According to LiveScience.com, Grey and/or DraftFCB could rule the ad world if they moved into a cool, funky, open-air space. A recent study at the University of Minnesota suggests that ceiling height affects problem-solving skills and behavior by priming concepts that encourage certain kinds of brain processing. "Priming means a concept gets activated in a person's head," researcher Joan Meyers-Levy told LiveScience. …
Walking A Mile In Luke’s Shoes
Sally Hogshead has a new "Naked Career" interview up at Radio Talent Zoo. This time around Ms. Hogshead speaks to her hero Luke Sullivan, formerly of Fallon and West Wayne and now at GSD&M in Austin. That's right, two superstar copywriters engaged in conversation about the ad business. Give it a listen. I could tell you all about it, but I prefer to do something else. Purely for your entertainment, I will endeavor to …
Who’s Watching Your Spots?
Kids and babies. CNET via MarketingVox: Around 90% of American kids under 2 and 40% of babies under 3 months are regular TV watchers, according to a recent pediatric study [conducted by the University of Washington]. Idiocracy, here we come. …
Beam Exercises Restraint
The New York Times is doing its best to see through the pr machinations of a large adult beverage marketer. Beam Global Spirits and Wine — which makes brands like Jim Beam and Maker’s Mark bourbon and Canadian Club whiskey — announced it would voluntarily adopt stricter rules to keep messages away from young people. But the step is largely symbolic. Beam said that it would purchase print and broadcast advertisements …
QVC Meets MTV
According to The Wall Street Journal (paid sub. req.), Publicis Groupe and Droga5 are diving deep into branded entertainment with a new website called Honeyshed. But unlike other examples of the genre -- movies and TV shows created by marketers that aim to subtly promote a brand -- there will be nothing subtle about the programming on Honeyshed. "It's about celebrating the sell," says Mr. Droga, creative chairman of …
YouTube’s Piggy Bank Open For Biz
Variety is reporting on Google's new Revver-like compensation initiative. Google-owned viral video site announced Friday that it will start giving a cut of ad revenue to some of the most popular amateur video brands on its site, such as lonelygirl15 and LisaNova. They will get approximately the same revenue share from the performance of display ads around their videos as YouTube's professional partners, such as the …
Taking Tea Where It’s Never Been Before
Guayaki Yerba Mate is an emerging beverage brand with interesting stories to tell about their organic, rainforest-grown, fairly traded product. Witness, the seven-minute documentary: Guayaki also makes room for brand advocates and Mate heads to tell their own tales. Available from the brand's YouTube channel, "Out of my Gourd" appears to be a New Age-inspired consumer generated commercial. The brand name Guayaki …
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3-D Printing: Holy Crap, It Sounds Cool
Did you know this was on the horizon? The New York Times reports: The next frontier will be the home. One company that wants to be the first to deliver a 3-D printer for consumers is Desktop Factory, started by IdeaLab, a technology incubator here. The company will start selling its first printer for $4,995 this year. Bill Gross, chairman of IdeaLab, says the technology it has developed, which uses a halogen light …
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