Why didn’t I think of this? Why didn’t I think of this?
Okay the talent is a bit smarmy and the tone a bit self-congratulatory but damn; great branding and advertising.
Category: newsletter
Circular economy
Not to be underestimated. A major brand abandoning the normal manufacturing process and creating a recyclable product.
Shoe comes with authentic communication addressing a real consumer concern:
Webby for ASIS
Congratulations the Government. ASIS took off a Webby Award for their site ‘The Most Interesting Job Interview’, a recruitment campaign for Australia’s spy agency. [Australian spies good. Foreign spies bad.]
400,000 people have taken the simulated job interview. Click the friendly-looking spy to join the club.
New Zealand also won a Webby for best use of animation on a website. Well done ‘bro. Just keep your evil spies out of our country.
Here’s the winner for Best Media Strategy: it’s Amazon Echo’s launch into India. A pre-roll campaign that promoted their music search capability without paying a rupee to music copyright owners. Sigh.
Amazon ECHO – Alexa, Play My Song Case Study from 4judgesonly on Vimeo.
Stroke ad
Poignant. Got me.
Hire more women
Then they can make more advertising about gender politics.
Here’s two bob’s worth: the ad works better without the top line.
Meanwhile, in Australia
The Australian Women’s Weekly (with Adnews and M&C Saatchi) recently commissioned research into advertising to Australian women over the past 80 years. It highlights some opportunities.
We are Bauer
Proud to announce our representation of Bauer Advertising in Western Australia. The Bauer portfolio of brands includes The Australian Women’s Weekly, Woman’s Day, Gourmet Traveller, Harper’s Bazaar, OK!, TV Week, Wheels, 4X4, Australian House & Garden, The Block, Empire and Good Health.
It’s the domain of the most influential media, where people dive deep into a brand and engage in vast numbers on managed social media channels.
Please call if you’d like to pre-emptively book an appointment for a briefing. Here’s a tease for The Luxury – Trend Forecast. Market intelligence in conjunction with the Future Laboratory UK.
Bathtub trays
Look, it may be that from time to time some of us in the advertising industry portray a slightly idealistic view of life. That’s no reason to poke fun at us.
The thread includes responses from men showing what their bath trays would look like. Lathe. WD40, etc.
We’re big in Japan
Media Tonic client reiwa.com is big in Japan. On April 1st (not a joke) 70% of Reiwa’s web traffic came from Japan.
When Emperor Akihito abdicates on May 1st, Japan will end the Heisei era. On April 1st they announced the name of the new era: Reiwa, causing a surge in web searches that landed in the highly trafficked, content-rich, you-should-be-advertising-on WA property portal.
372,000 hits on twitter in the first hour. In Japanese the new name signifies fortune, peace and harmony, which completely sums up Reiwa, Media Tonic and all of our client base. *bows deeply*
Your reiwa.com contact at Media Tonic is Sebastian Tatur. Brought up in a fishing village in rural Japan, Sebastian worked in a Pachinko parlour, saving up enough money to travel to Australia, where he was immediately offered a sales executive role in the Seven West Media real estate team.
Enticed to Media Tonic with a seven-figure salary, he’s now Digital Sales Manager, which funds his dual passions of bonsai and origami.
You can call Tatur-san on 9388 7844 to advertise on reiwa.com.
Apple’s retro, trippy, tour de force
The brief: just put together an upbeat video that runs about a minute and ties together the whole history of the world’s biggest brand and its advertising. Thanks.
Podcasts
Still a fragmented mess as an advertising medium but growing in audience and producing small islands of great content.
I know: you’re too busy.
99% Invisible – Cartoon Sound Effects
The Dream – Re Multilevel Marketing
Caliphate – Way quality by the New York Times on Islamic State
The Habitat – Kind of a reality podcast about the real life experiment involving six people living together for a year on a simulated Martian landscape.
Download This Show – Conversations about technology (ABC)
Zigzag – The Hype Cycle: the difference between hype and innovation.
Wooden Overcoats – A sitcom about competing funeral directors.