Bitterness and anger can be a common emotion when it comes to employment issues and the negative treatment co-workers receive from their superiors for issues outside their control. Those are the emotions eight former WPP MEC Interaction employees may be feeling today after having their office in Chicago shuttered by WPP MEC Interaction Founder Alan Schanzer.
According to a source, the Chicago office, which handled the Sears interactive business for four years until Schanzer moved it to his New York office last November has been shuttered. The source tells us the account, originally won five years ago by the New York office, was moved to the newly-created Chicago office four years ago because the account was "a task his team couldn't handle."
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One could look at this eBay auction promising a marketer complete access to this person's non-personally identifiable information for a 30 day period so as to razor target the marketer's advertising as a joke or one could realize this is exactly what the future holds: people divulging detailed information about themselves and selling it to the highest bidding marketers in return for a promise to view all their advertising.
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- Taking home the Cannes Promo Grand Prix is TBWA/Whybin Auckland for a piece of work for Adidas called "Bonded by Blood."
- Former Strawberry Frog Amsterdam Executive Creative Director Al Kelly has joined Fallon Minneapolis as Executive Creative Director.
- Yahoo CEO Terry Semel has resigned and will be replaced by Co-Founder Jerry Yang...who's now all grown up and can handle the job. Semel will become a non-exec chairman (what ever the hell that is) with former Exec VP of Advertising and Publishing stepping in as president.
As a bit of therapy from time to time, we're happy to view "making of" videos just to remind ourselves how much work goes into creating a commercial and, conversely, just how easily unfair it can be to quickly criticize such work with reckless abandon. So, today, we do our penance in watching this video which documents the making of a new commercial, The Journey, for Motorola's Rizr Z8 high resolution mobile phone.
The ad, which follows the same actor through 150 years of video technology, was created by Abbott Mead Vickers BBDO and directed by MJZ's NicolaiFuglsig. As part of our penance, we offer no critique of this work.
While the guy in this Livesavers commercial is being ever so polite to his girlfriend who asks him what a "muffin top" is while sporting one herself, he's doing no service to women who, if they are "muffin top"-prone, should never dress in a manner which would expose said "muffin top" in the first place. Know thy body. Dress appropriately.
Of course, that line of thinking may not quite be in line with the angelic message Livesavers is trying to bestow upon us with this campaign.
Yup. If it isn't cute animals or beautiful women, it's babies and Huggies has gone all out with this McCann Erickson Israel-created Don't Worry Be Happy-themed commercial which examines a world populated only by babies with one maintaining his happiness in the face of endless setbacks. We can only imagine the headaches the director had to undergo to achieve this little slice of brilliance.
We're wondering if we're supposed to believe the Lenovo laptops actually survive the thrashing they receive in this :90 or if it's just some art director's wet dream sold to the client as some sort of ethereal "film." Either way, it's good but we still don't quite understand what it is we're supposed to take away from this ad.
OK, OK. So it has to do with that Willy Wonka theme song about defying explanation.
"Dude! I got it! since we used that Dumb Dad shit a while back and everyone got all over our asses for it, let's just go back to the hot chick. No one complains about the hot chick. I mean they're everywhere. We'll just have her flip the phone across her chest with a fuck me look on her face and this bad boy will fly off the shelves. Cool?"
Oh wait, this is a Samsung ad, not a Verizon ad. Oops, wrong conference room. Sorry about that.
According to this new Accentmarketing-created Hispanic campaign, an exclusive sponsorship of the 2007 CONCACAF Gold Cup soccer tournament, Pontiac is the new aphrodisiac. Entitled "Designed for Seduction," the TV campaign will also incorporate an online promotion, "The Pontiac Play of the Game," which lets people vote for the best tournament play to win prizes.
Explaining the campaign's approach, Pontiac Marketing Director Mark-Hans Richer (or whoever wrote the press release) said, "For fans of the Gold Cup competition, passion for their favorite teams is everything and we wanted to be a part of that. Our latest 'Diseñados Para Seducir' campaign takes that same level of passion and applies it to sleek, sexy performance vehicles."
Ah, yes. Pontiac. We Build Excitement.
There's a problem with this new video campaign for Motorola's S9 wireless headphones which captures the fictional dance crew, Wirebreakers, challenging members of the public to dance offs in random locations such as a putting range, art gallery, public library and a squash court. Most people, when confronted by a strange person appearing suddenly in front of then with arms flailing and legs wiggling , will either beat the crap out of the approachee, stare or run for fear of their lives. The last thing they'll do, as portrayed in the first video of the campaign, is to actually begin dancing with the approachee as if they were long time acquaintances.
The campaign will consist of eight videos in total, released over the course of the summer. Be warned. A strange dude may approach you at any time and challenge you to a dance off.
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