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Facebook Rolling Out Pages-Only Feed

By Tim Petersen – Adweek

Amid the marketer outcry over their page posts reaching fewer News Feeds, Facebook said today that is has begun rolling out a “Pages Only” News Feed that will only contain content from the pages a user has liked. Inside Facebook reported last week that Facebook was testing the brand-friendly, filtered news feed, which will hit all users by the end of the day. Read more…

Led by Facebook, display ad buying becoming more of a real-time business

By Ki Mae Heussner – GigaOm

According to a new report from eMarketer, real-time bidding could account for a quarter of all digital ad spending by 2015. Among other factors, Facebook’s new ad exchange, FBX, is expected to drive much of that growth. Read more…

Facebook Finally Launches “Share” Button for the Mobile Feed, Its Version of “Retweet”

By Josh Constine – TechCrunch

Facebook has just confirmed with me that it is launching a retweet-style “Share” button for the mobile news feed. The much-requested feature is now rolled out for the mobile site, and will soon come to the iOS and Android apps. Read more…

By Shareen Pathak – Creativity Online

British holiday ads are usually great. But not all of them are resulting in warm fuzzies this year. The Advertising Standards Authority is now investigating one ad, created by Saatchi & Saatchi for supermarket chain Asda, after it received hundreds of complains from viewers who saw the ad as being sexist. Read more and watch the ad…

Weigh in on the topic below.

Facebook’s Future In Content And Advertising

By Tomio Geron – Forbes

As Facebook grows as a public company, the company needs to balance its user experience with new methods of monetizing the service. Keeping users happy while walking this tightrope is the trick. Read more…

Face-to-face is still the preferred way to communicate with friends and family

Via Adweek

As much as we’re attached to our screens, we still prefer looking people in the eye when we communicate. According to a survey by Ipsos MediaCT’s Motion Picture Group of frequent social media users, 53 percent of people prefer to talk face-to-face when communicating with family. Check out the full chart…

And now you know…

Red Bull: Kluge, The Athlete Machine

Via Ads of the World

All we have to say is, Wow…

By Jeanine Poggi – Ad Age

More and more people are fast-forwarding through traditional commercials, Mr. Bourdain noted in his “Fighting Mad” post. “For this reason,” he wrote, “there’s pressure from networks to ‘integrate’ products into the body of the actual shows whenever possible: to slip images of brands right into the action, or to transitions into commercials in such a way as to make the viewer think that it’s still the show they’re watching.” Read more…

The short list for the year’s hottest media properties

By Adweek

For several weeks, Adweek has polled readers, collected audience and advertising data, and otherwise gauged brand performance and relevance to arrive at this short list of the hottest media properties. Check us out in print, online and via our iPad edition on Dec. 3 for the unveiling of this year’s Hot List winners. Read more…

Urinals Paved With Gold: Captive Media Raises $700K For Its Interactive Washroom Tech

By Steve O’Hear – TechCrunch

Captive Media, the UK interactive washroom startup, has raised a $700K funding round to help roll out its product — a “pee controlled” media system (yes, you read that correctly) — across major venues, and to bring on board more big-brand advertisers from which it hopes to make the bulk of its revenue, long term. Read more…

thinkLA Corporate Member: RPA

Acura Holiday Campaign

Acura’s “Season of Reason” campaign continues for a third consecutive year with a comprehensive campaign starring three instantly identifiable personalities: Dr. Phil McGraw, Suze Orman, as well as the legendary Santa Claus.

We agree with Santa on this one.

By Rob Schwartz – Forbes

Last week I had the distinct privilege of judging the Tomorrow Awards, an advertising award show dedicated to showing the future of communications, today…Now, I cannot reveal what won. But I will share a few pieces that point the way to the future. So in no particular order here are some ideas that captured my imagination in terms of storytelling through technology, social, mobile, and yes, t-shirt. Read more…

Here’s our favorite:

Evian’s Melotweet App Turns Your Tweets Into a Musical Experience

By Todd Wasserman – Mashable

If you’ve ever felt that Twitter would be better with a soundtrack, then Evian’s Melotweet app is for you. Read more…

One Year Later, YouTube Pulling The Plug On 60% Of Its Original Content Channels

By Matt Burns – TechCrunch

By a show of hands, who regularly watches content from YouTube’s so-called channels? You know, the channels partly funded by YouTube with the goal to make YouTube more like traditional television. So hands up. No one? Yeah, that’s about right. Read more…

thinkLA Corporate Member: Saatchi LA

Saatchi LA Good Day

Good Day is a volunteer day, where everybody in the agency goes out and volunteers at different charities. Last week, Saatchi LA staff volunteered at 16 charities in LA and Orange Counties. Job duties varied from picking up trash at the beach, walking dogs and cleaning kennels, spreading mulch, cooking and distributing food to sick children, spending time with veterans and the elderly, to equestrian therapy.

See the tweets from the day…

Now, log off, go home, and enjoy your life.

A Short Lesson in Perspective

Via Adweek and The San Francisco Egotist

“So was it worth it? Well, of course not. It turns out it was just advertising. There was no higher calling. No ultimate prize.”

That’s one conclusion drawn by Linds Redding in “A Short Lesson in Perspective,” a 3,000-word essay the longtime creative executive wrote on his blog earlier this year, republished by the San Francisco Egotist. Redding was diagnosed with esophageal cancer last year. He died last month at age 52.

Oh. And if your reading this while sitting in some darkened studio or edit suite agonizing over whether housewife A should pick up the soap powder with her left hand or her right, do yourself a favour. Power down. Lock up and go home and kiss your wife and kids.

By Samuel Rosen – MediaPost

At first glance, it seems like a relatively “lite” launch: similar to Facebook’s timeline release, you get a big image above your head (comprised of a composite of your photos), seven randomly selected recent images (sorry, no choice in the matter on this one), and a chronological display of your photos (like a Facebook timeline, you might even say).

But first glances are usually short, blurry, and hard to describe. So let’s take a second one.

Facebook Text-Only Posts Beating Photo And Link Posts On EdgeRank

By Kevin Mullett – AllFacebook

I know what you’re thinking: “Text-only posts won’t generate the engagement or shares that links and images do.” For the most part, I would agree, although we have seen more engagement on our best text posts than we have received on mediocre image posts. In other words, quality and creativity still rules the day.

Read more…

Study: Netflix Dominates Web Streaming During Prime Time

By Advertising Age

Netflix captured 33% of prime-time web viewing based on internet traffic in September, eclipsing Amazon.com, Hulu and Time Warner’s HBO Go by a multiple of at least 18, Sandvine Inc. said in its “Global Internet Phenomena Report” released Wednesday. Read more…

And now you know…

Is “The Pop Up Agency” popping up in your city?

By Erika Petersson – Hyper Island

Six Hyper Island students are now presenting The Pop Up Agency – a creative agency that pops up to work on a brief, challenge or project for a company or an organisation during 48 hours. Read more about the idea and meet one of the founders here.

By Max Nisen – Business Insider

On top of their multi-million dollar advertising budgets, huge companies are now diving into an arena previously dominated by traditional media. They’re producing videos, releasing interviews with top executives, and providing unique looks inside their organization on their own specialized websites. Read more… 

Wal-Mart Introduces Virtual Pop-Up Toy Store

By Emma Hutchings – PSFK

Walmart Canada and Mattel have launched a virtual pop-up toy store in Toronto to make it easy and convenient for shoppers to buy gifts during an often rushed holiday season. Read more…

Waze Maps Out Native Ad Platform

By Tim Peterson – Adweek

As alluring to brick-and-mortar marketers as a consumer’s location is that consumer’s destination, particularly if a brand can influence that endpoint. Crowdsourced traffic app Waze—which maps out turn-by-turn driving directions for iPhone and Android users—is banking on the latter as it debuts its U.S. ad business today. Read more…

And now you know…

5 Funny Advertising Industry Parody Videos

By Saya Weissman – Digiday

We all know that the advertising industry likes to congratulate itself all of the time, but sometimes it needs to laugh at itself, too. Check out these five videos that poke fun at the jargon and general ridiculousness of the advertising world.

Here’s our favorite.

Have you voted today? We have!

Since all eyes are on the election today, we thought we’d keep it light today at the Daily Dish.

Speaking of following the election…

21 Can’t-Miss Election Day Digital Resources

By Alex Kantrowitz – Forbes

In just a few hours the polls will close and a winner of the U.S. presidential election will (most likely) be declared. Voted Up has been keeping tabs on the digital element of the election so, for today, we decided to compile a list of the 21 best Election Day digital resources.  Read more…

From Chia to Cheetos, a roundup of brands’ campaign polls shows their consumers favor the President

By Creativity Online

Companies from JetBlue to Cincinnati’s Busken Bakery to Chia Pet are calling the election ahead of time. And in almost all the cases, President Obama is poised to serve a second term. Check out a handful of brands that have conducted their own unscientific polls about the presidential election. Read more…

And now you know…

6 Things You Won’t Believe Can Brainwash You On Election Day

By Cracked.com

When a politician tells us that he’ll stick to his beliefs when in office, we usually murmur something about corporate interests and “the fat cats in City Hall.” Well, it turns out that politicians are the ones who should be cynical about us. Science is finding that some pretty weird stuff can make us forget what we stand for on Election Day.  Read more…

By Emma Hutchings – PSFK

A team from MIT has created an algorithm that is faster and more accurate than the social network’s own. Read more…

7 Brands Helping Out Post-Sandy

By Saya Weissman – Digiday

We already showed you brands trying to capitalize on Sandy– ugh — but some brands are doing the right thing and lending a helping hand to those in need because of Sandy. These are the kinds of things brands need to do, not promote “Sandy Sales.” Read more…

thinkLA Corporate Member: MediaBrix

Do Native Ads Work?

By Lucia Moses – Adweek

Their champions say ads that are disguised as content have higher click-through and engagement rates than intrusive banners because they’re contextual and have quality content. But a new survey due out today by Harris Interactive for MediaBrix, a social and mobile ad firm, says otherwise. Read more…

And now you know…

Behance: An Ode to Creative Work