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Handle the distance.

Advertising Agency: BangkokShowcase, Bangkok, Thailand Associate Creative Director: Chokchai Tupanyakanok Art Directors: Sakon khanawuthikarn, Pathrawee Homkanjan, Chaitat Sookate Copywriters: Krittayot Opassatavorn, Thiti Boonkerd Photographer: Montol Anusasamornkul Production House: Silhouette Published: September 2011

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Handle the distance.

Advertising Agency: BangkokShowcase, Bangkok, Thailand Associate Creative Director: Chokchai Tupanyakanok Art Directors: Sakon khanawuthikarn, Pathrawee Homkanjan, Chaitat Sookate Copywriters: Krittayot Opassatavorn, Thiti Boonkerd Photographer: Montol Anusasamornkul Production House: Silhouette Published: September 2011

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Handle the distance.

Advertising Agency: BangkokShowcase, Bangkok, Thailand Associate Creative Director: Chokchai Tupanyakanok Art Directors: Sakon khanawuthikarn, Pathrawee Homkanjan, Chaitat Sookate Copywriters: Krittayot Opassatavorn, Thiti Boonkerd Photographer: Montol Anusasamornkul Production House: Silhouette Published: September 2011

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Advertising Agency: TRY/Apt, Norway Production company: Bacon Director: Martin Werner

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EELS is an R&D project that combines various technologies into a multiplayer game experience where people can control their virtual EEL projected on a physical installation using their mobile device.

The new 8-speed automatic transmission comes standard with the 1, 3 and 5 series

Advertising Agency: JWT, Netherlands Creative Directors: Massimo van der Plas, Joep de kort Art Director: Joep de Kort Copywriter: Massimo van der Plas Photographer: Simon Warmer Postproduction: Magic Group Published: January 2012

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Act now against climate change. Visit greenpeace.org.tr.

Advertising agency: Memac Ogilvy & Mather, Dubai, UAE Executive Creative Director: Steve Hough Creative Director: Ramzi Moutran Copywriter: Sascha Kuntze Art Director: James Purdie Illustrator: Mirage-Works Account Supervisor: Khalil Salem Advertiser’s Supervisor: Erhan Cokkececi

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Incredibly powerful, surprisingly quiet

Advertising Agency: Publicis, Johannesburg, South Africa Creative Director: Matthew Barnes Art Director: Martin Schlumpf Copywriter: Ryan Whitelaw Photographer: Paul Shiakallis Retoucher - Remmert Steyn

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Incredibly powerful, surprisingly quiet

Advertising Agency: Publicis, Johannesburg, South Africa Creative Director: Matthew Barnes Art Director: Martin Schlumpf Copywriter: Ryan Whitelaw Photographer: Paul Shiakallis Retoucher - Remmert Steyn

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Incredibly powerful, surprisingly quiet

Advertising Agency: Publicis, Johannesburg, South Africa Creative Director: Matthew Barnes Art Director: Martin Schlumpf Copywriter: Ryan Whitelaw Photographer: Paul Shiakallis Retoucher - Remmert Steyn

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Advertising Agency: Kerozen, Rennes, France Digital creative: Jean-Charles Debroize Photographer: Raphaël Auvray Published: January 2012

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This is the decade of sports. Let's make Brazil the nation of our dreams.

Advertising Agency: DCS, Brazil Creatives: Mauricio Oliveira, Eduardo Boldrini, Diego Wortmann, Samir Arrage Creative Directors: Roberto Callage, Grace Meurer Production Company: Paranoid/Brazil Director: Carlos Manga Jr. Producer: Ana Paula Luce Account Executive.: Leticia Peroni, Camila Roveda Planning: Gustavo Zilles Media buyer: Vera Peres Client Executives: Pedro Bartelle, Márcio Callage, Ana Hochscheidt, Larissa Pedroso, Débora Gentil Photography: Lito Mendes da Rocha Editor: Alex Lacerda Post: Tribbo Post Sound: A9 Published: January 2012

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Advertising Agency: AKQA, USA Executive Creative Director: Pierre Lipton Creative Director: Stephen Clements Senior Copywriter: Miranda Maney Art Director: Warren Frost Senior Designer: Vicente Montelongo Executive Producer: Nancy Cardillo Program Manager: Monica Stephen Group Account Director: James Jenkins Management Supervisor: Julia Jahn Account Supervisor: Clayton Lee Account Executive: Luke Welch Strategist: Ashley D'Amour

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Be the lover.

Advertising agency: Z+, Sao Paulo, Brazil Executive Creative Director: Alan Strozenberg Creative Director: Leonardo Macias Copywriter: Americo Vizer Art Director: Luigi Alliegro Photographer: Marco Mendes Illustrator: Boreal Art Buyer: Alice Imamura Account Supervisor: Marilia Martins Advertiser's Supervisor: Daniel Marun Account Manager: Olivia Pereira Planner: Rodrigo Cerveira

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Be the lover.

Advertising agency: Z+, Sao Paulo, Brazil Executive Creative Director: Alan Strozenberg Creative Director: Leonardo Macias Copywriter: Americo Vizer Art Director: Luigi Alliegro Photographer: Marco Mendes Illustrator: Boreal Art Buyer: Alice Imamura Account Supervisor: Marilia Martins Advertiser's Supervisor: Daniel Marun Account Manager: Olivia Pereira Planner: Rodrigo Cerveira

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Be the lover.

Advertising agency: Z+, Sao Paulo, Brazil Executive Creative Director: Alan Strozenberg Creative Director: Leonardo Macias Copywriter: Americo Vizer Art Director: Luigi Alliegro Photographer: Marco Mendes Illustrator: Boreal Art Buyer: Alice Imamura Account Supervisor: Marilia Martins Advertiser's Supervisor: Daniel Marun Account Manager: Olivia Pereira Planner: Rodrigo Cerveira

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Resist the urge to salute as you admire jcpenney's spanking new logo, a lovely red square with a superimposed blue square that's intended to evoke JCP's proud American heritage and commitment to treat customers "fair and square." (Ha! It's a pun, get it?) In a statement, the company adds: "The new jcpenney logo, which combines the elements that have made jcpenney an enduring American brand, by evoking the nation's flag and jcpenney's commitment to treating customers Fair and Square. The square frame imagery will be evident throughout all of jcpenney's marketing, to remind customers to frame the things they love." I think it's a good change from one of the worst logos of 2011. The last logo (at left) was designed by graphic design student Luke Langhus from the University of Cincinnati. His entry, while it may have been the best of the 200 submissions, was just plain bland. The new version is simple, modern, iconic, and harkens back to that old ugly red square they hauled around for a few decades that we all still remember. The logo change is accompanied by a new ad campaign from Mother New York, launching Feb. 1, which includes the teaser spot below and a "No Meter" that frustrated shoppers can scream into on the Facebook page. Now, JCP, you can turn your attention to selling better clothes.

by Josh Bernoff

We're arguably 10 years into the social network phenomenon (Friendster was founded in 2002). By now we should know the main business models. But popular sites like Tumblr (no visible means of support) raise the question, are there really any other good ways to make money other than advertising?

Here are the significant models:

1. Advertising. Facebook is already making multiple billions on ads on pages. Networks without ads on pages make money form ads on search (Twitter promoted tweets, for example).
2. Brand pages. Twitter has started to roll these out. As I understand it, you don't have to pay for the Facebook brand page, you just pay for ads to drive people to it.
3. Premium accounts. The freemium model is in place at sites like Flickr and DeviantArt. Charge members more for extra storage or to avoid ads.

There are others you hear about that haven't gotten big yet. Second Life created an economy around selling land. There are virtual goods. Merchandising the vast amounts of data that these networks collect is a possibility, although obviously it has privacy implications (Is there a market for behavioral data in the aggregate? Is it legal to sell targeting data at all?).

And I'm discounting the "get a lot of users and then sell to a bigger company" model. This just shifts the revenue question to the new owner. (YouTube's model is advertising now, even if that wasn't that big at the time it was sold.)

I'm interested in what you've seen -- what other models are out there, and how promising are they? When this finally matures, will it all be advertising based?

FirstBank's regional Super Bowl debut (the ad will air only in Colorado) via agency TDA in Boulder, touting superior service, features a banker type who sits in a comfy chair and says, "If you’re a FirstBank customer worried about missing one of the exciting commercials, or the game, now would be a great time to go to the bathroom." He takes a long pause before adding, "Seriously." The commercial is, as we've been known to say in Boston (home, more or less, of the soon-to-be NFL champion New England Patriots), a wicked pissah. That's a good thing—usually. I guess folks in the other 49 states will have to make their own decisions about when to take a bathroom break. For me, Go Daddy's ads present the perfect opportunity. They're always piss poor, and even the company name suggests making a dash to the can.

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