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Barton F. Graf's 'One Continuous Floor' Parodies Barbarian Group's Superdesk

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In one of the drollest video deliveries we have ever seen, Barton F. Graf 9000's Gerry Graf and "spacial philosopher" Rose Sacktor offer a tour of the agency's office highlighting its amazing features such as its one continuous floor, see through materials otherwise known as windows, discontinuous desks and poles that prevent the floor above from falling on your head.

Nothing like dry wit to sensationalize normality.

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by Steve Hall    Apr- 8-14    
Topic: Agencies



Baby Chicks Take First Flight to Death in Student-Created PETA Video

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David Hakimyar, a student at the Filmadademy Baden-Wuerttemberg in Germany, created a commercial for PETA which tells the sad story of what happens to male chicks as they attempt to take first flight.

While the work is not official PETA work, the cause group did give Hakimyar permission to use the PETA logo and he tells us PETA will be posting the video on their official channel as well.

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by Steve Hall    Apr- 8-14    
Topic: Cause



Holland's Pim de Koel Aims to Teach Americans What's Really Cool

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Remember Pim de Koel? The guy from Holland who, last year, was all about what's cool and why Holland has it in spades. Created by Mustache, the video garnered upwards of one million views.

Now, Pim de Koel is back and he's pondering the question, "Can cool be taught?" In episode one of new video series, also created by Mustache, Holland's King of Cool grabs one American and teaches him Holland's original cool.

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by Steve Hall    Apr- 8-14    
Topic: Campaigns



Most Interesting Man Solves Depressing Realization Cinco de Mayo Falls On A Monday

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The Most Interesting Man is bummed out. He's depressed. He's sad. Why? Because Cinco de Mayo falls on a Monday. A Monday! What a bummer! No one wants to party on a Monday. That'd be like trying to get the Geico Camel to do his Hump Day thing on a Saturday.

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by Steve Hall    Apr- 8-14    
Topic: Brands



How Predictive Analytics Can Bring Internet-Like Accountability to TV Advertising

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These days, most enterprise marketers use a multichannel brand awareness and business development strategy to spread the word about their company, products and services via a variety of platforms including digital ads and social media marketing. But, sadly, television still gets the lion's share of ad spend. Isn't it time for enterprise brand marketers to demand their TV campaigns work harder and smarter?

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by Steve Hall    Apr- 8-14    
Topic: Television, Tools



Pervy Upskirt Shot Touts American Apparel Miniskirt Line

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It's been a while since we've seen shenanigans from American Apparel. But an image currently on their website promoting a new line of miniskirts features a women wearing a pleated miniskirt bent over exposing her underwear. And it caught our attention.

As many have noted, the brand seems uninterested in actually showing the skirt and far more interested in pervy titillation.

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by Steve Hall    Apr- 4-14    
Topic: Racy



5 Ways Brands (And Agencies) Can Avoid Looking Like Pompous Bufoons

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Movie critics are a tough bunch. They rarely, if ever, are impressed with "movie magic" such as computer-generated imagery and gee-whiz special effects. In their minds, if the script is weak, no amount of technical prowess will save the film.

So it is in the marketing world. Otherwise savvy executives are easily caught up in the "marketing magic" of social networks, online analytics, mobile services and the like. But without a strong plan for your brand in place, all the social campaigns, multi-dimensional database modeling, and mobile apps in the world won't accomplish your marketing goals.

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by Steve Hall    Apr- 4-14    
Topic: Opinion



Hip Hop Artists Uses AT&T's 'It's Not Complicated' Ad to Promote New Album

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To help promote the launch of Future's sophomore album, Honest, hip hop insider Karen Civil has released a video that pays homage to AT&T's It's Not Complicated campaign. The video, which as far as we can tell, is an unaired spot originally created for the campaign (we are confirming), features It's Not Complicated frontman Beck Bennett and the usual bunch of kids.

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by Steve Hall    Apr- 3-14    
Topic: Video



That Generic Brand Video Is Approaching 1 Million Views

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That video from stock video provider Dissolve, which was inspired by poetic literature written by Kendra Eash, is approaching one million views on YouTube. The video itself, entitled This is A Generic Brand Video, is a collection of stock footage from Dissolve strung together with a voiceover which mocks the ridiculousness of every real branded video in existence.

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by Steve Hall    Apr- 3-14    
Topic: Video



Evian Baby Gets Jiggy With Spider-Man

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Last week, we were teased that Evian would be unleashing another dancing baby video featuring Spider-Man. Today, it's been released and while it's not quite as fun as the original, it's still got a bit of a kick.

As he swings thought the city, Spider-Man meets a miniature version of himself and, like in the original, the two have a face to face dance off.

Currently stuck at 301+ views, the video has 244 likes and many positive comments. People seem to like the tie in and are profusely professing their love for Spidey.

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by Steve Hall    Apr- 1-14    
Topic: Video



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