I love this new campaign by Dove. It features a forensic sketch artist creating images of women as they describe themselves, and as others who they have recently met, see them. All images where created without actually seeing the person, instead relying on how each person interview described them. Subjects were then shown the images created side be side, and asked to … [Read more...]
Creativity on the street: get noticed & get business!
Turning everyday street objects into ads can be a clever vehicle to leverage a campaign. As we all know, the coffee wars between McDonalds, Tim Hortons and Starbucks have heated up significantly. It’s no accident that McDonalds executes a major push, with a weeklong free coffee giveaway, during Tim Horton’s Roll up the Rim to win campaign. Here a cheeky street ad they did … [Read more...]
The power of storytelling + a dash of synchronicity
I was recently travelling on business, and had the occasion to be transferring planes in Toronto on Friday Feb 8th. That’s the day that Ontario and the whole east coast where hammered by one of the worst snowstorms in decades. Arriving from snowless Vancouver en route to Montreal, I knew immediately that my connecting flight would not be taking off anytime soon. I based this … [Read more...]
Newspapers in 2013: Not dead, just different
As Mark Twain, noted American humourist declared in 1897, “The reports of my death were greatly exaggerated.” The same could be said of print newspapers in 2013. For much of the last century, print media organizations have staked their revenue success on the business of selling readers to advertisers. Circulation, readers per copy and time spent with the publication has … [Read more...]
Will we ‘Graph Search’ instead of Google search soon?
Graph Search is a recently announced feature from Facebook and it’s potentially a game changer in the search category, currently dominated by Google. Getting people to utilize a new search tool within Facebook, is all aimed at keeping them within the platform, where the company can monetize their presence through targeted business advertising tied back to their search results. … [Read more...]
