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News from June 2009

TV has (finally) been trumped in Cannes’ Film category

Remember when BMW Films came out? So different, so unique was this “online mini-movie” that despite it having the word “film” in its name, it won glory at the 2002 Cannes Lions, not as a Film winner, but as the Cyber Grand Prix. Back then, “Film” meant TV or cinema spot.

“Cannes Zions” Promotes Israeli Advertising

The Cannes Lions might be winding down (isn’t tonight usually the major party night?) but the Cannes Zions website is in full swing. This project is “kinda like our way of saying to the world “start paying attention to the Israeli advertising community,” says Dori Ben-Israel, head of Mizbala, a Tel Aviv based agency specializing in guerrilla marketing.

Killed Ideas: People’s Choice

By now you know about Killed Ideas, the project created by Blurb and curated by Adrant’s Steve Hall that resurrects truly great advertising, design and marketing ideas that somehow never made it out into the real world. Who knows, maybe you’ve already entered it, and if you’re really lucky, perhaps Steve selected your brilliant piece-that-was-never-to-be for Vol. 1 of the Killed Ideas book.

MJ and Commercials

The King of Pop has passed on.

In an eerie coincidence, we at ihaveanidea were discussing this Michael Jackson Pepsi spot earlier this afternoon, mere hours before hearing about the untimely death of Michael Jackson. For you youngins out there, the boy in the red jacket is Alfonso Ribeiro, AKA Carlton Banks from The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air.

Wrath of Cannes III TONIGHT!

The ihaveanidea team took a hiatus from the Cannes Lions Festival this year — you know, the economy being the way it is and all — but our friends over at Woods Witt Dealy & Sons are continuing their tradition of celebrating junior work that didn’t quite make it to the French Riviera.

Portfolio Night 7 Promo Vids

Portfolio Night 7 is in full swing here in ihaveanidea-land, and as usual, we’ve allowed our Host Agencies in each city to have some fun in showcasing the event in their city. Here’s a collection of their results so far, an interesting look at how the same evening is promoted in different part of the [...]

New Hire at David&Goliath

David Angelo, chairman and chief creative officer of David&Goliath—the LA-based independent creative agency—announced today the appointment of Napper Tandy as associate creative director for the agency’s LA office.

Leo Burnett Cannes Predictions Reel

Our friends over at Leo Burnett Worldwide have sent us their annual Cannes prediction list, and we thought this was a perfect piece to share with the ihaveanidea audience.

Do you Digg this ad?

A few months ago Digg decided to ditch Microsoft’s ad platform and politely told them “we’ll take it from here.”
Digg now has announced a new type of ad platoform integrated into their very own core of user-submitted and rated content. Instead of just slapping in a banner into the content and charging advertisers a bulk [...]

Mad Avenue a’la American Pie

There’s not much to write here other than you have to watch this.

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