January, 2012 Archive

I love BIG & BOLD productions and we’ve nailed one with the Microsoft Advertising Story Video featuring (the very lovely) Felicia Day.

The campaign centres around the Microsoft Advertising Story Awards which is a competition we’re running to challenge brand advertisers, marketers and agencies.

More on the competition in Richard Dunmall’s post: Challenging Global Marketers and Agencies to be Storytellers and Win a trip to Cannes! 

Check out Felicia’s teaser for the advertising awards too!

Enjoy and more coming soon!

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I love these videos the Cannes Lions chaps do. This one has Yukio Nakayama, Executive Creative Director at Dentsu giving 5 tips on winning one of the coveted awards.

Love the fact he says to keep the subtitles slow as many of the judges don’t actually have English as their first language.

Nicely edited and presented little clip too!

Now who’s going to Cannes this year?

Just goes to show how much work goes into setting up an experience like that! Bet it didn’t take so long to break down though.

The above was filmed and edited by my buddy Bryan Schaeffer, who has quite the fantastic show reel!

Links to videos here and here!

Enjoy!

My new favourite place in Seattle is just down from our office on Westlake Avenue. It’s just opened and I ate there 3 lunchtimes in a row last week. If you get there early you’ll get a seat, the service is excellent, and the food is fabulous.

What’s more fabulous are the prices! $7.95 for the above – chicken teriyaki, beef yakiniku, tofu, salad, rice and miso soup.

$7.95!

Mio Sushi does a great happy hour which I’d frequent too if I didn’t want to rush back home to tuck Maggie into bed!

Anyone for a Mount Rainier roll??

Fulfilled a career ambition this week and got 5 minutes with the charming CEO of WPP, Sir Martin Sorrell at CES 2012 in Las Vegas.

In this little shimmy, we chat about advertising spend and where marketers should be concentrating their budgets, and he talks about mobile being the big bet for the near future.

Allow me to keep beaming for a little while longer!

With a little bit of help from mummy, Maggie knocks the high bit right out of the park!