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May 20th, 2013

BRANDED ENTERTAINMENT

Ad of the Day: Hot Wheels AdWeek 05.13.13 How much Hot Wheels fantasy can you stand? For the past couple of years, the Mattel-owned brand has focused on appealing to older kids (and maybe a few nostalgic geezers) who are still boys at heart. That’s meant building real-life versions of Hot Wheels toys as staging grounds for totally insane, and sometimes record-breaking, automotive stunts—like near-vertical drops,upside-down driving, and corkscrew jumps.

How to Attract Eyeballs to Branded Content AdWeek 05.13.13 Web publishers and big brands are starting to feel the pull of Gravity. The four-year-old Web personalization tech firm, founded by former Myspace COO Amit Kapur, helps publishers surface more relevant content to their users based on a wealth of data. Since opening its platform to publishers via an API in February, Gravity has been adopted by 50-plus sites, including TechCrunch, Sporting News and Wetpaint. And more recently, Gravity has started helping brands like Gap, McDonald’s and Tide to attract more eyeballs to branded content.

A Top Linkedin Exec on Why Content Marketing Matter More than Ever Fast Company 05.10.13 In the past few years, there’s been a real transformation in the way people consume information and communicate. Fueled by the mass adoption of social platforms, this transformation in consumer behavior demands that the ways we market also evolve. This is especially true in business-to-business where brands compete in a content-flooded environment with countless information sources to capture buyers’ attention.

ADVERTISING

ABC to Test Expanding Nielsen Ratings to Mobile AdAge 05.14.13 ABC will begin measuring advertising in videos viewed with mobile and tablet apps during a trial run with Nielsen, the network said at its upfront presentation to ad buyers Tuesday afternoon. It will be the first test expanding Nielsen’s Online Campaign Ratings to mobile, allowing ABC to measure audience demographics and understand the reach and frequency of online campaigns within apps, according to executives. Nielsen’s online ratings currently include video viewed on computer and tablet browsers.

Facebook ‘Partner Categories’ Boosts Ad Engagement Online Media Daily 05.13.13 Facebook in April debuted a new targeting feature dubbed partner categories that uses members’ online purchasing histories and location to tailor ads. The self-serve ad option allows marketers to target ads across some 500 specific audience segments using third-party data from providers including Acxiom, Epsilon and Datalogix.

13 Timeless Lessons from the Father of Advertising Copy Blogger 05.10.13 In 1962, Time magazine called David Ogilvy “the most sought-after wizard in today’s advertising industry.” In his years as an advertising executive and copywriter, Ogilvy created some of the world’s most successful and iconic marketing campaigns, including the legendary Man in the Hathaway Shirt, plus notable efforts for Schwepps, Rolls Royce, and the island of Puerto Rico among many others.

ENTERTAINMENT

IFP selects its 2013 lab participants realscreen 05.15.13 The Independent Filmmaker Project (IFP) has selected 10 docs to take part in its upcoming Independent Filmmaker Labs, including films on a prison escape artist, a combat veteran who becomes a farmer, and a Tibetan art project. The annual year-long fellowship for first-time directors will see the creative teams of each film taking part in three week-long sessions over the year, beginning with the Time Warner Foundation Documentary Completion Lab held in New York City on May 13 to 17. The mentorship program helps the first-time filmmakers through post-production, and focuses exclusively on low-budget features, under $1 million.

Netflix is the Streaming King but Amazon, Hulu Aren’t Doing Bad Either brandchannel 05.15.13 While Amazon, Hulu and grandfather HBO all crow about significant online growth, Netflix continues its lead, accounting for one third of all streaming into North American homes since 2010. A new report from broadband tracker Sandvine finds that Netflix’s share of prime-time “downstream” traffic delivered over fixed networks is 32.3 percent, just a tad off its projected estimate of 33 percent last November. Amazon and HBO have held fairly steady, the former down from 1.75 percent to 1.31 percent, and the latter down from 0.5 percent to 0.34 percent, while Hulu actually gained, up from 1.1 percent to 2.41 percent. 

Meet the Man Who Keeps Netflix Afloat in the Cloud Mashable 05.13.13 With thousands of film and TV titles available, Netflix is a cloud computing giant — and it needs to be, since it makes up one-third of North American Internet traffic during peak hours. Imagine, then, if it were your job to push Netflix into the cloud, working every day to make the service more accessible and efficient for more than 36 million subscribers in 40 countries.

MEDIA & TECH

ESPN to Show Highlights on Twitter in Near Real-Time Mashable 05.14.13 Twitter and ESPN’s relationship just got a bit cozier. The sports giant will publish an increasing amount of video highlights on Twitter shortly after they happen live in a bid for more reach and ad dollars, the Wall Street Journal reported Tuesday morning. ESPN will post short, ad-supported video highlights to Twitter from events including World Cup qualifiers, college football and the X-Games. Twitter users will be able to watch those clips via the web or mobile devices, while advertising partners sponsoring the highlights will buy promoted tweets on the social network.

Amazon Hopes to Build Better App Platform with Addition of Amazon Coins brandchannel 05.13.13 For what began as a bookseller,  Amazon has grown into a sizeable and powerful empire, but what’s an empire without its own money? The web retailer has now introduced its own virtual currency, Amazon Coins. To introduce customers to the product, Amazon has dumped 500 coins (worth $5) into the accounts of every new and existing Kindle Fire user for them to use for apps or in-app purchases, TechCrunch reports. 

Disney-ABC Starts Up First-Of-Its-Kind Watch ABC Service Media Daily News 05.12.13 Starting perhaps the most ambitious live digital video service to date, Disney/ABC Television is launching Watch ABC — the first live broadcast network streaming linear service. “Watch ABC,” where viewers and access ABC Network programming live 24/7 on digital devices, will start up May 14 in New York City and Philadelphia as part of a special limited promotion, timed to the ABC upfront television presentation, and free for all viewers in those markets. Disney-ABC also struck an agreement for Watch ABC with the 13 Hearst-owned ABC affiliated stations which will launch in the coming months.

SUSTAINABILITY

Boston launching citywide ad campaign to bolster sustainability Boston.com 05.14.13 Boston will debut a citywide advertising campaign this week that uses prominent landmarks and local athletes to encourage residents and businesses to adopt more environmentally sustainable habits, like driving less and recycling more. The effort intends to promote Mayor Thomas M. Menino’s goal of dramatically reducing the city’s greenhouse gas emissions over the coming decades.

Patagonia Ups Environmental Commitment with $20 Million Venture Fund brandchannel 05.14.13 Patagonia, a trailblazer in high-end outdoor apparel and environmental advocacy, is stepping up its corporate responsibility commitment to sustainability with $20 Million and Change, a venture capital fund to invest in startups with innovative solutions involving food, water, energy or waste. “We believe in our company’s long-term vision around the environment and areas we want to make change in,” said Rose Marcario, CEO of the newly created holding company Patagonia Works.

Unilever readies first 100% organic haircare range Marketing Magazine 05.13.13 Unilever is launching a new haircare range under its Timotei brand, which it claims will be the UK’s first mass market 100% organic haircare range. The move comes as Unilever looks to revive flagging sales of its Timotei brand. The product range is called Organic Delight and launches on May 20. The range includes shampoos and condition

When it comes to bringing together the best ingredients to make the best memories, Hellmann’s has decades of experience – 100 years to be exact. New York deli-goers discovered a condiment that made their club sandwiches even more delicious. The secret ingredient was the deli owner Richard Hellmann’s family recipe for mayonnaise, which would become one of America’s most enduring and iconic food brands:  Hellmann’s Mayonnaise.

Fast forward 100 years to today, Hellmann’s is inviting fans everywhere to join its birthday celebration and take a trip down memory lane with a century of America’s most delicious recipes. The festivities begin online and culminate in September at Hellmann’s larger-than-life “Blue Ribbon Table” event – set to be the World’s Longest Picnic Table – in New York City.

To celebrate decades of delicious meals, Hellmann’s is teaming up with Chef Mario Batali.  According to Batali, starting with real, quality ingredients remains the first step to creating any delicious, mouthwatering dish.  And, adding a little modern twist to the classic dishes of the past tempts the taste buds.  In Hellmann’s video content series appearing on YouTube and Facebook, Batali shares his exclusive how-to tips and adds modern touches to some of America’s most beloved Hellmann’s recipes.

This series was developed, produced and directed by OgilvyEntertaiment, and we worked closely with Batali’s team to write scripts, cast talent, and create recipes that both reflected the authenticity of Batali and the Hellmann’s brand. Filming occurred over a three-day period in early February. A lot of work went into this exciting series, and OgilvyEntertainment is proud to present the Intro video of “Bringing the Best Together with Mario Batali”. As more episodes and additional content is released, visit the Hellmann’s facebook page and the Hellmann’s YouTube page to view them.

Adweek interviews Doug Scott in Hawaii during the CLIO Awards judging week to chat about the brand spankin’ new Branded Entertainment & Content category.

Watch more interviews with CLIO judges at www.adweek.com/topic/six-clio-questions. For the full list of 2013 winners, visit www.clioawards.com/catalog/2013/branded_entertainment/.

Amongst the happy Ogilvy crowd is OgilvyEntertainment’s Creative Director Otto Bell, fifth from left, and Director of Strategy & Operations Abby Marks, sixth from left. OgilvyEntertainment’s The Horizons Project for client DuPont earned two bronze statues in the inaugural Branded Entertainment & Content category for Mixed Campaign and Television.

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May 13th, 2013

BRANDED ENTERTAINMENT

Coca-Cola Experiments with Isolation and Friendship in China brandchannel 05.08.13 Isolation and loneliness may seem like an odd foundation for a Coca-Cola campaign, but in China, the brand is aiming to bring the smile associated with Coke to a generation afflicted with such attributes as they try to find their way in suddenly booming metropolises. Coca-Cola’s “Friendship Experiment” aims to capture moments of “happiness creation” by inviting “complete strangers to come together and share a moment of connection.” It’s an effort by Chinese photographer Kurt Tang to combat what he saw as the “dispiriting sense of isolation and loneliness” found today in China’s cities.

GE’s Wonderground Game is Latest Collaboration with BuzzFeed brandchannel 05.07.13 In its latest collaboration with BuzzFeed, GE’s Wonderground allows users to explore five US cities via virtual tours, offering up bites of interesting trivia along the way. The multi-platform game avaialble via iOS or online makes use of the media site’s photo content pages in order to immerse users in an eye-opening look through science, design and industrial technology. 

Solving Huge Problems, One Atom at a Time Fast Company 05.04.13 By the time midnight rolled around this past Wednesday, a demonstration by IBM scientists on the subject of atomic-scale magnetic memory had been viewed more than 1 million times–in less than 24 hours; a day later, more than 2 million. Of course, this demonstration took a novel form: it was released to the world as The World’s Smallest Movie (and was so certified by the Guinness Book of World Records). A stop-motion movie telling a simple story, it was made by moving atoms, magnified 100 million times by a scanning tunneling microscope, at -267 degrees C.

ADVERTISING

Child-Abuse Ad Uses Lenticular Printing to Send Kids a Secret Message That Adults Can’t See AdWeek 05.06.13 The ANAR Foundation, a Spanish child-advocacy organization, used lenticular printing in this powerful outdoor ad to send different messages to children and adults. Anyone under about 4-foot-3 sees bruising on the child’s face in the poster, along with ANAR’s hotline number and copy that reads, “If somebody hurts you, phone us and we’ll help you.” People taller than that—i.e., most parents—simply see the child without the bruise and the line, “Sometimes child abuse is only visible to the child suffering it.”

Time Inc. and Sprint Team Up to Conquer Mobile Ads AdWeek 05.05.13 Mobile advertising has lagged consumer behavior, but now Time Inc. and Sprint have struck a wide-ranging deal to crack the burgeoning market. The deal lets the No. 1 U.S. magazine publisher tap into the carrier’s 56-million user base through Sprint’s personalized ad-targeting service, Pinsight Media+. Advertisers will have access to Sprint’s mobile portal, ad networks like Jumptap and third-party publishers like AccuWeather.

Brands Embrace Mobile Social Advertising Online Media Daily 05.03.13 First-quarter earnings reports from companies including Facebook, LinkedIn and Yelp this week highlighted the growing role that mobile plays in social networking and other online companies as their users are increasingly accessing their services from devices rather than the desktop.

ENTERTAINMENT

Zynga Makes Inifinite Runner Games Social With “Running With Friends” Mashable 05.09.13 Chances are by now, you’ve probably heard of Temple Run. The infinite runner-style game has you run through a virtual world level-free, trying to last as long as you possibly can without dying. Highly popular, the original version of the game is currently the 9th most downloaded iOS app of all time, and has spawned an exceptionally popular sequel, as well as several Disney-themed versions.

‘Vogue,’ ‘Wired’ to Launch Online TV Channels This Month Mashable 05.03.13 Conde Nast Entertainment is ramping up its digital video network, launching channels for Vogue and Wired later this month. New weekly shows, including the network’s first scripted series, are also being added to the channels Glamour and GQ debuted in March. The announcements were made at Conde Nast Entertainment’s Newfront presentation Wednesday.

Hulu Adds New Original Shows Mashable 05.02.13 Hulu’s premium video service, Hulu Plus, has doubled its user base in the past 12 months, surpassing 4 million paying subscribers since launching in 2010. Those subscribers, who pay $7.99 each month for Hulu Plus, and non-paying Hulu users will see 11 series and season premieres arrive on Hulu this summer and fall.

MEDIA & TECH

Huggies App Sends You a Tweet Whenever Your Kid Pees in His Diaper AdWeek 05.08.13 Today in useless marketing-driven product innovations, we have Huggies TweetPee, a little sensor dreamed up by Ogilvy Brazil that affixes to your baby’s diaper, syncs with an app and tweets at you whenever it detects pee (in the form of a higher humidity level). This will work great for people whose parenting consists of the occasional diaper change in between marathon Twitter sessions.

Regal to let deaf moviegoers see what they’ve been missing LA Times 05.07.13 Raymond Smith Jr. has been trying for nearly two decades to make the movie industry listen to the needs of the deaf and hard of hearing. This month, the senior executive at Regal Entertainment Group will come closer to his goal.

YouTube Leaves TV in the Dust with Strong NewFronts Display brandchannel 05.02.13 In front of a room-full of potential advertisers at the Digital NewFronts, Google Executive Chairman Eric Schmidt declared “the future is now” for YouTube, which recently passed 1 billion unique visitors monthly. While many would have expected Schmidt to purport that YouTube’s content is as good as what’s on TV, he made a simple and very clear statement instead: YouTube content is better than TV.

SUSTAINABILITY

How The Empire State Building is Redifining Sustainability and Supporting the Economy in New York City National Geographic 05.08.13 There are more than 900,000 buildings in New York City alone. These structures, both historic and contemporary, literally define a city like New York. Landmarks like the Empire State Building draw in thousands of people every day for work and tourism. Yet these structures also place a high demand on our environment and national resources. Across the United States, the operations of existing buildings account for more than 36 percent of total energy use and over 65 percent of electricity consumption. In major cities, such as New York City, commercial and residential buildings consume 75 percent of total energy use.

Ford Sees Future in Self-Driving, but Mass Transit May Be Key brandchannel 05.03.13 Bill Ford Jr. long has been the environmental visionary for Ford Motor Co. and, arguably, one of the “greenest” minds in the global auto business. So it’s no surprise that he has emerged as a leading figure in the rising interest in self-driving automobiles and in the debate over what role they might have in the urban-transportation networks of the future.

Clorox’s Green Works Finds New Voice and Attitude to Combat Greenwashing brandchannel 05.02.13 As Kermit the Frog taught an entire generation, “It’s not easy being green.” Clorox’s Green Works is a case study in the steep learning curve of green branding. The line of environmentally friendly housecleaning products launched in 2008 with an endorsement from the Sierra Club, which helped boost its market penetration and credibility. 

Doug will be presenting on the importance of brand narrative at the July conference. For more information and to register, please visit www.tvxperienceevent.com.

Are second-screen experiences enhancing linear viewing, or detracting from it?

Second-screen experiences are transforming viewing behaviour from linear to that which allows for more meaningful, multi-dimensional and immersive engagement.

Second-screen technology continues to evolve and open new doors for the creation of deep narratives that have the power to mix with and enhance the everyday life of the viewer (or participant).

It’s an exciting time for marketers as we face the challenge of connecting with consumers in their most receptive state while leveraging content across paid, earned and owned channels.

Ultimately, I believe mobile is actually the first screen, not the second screen, because it is truly about me; and it’s my constant personalised source for connectivity and the consumption of content.

Do you agree that the integration of adverts into second-screen experiences needs to become more nuanced?

I believe that every brand has a story to tell. Beyond adverts, brands should consider how they can activate their story in the form of content that they can own, not rent, within the second-screen realm.

There is tremendous potential for brands to flourish in a transmedia world and deliver value and utility through branded entertainment.

At OgilvyEntertainment, our focus is to understand a brand’s best self aligned with cultural truths and we set out to create integrated and impactful brand experiences activated across web, broadcast, properties and events.

This is the way forward for brands as we strive to deliver real value to consumers that is immersive not interruptive.
 
What work is OgilvyEntertainment doing to create more compelling narrative experiences in this area?

Our work for DuPont continues to be our model for branded content excellence. Through The Horizons Project and other DuPont initiatives, we have built a content ecosystem reinforcing DuPont’s position as a critical global partner and scientific thought leader.

We promote the brand concept of inclusive innovation through broadcast (Horizons, a television series on BBC World News now in its third season, and Shunya: The Goal is Zero series currently in development with India’s Times Now network); a series of short documentaries manifesting DuPont collaborations in action that air on television and online; thought leadership events, films and white papers (rooted in a partnership with Fortune magazine and the 2013 Fortune Global Forum), and a comprehensive digital strategy.

Through this integrated approach, we have fostered a compelling and ongoing narrative about the future of our world, centering DuPont at the core.

What are some of the most effective ‘triggers’ for encouraging consumer engagement?

Nowadays, consumers can access content when, where and how they want, and this is transforming the present “brandscape”.

With this shift in consumer behaviour, I also believe that we are seeing the rise of micro content accessible to consumers at a nominal cost.

To trigger effective engagement given this state of play, marketers need to adapt to a new set of rules and deliver on-demand, real-time, contextualised experiences that encourage a lean-in rather than lean-back experience.

I believe this can be best achieved through cross-channel branded entertainment.

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May 6th, 2013

BRANDED ENTERTAINMENT

Budweiser Creates Social Beer Cup Digiday 05.01.13 Looks like Heineken’s “smart” beer bottle has some competition when it comes to interactive beer bottle designs. Budweiser Brasil is making drinking even more social with its new “Buddy Cup.” With the help of Agencia Africa in partnership with Bolha, a digital innovation studio in Sao Paulo, the beer brand has created a special beer cup that instantly makes people Facebook friends when they clink their glasses in real life. The cups have special chips in them that connect to Facebook.

IBM’s Research Team Breaks Film Record with Millions of Atoms brandchannel 05.01.13 IBM’s A Boy And His Atom now holds the Guinness World Record for the World’s Smallest Stop-Motion Film. The film is a byproduct of IBM’s acumen in moving atoms, key to research in the fields of atomic memory and data storage at the core of their broad suite of products and services. The story is about a boy—who is 1/25,000,000 of an inch big—and his friendship with a wayward atom. 

Brands Find Inspiration and New Partnerships in Creative Cinema brandchannel 04.29.13 Canon is giving the public a chance to direct in “Project Imaginat10n.” Helmed by Ron Howard and daughter Bryce Dallas Howard, filmmakers of all skill levels can join five celebrity directors—Eva Longoria, Jamie Foxx, Biz Stone, Georgina Chapman and James Murphy—in directing short films inspired by 91 Project Imaginat10n winning photographs.

Telemundo Teams w/T-Mobile & Toyota on Pasion Prohibida Broadway World 04.29.13 Telemundo Media announced today two major branded entertainment agreements with T-Mobile and Toyota for its hit telenovela PASIÓN PROHIBIDA. Both partnerships continue to build on the creative legacy between the two marketers and Telemundo Media, who once again will break new ground to deliver their messaging through innovation around telenovelas by bringing the novela characters into the branded entertainment multiplatform campaigns. Both efforts were developed by Conill, the advertising and media agency partner for T-Mobile and Toyota.

ADVERTISING

Microsoft Ad Turns Forbes Print Magazines Into T-Mobile WiFi Hotspots AdWeek 4.30.13 Microsoft stuffed a functional WiFi router into a limited number of the most recent issue of Forbes, perhaps inspired by Entertainment Weekly’s use of tiny LCD screens in one of its print issues last year. Microsoft’s ad, which is for Office 365, is a T-Mobile wireless router that provides 15 days of free WiFi with a two- to three-hour battery charge. Wasteful? Sure. Needlessly expensive and complicated? Totally. But it’s also the coolest thing Microsoft has done in a while. Same goes for Forbes—well, along with giving NAH’s newest album a thumbs-up. Via PSFK.

Twitter ads now available for all U.S. users C Net 04.30.13 Twitter on Tuesday opened up advertising on its site to all businesses and individuals, giving the company another avenue for generating money. Twitter has allowed organizations to pay for promoted tweets and promoted accounts since last March, but it was on an invite-only basis. It now has given everyone access to its self-service advertising platform, Kevin Weil, Twitter senior director of product for revenue, said Tuesday at the TechCrunch Disrupt conference in New York.

Cinema Advertising Gets Interactive, Mobile Digital Outsider 04.26.13 The two dominant cinema advertising networks in the U.S. are muscling up with new digital offerings, including mobile channels and lobby assets. Not coincidentally, all the excitement comes as they woo advertisers with upfront presentations touting the benefits of sight, sound and motion on the big screen, as well as their new digital channels.

ENTERTAINMENT

Hot Doc ’13: Ondi Timoner talks art and entrepreneurship realscreen 04.29.13 Documentarians must completely re-think their roles as filmmakers, Dig! and We Live In Public director Ondi Timoner (pictured) argued during a keynote presentation at this year’s Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival in Toronto. “We need to think differently about making films before we start shooting and we should be distributing as we go,” the two-time Sundance-winner told a packed house on Monday morning (April 29). “You can reach one billion people but we need to find our audiences where they live, which is on their devices.”

Online Video Rivals TV For Viewers Media Post Publications 04.29.13 Casting the industry’s NewFront efforts in a brighter light, new research shows that consumer ad receptivity when watching original professional online video (OPOV) is now indistinguishable from receptivity rates during prime-time TV. Better yet, consumers cite the Web’s wide variety of programming and flexible screening times as preferable aspects of OPOV over TV viewing, according to a new report from the Interactive Advertising Bureau and research partner Gfk.

Online Experience Drives Tourney Participation At Delaware Sports Complex Media Post Blogs 04.26.13 Near the shores of Rehoboth Beach, Del., stands a premier destination for traveling youth baseball and softball teams. The 95-acre facility at Sports at the Beach features 16 fields, 30 batting cages and dormitory accommodations for visiting teams. From March to November, ball clubs from all over the East Coast descend upon its bluegrass-sod fields to participate in weekend and week-long tournaments.

MEDIA & TECH

ABC News Social Soundtracker Dubiously App-ifies The Laugh Track Media Post Blogs 04.29.13 I kid because I love. ABC News began experimenting this weekend with a new Web app called Social Soundtracker that registers and even verbalizes group response to a live broadcast. The event-based program launched with this weekend’s Washington Correspondents Dinner, but will be hosting social TV responses every morning on GMA as well as upcoming Presidential addresses.

Disruptions: Brain Computer Interfaces Inch Closer to Mainstream Bits New York Times Blog 04.28.13 Last week, engineers sniffing around the programming code for Google Glass found hidden examples of ways that people might interact with the wearable computers without having to say a word. Among them, a user could nod to turn the glasses on or off. A single wink might tell the glasses to take a picture.

Mobile Soars, But Future Appears Multiscreen Online Media Daily 04.26.13 It’s a mobile, social and visual media world and marketers better adapt or risk losing customers and sales. Of all the takeaways at Media Kitchen’s Digital Media Venture Capital Conference in New York Thursday, that one seemed paramount. Business Insider CEO Henry Blodget noted that for the first time in 30-plus years, the PC market is now shrinking. “That’s a profound change,” he told conference attendees. Mobile usage is soaring and “cannibalizing everybody,” referring to other media channels.

SUSTAINABILITY

Vivienne Westwood to design new uniforms for Virgin Atlantic LA Times 05.02.13 Virgin Atlantic Airways has tapped fashion designer Vivienne Westwood to redesign its uniforms the airline announced Thursday. The partnership between the two British brands will result in newly designed — and eco-friendly — uniforms for about 7,500 employees, including pilots, cabin crew and ground crew.

CEOs Talk Sustainability at Fortune’s Brainstorm Green Conference brandchannel 05.01.13 Three heavyweights of American industrialism were among those who spoke at a Fortune’s Brainstorm Green conference, and they had a lot to say about what they’re doing to make their companies more sustainable. GM CEO Dan Akerson, Procter & Gamble CEO Bob McDonald, and General Mills CEO Kendall Powell each held forth at the sustainability-focused confab.

Nike’s LAUNCH Seeks Out Sustainability in Latest Call for Innovation brandchannel 04.26.13 As part of its “Better World” corporate citizenship commitment, Nike is working with some of America’s brightest governmental minds on an initiative to create more sustainable materials.  Founded in 2010, LAUNCH is a strategic collaboration between NASA, the US Agency for International Development (USAID), the US State Department and Nike to seek out visionaries whose ideas and technologies can create a more sustainable world.

The CLIOs have also named O&M Agency Network of the Year for the second consecutive year, honoring the agency’s remarkable body of award-winning work throughout the network.  O&M notched 127 shortlists (out of a total of
896 named), which was a 112% increase over last year when the agency also received this honor.

CLIOs recognized exceptional, multi-award winning work from O&M offices spanning the globe, representing executions for clients big and small.  O&M performed in multiple categories including Film, OOH, Print Technique, Print, Direct, and Engagement. Our President, Doug Scott, was even honored with the role of a juror in the Branded Entertainment category.

“Building a culture of Pervasive Creativity requires great minds and great clients. We are fortunate to have both,” stated Tham Khai Meng, Worldwide Chief Creative Officer, Ogilvy & Mather.

O&M is especially proud to receive this honor in a year when its client, The Coca-Cola Company, is receiving the inaugural CLIOs 2013 ‘Brand Icon’ Award that recognizes continuous and exceptional creative execution over the years.

This collection of accolades stands as testament to O&M’s worldwide network of clients and employees and the exceptional work they produce together.

Doug Scott is proud to be a member of the STREAM Advisory Board which includes prominent leaders from AOL, FremantleMedia, Electus, Funny or Die, and more. The complete agenda includes some of the biggest names in Internet TV including Anna Robertson, Head of Yahoo! Studios; Morgan Spurlock, President of Warrior Poets; Frank Cooper, CMO Global Consumer Engagement of PepsiCo; and, of course, our main man Doug.

STREAM’s Early Bird Ticket Special ends this Friday, May 3rd, so head over to http://streammarket.tv/ to learn more!