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New pro bono work from Campbell Ewald (CE), the creative agency behind a new campaign for non-profit Keep Oakland Beautiful called “Litter is Bad.”
Although parts of Oakland are undergoing re-gentrification, the city still suffers from a rampant litter problem. To further Keep Oakland Beautiful’s mission of creating and sustaining a beautiful, clean, green and litter-free city, the campaign shows just how bad litter can be. From cigarette butts that brag about dirtying up the sidewalks and harming dogs to an abandoned sofa looking forward to being set on fire by vandals, this new work personifies litter to emphasize the severity of the issue at hand.

Credits:
CE CREATIVE:
Chief Creative Officer: Mark Simon
Executive Creative Director: Jim DiPiazza
Associate Creative Director/Copy: Becca Loose
Associate Creative Director/Art Direction: Vanessa Witter
Art Director: Meggie McArthur
Interactive Designer: Eric Dominguez
Flash Desiger: Gonzalo Enriquez

CE ACCOUNT:
Managing Director: Angela Zepeda
Senior Account Supervisor: Matt Clark

CE MEDIA:
Director Media Planning: Karen Campbell
Associate Director Media Planning: Jennifer Accad
Senior Media Planner: Jon Perez
Assistant Interactive Media Planner: Tara Hana
Director Local Media Buying: Linda Southern
Associate Director of Local Media Buying: Allison Jones

CE SOCIAL:
Director of Digital Operations: James Sanders
Social Media Manager: Stacey Vick
Senior Community Manager: Jennifer Murphy

CE PRODUCTION:
Executive Producer: John Haggerty
Assistant Producer: Chris Robertson
Senior Production Artist: Renee O’Brien
Retouching Supervisor: Scott Kessler
Senior Art Buyer: Tat Luneva-Evenchik

CE PROJECT MANAGEMENT:
Senior Digital Project Manager: Amy Ruud
Production Company: At Swim
Executive Producers: Tomas Krejci, Michael Appel
Director: Nicolas Iyer
Producer: Theresa Martin
Director of Photography: Thomas Lembcke
Editorial Company: Big Block
Executive Producer: Leslie Sorrentino
Producer: Lauren Thorne
Lead Flame Artist: Brian Shneider
Audio Mixing: The LA Studios
General Manager: Jane Curry
Mixer: David Guerrero

Sound Design: Yessian
Sound Designer: Jeff Dittenber
Head of Production: Michael Yessian
Chief Creative Officer: Brian Yessian
Retouching: Joe Notaro / Hand Digital
Printing: Darrin Day / Circle Graphics
Media:
Jill Schuster & Lindsay Warners / OAG
Clear Channel OOH
Chrystal Sisco / Comcast
Dion Carrancho / NCC Media
Jill Kregel / RocketFuel
Erin Seramur / RadiumOne

Roxy, the world’s leading women’s lifestyle company, partnered with Digital Brand Architects and ClickFire Media to ask girls around the world: are you living life to the fullest? To extend this question to Roxy’s worldwide fan base, the boutique agency and digital design studio combined their expertise to create “Dare Yourself,” a social media campaign that challenged women to push their limits and empower themselves.

The “Dare Yourself” initiative challenged customers and fans of the Roxy brand to measure their exciting lifestyles against other women across a range of social media platforms, including Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, Pinterest, and YouTube. Contestants participated by submitting a 150-word response along with three photos or a one-minute video demonstrating how they “Dare Themselves” every day. By entering, five women between the ages of 18-28 got a chance to win a trip of a lifetime. Additionally, contestants continue to interact with the brand via the #ROXYDARES Photo Challenge, an Instagram based gallery that invites women to submit photos of themselves completing weekly challenges.

To all the ROXY girls who Dare Themselves. This is for YOU!

The global campaign, which went live simultaneously in over 40 countries and 11 different languages, received 2,500 entries and collected some 245,887 “Likes” on Facebook, bringing the total to more than 2,879,000 to date. On Twitter, the #DAREYOURSELF hashtag earned an impressive 1.6M impressions while over 6,357 users shared their submissions via the #ROXYDARES Photo Challenge on Instagram, generating over 686,000 impressions.

As part of a growing trend of user-generated campaigns, “Dare Yourself” succeeded largely through the collaboration between DBA, ClickFire Media and the Roxy brand, which generated an online strategy that engaged fans with a positive message. Digital Brand Architects collaborated closely with Roxy on the aggressive influencer outreach effort, brokering partnerships with targeted media and bloggers – including Wavelength Surf Magazine, The Contrast Magazine, among many others – to secure exposure and engagement for the campaign among targeted audiences. This strategic prowess is matched only by the campaign’s technical underpinnings. ClickFire Media’s team of technologists and developers constructed a multi-lingual Facebook experience that coordinates user uploads, submissions, and voting through a custom-made content-management system. The Facebook experience also featured a dynamic photo gallery that pulls from the ever-growing collection of #ROXYDARES-tagged photos on Instagram, and an interactive map that used Google API to track submissions from Roxy girls across the world.

The new campaign is a logical follow-up to Roxy’s wildly successful 2012 ‘Let the Sea Set You Free’ campaign. “‘Let The Sea Set You Free’ campaign proved Roxy’s fans are not only fun-loving, adventurous, and epitomizing everything the brand stands for, but were also eager to engage and share their own content with the Roxy community,” explained Digital Brand Architect’s Annabelle Smith.

Credits:
Client: Roxy
Campaign: “Dare Yourself”

Social Media Agency: Digital Brand Architects
Digital Design/Development: ClickFire Media

via: Trust Collective

As an enhancement of Interac® Debit, Interac Flash has all of the same benefits, just faster. With a quick hold of your card to a terminal, you can use your own money to pay for those everyday smaller purchases easily and securely.

“In today’s ‘need it right now’ society, being able to get what you need instantaneously is more than just a convenience, it’s a necessity,” says Chief Creative Officer and CEO of Zulu Alpha Kilo, Zak Mroueh. “And the work clearly demonstrates the true benefit of Interac.”

In this campaign of 15s spots, we feature people in humorously urgent situations and demonstrate how the speed of an Interac Flash transaction can get them out of their predicament.

Scenarios range from a woman who mistakenly eats too much wasabi to a man with bushy moustache who urgently needs a shaver so he can kiss his girlfriend.

The campaign is also supported through online banners, social media, and in-store media at all participating Cineplex theatres across the country.

Media Experts created the national media campaign with French creative for the Quebec marketplace was handled by TANK.

Creative Credits:
Ad Agency: Zulu Alpha Kilo, Toronto, Canada
Chief Creative Officer: Zak Mroueh
Executive Creative Director: Ron Smrczek
Art Director: Allan Mah
Writer: Nick Asik, David Horovitch
Broadcast Producer: Jennifer Cursio
Account Team: Rob Feightner, Laura Robinson, Adrian Goodgoll
Strategic Planner: Ebrahim El Zalza
Client (Company): INTERAC Association
Clients: Jennifer Lee, Hizola Toovi, Barry Campbel
Production Company: Sons and Daughters
Director: Quinn
Sound Production House: Vapor Music
Editor: Melanie Hider, Saints
Visual Effects & Online: Topix
Media Agency: Media Experts
Media Team: Richard Ivey, Phil Borisenko, Jenna Piirto, Lauren Rosenbloom

Models Gina-Lisa Lohfink, Micaela Schäfer, Jordan Carver and Sandra Lang strut their stuff in a new TV and online ad campaign for German Retailer Redcoon.

The companies press:
Redcoon starts with a large TV and online campaign into the Christmas shopping season
with a wide-reaching TV and online ad campaign. The online retailer of electronics and books, into the Christmas shopping. Testimonials include Germany's well-known It Girls Gina-Lisa Lohfink and Micaela Schäfer. The aim of the campaign is to increase the brand awareness of redcoon.de prevail.

With a lot of humor and a large dose of self-mockery to show the It Girls Gina-Lisa Lohfink, Micaela Schäfer, Jordan Carver and Sandra Lang that redcoon.de is the online store of their choice, when it comes to electronics. Why? Because it redcoon.de at a "huge electronics selection in the network" is, namely "super cheap". For the spots the girls live together in a luxury villa, handle by the pool with tablets and smartphones and outdo each other in different spots in an effort to act as "cheap as possible", loosely based on the campaign slogan: "So much cheap There has never been, "The girls who have become famous for her curves and revealing appearances in public, take in the sites themselves and their image charming for a ride to redcoon to establish itself as the cheap electronics store on the net. "I look forward to the campaign, because it marks a new milestone in the history redcoon "says founder and CEO redcoon Reiner Heckel. "Redcoon is a pioneer in online retailing, and is among the, heavy online users' long been known as a reliable, fast, competent and effective senders of electronic goods and household appliances. Now it's time redcoon.de "to a wider audience, explains Reiner Heckel.

Broad spread on TV and online portals

The campaign seeks to brand redcoon.de be made ​​known in Germany, according to the wide variation in TV channels and high-reach online portals. "As an Internet pure player redcoon was over a year ago a member of the Media-Saturn Group. We support redcoon you increase brand awareness. For the Christmas season starts to fight with the media coverage, as the public has come to expect from a Media-Saturn company, "says Pieter Haas, COO of Media-Saturn-Holding. planned over 2000 TV commercials are on major channels like Pro7, RTL, VOX, RTL2 and N-TV. The online marketing plan includes a mix of range and special-interest portals. Large-format advertising and website events include booked on bild.de youtube, GMX, CHIP Online or mirror online — over 90% of placements are working here with video productions. Besides television and online advertising are also social media channels such as Facebook, Twitter Youtube and very intensely involved in the media mix. Even before the filming was for a great casting action of partners bild.de Sandra Lang brought redcoon as another girl in the house. for creation and implementation of the campaign, the Serviceplan Group is responsible: the lead agency is the Service Plan Campaign. Together with plan.net and Media Plus, the agency group was convinced in the late summer and made ​​it through a multi-stage pitch against the competition.

To launch their My Starbucks Rewards program, Starbucks has unveiled four new interactive storefronts in Toronto and Vancouver. The latest from BBDO, Blast Radius and The Media Merchants allows users to reveal rewards by touching gold stars in an animated interface throughout the display.

The My Starbucks Rewards program will be rewarding regular customers for their frequent visits, making the Starbucks Interactive Storefronts the perfect platform to engage consumers on site through the interactivity of the displays. Blast Radius developed the concept (in creative partnership with BBDO) while The Media Merchants provided the interactivity and installation of the storefronts.

“Interactive Storefronts allow us to engage with consumers in a fun and immersive way by leveraging their high traffic retail locations,” says Brad Foster, CMO at The Media Merchants. “At The Media Merchants we strive to incorporate new ideas and new technologies, we love working with Starbucks as they're a great forward thinking client.”

The four storefronts provide passersby with a fun interactive experience as gold and white stars move throughout the display. Users can play with the stars and reveal rewards from the My Starbucks Rewards program.

In 2010, Starbucks Tazo tea Interactive Storefronts achieved international attention, allowing users to guide a creature of their choosing to find the ingredients of the Tazo teas. Watch the video here.

The campaign runs until January 4, 2011 in Toronto at 4 King St. W and 765 Yonge St. The Vancouver locations are 802 W Hastings St. and 498 Robson St.

Credits:
Creative Agency: BBDO, Toronto
Creative Agency: Blast Radius
Media Agency: Mediacom
Execution & Interactivity: The Media Merchants
Interface Development: Thinkingbox

Thanks Glossy

Press: After landing the business last spring, Zulu Alpha Kilo is launching a new brand platform for the Interac brand and the organization behind it.

The Interac Be in the Black™ platform extols the benefits of using your own money for everyday purchases.
“We want Canadians to know that the end of the month doesn’t have to seem like the end of the world,” says Chief Creative Officer and CEO of Zulu Alpha Kilo, Zak Mroueh. "When you use your own money instead of credit, you can simply enjoy what you buy instead of worrying about paying it off."

The 360 campaign consists of TV, out-of-home, video pre-roll, and standard and rich media banner ads – along with a social promotion – meant to inspire positive conversations around the many benefits of using Interac products and services.

“It’s crazy to think that people are using credit for everyday purchases like groceries, or a cup of coffee,” says Ron Smrczek, Executive Creative Director, Zulu Alpha Kilo. “In our launch spot, we enlisted AC/DC’s iconic rock anthem, Back in Black, and some over-the-top pyrotechnics to bring the swagger back to the notion of using your own money.”

The creative is supported with a national digital media campaign that is handled by Media Experts. French adaption for the Quebec marketplace was developed by TANK. The campaign will run into the spring.

One of the world’s most elite (and expensive) cars recently became a canvas for the creative whims of the techie minds at The Media Merchants, a technology-driven production agency based in Vancouver.

In November, the agency gathered influencers in the city’s creative, technology, design, advertising and automotive sectors for The Lamborghini Project, an exclusive audio-visual event centered around projection mapping onto a Lamborghini Reventon.

At $1.5 million, the Reventon is the luxury automaker’s priciest road car. Only 20 have been produced and sold to the public. Using its raw, understated and angular exterior as inspiration, creative technical director Anthony Diehl and animator Stuart Langfield projection mapped a series of real-time visuals on to the vehicle’s dark grey, semi-matte finish.

Initially, Media Merchants conceived The Lamborghini Project exclusively as a projection mapping experience but once they began the meticulous process of mapping animated images onto the car, they realized they had a one-of-a-kind opportunity to do something even more ‘live.’

“One of the surprising and fun elements of the project was getting everything aligned perfectly and then discovering that we had a pretty awesome VJ setup sitting in front of us,” says Anthony Diehl, creative technical director on the project. “Although it wasn’t part of the original plan, we couldn’t help ourselves and took the opportunity to run a live VJ set with visuals created in real-time.”

Diehl and Langfield developed the animated visuals using hybrid 3D and 2D techniques developed specifically for the purpose of projection mapping onto 3D objects. Working from the idea of ‘contrast,’ they sought to highlight the Reventon’s dark, moody and clean lines through a combination of predefined op-art imagery and improvised, real-time effects.

“It’s a scalable technique, allowing us to add or remove projectors for the final execution depending on technical or budget considerations, even after the animated content has been produced,” explains Diehl. “We really tested out the extent of this process on the Lamborghini project and it worked beautifully.”

The video content was created using MadMapper and Modul8 VJ software run off two Macbook Pro laptops networked together for playback sync and then plugged into three 7000 Lumen Panasonic projectors and one 6000 Lumen Christie Projector.

For the music, Media Merchants turned to Mitch Lee of Redemption Audio for a soundtrack that contrasted pure and crisp strings, pianos and snyths with distorted percussion, dissonant noise and an ominous silence. The end result perfectly underscored The Lamborghini Project’s gorgeously subtle symmetry.

Credits:
Projection Mapping: The Media Merchants
Creative Technical Director: Anthony Diehl
Animation Director: Stuart Langfield
Sound Design: Mitch Lee for Redemption Audio
Post Production: JUMP Studios
Videography: Perfect Pictures, Van Media
Director of Photography: Dan Dumouchel
Lamborghini Reventon: SR Auto Group
via: GlossyInc.

BC egg farmers salute others who get up early and work hard to make British Columbia a great place to live with this great new ad campaign entitled "Good Morning BC" created by the creative team at DDB, Canada.

Credits:
Agency: DDB Canada, Vancouver
Production: Transmission Productions
Director: Joe LaFleur
Executive Creative Director: cosmo campbell
Executive Creative Director: Dean Lee
Art Director: Brandon Thomas
Copywriter: Keith Rathgeber
Copywriter: Ryan Leeson
TELEVISION:
Client: BC Egg Marketing Board
Agency: DDB Canada, Vancouver
Executive Creative Director: Cosmo Campbell / Dean Lee
Copywriter: Kevin Rathgeber, Ryan Leeson
Art Director: Brandon Thomas
Agency Producer: Dana Rudelier
Account Director: James Pelletier
Account Supervisor: Roger Nairn
Strategy: Rob Newell
Social Media Strategy:
Media Company: OMD

Production Company: Transmission Productions http://transmissioninc.com/
Director: Joe LaFleur
Director of Photography: Mike Hawley
Cameraman: Mike Hawley & Robert Leon
Line Producer: Bob Christie
Post-Production Company: Transmission Productions http://transmissioninc.com/
Editor: Bradley Smith
Online Editor: Bradley Smith
Colourist: Bradley Smith
Audio House: Vapor Music http://www.vapormusic.com/
Audio House Producer(s): Natalie Schnurr
Audio House Engineer(s): Julian Rudd & Roger Morris

ONLINE:
Executive Creative Director: Cosmo Campbell / Dean Lee
Creative Director, Digital: Josh Fehr
Associate Creative Director:
Copywriter: Kevin Rathgeber, Ryan Leeson
Art Director: Brandon Thomas
Designer: Antonio Roman
Director of Technology: Steven Arsenault (Webstager)
Information Architect: Kristy Streefkerk
Digital Production Manager: Dana Rudelier
Account Director: James Pelletier
Account Supervisor: Roger Nairn
Strategy: Rob Newell
Website illustrations, Holly Prince & Antonio Roman
POS:
Executive Creative Director: Cosmo Campbell / Dean Lee
Copywriter: Kevin Rathgeber, Ryan Leeson
Art Director: Brandon Thomas
Account Director: James Pelletier
Account Supervisor: Roger Nairn
Print Producer: Dana Rudelier
PUBLIC RELATIONS:
Account Manager: Chris Dagenais
Managing Director: Martine Levy
Coordinator: Sam Cheng
MEDIA:
Media Agency: OMD
Media Strategist: Erica Bauer
Managing Director: Jason Snider

Sporting New Eyewear Supports The Police
DDB Canada launches arresting campaign for the Vancouver Police Foundation

Vancouver, August 6, 2013 — Recently, the Vancouver Police Foundation launched its first communications campaign aimed to increase awareness and garner support for the charitable organization. The Vancouver Police Foundation provides funding for emerging technology and innovative ideas as well as a wide range of community policing and youth-at-risk outreach programs not included in the police department’s annual operating budget.

Developed by DDB Canada’s Vancouver office, the goal of the integrated campaign is to raise awareness for the Vancouver Police Foundation and better connect the public to the police via a line of iconic, mirrored aviator sunglasses. These sunglasses not only serve as a visual symbol of support that Vancouverites can wear proudly, but they also play a central role to all of the creative aspects within this campaign.

“The iconic sunglasses pay homage to a signature look inherently tied to police and act as a badge of support that buyers can wear,” says Cosmo Campbell, executive creative director, DDB Canada. “This becomes an opportunity and conversation piece for Vancouverites to demonstrate their support for the police and look good doing it.”

The sunglasses play a primary role in two 30-second television spots, titled “Hoodslide” and “Deflated,” which kicks off the campaign and aims to drive sales of the sunglasses. Taking a humourous twist to popular TV police dramas, both spots drive viewers to buy the sunglasses in support of the Vancouver Police Foundation and visit the website to find out more about the organization and how proceeds benefit the community.

“In the short term, the goal of the campaign is simply to raise awareness for the Vancouver Police Foundation and show support for the VPD by wearing the sunglasses,” says Martina Meckova, executive director, Vancouver Police Foundation. “Our long term objective is to increase the membership of the Foundation and broaden the support base, so that more people in Vancouver can benefit from the work that we do in the community.”

A social media contest coincides with the campaign launch and invites people to submit photos of themselves wearing the sunglasses, along with the hashtag #VPDPartners for a chance to win a unique Ride-Along police experience. Symbolizing the solidarity between the people of the city and the Vancouver Police Department, the photos from the contest will be aggregated on the Department’s website as a visual tribute to the police officers.

“Initially, we asked DDB to assist us with some print ads to promote the Vancouver Police Foundation in a local paper,” says Peter Brown, chair, Vancouver Police Foundation. “The agency returned with an impactful campaign strategy that lends itself successfully across various mediums, allowing us to build a stronger relationship with the public.”

Print, OOH, television, social, digital, public relations and an on-air partnership with Global TV BC round out this integrated PSA campaign. The campaign was created pro bono by DDB Canada with generous support from the following production partners: Clinton Hussey for Photography, OPC // Family Style’s Director Jeff Low for the TV work, Post Pro Media for post-production services, Sean Milliken for talent casting, Wave Productions for audio services and Coastal Contacts for facilitating the production of the sunglasses.

The campaign also received help from DDB Canada’s media agency partner, OMD, who offered free services by arranging a combination of donated and discounted PSA buys with BC Business, Bell Media, CBS Outdoor, and Global TV, Postmedia, TV Week and Western Media Group.

The iconic, mirrored aviator sunglasses will be distributed by the police at community events, including Vancouver’s Fresh Air Outdoor Cinema, and are available for purchase starting August 1 from the Vancouver Police Foundation website for $20 each.

“The partnership between the community and police is fundamental to crime prevention and reduction efforts,” Brown adds. “It is through the Foundation that the citizens of Vancouver can support essential policing programs that may be beyond the immediate city budget capability, raise awareness of the outstanding contributions the VPD makes 24/7, and become partners in policing so together we can build stronger communities and make Vancouver the safest major city in Canada.”

The Recording Academy® and TBWA\Chiat\Day have teamed for the sixth year to promote the 55th Annual GRAMMY Awards® with the ad campaign "#TheWorldIsListening." The 55th Annual GRAMMY Awards (www.grammy.com) will be held on Sunday, Feb. 10, 2013, at the STAPLES Center in Los Angeles and will be broadcast live in HDTV and 5.1 surround sound on the CBS Television Network.

"Slammed Door" featuring Rihanna above and below is "Soundcheck" with The Black Keys and voiceover by Dr. John

"#TheWorldIsListening" campaign features both established and up-and-coming artists across a variety of print, out-of-home and digital communications, as well as three TV commercials. The first commercial, "Slammed Door," tells five-time GRAMMY® winner and current nominee Rihanna's story. The second commercial, "The World is Listening," features artists including the Kills, Snoop Lion and Taylor Swift alongside emerging artists such as Grace Potter, Kishi Bashi and Dam-Funk. Two-time GRAMMY winners and current nominees the Black Keys will appear in the forthcoming commercial titled "Soundcheck."

At the heart of this year's "#TheWorldIsListening" campaign is a newly created Web site, www.grammyamplifier.com, which allows musicians to share their tracks via SoundCloud for a chance to have their music tweeted out by a panel of musical icons, including Linkin Park, RZA, and Snoop Lion. While social media has given musicians more ways to share their sounds than ever before, the online music space is increasingly fragmented. As a result, it gets more difficult for emerging artists to be discovered. "#TheWorldIsListening" campaign and the GRAMMY Amplifier aims to help solve this problem by exposing new artists through social platforms — with the ultimate goal of discovering artists with the potential to be the next generation of GRAMMY winners..

"This year's campaign highlights the raw emotion and desire of the artist's journey, and is amplified via social media in order to draw more music fans into an engaged music conversation," said Evan Greene, Chief Marketing Officer of The Recording Academy.

Patrick Condo, Creative Director, TBWA\Chiat\Day, said, "Sure, the music industry embraces fame — but music always comes first. From RZA to Rihanna, to the young girl taking her first piano lesson, it's their passion for the craft that will, ultimately, lead them to the public and then fame. This year's campaign celebrates this passion and the talent as burgeoning artists embark on that quest for fame."

All of the campaign materials prominently feature the hashtag #TheWorldIsListening, a first in GRAMMY history and a testament to the role of social media with regard to the GRAMMY telecast. In February 2012, the 54th Annual GRAMMY Awards generated more than 13 million social media comments making it the biggest social media event in the history of television at the time.

"The World Is Listening" 55th GRAMMYs Full Campaign Credits:
Artists: The Black Keys, Gary Clark Jr., DaM-Funk, The Gaslamp Killer, Jim James, Kaskade, The Kills, Lianne La Havas, Linkin Park, Moon Duo, Nas, Ozzy Osbourne, Papa, Grace Potter, Rihanna, RZA, Simian Mobile Disco, Snoop Lion, Taylor Swift, Anthony Valadez, Warpaint, Patrick Watson, Jonathan Wilson.

Global Creative President: Rob Schwartz
Executive Creative Director: Patrick O’Neill
Creative Directors: Patrick Condo & Bob Rayburn
Associate Creative Director/Copywriter: Eric Haugen
Associate Creative Director/Art Director: Kirk Williams
Art Directors: Hillary Coe, Rebecca Ginos, Katie Dittman
Executive Director of Integrated Production: Richard O’Neill
Executive Producer: Sarah Patterson
Producer/Music Supervisor: Michael Gross
Assistant Producer: Whitney Fromholtz
Director of Creative Technology: Ricardo Diaz
Account Director: Michele Tebbe
Management Supervisors: Mike Peditto & James Aardahl
Account Supervisor: Daryl Conui
Group Planning Director: Rad Tollett
Digital Strategist: Kyle Luhr
Business Affairs Managers: KK Davis & Lisa Lipman
Typography Design: I Love Dust

DIGITAL PRODUCTION
Music Supervisor: Liza Richardson
Creative Technologist: David Riegler
Tech Lead: Gevorg Ablabutyan
Senior Developers: Marcelo Duende & Jake Edur
QA Lead: Lester Broas
QA Engineer: Walter Velasquez
Senior Producer: Justin Taylor
Producer: Kiley Story
Tech Lead: Mike Bucks
Technology Manager: John Byrne

PRINT & OOH PRODUCTION
Photographer: James Minchin
Executive Art Producer: Karen Youngs
Print Producer: Matthew MacDonald
Project Managers: Jane Martin, Collin Beckles
Creative Retouching: Arthaus
Prepress: E-Graphics

FILM PRODUCTION
Director: Saam Farahmand
Production Company: Furlined
President: Diane McArter
VP Executive Producer: Eriks Krumins
Producer: Dave Robertson
Original Music, Sound Design, & Mix: Barking Owl
Creative Director: Kelly Bayett
Mixer: Brock Babcock
Sound Design, "Slammed Door" and "Soundcheck": Barking Owl & Michael Anastasi
Editorial: Arcade
Editor, "The World is Listening": Kim Bica
Editor, "Slammed Door" and "Soundcheck": Greg Scruton
Post Producer: Kirsten Thon-Webb
Managing Partner: Damian Stevens
Executive Producer: Nicole Visram
Assistants: Dean Miyahira, John Jenkins, Pete D'Andrea, Laura Sanford
Visual Effects: The Moving Picture Company
Creative Director / VFX Supervisor: Paul O’Shea
Smoke Artist: Mark Holden
Telecine Artist: Ricky Gausis
Producer: Juliet Tierney
Executive Producer: Asher Edwards

Jennifer Watts, account director at Brandworks International, left, and Scott Morris, media manager at Mindshare Media MICHELLE SIU PHOTO Ad Agency Wars III is set for Wednesday in Toronto!

A year ago, Scott Morris’s typical Friday wind-down with colleagues would have involved beer, pizza and more beer.

Morris, the media manager at Mindshare Media Canada, still ushers in the weekend with members of Toronto’s advertising community. But for the past three months their fellowship has been devoted to toughening up for a charity boxing event.

Agency Wars III, which takes place at the Arcadian Court this Wednesday, will see 24 men and women from 14 local ad agencies square off to raise money for Ronald McDonald House and the National Advertising Benevolent Society.

The participants, who train with professional coaches, actually become qualified amateur boxers sanctioned by Boxing Ontario for the sold-out event.

One of the final training sessions found a broad range of ad industry employees, from art directors to CFOs and copywriters, drilling down at The Boxing Loft in the Entertainment District.

Morris, 31, had spent last Friday fine-tuning ideas for his Ford Fusion portfolio for next year. But come dusk, he was focused on his upcoming bout with Jason Kan, motion graphics designer at Teehan+Lax.

Even before stepping into the ring for their three two-minute rounds, Morris has already earned bragging rights: he’s shed 35 pounds since training began in September and can now execute at least 40 pushups and an eight-minute mile.

“I’ve never done anything like this in my life,” said Morris as he took a break from light sparring inside the Adelaide St. W. gym. “I feel good. I feel confident. I wake up everyday thinking I’m going to throw up from the nerves, but I just channel past that and stay focused.”

Abs aside, Michael Clancy has seen the long-lasting benefits of exposing his competitive industry’s desk jockeys to the even more cutthroat world of pugilism since he founded Agency Wars three years ago.

“Knowing what to do under fire is really important,” said Clancy, executive creative director for Brandworks. “If you can get into a ring, then you can walk into any boardroom in the world.

“In the ad business, taking care of your stress is really important. And boxing is a spectacular way to do that because you’re not in your head. You have to be very much aware of your body. And hitting a bag, doing that kind of strenuous work, the footwork involved, takes you out of the office and puts you into a very physical place where you do what you’re told. You don’t have to think, and you’ll be fine.”

Clancy, 62, who took out his opponent in the third round, aided by former junior featherweight champ Steve Molitor in his corner, when he fought in 2010, has been the oldest competitor to date in the event, which is taped by Fight Network for later broadcast.

“It’s kind of like a fantasy camp for boxing,” he said. “You get to walk in with your entourage, you get to pick your music and it’s televised.”

Head coach Chris “Mr. Showtime” Johnson, a 1992 Olympic medallist, finds the ad folks “very dedicated.

“They’re hungry. They want it almost to an obsessive stage,” he said. “They believe in perfection, but perfection in a sport like this does not come in three months. It’s taken me almost a lifetime.”

After a 20-minute skipping warm-up, Johnson led the group through various punch combinations, all the while pumping them up for fight night.

“If you get a chance to hit someone, hit ’em hard, because if they get the chance they’re going to hit you hard,” he exhorted.

From his ringside perch, returning announcer Jeromy Lloyd, Marketing Magazine’s online editor, has seen a fight or two stopped for split eyebrows and swollen eyes. He’ll be decked out as usual in a rented tux, but without a catchy “let’s get ready to rumble”-style tag line.

“I’m so scared of trotting on someone else’s intellectual property and getting the event sued,” he explained.

The creative team at Brandworks came up with the nickname “Da Boss (a.k.a. The Shot-caller)” for one of their fighters, Jennifer Watts, and selected their Christmas party favourite, LMFAO’s “Shots,” as her entrance music.

Now endowed with an eight-pack and the ability to do “at least 20 real pushups,” thanks to the rigorous 12-week training, the 6-foot-2 account director is pumped to face off against Mindshare media manager Christina Mirabelli.

“My strategy,” said the trash-talking Watts, 30, “is to keep her back with these long arms so she does not get near my face — and punch her in the head.”

Via: Ashante Infantry | The Star

Looking for an ingenious way to build their online presence, the Johannesburg Zoo has decided to hand over all their Social Media management to ‘someone’ who knows the zoo inside out. BG the Badger! The Johannesburg Zoo’s much-loved resident honey badger and the official JHB Zoo mascot.
How is this even possible? Well, it’s largely due to BG’s new high-tech animal enclosure, cleverly devised by award-winning digital agency Hellocomputer, of the Draftfcb group. Creatives on the job include Candice Hellens (copywriter), Eras Gous (art-director) Moira-Gene Sephton Gous (art-director) and Rory MacRobert (copywriter), and the technology was implemented by tech wizard Tom van den Bon (at BinarySpace) along with Johan Pieterse, Nathan O' Gates and Ben Fourie of Hellocomputer.
Selected because of his cheeky-yet-lovable personality, love of people and his very active nature, BG began tweeting on June 14 this year. You can follow him at @zootweetslive.
The Technology: BG’s high-tech badger enclosure is rigged with wireless infrared motion sensors, which are divided into six zones. The animal-friendly sensors talk to a server that holds a database of hundreds of pre-written BG tweets. As BG moves from zone to zone, the motion sensors pick up on his location and automatically trigger tweets from his Twitter account, in real-time. The built-from-scratch coding ensures that all the tweets are relevant to what BG is doing at that moment e.g. if BG is at the front section of his enclosure he will trigger people-related tweets, when he is near the sides he will trigger neighbour-related tweets and so on.
“The techno-wizards from Hellocomputer are thrilled by the project and the team at the JHB Zoo are amped to have turned BG into – in record time – what they believe is the world’s first LIVE tweeting zoo ‘spokesanimal’”, said Kerry Friend, executive creative director of Hellocomputer.
“The Joburg Zoo does a wonderful job connecting with animal fans using many different traditional media, but it has steered away from the digital realm until now. Having acknowledged the many benefits of engaging with its target base using social media, it wanted an especially appealing way of doing so.”
“Hellocomputer’s logic was that, since the thing that people really love about the Zoo is its animals, it makes sense for an animal to be their spokesperson”.
“The job has fallen on BG’s shoulders right now but there are plenty of interesting candidates, ones who are on the extinction list and who could become ‘spokesanimals’ for their species as well. Who knows what the future will bring,” she said.
“Critical to the zoo’s acceptance of the concept and the system is BG’s safety”, said Johannesburg Zoo’s Brand & Communications Manager, Letta Madlala.
“While we were immediately enchanted by Hellocomputer’s innovative proposal to turn one of our most social animals into a social media spokesperson, we stressed that we could not put BG at risk at all”.
“The system designed by Hellocomputer utilises wireless sensors, so there’s nothing for BG to chew on, choke on or entangle himself in. They are also small and unobtrusive, and have been attached at the highest points of the enclosure, while the base station and its solar power source, which are more difficult to ruggedise, have been placed outside the enclosure.
“The sensors are also enclosed in hard-to-penetrate Perspex so, if BG does manage to get his claws on one – and let’s face it, honey badgers are resourceful and very strong creatures – he will not be able to penetrate it in the short term and it can be retrieved by zoo staff”.
“While several of BG’s tweets will address his daily activities – such as his walks around the zoo (which he adorably takes on a lead), his mealtimes and playtimes, comments on his human visitors and animal neighbours and badger philosophies–he will obviously also be able to promote special events at the zoo and, when relevant, comment on current events”.

“We are thrilled with the results and look forward to many of our supporters and the public engaging with BG on a regular basis,” she said. “He’s a very friendly badger, we’re sure he’ll be very popular on twitter.”
While Hellocomputer has written several rules to govern BG’s tweets limiting the number of tweets a day and an hour or the number of tweets triggered from one station, its server will log BG’s exact movements as they trigger the sensors.
Additionally, all this valuable data will be retained and made available to the zoo should it have a need to research or contribute to research being done on badger habit studies and/or studies on animals in captivity.
“Not only does this system provide the Joburg Zoo with an exciting and totally apt way of communicating with its target audiences through social media, it has the potential to contribute to mankind’s understanding of animal behaviour and — by extrapolation — animal well-being in the future. We couldn’t be prouder,” concluded Kerry Friend.

Ceres is quite a strong beer and in Italy it is a brand for a young target audience. Politicians also aim for a young audience, but Italian youth consider them the most aged, corrupted and incapable in Europe.
The challenge: Prove that the young Italians, even if they love a strong beer, are more responsible than those who represent them.
The opportunity: Elections are getting close and everybody feels that the tables are going to turn. But an absurd bureaucratic obstacle stops thousands of Italians studying abroad from voting.
The goal: Ceres Beer will bring the students' problem to the attention of everyone.The strategy: The young Italians abroad are the real heroes, and the will vote anyway.
Execution: We organize symbolic elections in major European cities. Outcome: The cause of the students achieves unprecedented visibility across all media. Ceres gains invaluable awareness and becomes the most cited brand during the election weekend.
Results: Thousands of students from 26 European cities joined the initiative. The protest achieved unprecedented visibility on all the national media: TV, newspapers magazines, radios, social media, news website and blogs. The operation opened a debate all around the country. #ivoteanyway became a tweet trend with more than 10.000 tweets in 10 days.
For the brand: Brand search frequency on google: +470% in 10 days. Ceres was the most cited brand during the election week. People reached: 20 millions, one third of the italian population. Media investment: less than € 5,000.
Credits:
Advertising Agency: Bcube, Milan, Italy
Executive Creative Director: Francesco Bozza
Creative Director: Sergio Spaccavento, Andrea Stanich
Creatives: Sergio Spaccavento, Andrea Stanch, Alessandro Sciarpelletti, Silvia Savoia
Edit: Danilo Carlani, Alessio Dogana

Scion and global creative agency ATTIK are literally putting the pedal to the metal in the youth-focused automotive brand's national cross-media launch campaign for the all-new, 200hp, rear-wheel drive 2013 Scion FR-S sports coupe. Today, the brand and agency executives are very proud to detail their new "Driving is Back" campaign, which is currently debuting numerous advertising placements across the country. "Scion is extremely excited about the launch of the FR-S," said Jack Hollis, Vice President, Scion. "The rear-wheel drive sports car is the brand's halo car that pound-for-pound and dollar-for-dollar, is igniting the passions of a whole new group of driving enthusiasts.

Together with our partners at ATTIK, we are absolutely thrilled to kick-off the campaign inviting everyone to rediscover the fun of driving with the FR-S." "In this campaign, the radical new FR-S itself is first and foremost," began ATTIK co-founder and executive creative director Simon Needham. "To us, there are very few exciting cars out there that are also practical on some level… and the FR-S gets great gas mileage while maximizing performance. So naturally, our campaign demonstrates the power and handling of this amazing car – most often in the hands of drifting champ and renowned racing driver Ken Gushi, who drove the car in many of the exciting driving scenes. Across every campaign facet, our overall goals are to excite, inspire, drive people to explore the FR-S online and get them into dealerships and behind the wheel." The "Driving is Back" campaign was conceived by ATTIK's creative director Ron Lim, art director Mike Cornell and copywriter Andy Sciamanna, and its out-of-home elements are now live in 40 locations in 26 major U.S. markets.
Today, the first of three: 30 spots will break… not only on young adult-targeted cable outlets where viewers are accustomed to seeing Scion ads, but also via NBCU syndication, and on NBC, Fox and every major sports network. First comes "Bringing the Sport Back to the Car," which will begin and end a three-month TV buy. Different campaign spots will appear between June 25 and August 5, and more video ads (all commercials and videos were directed by Needham) will run on the brand's social media channels and website well into September. In print, the first spreads will begin to appear mid-June in Sports Illustrated, Maxim, Motor Trend, and Men's Journal, among many others. Banner placements are also blanketing most standard and some new targets for the brand starting today. "Since the FR-S is Scion's biggest push into the sport coupe market yet, we wanted to extend our reach beyond our typical media channels," Lim explained. "This car already has a lot of buzz around it, and we are aiming to build on that excitement. Of course, television is still a powerful mass medium. We also chose mainstream automotive pubs for the first time. Our campaign is much heavier in details than usual as well. We're psyched about our specs and so are the automotive tastemakers; it was important to reach enthusiasts this time out. Andy and Mike really sold the experience of driving the FR-S." Lim also shared insights into some of the more innovative media tactics the campaign will introduce in July. "We're also using smartphone apps to invite readers to watch the FR-S in action through Digimarc codes embedded in the print. Using their smart phones, consumers will be able to peek under the hood of the FR-S and see it in action. This is a great way to feature the very emotional driving experience within a static print ad." According to Lim, Scion and ATTIK chose Digimarc technology due to its successful integration with the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit issue earlier this year, citing its track record, its powerful security features, and its ability to seamlessly present video as part of the agency's print ad, which is entitled Video Test Drive. That ad is scheduled to run in the July 9 issue of Sports Illustrated. Finally, Scion's and ATTIK's executives are also putting the finishing touches on a powerful iAd that will appear in targeted apps for the iPhone and iPad and allow viewers to view videos and explore more features of the FR-S in amazing detail.
The brand and agency once again have many leading technology, creative, production and post-production partners to thank for their campaign contributions. Among those are commercial production company Blueyed Pictures, editorial company Lost Planet, CGI/VFX company Brewster Parsons, and music company Squeak E. Clean Productions. For ATTIK, additional credits include senior broadcast producer Patty Lum and senior account manager Michelle O'Hea, to name but a few.
Credits:

Client: Scion
Advertising Agency: ATTIK U.S.
Executive Creative Director: Simon Needham
Creative Director: Ron Lim
Art Director: Mike Cornell
Copywriter: Andy Sciamanna
Sr. Broadcast Producer: Patty Lum
Production Company: Blueyed Pictures
Director: Simon Needham
Directors of Photography: Brooks Guyere, Daniel Ardilley
Executive Producer: Jamee Natella
Producer: Jon Goldberg
Editorial Company: Lost Planet
Editor: Saar Klein
Executive Producer: Gary Ward
Producer: Jaclyn Paris
Graphics/VFX/Finishing Company: Brewster Parsons
Executive Producer: Darcy Parsons
Producer: Rebekah Koerbel
CG Artists: Denis Gauthier, Vonetta Taylor
Music/Sound Design Company: Squeak E. Clean Productions

Entitled “I’MPERFECT,” the work takes a defiant stance against the one-size-fits-all beauty paradigm embraced by other fashion brands. The campaign insight taps into AEO’s long-standing role as a true champion for the democratization of denim, offering 22 fits, 81 washes, and 84 sizes – a staggering 1,500+ options – to fit any person and personality. The national campaign encompasses print ads, in-store posters, digital banners, and a stunning broadcast spot from acclaimed commercial director Dante Ariola – all anchored by the tagline, “My Imperfections Make the Perfect Me.”

Credits:
Brand/Client: American Eagle Outfitters
Campaign Title: “Portraits”
Spot Title: “Portraits”: 60 (with :30 and :15 lifts)
First Air Date: August 2014
Agency: Translation
CEO/Founder: Steve Stoute
Chief Creative Officer: John Norman
President: Nils Peyron
Executive Creative Director: Jay Berry
Executive Creative Director: Marc d’Avignon
Creative Director, Copywriter: Betsy Decker
Creative Director, Art Director: Ben Carter
Director of Content Production: Miriam Franklin
Producer: Liz Graves
Account Team: Amanda Hellman, Cassie Farley
Music Supervisor: Nick Pacelli
Production Company: MJZ
Director: Dante Ariola
Director of Photography: Greg Fraser
Executive Producer: Scott Howard
Line Producer: Natalie Hill
Editorial Company: Number 6
Editor: Andrea MacArthur
Assistant Editor: Kyle Whitmore
Post Executive Producer: Crissy DeSimone
Post Producer: Kendra Desai
VFX Company: The Mill, LA
VFX Artist: Chris ‘Badger” Knight
VFX Executive Producer: Jo Arghiris
VFX Producer: Leighton Greer
Audio Post: Eleven
Mixer: Jeff Payne
Executive Producer: Suzanne Hollingshead
Producer: Dawn Redmann
Music: “Feeling Good”
Remake Composed and Arranged by Ariel R. A Heavy Duty Music /Mad Decent Production
Executive Producer: Josh Kessler
Producer: Daniel Nigro
Media: MediaCom
Partner, Communication Planning Director: Ilana Casser
Communication Planning Supervisor: Christa Ruggiero
Sr. Partner Associate Director National Broadcast: Andrew Pappalardo
Manager Media Investments National Broadcast: Carlos A. Cervantes
Sr. Partner, Group Digital Director: Lisa Bronson
Associate Media Director, Digital: Jenina Estella
Digital Media Supervisor: Vera Su

Tiësto, the Dutch DJ is the latest famous face to appear in the advertising campaign for Acer, encouraging people to explore beyond their limits.

The musician, voted #1 DJ by Rolling Stone Magazine appears in a new online film for the brand which breaks globally on 3 May.

In the spot, created by Mother, we are introduced to Tiësto’s assistant Vernon who shares his boss’s love of music and uses his Acer Aspire P3 both for work and exploring life beyond his day job.

Vernon organises Tiësto’s schedule on his Ultrabook™, but in his free time he uses it for DJing, to the annoyance of everyone but his boss.

Vernon’s DJ skills come in handy when Tiësto gets trapped inside a zorb during a live gig and he is called in to take over the decks. Not only does he save the day with his Acer Aspire P3, but he also gets the girl, in this case the model, Poppy Delevigne.

All media across Europe was planned and purchased by DWA, the Acer agency of record for EMEA media buying. The mix includes a heavy investment across online media with a significant focus on delivering rich ad interaction, video plays, social sharing and mobile distribution. Chris Bagnall, DWA’s Managing Director Acer Client Services said “this campaign evolves the explore beyond limits Acer brand promise and takes it to a new level for 2013. We are making full use of an online environment to engage people through a variety of different platforms, formats and targeting techniques”.

Credits
Creative Agency: Mother
Art Director: Mother
Copywriter: Mother
Planner: Mother
Agency Producer: Mother
Director: Traktor
Production Company: Traktor
Producer: Rani Melendez
Editor: Rich Orrick
Post-Production: MPC
VFX: MPC
VFX Producer: Julie Evans
VFX Supervisor: Kamen Markov
Grade: George K
Audio Post-Production: 750MPH
DoP: Ben Seresin
Media Agency: DWA

The Tommy Hilfiger Group, which is wholly owned by PVH Corp. (NYSE: PVH), announces its Fall 2013 global advertising campaign, cärpe-díem mañana, featuring The Hilfigers – the beloved all-American family at the heart of the brand’s marketing strategy. The new campaign finds Chloe setting off for college, and when one of the The Hilfigers’ youngest moves on campus to start her first year, the whole group of eclectic characters tags along to help her settle in. The campus is teeming with new faces as several new characters join the family shenanigans.

Now in its seventh season, The Hilfigers campaign remains the ultimate personification of the preppy heritage and irreverent spirit of the Tommy Hilfiger brand. The campaign is photographed by Craig McDean, styled by Karl Templer and creatively directed by Trey Laird of Laird + Partners.

“Collegiate traditions and the preppy, Ivy League look were some of my earliest design inspirations and the starting point for our signature style,” said Tommy Hilfiger. “It was exciting to shoot this campaign at a location that embodies our brand heritage. There’s no better setting to highlight the collegiate prep inspirations, British sartorial influences and rich Anglo fabrics of the Fall 2013 runway collections.”

For Fall 2013, a select group of bloggers were invited to the campaign shoot where they were given behind the scenes access to the collection and Fall 2013 shoot. The bloggers were styled in looks from the collection before they were photographed alongside The Hilfigers, integrating these bloggers into the campaign experience and allowing them to develop exclusive content for their websites and social media channels. The bloggers announced the campaign to their global audiences just days before the images broke in September books.

Adding a new layer to the seasonal campaign, Lisa Birnbach, author of the The Official Preppy Handbook, created spirited, individualized head-to-toe descriptions for each character’s unique style that play on brand’s preppy-with-a-twist heritage. The quintessential cast of college characters includes the “Natty Professor,” the “A-Student,” the “Bookworm,” the “Ice Queen,” the “Après Dude,” the “Professional Student,” the “Social Chair,” the “Field Tripper,” the “Alum Prez,” the “Teacher’s Pet” and the “All American.” The head-to-toe images, accompanied by Lisa’s playful depictions, will be included in multi-page inserts in select September books, outdoor advertising and on tommy.com.

“Lisa Birnbach is a true prep connoisseur and the perfect person to characterize The Hilfigers’ unique prep style,” said Tommy Hilfiger. “I’ve loved working with Lisa throughout the years and we are excited to have her prep expertise included in this campaign season.”

“The Hilfigers continue to personify the global creative vision for the brand,” said Avery Baker, Chief Marketing Officer for The Tommy Hilfiger Group. “This season we’re incorporating new content elements that celebrate the brand’s history of infusing an unexpected twist to preppy tradition. Lisa Birnbach’s playful depictions of the family’s iconic prep style add further emphasis to the youthful irreverence that has long been at the heart of the Tommy Hilfiger brand, while our global blogger partnerships celebrate the increasingly international outlook of preppy style in a way only Tommy Hilfiger has achieved. The Hilfigers campaign resonates globally with our consumers now more than ever and we are excited to continue bringing fans of the brand engaging, shoppable content each season.”

Photographed in a preppy, collegiate setting with hair by Eugene Souleiman, and makeup by Mark Carrasquillo, the campaign features a similar cast of eclectic characters from past campaigns: Jacquelyn Jablonski, Bernard Fouquet, Chloe Blackshire, Arthur Kulkov, Julia Hafstrom, Lea Sorensen, Toni Garrn, Thomas Gledhill, Kim D, Sacha M'Baye, Tidiou M'Baye, Viggo Jonasson, Jourdan Dunn, Tian Yi and two Basset Hounds named Morgan IV and V. New additions to the family this season include Sasha Luss, Cora Emmanuel, Katya Riabinkina, Benjamin Eidem, RJ King and Marlon Teixeira.

“The heart of The Hilfigers campaigns is all about storytelling, and this season we really tried to take it to the next level,” said Trey Laird, Laird + Partners Chief Executive and Creative Officer. “With Chloe headed off to college, the whole clan descended on campus en masse! The university setting provided the ideal backdrop for not only that perfect fall collegiate feeling, but also new characters to bring it all to life.”

Cärpe-díem mañana will break worldwide Fall 2013 as a multi-media program with an online, print, outdoor and social media presence. The advertising campaign will break in September 2013 issues starting July 23 with full print ads running globally in key fashion publications such as Vanity Fair, Vogue, InStyle, ELLE, Glamour, GQ, Men’s Health and Esquire; multi-page inserts will be featured in select issues. New York City; key European cities such as London, Paris and Milan; and top districts in Hong Kong will have outdoor campaigns. Tommy.com and the brand’s Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and YouTube channels will feature the campaign images and video. For European consumers, a new feature on tommy.com will allow fans of the brand to seamlessly shop and discover the iconic Tommy Hilfiger products, collaborations and new collections.

MoneySupermarket is set to launch its biggest and most epic ad so far with the latest iteration in its ‘You’'re So Money Supermarket’ campaign with epic Alan starring in the "Astronaut" advert.

An extension of the feel good theme – Save Money, Feel Epic! – the new ad due to launch this Monday (January 7) was created by Mother London and takes money saving into space!

As the brand looks to continue to amplify just how awesome it feels to save money, the latest ad follows the transformation of everyday man ‘Alan’, who feels epic after saving £300 on his car insurance.

Filmed on location, Alan and his family join a crowd of spectators waiting to see a rocket launch. Having grabbed his son’s lunchbox and a cycle helmet, Alan marches straight through security in the direction of the launch pad. In a scene reminiscent of Apollo 13 or Armageddon, no one seems to mind that Alan is wearing a cycling helmet as he walks across the gantry and into his seat.

As the rocket takes off, we see Alan’s wife look for the car keys; failing to find them, the ad cuts to Alan looking on calmly as he notices the key float up past his head.

The action is set to the famous Top Gun soundtrack of “Take My Breath Away” by Berlin.

Mother has created a full-length 60” and 10’’ ad for the launch, which focuses on car insurance. There will also be a radio version of the ad.

The campaign will also have additional marketing support with activity across PR, CRM, and social media channels.

Paul Troy, Director of Consumer Marketing, MoneySupermarket, said: “Times are pretty tough out there right now for families in the UK. Comparing the cost of household bills can make a real difference to every day family budgets. Saving money, particularly in January when you’re trying to get the new year off to a good start financially, can feel amazing and give you a great sense of achievement. In the ad Alan saved £300 on his car insurance, however, the average amount MoneySupermarket customers can save by using the site is an even more heroic £394. What better way to demonstrate the euphoria you can feel when you get a great deal than to watch our hero waltz onto a space rocket and launch into space?”

Tim McNaughton, Creative Director said: “In this ad our hero Alan from Stoke-on-Trent saves money on his car insurance and feels so totally epic that he strides past the security at Cape Canaveral Space Center and leads a crew of lantern-jawed, Yankee astronauts into space. Go Alan, you sexy, money-saving hero! Go!”

Credits:
Creative Agency: Mother, London
Director: The Glue Society
Production Company: Independent
Producer: Jason Kemp
Editor: Adam Spivey @ The Playroom
Post Production: The Mill
Audio post-production: 750mph
DoP: Don Burgess
MEDIA
Media Agency: Mediacom

Streaming data from the most sophisticated Operation Center in the world, located in Rio de Janeiro, where the first live generative art banner was created by IBM.More than 200.000 people were impacted per day, showing that real data visualization weather forecast can provide a quick and qualitative understanding of information that helps citzens to make better and safer decisions.

Credits:
Advertising Agency: Ogilvy, Brazil
Executive Creative Director: Marcos Ribeiro
Copywriters: Marcos Ribeiro, Rafael Campos, Leandro Neves
Art Directors: Marcos Ribeiro, Micky Huang, Renato Rozenberg, Mussashi Shintaku
General Manager: Maurício Tortosa
Regional Business Director: Chad Cathers
Account Director: Carla Parretti
Account Supervisor: Bruno Perez
Media Director: Gracieli Beraldi
Media Manager: Gabriela Nose
Media Assistants: Pedro Rotta, Gabriela Ricchetti
Planner: Tiago Sato

This year marks the 100th Anniversary of The Calgary Stampede. To celebrate the occasion, and their sponsorship of the Stampede, TransAlta takes you back 100 years to 1912 in "The Demo"

Directed by Wayne Craig via Calgary-based production company Joe Media, the film takes the viewer on a magical and nostalgic journey to The Stampede as it was in 1912.

Shot through the POV of a young boy, the visually-driven narrative is full of awe and wonder as we travel with him through the Stampede grounds, passing a fire eater and a knife juggler, into an exhibition tent where a crowd has gathered with great anticipation. They are there to witness something magical, something from the future — an electricity demo.

The spot is being screened on jumbo screens at the the Calgary Stampede Grand Stand Show, which runs from July 6-15, 2012.

Credits:
Title: "The Demo"
Client: Colleen Carter, TransAlta
Communications: Marie Evangeli, National Public Relations

Director: Wayne Craig
Production Company: Joe Media
Executive Producer: Matt Gillespie
Producer: Richard Cairns
Writer/Creative Consultant: Trevor McConnell, Scout Communications
DOP: Barry Berona
Editor: Howard Wirth, Joe Media
Music/Sound Design: Dan McManus, Six Degrees Music