–DDB Brussels created the Epicgram app, which sets slow-motion Instagram video to classical music, for the Belgian festival B-Classic and the music label Alpha Classics (video above).
-4A’s president and CEO Nancy Hill claims “Discourse About Gender and Diversity in Advertising Is Reaching a Crescendo.”
-Copyranter Mark Duffy examines “the linguistic assault on ‘advertising.’”
–San Francisco-based writer, director, producer and teacher Sam Pond explores “The Death of Comedy in Advertising.”
–Omnicom CEO John Wren took a pay cut of $500,000 last year, dropping his total compensation to $23.6 million. Poor guy.
-KFC apologized for tweeting a pixelated “NSFW” image to promote its hot and spicy chicken in Australia.
–BWM Dentsu Sydney welcomed copywriter Oskar Westerdal and art director Jerome Gaslain.
-More About Advertising takes a look at the print component of Coca-Cola’s “Taste the Feeling” campaign.
-Adweek talks with Milana Vayntrub about directing her first commercials.