Want to chat on Facebook about advertising? The site has just launched Facebook Studio, reports Campaign magazine, “a hub to view and discuss campaigns that have run on the social networking site.”
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Facebook Studio.
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From Facebook Studio: “It is an open platform, allowing agencies and brands to submit their work and to comment on and discuss peers’ campaigns. The campaigns will be sorted into galleries based on most-recently uploaded campaigns, most-shared campaigns, region and language, and what friends are saying. A selection of the best work will be displayed in the Spotlight section.”
Check it out here: http://facebook-studio.com
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In other news…
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Adweek has revealed its 2011 Hot List of the year’s top magazines. Among the relative newcomers, like Food Network Magazine and People StyleWatch, the list includes quite a few veteran titles, among them Rolling Stone, GQ, and Cosmopolitan. Read more here.
Speaking of Adweek, SPD looks at Pentagram’s big redesign of the trade mag, which was inspired by “the spirit of the magazine’s 1980s heyday.” Story and spreads here.
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Advertising Age’s “Agency Issue” is now out, with stories including one on “How the Recession Changed the Luxury-Advertising Landscape.” An excerpt:
Boutique fashion shops across the board say spending has largely bounced back after a rough 2009 and 2010. Still, they believe the fashion- and luxury-advertising landscape will never be the same again. And that’s probably a good thing.
“The recession was the best thing that ever happened to the fashion industry,” said Richard Christiansen, founder-creative director of Chandelier Creative. “A lot of what was going on before the recession felt very formulaic. … The recession was a great opportunity to get a bit more aggressive and dip your toe into digital or something nontraditional.”
I wonder if that means they’ll be more daring with respect to the photography they commission, too… Read more here.
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The British Journal of Photography runs a monthly discussion night in London, and the most recent one took on the (eternal) question of whether photography is art. “Art historians tend not to take photography seriously until it’s seen on the wall, and that’s a shame,” said photographer/lecturer/curator David Campany. More here.
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Want to chat on Facebook about advertising?
Want to chat on Facebook about advertising? The site has just launched Facebook Studio, reports Campaign magazine, “a hub to view and discuss campaigns that have run on the social networking site.”
.
Facebook Studio.
.
From Facebook Studio: “It is an open platform, allowing agencies and brands to submit their work and to comment on and discuss peers’ campaigns. The campaigns will be sorted into galleries based on most-recently uploaded campaigns, most-shared campaigns, region and language, and what friends are saying. A selection of the best work will be displayed in the Spotlight section.”
Check it out here: http://facebook-studio.com
.
In other news…
.
Adweek has revealed its 2011 Hot List of the year’s top magazines. Among the relative newcomers, like Food Network Magazine and People StyleWatch, the list includes quite a few veteran titles, among them Rolling Stone, GQ, and Cosmopolitan. Read more here.
Speaking of Adweek, SPD looks at Pentagram’s big redesign of the trade mag, which was inspired by “the spirit of the magazine’s 1980s heyday.” Story and spreads here.
.
Advertising Age’s “Agency Issue” is now out, with stories including one on “How the Recession Changed the Luxury-Advertising Landscape.” An excerpt:
Boutique fashion shops across the board say spending has largely bounced back after a rough 2009 and 2010. Still, they believe the fashion- and luxury-advertising landscape will never be the same again. And that’s probably a good thing.
“The recession was the best thing that ever happened to the fashion industry,” said Richard Christiansen, founder-creative director of Chandelier Creative. “A lot of what was going on before the recession felt very formulaic. … The recession was a great opportunity to get a bit more aggressive and dip your toe into digital or something nontraditional.”
I wonder if that means they’ll be more daring with respect to the photography they commission, too… Read more here.
.
The British Journal of Photography runs a monthly discussion night in London, and the most recent one took on the (eternal) question of whether photography is art. “Art historians tend not to take photography seriously until it’s seen on the wall, and that’s a shame,” said photographer/lecturer/curator David Campany. More here.
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