Un air de Godard chez le maroquinier Lamarthe

Elettra Rossellini aux faux airs de Jean Seberg ... le retour d' "A bout de souffle" par Zoe Cassavetes, la fille d'un de mes réalisateurs préférés : superbe !
C'est LA

"Libre comme l'air" et "Deedee" : quand les shampoings s'y mettent...

J'en parle car c'est ce à quoi je me destine : proposer aux annonceurs de raconter des histoires sur le web, et les mobiles et puis pourquoi pas pour finir en télé : mais j'ai quitté

la télé car je crois plus aux web et
aux mobiles pour produire ces petites pastilles pleines de fraîcheur , servies chaudes et à

n'importe quelle heure du jour et de la nuit sur mon laptop...

Sunsilk/Libre comme l'air et Garnier/Deedee se mouillent : on attendait pas forcément aussi vite ce secteur d'activité préempter de cette manière les nouveaux médias : c'est à saluer, car ça met en confiance sur le potentiel !

C'était un poisson d'Avril...!!!!!

Suite à mon post du 29 Mars sur votre avatar à envoyer pour la 1ère publicité virtuelle dans le monde virtuel de Second Life... je me demandais où nous allions... et bien, c'est officiel: POISSON D'AVRIL !

Les apéros du jeudi : 1ers retours...

de la part de Janique sur son blog : le blog de la ménagère

les petites annonces interactives : à suivre

C'est ici pour l'annonce LIVE

Source : Transnets

Wanted // Avatars dans Second Life

Posté depuis cet après midi, 13h

MAIS OU VA T ON ??!!!!!

TriBeCa recherche 50 avatars dans Second Life pour le tournage d’une publicité virtuelle pour un annonceur très tendance. La publicité passera ensuite sur les écrans plats des lieux les plus branchés de SL.

Si vous êtes disponible en semaine, merci de nous envoyer vos mensurations et votre photo le plus rapidement possible. Nous vous invitons à envoyer cela à : sylvain[at]tribeca.fr

Source : Blog Marketing Alternatif

...A Pékin, une clinique militaire désintoxique les « accros » au Net

On découvre aujourd'hui que les autorités chinoises réservent un traitement particulier aux jeunes accros à Internet et au jeu en ligne. Du moins, à ceux qui ont les moyens de payer, ou leur famille. Près de Pékin, une clinique militaire se propose de les désintoxiquer, moyennant 10 000 yuans (soit 1300 dollars, 974 euros) par mois, rapporte l'AFP

Depuis son ouverture fin 2004, l'établissement, situé aux abords de la capitale chinoise, a déjà reçu plus de 1500 patients (âgés de 14 à 36 ans). Dès leur arrivée dans le quartier militaire de Daxing, les jeunes sujets sont soumis à un régime spartiate. Réveil tous les matins à 6h30 et interdiction de sortir les dix premiers jours. Le tout étant agrémenté de sport, de séances de thérapie et d'une (re)prise de contact avec le monde réel (laver son linge, jouer avec de vrais objets...)

Pour les plus récalcitrants et pour les patients qui souffrent de troubles du sommeil, les responsables de la clinique ont prévu un programme intégrant des électrochocs de faible voltage, à travers des aiguilles placées sur le corps, en référence à la technique de l'acupuncture, précise l'AFP.

Selon le fondateur du centre, Tao Ran, cité par l'agence française, il existe en Chine près de 2,5 millions de « drogués » de l'Internet. Un chiffre important rapporté à la population d'un pays comme la France, mais qu'il convient de relativiser au regard d'un pays-continent comme la Chine, qui compte aujourd'hui 1,3 milliard d'habitants. Il y aurait, selon l'AFP, une trentaine de cliniques spécialisées dans le traitement de la dépendance au Net et au jeu en ligne.

Une fois leur traitement terminé, les patients ne sont pas à l'abri d'une rechute. Mais concernant ce point, les autorités de Pékin ont tout prévu. L'ouverture de nouveaux cybercafés est en effet interdite depuis le début de l'année 2007. Et pour les lieux déjà en activité, leur accès est désormais interdit aux mineurs.

Source : O1Net

Vote Different

Ah si nos candidats avaient de bons conseillers en communication...on se régalerait !

Le 29 mars, à partir de 19h30 à l'Arsenal, 4è

Venez prendre un verre et jeter un coup d'oeil sur ce que le projet d'une nouvelle chaîne de tv - qui promeut les valeurs d'une société impliquée dans la vie de la cité, concernée par l'avenir de la planète, au travers d'un mode de vie plus collectif - a inspiré aux internautes, qu'ils soient designers, musiciens, auteurs etc...


Pour en savoir plus, c'est sur le site des apéros du jeudi

Votez Marcel !

... sur le site très sympa fait par Chewing cum et son besognieux patron, Samuel Katan (hello !), pour l'assureur MAAF qui devient occasionnellement le Mouvement pour un Avenir Assurément Formidable...

En ces temps de campagne, en avant pour une promenade bucolique...

Eisner Promises Killer Content From New Web Studio

Qui a dit que le web était un truc de d'jeun's ?!
L'ancien patron de Disney veut faire oublier LonelyGirl...

FORMER DISNEY CEO MICHAEL EISNER on Monday officially opened the doors to a new studio geared to producing and distributing quality plot-driven Web video.

Dubbed Vuguru, and backed by Eisner's investment firm The Tornante Co., the studio's first series, "Prom Queen," is slated to premiere online April 2 with a roster of advertisers including beverage marketers FIJI Water and POM Wonderful.

The debut series aims to knock LonelyGirl15 off her perch as the queen of YouTube. "Prom Queen" is a scripted, serialized mystery told over 80 episodes--each running 90 seconds long--and set against the final two months of a high school class's senior year leading up to prom night.

"In the past few years, the development of exciting and innovative digital media platforms and technologies has outpaced the creation of truly great content," said Eisner, a veteran storyteller, in a statement announcing the launch.

The short-form episodes will be released daily across various Web platforms, and are aimed at young, early adopters of easily digestible media clips. The series will also have its own Web home at PromQueen.tv.

"The daily blast of short-form content has huge potential to create a tight bond between the show's characters, viewers and advertisers," said Douglas Cheney, co-founder of the independent production team Big Fantastic, which teamed with Vuguru to produce "Prom Queen."

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Pour lire la suite

MSN Creates Online Content That Actually Draws People

Quelques case studies américains toujours plein d'enseignements...


... et un lien vers un contenu qui illustre à nouveau, sur une thématique pas des plus sexy, l'énorme potentiel des contenus de marque
Il y a 3 ans j'étais allée voir YahooFinance pour leur proposer 4 émissions de vulgarisation de l'univers de la finance... un peu top sans doute; bravo à Barclays pour Bienvenue chez les Barclays !

Heineken Skypecasts Concert

Heineken is known for its innovative approach to marketing and like many brands it's active in the area of music. That activity includes sponsorship of music events and venues and it's always looking for new ways to get in touch with its target audience.

In recent years, it's worked closely with Qi-ideas to develop online innovation to help break through the clutter.
Last September, it took that approach to a new level.

Internet telephony brand Skype introduced Skypecasting in August 2006, a new feature that allows up to 100 consumers to be in direct contact at any one time. Heineken on Sept. 8 became the first to host a live concert broadcast via Skype throughout the world. Dutch band Johan broadcast an exclusive acoustic gig to an audience who had won their right to participate via a contest on Heineken's website.

The great advantage of the Skypecast is that unlike a webcast, it's possible to have a two-way interaction with listeners asking questions and applauding.
While the gig only lasted a short while, the activity also created video content for the brand that could be viewed online for months after the actual event.

Heineken generated a host of free public relations placements from the global media first as well as garnering early learning about a new medium that could become an important channel in the future.

Je suis fan du travail de James Nachtwey depuis longtemps : il est un des 3 lauréats des TED Prizes

Ci-joint une vidéo des 3 gagnants

Pour retrouver l'oeuvre de cet immense photographe de guerre, son site

What's the Biggest Trend or Challenge in Digital Media?

In case there was still any doubt, digital is emerging "as the hub of marketing," and it's changing the ad world at a rapid pace. Advertising Age's Emily Tan asked some of digital's top movers to identify the biggest trends and challenges that lie ahead.

For These Execs It's All About Video -How to Make It, Monetize It, Distribute It

Here are excerpts from their e-mail responses.

Source: AdAge.com

Requiem pour NIKE

The thrill of victory and the agony of defeat are physically felt in a 60'' spot for Brand Jordan.
Set to Mozart's Requiem, the ad promotes the Air Jordan XX2 shoe
An other jewel from Wieden&Kennedy NY

Scion rolls out second branded film

Toyota Brand's 'Stomping Grounds' Sticks With Storytelling, Not Ad Message

Toyota Motor Sales USA's cutting-edge, youth-centric brand Scion is rolling out its second branded-entertainment film, the 22-minute, documentary-style "Stomping Grounds." If you don't catch a screening at a film festival, the short will be airing on Scion Broadband, the car brand's online TV network.

Source : Madison&Vine

Video Plays Key Role In Digital Magazine Future

ALTHOUGH ONLINE VIDEO ISN'T YET a profit center for many magazine publishers, it should achieve profitability in the near future, according to a panel of magazine executives discussing online video at "Magazines 24/7," a conference hosted by the Magazine Publishers of America in Manhattan on Tuesday. One key was closing the gap between online video ad rates and those of traditional TV.

Paul Maidment, the editor of Forbes.com and executive editor of Forbes magazine, noted that Forbes.com's video streams reach more daily viewers than CNBC's traditional TV ops. But "they still get ad revenue in multiples, and multiples of multiples" of what Forbes receives, Maidment said. Even if online video doesn't achieve parity with traditional TV, the disparity suggests there is "a big pot of money out there" for magazines delivering online video.

In the short term, magazines will continue delivering and expanding their online video content even if it isn't a big profit center, said Todd Unger, senior vice president of Time4 Digital, recently acquired by Bonnier. "If we don't provide it," he added, "there are people in these verticals" that will. Likewise, Ann Shoket, editor in chief of Seventeen magazine, warned: "If you don't have video, you can't have viewers. It's as simple as that."

Asked what form effective video advertising will finally take, Maidment conceded, "no one has yet found a workable advertising model. At the moment, we're mimicking TV." However, this is already changing, he noted, predicting that ads will "get shorter and shorter ... you're now seeing pre-rolls getting down to three seconds. You'll see more things heading that way."

Source: OnlineMediaDaily

MISSION ZERO: because Power is nothing without control...

!!!!!!! TARANTINONESQUE !!!!!!
(click to watch the film)

You said Communitainment ?

INCREASINGLY, CONSUMERS ARE AIDING AND abetting the melding of communication, community, and entertainment in a trend dubbed "communitainment" in a new report from Piper Jaffray.

In the 425-page report entitled "The User Revolution," the investment bank describes the emergence of "communitainment," a trend involving consumers moving communication beyond a mere exchange of information to facilitate an exchange of content, ideas, and entertainment within an online social context.
As Internet consumption continues to steal time spent with other media, advertisers need to learn how to tap into online communities to reinforce their brands.

"Communitainment" is a type of content consumption that is new to the Internet, says report author Safa Rashtchy, who researched developments supporting the phenomenon for nearly two years. Rashtchy is managing director/senior analyst of the investment bank's Internet Media (IM), Commerce and Marketing practice.

The report suggests that "Communitainment" will at least partially replace other forms of content--i.e., TV, magazines, and even big Internet sites in favor of niche content sites.
Piper Jaffray projects that one-half of all content consumption will be "Communitainment" over the next decade driven by IM, social networking, photo and video-sharing sites--up from around 30% in 2006.
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"Communitainment" and time spent on the Internet and on so-called Usites such as YouTube, Heavy.com, Facebook, Yahoo Answers, Google Video, and MySpace has radically redefined content consumption patterns, in the process "creating confusion for advertisers and agencies alike. In a way, we believe Usites are the Internet's democraticized version of the reality TV trend with users placed in control of content creation," the report states.

The implications of "Communitainment" are profound.
"Not only are these consumers not available to see commercial messages from other [media] channels," Rashtchy said, "but they're also heavily engaged in activity that they would not like to be distracted from by commercial messages."

When consumers watch TV, he observed, there remains an unwritten contract that they get commercials in exchange for free programming. Of course, this contract is subverted on a daily basis by DVRs.
With "Communitainment," Rashtchy noted, "there is no such contract available. Content is created and shared by users. It's a closed system and advertisers have to find a way to get into it. But once you get in, you're actually part of the family." Part of the family, that is, if advertisers can indeed gain consumers' trust.

The report suggests that advertisers need to become more integrated in the activities in which consumers engage, offering free content and services to align themselves with consumers' interests: "If done successfully, this type of advertiser engagement could have a significant long-term impact as consumers will be willing and eager distributors of the advertisers' message and brand to the rest of the community."

In addition, the report states: "The importance of the Communitainment trend is not just in shifting traffic patterns but, more importantly, in the way users view content as a free-flowing part of the communication spectrum. As such, many participants in communitainment view content such as music or video as an integral part of their experience and not as a distinct entity for which they have to pay," the report states, qualifying: "Of course, beyond communitainment, there are other contexts in which users are willing to either pay for content or, at a minimum, receive an advertisement in exchange for the content."

Source : OnlineMediaDaily