Monday Morning Stir

By Patrick Coffee 


-BBDO Toronto and Harlequin took one lucky romance novel fan on a date with a real-life cowboy.

Omnicom is introducing a brand safety drive which sifts through YouTube videos to ensure safe brand placement.

-But Google’s chief business officer tells Recode that the whole ads-running-over-ISIS-videos thing “has always been a small problem” with “very very very small numbers.”

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Ford is teaming with Karlie Kloss‘ Kode with Klossy organization to help it expand and teach more girls to code. That’s very brand safe.

-Wieden + Kennedy Amsterdam worked on Instagram’s first “epic” and “silly” Global Stories campaign, which is mostly a big “we can do this, too” shot at Snapchat.

-Are you ready to enter the culture that is e-sports? Aren’t real sports complicated enough?

-TV is far from dead. You just need to make ads that fit well alongside cable news, ugh.

-Canadian agencies have some cool offices, though, don’t they?

-Back to our favorite topic, diversity. Your clients’ marketing departments don’t practice much of it, surprise.

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