This is rather amusing. The .GIFYS, the first annual awards show celebrating the animated file format has opened online voting today as they work towards determining the all-time best GIFs. The nominees are the selections of a panel made up of people from Buzzfeed, Gawker, Tumblr, Mashable, Joystiq, The Daily Dot, Engadget and others who have pulled from their own archives, reached out to their hundreds of thousands of twitter followers and scoured the Internet to curate the best of the best animated GIFs.
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I have become fairly accustomed to analyzing the behavior of our customers' brand advocates in order to better serve our clients and develop our own Best Practices. Plus, it's just interesting to understand what motivates people to do stuff for your brand that, to be honest, they don't really have to do.
Remember Abraham Maslow's hierarchy of needs? Fascinating stuff. To boil it down, there are needs every human has, and we take care of the most basic ones first, then we progress to needs that have to do more with our self esteem and personal growth - this is where brand advocacy fits in.
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John Stamos has been the Danon Oikos spokesperson for quite some time. This year, the brand's teaser has him reunited with his former Full House co-stars Bob Saget and Dave Coulier. There isn't much to the teaser. Stamos finishes watching the game (while eating some Oikos, of course), the camera pans to reveal Sagat and Coulier, Stamos says, "Time to go to bed boys," and Saget asks, "isn't it time we all got our own places?" All respond with, "Nah!"
Now all we need are the Olsen Twins to sachet in wearing bikinis to make this scenario even more awkward!
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It's not like an ad agency to share its inner concepting thoughts with the outside world before the final product is complete -- it's kind of like a chef barfing up his mistakes -- but that's just what San Francisco-based agency Argonaut with this Super Bowl teaser ad for VW. The agency will also create the brand's ad for the game.
Complete with a brain fart of babies, midgets, chimpanzees, sports figures, Indians, twerking, puppies, a hashtag, a unicorn, balloons, confetti, dinosaurs, bikinis, Carmen Elektra, Abe Lincoln and a tennis ball to the nuts, the agency has unleashed an orgasm of Super Bowl memes from years past.
Everyone thinks more clearly after they've, ahem, released a bit of pent up energy.
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Competition. It's a way of life. There's no way around it but there is a way to win. How? You have to outwit, outlast and outplay your competitor. No, this isn't Survivor the TV show (remember that?). It's business. And in business the stakes are much higher.
So how can you outwit, outlast and outplay the other brands in your category? Here are four ways from AdClarity:
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