Archive for March, 2009

A non-website website?

Wednesday, March 25th, 2009

Skittles recently re-launched their website and what a website it is (or isn’t, in this case) – a corporate site that aggregates various consumer generated content (of it’s own brand) via a nifty little widget-like navigation? I’m not sure how effective a direction like this can be and I certainly don’t recommend it for everyone, but I must admit….I LOVE IT!

Why?….for starters, we get a brand that actually “gets it” – consumers shaping brands, marketers are merely facilitators, etc etc. We’ve all heard it before, but to see it in action is pure class.

A bit about us

Monday, March 9th, 2009

JWT celebrates its 144th anniversary this year.

In Thailand, we celebrated our 25th last year. We’re known for our combination of Creativity (always in top rank) and Effectiveness (originators of planning, and Thailand’s most awarded past two years ). Basically we are about Creative Communications That Work. Effective Creativity is more than a great TV spot. Ambient, Events, Loyalty programs, whatever – they all need to engage and involve.

For a big, well-established company, we’re often rather quiet about talking about ourselves.

If you would like to know more, our global website will tell you about us, our work, our offices and our very simple philosophy, “WE CREATE IDEAS FOR OUR CLIENTS THAT PEOPLE WANT TO SPEND TIME WITH”. Our “Time” philosophy. Click here.

The agency prides itself on knowing what is going on and has a central Trend Watching unit. Click here on the global site to pick up our forecasts.

Much more specific reports on a whole host of topics from our trend-centre are shared with our clients for free.

Non-clients can find out more and purchase from jwtintelligence.

We have a global creative council headed by Ty Montague. Ty runs a creative blog known as “the good stuff”. For his take on our (and other folks’) latest work, creative trends etc, check it out here.

Finally today, well almost, a word about planning. Account Planning or Strategy Planning depending on where in the world you are, was founded by Stephen King of JWT 40 years ago.

A celebration of the event was held in London a few months back. Speeches by some of the leading planning lights such as Guy Murphy (our Global Planning head) and Jon Steel (WPP Global Planning Head) can be viewed or read here:

Our Indian office, also has a planning blog called Coffee and Doughnuts. Much longer established than ours and with lots of great links to other Planning and Advertising blogs.

Check it out by Clicking here

Of course, we’re not the only source of knowledge, in our next few blogs we’ll introduce you to other Trend Watching sites, Market Research, Brands and Branding and a very new and unique JWT research and consumer channel planning insight tool we call “The Cube”.

Our next post, below from Simon, our head of JWT Digital (”JWT Connect“) on some new technology and its applications.

See you again soon.

Beyond the iPhone

Tuesday, March 3rd, 2009

I’ve often wondered when we will finally get to use computers like they do in Minority Report and more recently in Quantum of Solace. And whilst I was at XM, we’ve showcased gestural interfaces before, nothing really quite comes close to what we see in the movies. Until now.

This video by Razorfish Emerging Experiences showcases the work they’ve done for AT&T and is a wonderful example of how gestural interfaces can work in the real world. A brilliant piece of work that is not only stunning in it’s application but engaging with its relevancy.


AT&T Retail Surface Experience from Razorfish – Emerging Experiences on Vimeo.