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The ad is for Harrison’s Fund—a charity set up by the parents of Harrison, a 6-year-old boy with the degenerative condition Duchenne muscular dystrophy, which is incurable, barely known outside medical circles, and receives little research funding. Here’s the full ad, and the rest of the story.
“We would like to look at them and understand how we could introduce ads, in a very light ad load, where the impact is really created, because the ads really fit the users’ expectations and follow the form and function of the dashboard.”
In a new campaign, Reporters Without Borders shows world leaders flipping you off.
All the leaders depicted are of the nondemocratic sort that some might label dictators—the kind who might restrict the freedom that journalists enjoy in other parts of the world with the kind of gleeful “f*ck you” depicted here.
![7 Questions Every Head Of Marketing Better Be Able To Answer
CEO Francine Hardaway:
“Brands are promises that get delivered every day. What did you promise today?”
CMOs have it tough. Not only do they have to account for every single dollar invested in marketing but they have to be part engineer, part marketer, and part financial guru.
Although most industries have been disintermediated by technology, the marketing industry worked backwards. More and more intermediaries now stand between the brand the publisher. It used to be only an agency. Now it’s many agencies and a plethora of tech vendors.
To complicate matters more, the marketing mix is expanding daily and now includes more buzzwords and acronyms so that you don’t pay any attention to the people behind the curtain. The savvy CMO is going to have to learn what questions to ask. Working with Proximic and its special way of helping brands deal with their own data to plan media has taught me to ask the right questions. The answers will be different for each of you.
Does this algorithm work for me?
Do I need RTB (real-time bidding) or RTM (real-time marketing)?
What’s more important, targeting the right person or delivering the right message? And do I need a cookie to know?
Do I know that where I’m appearing is brand safe?
What’s premium now?
Where does digital fit in my overall media mix?
What do I do with “Social-Mobile-Local”?
Remember: All advertising starts with a problem (e.g., one of your brands needs to gain share versus a competitor or need to protect share from a competitor). The only ROI that really matters is Did you “move the needle”? Did you move product or move minds? To do either, that message has to break through the clutter. That’s all. No other metric matters.
Read the full story here.
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7 Questions Every Head Of Marketing Better Be Able To Answer
CEO Francine Hardaway:
“Brands are promises that get delivered every day. What did you promise today?”
CMOs have it tough. Not only do they have to account for every single dollar invested in marketing but they have to be part engineer, part marketer, and part financial guru.
Although most industries have been disintermediated by technology, the marketing industry worked backwards. More and more intermediaries now stand between the brand the publisher. It used to be only an agency. Now it’s many agencies and a plethora of tech vendors.
To complicate matters more, the marketing mix is expanding daily and now includes more buzzwords and acronyms so that you don’t pay any attention to the people behind the curtain. The savvy CMO is going to have to learn what questions to ask. Working with Proximic and its special way of helping brands deal with their own data to plan media has taught me to ask the right questions. The answers will be different for each of you.
Does this algorithm work for me?
Do I need RTB (real-time bidding) or RTM (real-time marketing)?
What’s more important, targeting the right person or delivering the right message? And do I need a cookie to know?
Do I know that where I’m appearing is brand safe?
What’s premium now?
Where does digital fit in my overall media mix?
What do I do with “Social-Mobile-Local”?
Remember: All advertising starts with a problem (e.g., one of your brands needs to gain share versus a competitor or need to protect share from a competitor). The only ROI that really matters is Did you “move the needle”? Did you move product or move minds? To do either, that message has to break through the clutter. That’s all. No other metric matters.
[Image: Flickr user Tony L. Wong]
Anheuser-Busch supports its sexy sleek Beck’s Sapphire with an unusual animated entry from Mother London. Read about it here.
Pop goes the controversy! Here’s the SodaStream ad you didn’t see during last night’s Super Bowl.
Ram Truck’s “Farmer” captured the attention of Super Bowl viewers using “So God Made a Farmer” by radio broadcaster Paul Harvey. Ram and agency The Richards Group commissioned 10 photographers including National Geographic icon William Albert Allard and documentary photographer Kurt Markus to capture American farm life for the ad.
Both Oreo and Tide were quick to jump on the blackout bandwagon with clever, simple social ads during the Super Bowl power outage at the Superdome just a short while ago.
What do you think — does Taco Bell have the spot of the game so far?
That Toyota spot with Kaley Cuoco was the most shared Super Bowl ad, pre-game.
How will the cookie crumble? Via Instagram, the public is now taking sides in the cookie versus creme debate depicted in “Whisper Fight.”
Best Buy puts Amy Poehler front and center, with something important on her mind.
