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[ Ad Age ] Round-up of Cannes 2009 Coverage

July 7th, 2009

Good round-up of Cannes coverage.
My favorite article is one from Jeff Goodby on the “Cab Test”, how all the award winning creative that agencies are doing is not really that relevant to the “People”. “Ask a cab driver if they have seen your award winning work…”

To me it is somewhat similar to the Art World, at an art opening everyone congrats you on your “wonderful work” but only a few people see it and/or are impacted by it.

http://adage.com/cannes09/

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[ Fast Company ] Can NBC Brand Itself as the Green Network?

July 7th, 2009

Would you watch a TV network just because it is somehow “greener” than the others? NBC Universal is betting on it.

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[ NY TIMES ] Internet Companies and Ad Agencies Go From Old Enemies to New Friends

July 7th, 2009

By ERIC PFANNER
From NY Times

Great article from NY Times on how Advertising agencies and Tech are working to becoming BFF’s.

CANNES, France — Advertising agencies and Internet companies once viewed one another as foes, but are now coming together to harness the potential for online advertising. As with many other segments, online ad spending has slowed from its previous breakneck pace during the deep recession, forcing companies to devise new ways to chase fewer dollars.

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[ NY TIMES ] Rise of Web Video, Beyond 2-Minute Clips

July 7th, 2009

 

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By BRIAN STELTER
NY Times

When motion pictures were invented at the end of the 19th century, most films were shorter than a minute, because of the limitations of technology. A little more than a hundred years later when Web videos were introduced, they were also cut short, but for social as well as technical reasons.

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