"The Brangelina industry"



Uma táctica interessante:
"(Jennifer Aniston) has been known to wear the same outfit for days, to reduce the market value of paparazzi shots" in The Guardian.

June 19, 2009

June 18, 2009

"Food for thought"

"Despite what many marketers and retailers may think, it’s not all about price — consumers find value in feeling smart about purchase decisions and investing in brands they trust."
-- Andrew Benett, Global Chief Strategy Officer of Euro RSCG Worldwide

June 17, 2009

"They won't remember"



Cliente: Association France Alzheimer
Agência: Saatchi & Saatchi, Paris

June 08, 2009

"TV, media and culture"



Clássico! O cameo do Marshall McLuhan no "Annie Hall" do Sr. Woody Allen.

June 05, 2009

"Food for thought"

"Logos have become less official-looking and more conversational. “They’re not yelling. They’re inviting. They’re more neighborly."
-- Patti Williams, Wharton School

"Worst job ever"



Cliente: Portal UOL
Agência: Borghierh/Lowe

"Ride my star"



Um vídeoclip interessante da Devilfish baseado na técnica de "augmented reality".

June 03, 2009

"Messenger"



Cliente: Telefónica Moviles
Agência: Y&R, Perú

May 28, 2009

"The New High-end Consumer"



Longe vão os tempos em que as Senhoras finas escondiam os sacos de compras do discount nos sacos do Harrod's.

Ou que compravam um botão na Hermès para mais tarde andar a passear o inconfundível saco laranja pelas avenidas nobres.

A "frugalidade" fica-lhes tão bem.

[Via: Wharton@Knowledge]

May 26, 2009

"To Mr. Cheng"




Como irritar os tipo dos correios > "To Mr. Cheng"

O nosso castelo


[Foto via Flickr]

O que diz a nossa casa de nós? Como é que nós a vivemos: dormitório? carregador de baterias do dia seguinte? "cocooning"? ponto de encontro social?

[Fonte: Financial Times "Armchair psychology"]

Videoclip do dia

WOOD from mc bess on Vimeo.

May 24, 2009

A honestidade ainda vende?



"Men Wanted for Hazardous Journey. Small wages, bitter cold, long months of complete darkness, constant danger, safe return doubtful. Honor and recognition in case of success."

Anúncio publicado em 1900 nos jornais londrinos pelo explorador Sir Ernest Shackleton.

A minha pergunta: nos dias de hoje de descrença e cepticismo, será a honestidade e a verdade nua e crua sem floreados e adjectivos, a melhor forma de as marcas falarem com os consumidores?

May 23, 2009

"Food for thought"

"If thinking is an intellectual response to a problem, then the absence of a problem leads to the absence of thinking."

-- Theodore Levitt, Marketing Myopia (1960)

May 15, 2009

Contra a concorrência



Cliente: Country Life
Agência: Grey, London

May 05, 2009

E se ... ?



E se o Starbucks entrasse no negócio da banca comercial?
Depois de alguém ter sugerido uma nova teoria de relações internacionais baseada na marca, eis que alguém se lembra de sugerir que o Starbucks passe a "vender" dinheiro também.

\\ "Why Starbucks should become a retail bank" //