Creative

Super Bowl LI. What I saw & what I missed.

By Gonzalo López Martí – Creatve director, etc. / LMMiami.com

  • Here’s a review of the ads on last Sunday’s annual sports & marketing extravaganza.
  • As usual, I wrote this off the top of my head, making the effort to view the material as actual consumers do: surrounded by noisy friends and family, eating processed food, mildly inebriated on cheap beer and simultaneously checking various mobile devices.

Honda CR-V launches new ad during Super Bowl 51

The TV commercial titled “Best Friends” was developed under Honda’s ‘Power of Dreams’ strategy and is a follow up of the award-winning “Space for Dreams”, a previous CR-V spot created by Orcí.

Anheuser-Busch new Spanish-language TV commercials during the Super Bowl

This marks the second consecutive year that Bud Light breaks a Spanish-language ad during the Super Bow and this marks the first-time ever that Estrella Jalisco is featured in a Super Bowl ad.

State Farm – Los Asegurados

Part of State Farm’s Hispanic social presence, Alma also developed a mini online sitcom rooted in Hispanic insights called Los Asegurados or The Insured in English.

Sprint – “”Como la mía”

Created by ALMA, the Miami-based Multicultural Ad Agency, the vision was to continue to deepen consumer awareness and affinity through the love and connection to music. This new spot builds on the latest thread and trilogy of musical driven creative featuring the former Verizon spokesperson, Paul Marcarelli, who switched to Sprint.

Gallegos creates United Collective

John Gallegos, Founder and CEO of independent creative agency Grupo Gallegos, announced the launch of a new communications group named UNITED COLLECTIVE.

Chicano Batman and Johnnie Walker join forces to reintroduce “This Land Is Your Land” Video

At a time when the topic of cultural diversity is at an all-time high, LA-based Latino soul band Chicano Batman and Johnnie Walker released a reimagined version of the iconic American folk song “This Land Is Your Land,” along with an immersive music video, that is poised to be an inspirational message of hope for modern America.

McDonald’s “Three Kings” TV Commercial

In Latin American countries, the most magical Christmas night for children isn’t on December 25th, but rather on January 6th, the night in which the Three Kings flood the house with gifts.

Visual Trends 2017

Visual trends can be difficult to identify as they are happening, but Getty Images manages to do just that. For its annual trend report, the photo service analyzes imagery in pop culture and advertising, as well as data from its 400 million annual downloads, to predict the visual trends that will shape the year to come.

Establish a Creative Development Process that Works [INSIGHT]

Successful marketers know that people engage with ideas that are meaningful so they try to create powerful, insights-based campaigns that resonate with their target audience. Achieving success isn’t easy, and game changing work can be thwarted by any number of pressures. But marketers who develop a consistent, disciplined approach to creative development increase their probability of generating stronger brand value and business performance–the ultimate success criteria.  By Ann Green – Managing Partner Creative Development Practice at Kantar Millward Brown
 

DOJ Probes Agency Commercial Production Practices

For years, the AICE — the trade group for independent post-production houses — has been loudly complaining about the ad industry practice of “check bids,” and other unfair practices utilized by Adland in the course of producing commercials for their clients. Now it appears that the U.S. Department of Justice is looking into the matter.

TV Ad Needs The Quality Of Good TV: Strong Storytelling

Does the advertising of your TV content — a commercial, a TV program – have any “curious empathy”?

Coming Soon: The Creative War Room Of The Future

Remember when all the rage was to set up a “war room” for monitoring social media while a campaign was live?  The goal of these efforts was to enable brands to operate in real time, responding to customer feedback.  

Keep Walking America

For nearly 200 years, Johnnie Walker has inspired the world with stories of personal progress and today the brand announces the new Keep Walking America campaign, which is yet another powerful collection of stories celebrating the countless achievements, unwavering optimism, hardwork and tireless progression of the great people who call America home.

Welcome To The World Of Connected Creativity

There’s a trend in digital marketing that will result in what I am referring to as Connected Creativity.  It’s the ability for marketers to leverage data, create more engaging, more personalized storylines across channels and devices, and be truly creative in their execution.  This three-dimensional strategy represents the evolution of the role of creative in a digitally driven marketing environment.  

How to Crash the Cultural Conversation Through Newsjacking

According to the Digital Marketing Glossary, newsjacking may be defined as “the art of using news events or stories for marketing and advertising purposes.”  The idea is to identify breaking stories and find a creative way to become a part of them.  by Wegs, Chief Idea Officer / Dieste

Want Better Advertising? Write Better Briefs!

Well, if you want to avoid “crap” and “noise,” start by delivering an awesome brief.

Diego Luna and Jarritos partner to share the Journey of Immigrants in the United States

Director, Diego Luna and Jarritos, the popular Mexican soft drink brand, joined forces to produce Jarritos’ most recent spot, “The Journey”. The short film showcases the struggles, and triumphs of immigrants living in the United States, while establishing Jarritos as a brand that celebrates the very diversity that makes its consumers and this country so great.

Allstate Unveils New Hispanic Campaign

Featuring a fresh and modern look and feel, the Hispanic campaign will include new Spanish-language TV and digital spots that convey product and service offerings aimed at making consumers’ lives easier and demonstrating the value of being in Good Hands.

Alma: Agency of the Year at USH Idea Awards

Each year, Circulo Creativo rounds up the who’s who in U.S. Hispanic advertising to host the USH Idea Awards. Together, the industry’s top creatives award the best pieces, and from them also select an elite top 5 best ideas of the year. For 2016, the show also introduced the Agency of the Year title.

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