Wednesday, June 29, 2011

Coca Cola "Liquid & Linked"

Wendy Clark discusses "Liquid and Linked" approach to cross-media marketing at the Ad Age Digital Conference in New York.

Watch live streaming video from adage at livestream.com

The strategic vision and thinking behind the Coca Cola Brand marketing.
A must read.

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To Hell with ads, Spark a movement

Here is the great presentation deliverd by @hklefevre on behalf of Strawberry Frog at their Cannes Lions Workshop 2011. About tapping into pop culture and communities and sparking a movement rather than a campaign.

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100+ Beautiful Slides from Cannes Lions 2011

Carrying on his great series of presos this is probably the most comprehensive round you will get on the most brilliant lectures presented at the Cannes Lions 2011 festival.
Always great reading @Jessedee.

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12 Trends from Cannes 2011

I just got back from Cannes and here is a good digital round up of trends hitting our industry. Take a look.

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Monday, June 6, 2011

Music Industry Spins New Business Models

'THE FUTURE IS MEDIEVAL' WITH THE KAISER CHIEFS

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We’re finally able to talk about this. It’s been shrouded in secrecy within the agency for over a year now.

Wieden + Kennedy London have teamed up with The Kaiser Chiefs, B-Unique and and Fiction Records (a division of Universal Music UK) to create a whole new way of releasing an album.

Everybody gets their own bespoke album that they are then allowed to sell on.
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Fans can pick 10 songs out of 20, design their artwork and download their album.

We give them their own web page, banner ads for their blog, posters and social media tools to advertise their album. For every album they sell they get a pound.

If you don’t want to make your own album then you can browse and listen to other people’s and just pick one of them.

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The plan was hatched by our creative Oli Beale and lead singer Ricky Wilson in a fish & chip shop, while on holiday in Cornwall together. The conversation snowballed into a bigger and bigger idea and we’ve had a full-scale team working on this here for months now.


Nothing like this has ever been done before. The financial model has required fundamental changes to the way royalty payments work that couldn’t have been done without the might of Universal Music UK behind it.

It’s been an incredibly exciting meeting of minds. We’ve learnt a lot of things:

1.    Never show a band a Powerpoint deck. “I DON’T EVEN KNOW WHAT I’M LOOKING AT HERE!”
2.    Look after the hardcore fans of bands.
3.    Use the band as creative directors. They are brilliant.
4.    Being a band manager is an insane job that doesn’t allow for sleep. Respect.
5.    Record labels and Ad Agencies are very different places but full of very similar people. I think we all learnt loads from each other.

Who knows what stories this will throw up in the next few weeks?

Will somebody make a fortune selling an album?
Will other bands make their own versions of the album?
Which tracks will emerge as the favourites?

Pop back soon to find out.

Make one yourself here: Take a look here: http://www.kaiserchiefs.com/ 

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Wednesday, June 1, 2011

The Butterfly Effect

I read an article today saying that my old bosses are retiring, well to be exact, it said they were taking a step back, to make way for a new and younger generation of creative managers. I am happy and sad as well.

Happy that my friends are being given a chance to move up, prove themselves, face new challenges and grow from them. Happy the agency feels the need to grow, change and morph into something new and hopefully more powerful.

Sad I guess, because although I left the agency some 7 months ago, in more ways than one, I still consider it home. I had the privilege of working closely with at least two of the agency's partners, but I am happy to say I learnt something different from all three. If I can call myself a professional today, it's because they gave me the opportunity  to grow, nurtured my curiosity and fed me with ever more difficult challenges. 

I recently read somewhere that when caterpillars morph into a butterfly, at the cocoon stage - if you were to open the cocoon - there is nothing but goo. I guess it takes a lot of energy to create real, pervasive change and create something truly beautiful. Something that can generate a butterfly effect. For those of you not familiar with the concept, the theory goes that something as delicate as the flapping of a butterfly's wings can cause a tremendous ripple effect on the other side of the world.

I know this may sound like rambling to some of you, but I had to get this of my chest. So to my friends and former bosses, I wis 'Bon vent' (french for may the wind always be in your back).

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