Dejan Jovanovic, Helena Heras, Rafael Perez, Adam Pimack, Richard Spiegel, Manuel Mero and German Leal of Miami Ad School have created a concept app that aims to combine the offline and online worlds. Entitled ‘LEGO Story Builder’, the app would allow kids to interact with their physical creations digitally—bringing together LEGO, augmented reality and storytelling. […]
WPP CEO Martin Sorrell is reportedly the richest person in the UK’s marketing and communications sector, with an estimated worth of $320 million, according to London’s Sunday Times. The publication is printing its annual “Rich List” April 21. Word of Sorrell’s position on the list, first reported by Campaign Live, comes amid ongoing talks between […]
Old Spice has launched a comical ad campaign to promote its new brand of scented soap. The spot, “Shower,” created by Wieden & Kennedy Portland, mocks the classical jingle-based soap ads from the past. Created by art director Croix Gagnon and copywriter Nathaniel Lawlor, the ad features a man in the shower using the Old […]
A marketing campaign for Manchester Airport is causing a rift after a number of promotional posters were plastered across the city – of Liverpool. The campaign, created by Creative Spark, ran posters on billboards and bus stops, adding fuel to the rivalry between the two north-west cities. John Greenway of Manchester airport told BBC North […]
Print advertising is dwindling at consumer magazines. The Publishers Information Bureau released figures showing total magazine ad pages fell 4.9% from 33,673 in the first quarter of 2012 to 32,023 in the first quarter of 2013. Of 213 titles tracked by the PIB, 107 (50%) experienced ad page declines in the first quarter of 2013 […]
Nike’s new ad celebrating Tiger Woods’ return to the top of the world’s golf rankings has been criticised for glossing over the athlete’s public fall from grace by using the slogan, “Winning takes care of everything”. Woods returned to the golfing top spot on Monday 25 March after winning the Arnold Palmer Invitational tournament. To […]
To promote its new CLIO car model, vehicle manufacturer Renault took some unsuspecting customers on an unbelievably ‘sexy’ test drive. The drive starts off normally—until the salesman prompts the driver to press the ‘Va Va Voom’ button, which causes the scene in front of car to change—transporting the driver to the streets of Paris. After […]
WPP and client Ford have apologized for a series of controversial online ads that were created and posted by a JWT India staffer. JWT is one of WPP’s global agency networks. The ads, which were not authorized, were posted Friday and taken down after the client and agency became aware of them. One of the […]
To help bring the “world’s oldest” and possibly the “least popular” ad medium—the poster—into the digital age, South Korean film distributor CJ Entertainment teamed up with ad agency Cheil to create movie posters that doubled as WiFi hotspots. Called ‘WiFi Posters’, the campaign involved installing WiFi devices into existing movie billboards—allowing users within range to […]
Esquire partnered with startup Volio to create the ‘Talk to Esquire‘ app, which offers advice and recommendations from three of the magazine’s columnists. Nick Sullivan, David Wondrich and Rodney Cutler will ask you questions about your needs and preferences, “listen” to your answers through voice-recognition technology, and then give pre-recorded responses about what’s right for […]