Spain’s most famous moustache, formerly attached to soccer legend and Spain team manager, Vicente del Bosque González, gone. Why?
By MullenLowe. Look out Merv Hughes.
Category: Newsletter Video
GoPro Hero8
Production values. Breathtaking.
Here’s your brief
Make Donald Trump look good.
Here’s your brief. Show how unfair the media is to Bernie Sanders.
Menstruation
Well this is pretty edgy; let’s do it.
That’s not the version that went to air on US TV. No blood, no string. Good commentary as usual in Ad Age.
Swipe Night
Tinder’s interactive series – swipe left or right to direct the plot – is US only at present. There’s an opportunity to date real people post-episode. Will it increase engagement? Or marriage? I remember when storytelling was limited to books, movies and Sixty Minutes. Here’s the YouTube version. It’s not very interactive.
Footballers in advertising
The purpose of this post is not to ridicule footballers. It is to encourage them to go to Japan and shoot ads, because they have products there we have not even thought of yet. Cristiano Ronaldo is on to this.
And here is a big free kick to our agency partners in Australia. Steal this concept. Soccer star Luis Suarez inducted into a nine-to-five business.
The in-joke is that he’s famous for cheating, pushing and diving. You’d have to find another in-joke for AFL…
Gunning for change
Turns out there is still hope for America.
The accomplishment of this ad is the participation of the candidates, despite competing with each other for the nomination. It proves that if the goal is big enough, selfish concerns can be overcome.
How to promote Mexico to Americans
German humour
Dieter Zetsche worked for 49 years at Daimler (Mercedes Benz) and retired at the 2019 AGM. He was CEO for 13 years. Very shortly after his announced resignation, BMW paid him this tribute:
Yep. It’s an actor.
Mackenzie Book
A Microsoft ad for the Surface Pro uses an Australian dude called Mac Book to endorse its product. Seems very nineties. Contact Microsoft if your name is Hugh, Len, Sam or Toshi. Also, not wishing to be offensive, but Mackenzie is a girl’s name.
