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Answers to most questions about the July 17th channel changes and lineup can be found by clicking on the topics below.
Overview Back to top
What changes happened on July 17th?
SiriusXM introduced several exciting improvements to our channel lineup on July 17th, including the addition of several new music and talk channels.
July 17th marked the launch of Venus in the Pop category, featuring upbeat pop and R&B from the 2000s through today. We also added some of our most popular Internet channels to our satellite lineup, including Y2Kountry (Channel 57) for country hits of the 2000s, and Utopia (Channel 55) featuring huge dance hits from the '90s and 2000s. Of course, this is all in addition to the exciting debut of TODAY Show Radio (channel 108), as well as the return of big band swing on '40s on 4 in June.
For subscribers with XM radios, we reorganized our College Sports and NFL programming, so finding your favorite teams is now easier and more intuitive than ever. The biggest college conferences like Big 12, ACC, Big Ten, PAC 12, and SEC now have their own, dedicated play-by-play channels. Plus, NFL Play-by-Play has its own block of labeled channels (225-234), so finding your game will be a snap. Whether you enjoy College, MLB, NFL, NBA or NHL, it's now easier to find your favorite games.
We also made some minor adjustments to our lineup including renaming some channels and moving a few others to a different number or category that's more logical or appropriate. Only a few channels were impacted by these changes.
Why did you make these changes?
Nothing motivates us more than our listeners. Creating an innovative, exciting listening experience – one that you cannot get anywhere else – is our ongoing mission. The changes we made on July 17th help us bring listeners like you the very best programming around. We hope you'll tune in and find even more to love on SiriusXM.
New Channels Back to top
What new channels did you add to my lineup?
- Tune to Channel 108 to hear TODAY Show Radio, which launched on June 25th. For the first time ever, you can listen to the TODAY Show live with rebroadcasts throughout the day. TODAY Show Radio is available on Channel 108 in the Entertainment Category on satellite radios.
- Venus, a new channel featuring upbeat Pop/R&B from the 2000's thru today, is available on Channel 3 on satellite radios, Internet radio, and on compatible mobile devices with the SiriusXM app.
- Utopia (Channel 55) and Y2Kountry (Channel 57) were added to the satellite radio lineup. Listeners with SiriusXM Internet radio and compatible mobile devices with the SiriusXM app had already been enjoying these channels.
- '40s on 4 returned to the lineup June 26th and is available on Channel 4 on satellite radios, Internet radio, and on compatible mobile devices with the SiriusXM app.
Are you planning to add other channels?
Yes! We're pleased to announce that, later this year, we'll be launching Joel Osteen Radio. Stay tuned for more details.
To see the full channel listing for your radio and package, click here.
Getting Started Back to top
How can I find my favorite channels now?
A few channels moved on July 17th, so you'll find most of your favorites at their normal locations. Just click here to look up a specific channel. While you're there, take a moment to view and print the full lineup for quick reference, or create a customized channel guide with your favorites to keep handy by your radio.
What is TODAY Show Radio? (Channel 108)
NBC's TODAY is the news program that informs, entertains, inspires and sets the agenda each morning for Americans. Every weekday from 7 a.m. - 7 p.m. ET, Matt Lauer, Savannah Guthrie, Al Roker, Natalie Morales, Willie Geist, Carson Daly, Tamron Hall, Hoda Kotb, and Kathie Lee Gifford bring SiriusXM listeners the latest and most relevant news and weather information as heard each day on TODAY. The channel carries TODAY's staple newsmaker interviews, as well as the uplifting stories that have become the hallmark of the broadcast, and gives listeners the most important information they need to start their day. If you miss the live broadcast, the channel will feature replays throughout the day. You can find TODAY Show Radio on Channel 108.
What is Venus? (Channel 3)
Venus is a new channel featuring rhythmic pop hits from the 2000s through today. Listeners can enjoy upbeat music from artists such as Beyoncé, Justin Timberlake and Rihanna. Venus is on Channel 3.
What other channels were added to my lineup?
Utopia (Channel 55) and Y2Kountry (Channel 57) were added to the satellite radio lineup on July 17th. Subscribers with SiriusXM Internet radio and compatible mobile devices with the SiriusXM app had already been enjoying these channels. For the locations of these and other new channels, please click here to view, download and print an updated channel guide.
Did you remove any channels from the Sirius or XM lineup?
Some channels are no longer available on satellite radio beginning July 17th:
- 20 on 20 (Channel 3) is no longer available, but we continue to break new songs and artists on SiriusXM Hits 1 (Channel 2), Alt Nation (Channel 36), BPM (Channel 51), and on many other channels.
- SiriusXM Pops (Channel 75) merged into Symphony Hall (Channel 76) on satellite radio. You can still hear SiriusXM Pops on SiriusXM Internet Radio and on our mobile app. For a free SiriusXM Internet Radio trial, please visit siriusxm.com/freetrial.
- Vivid Radio (Channel 102) is no longer available on satellite radio, but is still available on SiriusXM Internet Radio and our mobile app, on SiriusXM Limited Engagements 6 (Channel 791) in the Entertainment category. Please visit siriusxm.com/freetrial for a free SiriusXM Internet Radio Trial.
Canada Talks (Channel 167) and Ici Première (Channel 170) were removed from the XM News, Sports and Talk package and added to the XM Mostly Music package.
We apologize for any inconvenience.
I can't find some of the channels I normally listen to. What happened to them?
We moved some channels to make our lineup more intuitive and easier to navigate.
New Channel Number Assignments
- Willie's Roadhouse moved from Channel 56 to Channel 59.
- The Highway moved from Channel 59 to Channel 56.
- Road Dog Trucking moved from Channel 128 to Channel 146
- ESPN Radio moved from Channel 84 to Channel 83.
- ESPN Xtra moved from Channel 85 to Channel 84.
- Mad Dog Sports Radio moved from Channel 86 to Channel 85.
- Indie moved from Channel 104 to Channel 102.
- SiriusXM Stars moved from Channel 106 to Channel 109.
- OutQ moved from Channel 109 to Channel 106.
- SiriusXM Urban View moved from Channel 110 (Entertainment Category) to Channel 126 (Politics/Issues Category)
- La Mezcla moved from Channel 148 to Channel 149.
- Aguila moved from Channel 151 to Channel 148.
- SiriusXM Public Radio moved from Channel 205 to Channel 121 on Sirius radios and is now available with all SiriusXM subscriptions.
New Sports Channel Number Assignments for Sirius radios
- SiriusXM NHL Network Radio moved from Channel 207 to Channel 211
- SiriusXM NBA Radio moved from Channel 217 to Channel 207
New Sports Channel Number Assignments for XM radios
- SiriusXM NHL Network Radio moved from Channel 211 to Channel 218
- SiriusXM NBA Radio moved from Channel 217 to Channel 86
Did you reorganize XM Sports Play-by-Play Channels?
Yes – we reorganized our College Sports and NFL programming so finding your favorite teams is easier and more intuitive than ever. The biggest college conferences—including Big 12, ACC, Big Ten, PAC 12, and SEC—now have their own, dedicated play-by-play channels. Plus, NFL Play-by-Play now has its own block of channels (channels 225-234), so finding your favorite team and game will be easier than ever.
- SEC Play-by-Play is now on Channels 190-192
- ACC Play-by-Play is now on Channels 193-194
- Big Ten Play-by-Play is now on Channels 195-196
- Pac 12 Play-by-Play is now on Channels 197-198
- Big 12 Play-by-Play is now on Channels 199-200
- NBA Play-by-Play is now on Channels 212-217
- NHL Play-by-Play is now on Channels 219-223
- NFL Play-by-Play is now on Channels 225-234
For XM Satellite Radio Subscribers: IZOD IndyCar Series (Channel 209) was renamed Verizon IndyCar Series. The content did not change.
Listeners with SiriusXM Internet Radio and compatible mobile devices with the SiriusXM app have already been enjoying dedicated play-by-play channels.
The Hip-Hop/R&B category was split into two categories to make it easier to find the music genre that you listen to.
The new Hip-Hop category includes the following channels:
- Hip-Hop Nation (Channel 44)
- Shade 45 (Channel 45)
- Backspin (Channel 46)
The new R&B category includes the following channels:
- The Heat (Channel 47)
- Heart & Soul (Channel 48)
- Soul Town (Channel 49)
- The Groove (Channel 50)
Do I need to do anything for the channel updates?
Just give your radio a few extra moments to update when you first turn it on. Why? Your radio may need 2-5 minutes to receive the updated lineup from our satellites. During this time, the audio you hear may not match what is shown on your display and you may see messaging such as "updating channels" or "acquiring signal" on your radio's display.
Let it update. Please do not change channels while your radio is updating, as this will delay the update from being completed.
Once the update is complete, tune to the channel you want to hear and you're all set.
Visit www.siriusxm.com/channelupdate to download the updated channel guide so you can quickly find the new channels and any favorites that may have moved.
Some listeners may need to take additional action on or after July 17th. Please click here if one or more of the following applies to you:
- You have an XM dock and play radio and your audio does not match the channel you are tuned to, your presets return the wrong channel or some of the new channels are missing.
- You have a Sirius radio and you use the channel preset or channel blocking features on your radio.
- You have a Sirius radio and you subscribe to Family Friendly, Mostly Music, News, Sports and Talk, Español, or Basic.
- You have an A La Carte or A La Carte Gold package.
- You have a Sirius or XM radio model that is able to record programming and you have set up a specific program or programs to be recorded.
- You are having some other technical issue with your radio that began on or after July 17th.
Do I have to reset my radio presets?
Probably not. The first time you turn your radio on after July 17th, your radio preset buttons should automatically sync to the new locations for any channels that you've chosen as presets. If this does not happen automatically, follow the instructions included with your vehicle owner's manual to quickly update your presets or click here to find user guides for a variety of radios.
SiriusXM Internet Radio Back to top
I listen to SiriusXM on my computer, tablet or mobile device. Did you make any changes to the Internet Radio lineup?
Venus was added to the lineup, SiriusXM Pops moved to Channel 760, and Vivid Radio moved to Channel 791 (labeled SiriusXM Limited Engagements 6 in the Entertainment category). A few more channels changed their locations and others were renamed so that the lineup is be more intuitive.
To see the full Internet Radio lineup and to create your own customized channel guide, click here.
Need Help/Troubleshooting Back to top
A few of our listeners who have specific types of radios may experience minor technical issues once these channel additions and adjustments are completed. Most of these issues can be easily solved by giving your radio a few extra minutes to finish updating the first time you power it up. Other potential issues and troubleshooting tips are provided below.
Why don't my Sirius radio presets point to the new channel locations?
If you have a Sirius radio and your presets no longer take you to your favorite channels, you may have to reset one or more of your preset buttons.
This is easy to do and should only take a few moments.
Click here to see the full channel guide—or to customize your own.
Follow the instructions that came with your radio to quickly reset those channels. Click here to get channel preset instructions for a variety of radios.
We apologize for any inconvenience.
I have an XM dock-and-play radio. The audio does not match the channel I am tuned to. The preset buttons return the wrong audio or some of the new channels are missing. What should I do?
Some XM receivers will continue trying to update even after they have been properly updated. Simply push the POWER button to turn your radio on, wait three to five minutes, and then press the POWER button again to turn the radio off (turning the car's ignition off and on does not count).
Your XM radio should work properly the next time you turn your radio back on
The labels on my XM radio preset buttons no longer match the channel name/number displayed on my radio.
This issue may occur if you drive a Model Year 2008 or later GM vehicle with a pre-installed XM radio. If this occurs, you will need to update the preset button labels on your radio. This is a simple procedure:
Press and hold the preset button until you hear a beep.
The preset button label should then match the name and number of the channel you're tuned to. Follow the instructions that came with your radio to quickly reset those channels. We apologize for any inconvenience. Click here for channel preset instructions for a variety of XM radios.
I have an XM radio and the programming I hear does not match the channel name/number displayed on the radio.
A small number of dealer-installed XM Satellite radios used predominantly in Toyota, Lexus and Scion vehicles may not properly adjust to the new channel locations.
If you have one of these radios you may notice that the programming you hear does not match the channel name and number you see on your radio. As you tune up and down the dial, the sequence of channel names you see may not match the sequence of programming that you hear as you change the channels.
Click on the appropriate link below for printable instructions for performing what is called a "Channel List Update," the process that will correct this behavior. Important: There are different sets of instructions based on your vehicle and model year.
- For Toyota/Scion model years 2012 or later with a touch screen, click here.
- For Toyota/Scion model years before 2012 and Lexus model years before 2010, click here.
Listeners with a Sirius radio and a subscription to the one of the following packages may need to refresh their radio.
- Sirius Family Friendly
- Sirius Mostly Music
- Sirius News, Sports & Talk
- Sirius Español
- Sirius Basic
Why? Without the refresh, your Sirius radio may receive some channels that should not be included with the package you've chosen, or you might be missing others that you expect to hear.
You can easily refresh your radio from right inside your vehicle by visiting siriusxm.com/refresh on your smartphone. You can also send a refresh signal by calling toll-free to 855-MY REFRESH (855-697-3373). Important: Be sure to have your 12-digit Radio ID (or ESN#) before you begin.
A few tips to remember:
- If you refreshed your Sirius radio before July 17th, you may still need to perform this action again to realign your channels with your current subscription package.
- Your radio must be turned on to receive the refresh signal, and your car antenna must have a clear view of the sky, so make sure your vehicle is not in a garage. If your radio is located inside your vehicle, it's easiest to go to siriusxm.com/refresh from your smartphone, enter your Radio ID or ESN and click the "Send Refresh Signal" button. If you don't have a smartphone, simply call us (855-697-3373) from inside your vehicle when you're ready to perform the refresh. You may also schedule a refresh from your computer by going to our website.
- Whichever method you choose, remember that the signal will be sent to your radio within a few moments of your request, so make sure your radio is turned on before requesting the signal. If you accidentally miss the refresh signal, please repeat the process above.
Click here for a copy of these instructions that you can print out and keep with you.
How will I know if my radio actually needs to be refreshed?
XM radios should not have required a refresh on July 17th. If you have a Sirius radio and subscribe to one of the packages below, here's how to determine if your radio requires a refresh:
The first time you turn on your radio beginning July 17th:
- Allow your radio to update. This might take a few minutes.
- When your radio has finished updating, tune to the channel listed next to the name of your package in the chart below.
- If you hear the channel listed, you're all set! You do NOT need a refresh.
- If you hear nothing, if the channel number does not appear, or if you see a message like "unsubscribed channel" you will need to refresh your radio.
If You Subscribe to… On July 17th, Tune to Channel… You Should Hear… Sirius Family Friendly 109 SiriusXM Stars Mostly Music 121 SiriusXM Public Radio News, Sports & Talk 121 SiriusXM Public Radio Español 121 SiriusXM Public Radio Basic 121 SiriusXM Public Radio
We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause. Click here for a copy of these instructions that you can print out and take to your vehicle.
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Why won't my Sirius radio go over 128 channels?
Certain older Sirius radios lack the appropriate bandwidth to receive over 128 channels, including many which have been added in recent years such as many of our play-by-play sports channels. We apologize for any inconvenience. Visit our store at shop.siriusxm.com where you'll find a variety of radios including ones that can be used in your vehicle. Current SiriusXM subscribers may be eligible for discounts on most radios. If you'd like to upgrade your radio to one of our newer models so you can receive the additional channels, call 1-866-528-7474. Our Listener Care agents are available Monday thru Saturday 8am – 11pm ET and Sunday 8am – 8pm ET to assist you.
Why are the channels I previously blocked from my radio no longer blocked?
For a few customers, the lineup adjustments and channel additions on July 17th may have affected your channel blocking settings. If you currently use this feature, we encourage you to download a new channel guide at siriusxm.com/channelupdate, then check and adjust your settings accordingly after July 17th.
If you have an XM radio, your channel blocking settings were not affected.
I have an A La Carte package. How do these channel additions and lineup adjustments affect me?
If you made your A La Carte selections a while ago, there could be new channels available to you now that weren't available when you made your original selections. We want you to get the most enjoyment possible from SiriusXM, so beginning July 17th, we started giving A La Carte and A La Carte Gold subscribers a complimentary, one-time adjustment to their channel lineup.
To review or change your selections at no charge, log into siriusxm.com/myaccount, then follow the easy instructions to add or change channels so your personalized lineup contains the channels you want to hear. We'll waive the $5.00 change fee the first time you change your A La Carte selections on or after July 17. For step-by-step instructions, click here.
With such a wide variety of channels to choose from, this is a great opportunity to try something new!
*The standard $5.00 fee was applied to any changes made to A La Carte channel selections before July 17th.
I have a 2011 model Ford, Lincoln, Mercury or Fiat vehicle. The radio in my car is not displaying the Rock category or Rock channels. What should I do?
Choose Select Genre and then choose All. Rock channels are now displayed. You can also tune to channels in the Rock category via the tuning knob or manual channel entry.
I have a portable radio. My scheduled recordings are now recording the incorrect program. What should I do?
If you have one of the portable devices below with a recording feature, we encourage you to check and adjust your scheduled recordings. Only a small number of channels were moved, but if the program you want to record has moved and you do not adjust your settings, your radio will record the incorrect program.
If this happens to you, simply reset your scheduled recordings. For help with this task, please consult the user guide that came with your radio. If you don't have it, click here to find user guides for most of our radios. We apologize for any inconvenience.
Sirius radio models
- Stiletto10 (SL10)
- Stiletto100 (SL100)
- Stiletto2 (SL2)
XM radio models
- Samsung Nexus
- Pioneer XMp3
- SiriusXM XMp3i
Why do channel logos not appear on my radio?
Some portable Sirius radios cannot display the new channel logos, and will instead display the Sirius dog icon or the channel name and number. The issue applies to the following radios:
- Stiletto10 (SL10)
- Stiletto100 (SL100)
- Stiletto2 (SL2)
- MiRGE
Please note that this does not affect any of the actual programming you hear.
I have a Mercedes Benz and am having difficulty switching to or from "All Channels" to other categories on the radio in my car.
If you are having trouble switching categories with the left and right arrow buttons on the radio in your Mercedes Benz vehicle, simply:
- Push and hold the ON button for at least 10 seconds (this will turn your radio off).
- Push the button again to turn the radio back on. The issue should now be resolved.
If you're still having trouble, contact Mercedes Benz customer care for further assistance at 1-800-FOR-MERCEDES (1-800-367-6372).
I have a Mercedes Benz. The Sirius radio in my car resets every 55 seconds or says, "Call Sirius to Subscribe". What should I do?
A small number of satellite radios used in Mercedes Benz vehicles may not properly adjust to the new channel locations. If you have this type of radio in your vehicle, you may notice that the radio resets every 55 seconds, or says "Call Sirius to Subscribe" when playing audio. For help fixing this issue, just call Listener Care at 1-866-528-7474, Monday – Saturday 8am to 11pm ET and Sunday 8am – 8pm ET.
I have a BMW or Mini. My presets are missing from the Sirius radio in my vehicle. What should I do?
Most BMW or Mini owners who experience this issue can remedy the problem by storing their presets again. Consult your vehicle owner's manual if you are unsure of how to store a preset. If your vehicle's radio will not allow you to store presets, please contact your BMW or Mini dealership.
I have a model year 2009 Land Rover LR3, Range Rover, or Range Rover Sport. The radio in my vehicle keeps displaying an "acquiring signal" or "Sirius update please wait" message. What should I do?
If you experience this issue, here's what to do:
- Turn on your vehicle and radio.
- Allow your radio to run in Sirius mode for 3 minutes.
- Shut off the vehicle and remove your key from the ignition.
- Wait for 3 minutes.
- Turn on the vehicle and return to Sirius mode.
If this does not fix the issue please contact your Land Rover or Range Rover dealership.
I drive a Chrysler and I am not receiving all of my channels. What should I do?
Certain radios installed in Chrysler vehicles will need a signal refresh to properly sync with the updated SiriusXM lineup.
You can easily refresh your radio from right inside your vehicle by visiting siriusxm.com/refresh on your smartphone. You can also send a refresh signal by calling toll-free to 855-MY REFRESH (697-3373). Be sure to have your Radio ID (or ESN#) before you begin. Click here for a copy of these instructions that you can print out and keep with you.
Most radios will display the Radio ID (ESN or SID) when you tune it to channel 0. If this doesn't work on your radio, click here to find your radio and follow the instructions on how to display your Radio ID.
If you need further assistance, please click here to chat with an agent who will help you find your Radio ID (or ESN).


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Guests will include: Capathia Jenkins (Newsies), Chester Gregory (Sister Act), Lilli Cooper (Spring Awakening), Michael James Scott (Book Of Mormon), C.E Smith (Leap of Faith), Maurice Murphy (Spelling Bee), Lillias White (Fela!), Saycon Senblah (Hair), Ryan Shaw (award winning recording artist), Anwar Robinson (American Idol), Jamie Cepero (TV's Smash), Destan Owens (Rent), Jerry Dixon (award winning writer, actor, producer), Darius Anthony Harper (Book Of Mormon Nat. Tour).
July 17 at 7:30pm
Belter and bad decision expert Tori Scott makes her Joe's Pub debut with an evening of songs ranging from Judy Garland to Cee Lo Green. She has graced the stages of The Duplex, the Laurie Beechman, the Metropolitan Room, and every gay bar on the Eastern Seaboard; on television, she's counted to 20 as a singing garbage woman on Sesame Street and dubbed the vocals of a singing hooker on HBO's "Cathouse: The Musical." Now, she brings Joe's Pub her signature mix of stories, standards, and songs that were already on her iPod and didn't seem like they'd be that hard to learn. Written by Tori Scott and Adam Hetrick, Musical Direction by Jesse Kissel.
JEFF LeBLANC
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July 17 at 9:30pm
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Jeff LeBlanc is using his college degree a little differently than he first envisioned. His immediately familiar-sounding blend of pop and acoustic rock quickly took him from dorm room concerts at Sacred Heart University to a 60-date tour of colleges across the country, where he was praised as everything from "the new John Mayer" to an artist "perfectly in tune with his audience." His new album, "Worth Holding On To", was self-released last August and quickly rose to #3 on the iTunes Singer/Songwriter Chart. He's become a staple on the Sirius/XM Coffee House channel, even grabbing a nomination for their "Singer/Songwriter Discovery of 2011". Jeff's recently toured with the likes of the Goo Goo Dolls, Ingrid Michaelson, Matt Nathanson, Brett Dennen, David Archuleta and many more.
Rhianna LaRocque has come a long way since spending Sunday afternoons in her hometown of Severna Park, MD, singing Spice Girls songs into her hairbrush. Today, in the midst of releasing her second EP, Rhianna has evolved into a unique and versatile singer-songwriter whose music combines a level of introspection beyond her years with the wide-eyed sincerity of someone always trying to learn and gro…w. Floating over rolling chord patterns, Rhianna's voice has one quality that stands out above many others – honesty. Her voice is real, unembellished and reminiscent of a time when a guitar and a voice was all you needed to say something beautiful. Lucky for us, she's only just begun talking.
July 18 at 7:30pm
A triple threat with her diverse songwriting, soulful vocals, and guitar goddess status - all featured on over twenty CDs - Carolyn Wonderland has a pedigree in this business that's hard to match. A bit of a renegade, she likes to incorporate elements of blues, country, swing, zydeco, surf, gospel, soul, and some nights, maybe even a cumbia into the musical mix.
Recent years have seen Wonderland stretching out musically, working some expert whistling and scat singing into her shows. In addition to her trusty guitar, "Patty," Carolyn has been regularly playing her trumpet, and even occasionally the accordion, mandolin, or keys…she is threatening to take up nose flute if someone doesn't stop her…
Wonderland's songs have been featured on NBC's Homicide, Fox's Time of Your Life, & Houston NORML even made a video PSA set to Carolyn's Annie's Scarlet Letter. She has toured with acts like Buddy Guy and Johnny Winter, sat-in with String Cheese Incident, Robert Earl Keen, and Los Lobos, and even sang the "National Anthem" at Sturgis Bike Week 2003 - her 10th anniversary playing Sturgis - before Robbie Kneivel's record-breaking jump over one hundred Harleys. Recently, she was a panelist at the University of Texas LBJ Library's "Instruments of Freedom" Forum with Kinky Friedman, Marcia Ball, Jerry Jeff Walker and others. She's been lucky enough to jam with mentors and friends like Bob Dylan, Eddy Shaver and Ray Benson. Most recently, Wonderland was named the 2009 Winner of Best Female Vocalist and Best Blues Band at the Austin Music Awards.
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July 18 at 9:30pm
OUR HIT PARADE is a live top-ten countdown show created by Tony nominee and Obie winner Kenny Mellman (Kiki & Herb), carnal chanteuse Bridget Everett (At Least It's Pink at Ars Nova), pop song opera impresario Neal Medlyn (Neal Medlyn's Unpronounceable Symbol at P.S. 122), producer and MTV cameraman Brendan Kennedy, and writers Ada Calhoun and Peter Schjeldahl. The show is inspired by the musical sketch series Your Hit Parade that ran on radio and then television from 1935 to 1959. On that show, cast members performed the week's most popular songs as comically literal skits. In this show, the hosts and special guest stars from the local performance scene present their renditions of current popular hits live on stage!Rotating guests include: Billy Eichner, Molly Pope, Lady Rizo, Randy Harrison, Jenn Harris, Murray Hill, Sherry Vine, Corn Mo, The Wau Wau Sisters, and many more…
July 19 at 7:30pm
Few songwriters have experienced and expressed the sinking depths and uplifting optimism of humanity like David Dondero, and his ability to shine a light on the human condition (his own included) is inspiring. Dondero is best known for his narrative tales of America. Having spent most of his life on the road, Dave uses his staggering lyrical talent to paint tales of life in the US of A through clever word play and sarcastic humor (as represented in the album title) about some of life's most sensitive subjects.
AMY LaVERE
July 19 at 9:30pm
Hailed by critics as "a uniquely Memphis blend of grit and delicacy" and "filled with just enough charm to melt the heart," Amy LaVere is an American singer, songwriter, bass player, and storyteller. She has recorded four releases on the Archer Records label - This World Is Not My Home (2005), Anchors & Anvils (2007), an EP, Died of Love (2009), and Stranger Me (2011).
Appearances on the BBC's Later with Jools Holland, Conan O'Brien, the Royal Albert Hall and Germany's Rolling Stone Festival have introduced her to audiences around the world. Amy's newest album, Stranger Me, was produced with noted UK producer/engineer Craig Silvey (Arcade Fire). In addition to her songwriting prowess, Amy is quite the upright bass player. As the late Jim Dickinson (her former producer) once said, "She can triple–slap the upright bass like Willie Dixon on steroids."
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Editing is essential: new badges and review enhancements
We rolled out three new badges last week!
These recognize a pattern that sets Stack Exchange apart from the forums and message boards that came before it: answering and editing questions, the ability to not only write an answer that can be useful beyond the immediate asker but also re-write the question such that it can be found and understood by future readers. Thanks to this capability, brilliant explanations need not languish under titles such as "C++ problem" or "Java doubt" – having written an answer that ably fixed the problems in the asker's code, it is possible to also fix the problems in his writing!
It's no surprise then that the top editors tend to include an awful lot of the top answerers. If you're good at writing, good enough to consistently hammer out insightful answers, you'd be a fool not to make sure the introductions to those answers – the questions being answered – were of similar quality. Yet, this seemingly-obvious technique remains unknown to many – indeed, I've heard some express shock at the notion that answerers would be allowed to touch the words of those whose questions they strive to interpret and address.
Well, you are allowed. And now, encouraged!
As with previous sets of badges, the bronze level exists to provide a form of "just in time" learning for new users, while the silver and gold levels offer increasingly lofty goals to strive for.
Recent changes to suggested edits
With the introduction of suggested edits, we sought to make the immense power of editing available to anyone reading the site. Instead of going into effect immediately, suggested edits required approval from some number of people who had already earned full editing privileges, thus ensuring some resistance to spammers, vandals and griefers as well as a path by which inexperienced editors could be guided by those with more exposure to community norms. However, several serious deficiencies in this system became apparent over the past few years, so we've now taken steps to correct them:
- We're now notifying editors of past rejections when they load the edit form.
There are some checks in place to avoid hassling folks with occasional rejections, but for a new editor whose edits are being rejected these should help them to improve before they waste too much of their time.
- Reviewers are given a limited period of exclusivity for edits they're reviewing, during which the edit won't be assigned to anyone else for review. This should greatly reduce the frustration for conscientious reviewers, who might previously find the edit they were reviewing (or improving) already approved or rejected by the time they submitted their review.
- Reviewers who wish to perform edits themselves have the option of either approving and editing on top of the suggestion, or rejecting and replacing it with a different edit.
This replaces both the previous "Improve" option, and the "too minor" rejection reason, allowing edits that make small changes while overlooking large flaws to be quickly discarded, while ensuring that truly helpful edits – even small ones – are more consistently approved. Combined with change #2, this gives a great deal more power to reviewers who are comfortable editing – and who better to review edits than editors?
- Finally, we've revamped the rest of the predefined suggested edit rejection reasons, improving their context-sensitivity and focusing more specifically on common mistakes and outright abuse.
Together, these changes should offer better guidance to both editors and reviewers, helping both work together effectively.
Big thanks to everyone who chimed in on the meta discussions linked above, as well as those who've repeatedly reported these problems over the past few years. Gratitude is also due to the developers who patiently worked to implement these changes, Geoff Dalgas (badges, review changes) and Kevin Montrose (edit rejection feedback). And of course, huge thanks to everyone who uses this tooling in spite of the occasional rough edges.
These changes are part of a project intended to help improve the quality of Q&A on Stack Exchange. Stay tuned for even bigger, better changes in the coming months!
Please welcome jmac, Community Manager of the Rising Sun
As Stack Exchange continues to expand to serve new audiences, we're constantly on the lookout for folks who can take the principles and practices we all hold dear and communicate them effectively to the folks who would otherwise find them strange and difficult. I'm happy to announce we've found another of these rare specimens in the form of Joshua Maciel:
Josh joins us remotely from beautiful Kansai Japan, where youthful ignorance brought him for a two-year stay (maximum!) to teach English. Eleven years later he still hasn't left, having found gainful employment doing international sales for Japanese manufacturers, along with something he refers to as a 'social life' in Western Japan.
After living extensively in two cultures, and working in a half-dozen more, Josh decided that humans are really interesting, despite all their peccadilloes. And what better way to study these humans in their natural habitat than by participating on Stack Exchange!
Josh first caught our attention on Meta, gaining the admiration and respect of us all by politely pointing out how incredibly wrong and delusional most of my opinions are. After a few months of respectable participation on Stack Overflow, he joined our site for questions about workplace and career-related issues and proved me wrong once again by helping the good folk there to push that site out of the beta doldrums and into graduation. He then proceeded to get himself elected as a moderator, where he continued to demonstrate the sort of dedication and tact that has been his hallmark.
Josh can usually be found in his natural habitats: at a baseball game somewhere in the world, sitting with a book in Ubud, or finding a local watering hole to escape the Japanese summer heat. Please join me in toasting to his health as he takes on this new challenge.
Do you have a unique set of skills that would benefit the growing communities here on Stack Exchange? We're always looking for more help, and would love to hear from you – whether you're near our NYC HQ or anywhere else in the world. You get to work with enthusiastic folks like Josh and help us guide Stack Exchange as it grows!
Putting the Community back in Wiki
Ever seen this diagram?
That's the visual elevator pitch for Stack Exchange. We were the little dot in the middle, a potent mix of useful traits from other tools, a wiry mutt full of hybrid vigor. The purpose of this blend was to allow and encourage the construction of a library of solutions, by providing communities with the tools they needed to share their experiences and challenges with others who might struggle with the same issues.
The diagram illustrated where we
stole drew inspiration for the design of those tools, and their influence occasionally shows up in the results. Sometimes, a question will end up more like a wiki, other times more like a blog, other times more like a discussion. Because of these roots, we've never been too stuck on the purity of the idea of Q&A: over time, when communities using this software needed to deviate a bit, we've tried to build in features to give them what they needed to help solve more problems:
- Users wanted to "blog" about questions where they'd already found solutions, so we introduced self-answered questions
- People occasionally found themselves needing ongoing discussion to solve a problem, so we added chat forums
…And sometimes, folks realized that they needed a bunch of people to contribute meaningfully to create a post. Not just the collaborative, minor editing that occurs on most questions here; these were cases where multiple users needed to pitch in just to do a topic justice. But there were two points of friction:
- Originally, most users couldn't edit others' posts, (we didn't have suggested edits yet)
- It's hard to ask people to put a lot of effort into creating something together when the asker is going to keep all the credit and all the reputation. I don't care about rep and attribution when I'm self-motivated to improve a post I come across, but it feels different when someone outright asks me to pitch in while intending to keep all the fake internet points for themselves!
That's where Community Wiki came in – it killed those friction points by eliminating rep generation from those posts and lowering the bar on who could edit them. Which made it much easier for people who wanted to create collaborative, ensemble works – true community owned and edited resources.
But, much like dynamite, this well-intentioned invention was quickly weaponized into an instrument of destruction. Our big mistake: thinking we could systematically detect when such collaboration was happening, and automatically convert those posts to Community Wiki. It sounded awesome – "we'll help you collaborate even more! When we see enough editors, we'll save you the trouble of making it community wiki yourself and do it for you…"
Yeah, we are dumb.
In which we stop being dumb
By using ridiculously simplistic heuristics to detect these scenarios, we turned what should have been an act of generosity – an invitation to the community to participate in building a shared resource – into a hidden pitfall for the unwary. Too many helpers? NO ONE GETS CREDIT!!! It was a system that converted helpfulness and generosity into a slap in the face – from a robot.
Therefore, we have removed all automatic Wiki conversion triggers from the software. No longer will answers with more than some arbitrary number of edits, or questions with more than a page of answers suddenly lose their owners. To handle those rare situations where unusual activity levels may indicate misuse, we've added some new moderator flags in these scenarios: they can respond when necessary by closing or locking the post – but when there is no fire behind the smoke, they can silently dismiss the flag without disruption.
The once again future of Community Wiki
An author can still apply the status manually when posting or when editing their own answer, and moderators retain the ability to apply it when they deem it truly necessary (for instance, a question attracting very large numbers of partial answers can be a sign of a topic that wants to be a wiki). For the most part, we've turned it back into something that you can choose to use in cases where it lets you work together to create something wonderful:
- Compiling a canonical reference
- Consolidating the knowledge of the community
- Encouraging the ongoing, active maintenance of a changing answer
Sometimes these are single, collaborative answers, other times questions where all contributions must be made in the form of edits. In all cases, the results are clearly that of a sum greater than the whole of its parts, a true community project.
source: Wikimedia Commons
Collaboration isn't a rare thing on our network – the whole system, from posting and editing to voting to moderation, is based on the interaction of multiple users to produce a final product. Community wiki is for a special scenario, something built not by the expertise of one individual, then improved or iterated on by a few others, but rather something created by the concerted efforts of the community as a whole.
2013 Stack Overflow User Survey Results
In 2013, our Stack Overflow community grew from 21.5 million to 26.9 million monthly visitors from 242 countries around the world. We're doing a lot to keep growing with the community — we now have localized versions of Careers 2.0 for French and German audiences, we're developing iOS and Android mobile apps for our entire network, and our first ever localized version of Stack Overflow with the Portuguese site currently in beta. As a way for us to make sure we're doing the most for our users and community on Stack Overflow, we conduct a survey every year to see what you're up to, how you're using our site and what else is on your mind. This year, we analyzed a survey sample of 7,500 responses from 96 countries. As a thank you for the time you spent filling it out, we donated an additional $12,000 to our Stack Exchange Charities.
This is the second year we're calling out mobile, and yes mobile is still growing.
While only 7.9% of you classified your occupation as a Mobile Application Developer, the majority of respondents (51.5%!) said that their company has a native mobile app. This is an increase from 2012 when 48.2% of respondents had a mobile app.
Android continues to climb while iPhone declines
Not only is the Android Phone the most popular mobile device with 63.8% of respondents saying they have one, the most popular native mobile platform supported is an Android Phone app with 39.5%. The iPhone lost more traction with developers this year with 30.7% of respondents saying they own an iPhone compared to 35.2% in 2012.
Working Remotely
As our Stack Exchange team is growing and we have more employees working remote, we added a number of questions about remote work. While only 10.6% of respondents said they are full-time remote, 63.9% of total respondents say they work remotely at least occasionally.
Here's a special infographic to sum up our survey findings. If you'd like to do your own analysis you can download the survey results.
Raised on The ꞌNet: please welcome Ana Hevesi, Community Manager
We've spent a good portion of the year trying to build out our teams to handle the increasing load of work here at Stack Exchange. A big part of this has involved bringing on new community managers: with both a larger number of sites *and* greater numbers of users on those sites, we hadn't exactly been keeping up with the demand for help and guidance across the network. Tim Post signed on in the spring, followed by Jon Ericson, Gabe Koscky and Pops "Kevin" Chang.
Community Management at Stack Exchange is primarily a support role: assist folks in learning how to use the software, then help them learn to work together as they work to build something awesome. Our goal is to facilitate more than to dictate: if you've spent some time on a mature site, you know what we're all working toward, but sometimes folks need a bit of help figuring out how to get there. Jon compares the job to the art of bonsai: patient observation, deliberate and judicious intervention and correction, more patient observation. We've been very lucky to attract so many patient, observant gardeners thus far, and I'm excited to announce that we've just hired one more:
Ana Hevesi was raised in New York and socialized on The Internet as much as in "real life". She grew to be wildly fascinated with how social norms developed on the web, finding the factors that led people to bond, collaborate or conflict with one another to be endlessly intriguing. She was a drama major at a competitive performing arts high school before studying web design and development in college. Dropping out to pursue a more self-directed path as a programmer, Ana attended events and got to know people within the (then rather small) New York tech community. Her new friends threw a wrench into her dev career plans by repeatedly asking for help in managing their relationships with customers. She was hired as the first community manager at Shapeways, helping designers and engineers share their 3D printing expertise and sell their designs. It was at Shapeways where Ana was first introduced to Stack Exchange, observing with interest our approach to community development. She gained further experience in community management at Nodejitsu, as well as knowledge of running a tech support team and the idiosyncrasies of the JavaScript and Node.js communities.
Ana has a keen eye for patterns in social interaction, and delights in finding ways to help folks work together more effectively. When she's not working, she can be found hanging out in her Brooklyn neighborhood, finding the weirdest and most fun electronic music, hacking on small projects, organizing developer conferences, or digging into a sci-fi novel or a book about behavioral psych.
We're still in the process of introducing Ana to all of our communities, so please join me in giving her a warm welcome when she drops in on yours.


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- Dino Squad Episode Guide
- Cartoon Characters: Roger Blair, Max (Rolf Maxwell), Erwin Caruso, Fiona Flagstaff, Buzz (Neil Buzmati), Rump, Joanne Moynihan, Victor Veloci.
- Vocal Talent: Kelcivious Jones (as Kelcey Watson) (Roger Blair), Ian Eli Lee (Max [Rolf Maxwell]), Benjamin Beck (Erwin Caruso), Dana Donlan (Fiona Flagstaff), Rob Baker, Earl E. Bates III, Ben Birkholtz, Tifanie Christun, Kevin Ehrhart, Nils Haaland, Sarah Heinke, Caroline Iliff, John Michael Lee, Lizzy Lee, Jerry Longe, Moira Mangiameli, Vincent Michael, M. Michelle Phillips, Cork Ramer, Theresa Sindelar, Ryle Smith, Anne Sundell, Rachel Ware, Tiffany White-Welchen, D. Kevin Williams.
- Directed By Susan Bear Collins, Marsha Goodman , John Michael Lee.
- Produced By Jim Lara.
Line Producer: Pam Arseneau.
Executive Producers: Andy Heyward, Kaaren Lee Brown, Michael Maliani.
- Written By Robert N. Skir.
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Buzz is the victim of a school bully, and the Dino Squad tries to help Buzz learn to handle the situation without fighting back.
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An anonymous reader writes: Now that the shuttle has been retired, the hunt is on for revolutionary technologies to economically lift cargo and humans into space. And a space elevator just may be the answer. According to renowned physicist Michio Kaku, recent developments in nanotechnology may make this technological marvel a reality by the end of this century.
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Tuesday, October 28, 2014
Warum die kreative Idee entscheidet
Unser Beitrag zum Thema wirksame Kommunikation #Effie2014 #GWA #Kreativität
(erschienen im Horizont vom 23.10.2014)
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Tuesday, August 19, 2014
Why we need to #RePicture Females in Advertising*.
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Women play not just one, but many roles.
Women are an important economical factor globally: they drive consumption, create new businesses and shape society. Never before have there been so many well educated young women – but the same goes for so many active, older women – being more present in society and business than ever before.
Media today is still portraying women in a limited way.
The female force is a clear fact, but the reality in media is a different one. Typical images are 'the glamorous sex kitten, the sainted mother, the devious witch, thehard-faced corporate climber' according to a UNESCO report from 2009. The conclusion - we will need another 75 years to have gender equality in media. And neither is Germany far ahead compared to other countries, nor has there been a big leap forward in the last 5 years.
Broaden the story - instead of limiting it to stereotypes.
I do not want to argue about stereotypes being right or wrong – but they are only part of the truth, neglecting that women have a more diverse identity. Nigerian author Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie sums it up in a TED talk:
"The single story creates stereotypes, and the problem with stereotypes is not that they are untrue, but that they are incomplete. They make one story become the only story."
Advertising has started to use natural beauty, imperfection and age as creative success factors, reflecting that people appreciate an honest reflection of today's culture. The most prominent example is still Dove's 2004campaign on "real beauty". Others have followed – from German female magazine "Brigitte" asking women in their 2011 campaign to "live a life more imperfect" to American lingerie brand Aerie launching their spring 2014 ads highlighting "the real you is sexy" by using untouched images.
We need more diverse images to promote a more diverse society.
A change in how advertising pictures women is about much more than supporting female self-esteem. It reflects how society is changing and influences how we perceive men and women in relationships, family or work context.
The controversy that followed Barilla's announcement last year to only support a traditional family image, and not see people outside this as their target group, indicates that we are ready for more image variety - as a legacy to the next generation, to support more choice, a different self-image and a better society - just by choosing from a broader range of female images. That this is possible and that society is ready for diversity shows the just as controversial case from Honey Maid that plays with different family and gender roles - and turned negative conversation on their approach into a message of love.
* I originally wrote this post earlier this year for the Getty Images Website and their co-operation with the LeanIn.org, creating the Lean In Collection, supporting a different female imagery in stock photography. I only added the Honey Maid case to the article as it seems brands are picking up on the fact that we are ready for diversity in female and family imagery in general. Anyone can and should participate in this conversation around how we can #RePicture women in media and advertising.
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What makes A Good Brief?*
There are no great briefs, only great ads.
There are no great briefs, but there are la lot of bad ones.
A good brief is probably about as good as a brief gets.
(L. Butterfield, Excellence in Advertising, 1997)
There are no great briefs, just great ideas – as much of our work is not limited to traditional ads any more. Have you ever heard anyone outside of advertising discuss the potential insight or message behind a campaign? No – this doesn't happen – planners are not rock stars and often don't get the credit they deserve.
Planners play a vital role in the creative process. Creatives look to the brief to provide them with a clear understanding of the business situation and the challenge that needs to be solved. If creatives are unable to do so, they can come up with nice creative ideas – but won't be able to deliver the solution the client needs. So the question is - what makes a good brief?
A good brief shouldn't be creative and cheeky with word play, but first and foremost, needs to deliver the business challenge with clarity. Identifying what needs to be solved is a huge achievement in its own right. Good insights can help shape the creative idea and strategy. Insights are not just psychological - a good insight can be based on cultural phenomena or behavioural patterns. We experienced this during the development of Volkswagen's "Don't Make Up & Drive" campaign, which was strongly focused on how women use social media – revealing a great way to approach them.
Clarity is also important in terms of being decisive about what the main issue is that needs to be solved. Trying to tackle too many extraneous issues can be a detriment.
A good brief can always be told in a few sentences, without jargon. They are, in the best sense, very brief. And it takes work to reach that level of brevity. Good briefs are not misunderstood as a format that needs its boxes to be filled – but a structure of thought that delivers a good story to creatives.
Good briefs don't necessarily come from planners alone – they are brought to life through discussion and collaboration. So my advice for a good brief involves not just doing research, but having conversations with the people that are most likely to work on the project down the road. And keep in mind - good briefs not only give direction, they inspire.
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Friday, August 8, 2014
A Cannes review - through the eyes of a planner.
It's been a few weeks to digest all the inspiration and ideas we where confronted with. Every year the Cannes festival of creativity seems to get bigger with more categories, more players, more entries. And again delegates could hear all the buzzwords that have been around for a while - storytelling, content, innovation. But again we also saw many great ideas - and though I was only able to attend for 3 days I picked up some things that seemed very present across different talks, seminars, and creative cases - awarded or not.
For me, 5 main topics emerged:
- Be good, not cynical
- Deliver valuable service and content
- Fusing human and digital
- Create exceptional entertainment and experiences
- Make it close and personal
In one sentence: Cannes 2014 again showed that creativity needs to add value for people – by either offering great entertainment, personal experience or support our society and real life.
All of these topics are connected - and even though I picked quotes from the panels as well as ideas that highlight what is behind each of the four topics you will easily see that many of the ideas fit to at least two of the above. Not all of the examples have won big in Cannes - but they have been part of speeches and screenings and support the topics I saw emerge.
1. Be good, not cynicalHappy with Pharell was one of the big winners. The panel on "Nice is the new black" set this as their theme. But it emerged at many other points as well. There's a craving not just for great stories, but for great ideas that create positive emotions. The days of cynical seem over - at least for the moment. And brands are celebrating to follow a purpose that evokes meaning and goose bumps.
"Oxcitocin is the chemistry of nice. Things that are personal. It is about true feelings."
BBDO panel 'Nice is the new Black'
"We are good if people think we are great. But we are great if people think we are good."
David Droga
"What we stand for - things that touch people. ... it is only fxxking great if it does something."
David Droga
Further examples where this was very present are:
- Guinness -"Made of More" (Les Sapeurs in 2014 won 4 lions - but campaign has been running for some time with lots of other stories around "Made of More" and their everyday heros)
- Google Search: India - Pakistan Reunion - a story about Yusuf and his estranged friend from Lahore that are reunited after many years brings everyone to tears (and won a silver & bronze lion).
- Honey Maid – Love is taking a stand for family equality, no matter the parents gender, literally turning hate messages into love (gold lion in PR).
- P&G Tide - Thank you, mom (celebrated in 2013)
- Duracell – Trust your power
- Mimi Foundation - If Only for a Second (Silver Lion Health)
- John Lewis - Bear and Hare
Even though looking at the retail category there is a clear counter-trend into the complete opposite direction: "Sorry, I spent it on myself" for Harvey Nichols shows that you have to stay true to who you are as a brand, still reflecting an extremely human insight. The craving to do oneself something good, without feeling guilty - shifting from the We to Me.
2. Deliver valuable service and content
"Great content always wins – and everthing competes with everything today, eg. Hollywood moview and a film of a guy running after his dog on YouTube"
"Put people first. From marketing to people to marketing with people to marketing for people." Keith Weed, CMO Unilever
"Work outside in, what are you solving? Make it human – and make it fluffy."
"Why would they even bother to engage with what we are putting out, we need to reward them." David Droga
"Brands already have great content. It is just a matter of collecting it in the right place."
We again heard a lot of talk about how we need to deliver valuable content. But what actually creates value? Overall, it can be anything that delivers a useful support to peoples lives - by helping individuals or society with a specific service or advice. Cases that put this to work in impressive ways were many - as this topic seems very Cannes worthy - and a way to ride a popular wave that hat a lot of award attention as well as many categories where it can be presented. Here is a selection from both award show and talks.
Terre des Hommes Netherlands: SWEETIE is an impressive experiment that draws attention to webcam child sex tourism that does more than raise awareness - and that was awarded not only Gold but also a Grand Prix. In order to track down pedophiles engaging in webcam child sex tourism, "Sweetie", a computerized version of a 10-year-old Filipino girl, was sent into online forums and cought some 1,000 predators from 71 countries.
Terre des Hommes Netherlands: SWEETIE is an impressive experiment that draws attention to webcam child sex tourism that does more than raise awareness - and that was awarded not only Gold but also a Grand Prix. In order to track down pedophiles engaging in webcam child sex tourism, "Sweetie", a computerized version of a 10-year-old Filipino girl, was sent into online forums and cought some 1,000 predators from 71 countries.
And there are a lot more valuable offers out there, for example the following:
- Intel - Project Daniel. A true way to inspire that the brand is about empowering people to realize valuable things with technology - for example in their cooperation with Mick Ebeling and Not Impossible. (Look Inside You). One of my favourites that shows how a brand like Intel has been progressing from pure storytelling to something deeper and more valuable - so more than deserved they received a Titanium Lion for this.
- Unilever - AllThingsHair giving a lot of valuable information on anything that people would want to know about haircare and hair styles - just by being the hub for all hair related content on the internet, a great work example from Razorfish.
- Unilever - Khan Khajura Radio via mobile phones. A service for rural India that offers entertaining content via mobile phones in areas where people might not have access to other forms of entertainment, awarded with 3 gold lions.
- IKEA - 2nd hand campaign - a way to help people sell, not let anything go to waste, and turn Facebook into digital flea market (Bronze lion film)
- #detroitreboot, a Project by LOWE Detroit with Detroit icons and start ups that helps re-imagine a city that has been bancrupt and is now rebuilding with the help of their own community.
- CLIMATENAMECHANGE.ORG – changing the hurricane name system, name after climate change deniers.
- WaterisLife Drinkable Book supports a way to filter water and make it safe to drink.
- Johnson +Johnson "My name means" from dm9ddb is an app that searches the internet for info on names. Another way to access existing content and data.
- SharemyDabba by McCann India for Happy Life Welfare - an idea that uses stickers to share the left overs from the typical indian Dabby lunch box with people in need.
- Guide dots for the blind by Y&R Singapore use beacon technology to offer aid for the visually impaired.
3. Fusing human and digital
The fusion of real world and digital is something that can be seen in aesthetics, message and experiences - to tell stories of today.
"Every smartphone has 100.000 times the power of the computer that sent 1st men to the moon."
"Make your own brief and create things by yourself"
PARTY, agency based in Tokio and NYC.
PARTY, agency based in Tokio and NYC.
"There is a trend to use very digital imagery, digital art. Also we see a lot of cellular structures. Cellular is where all life evolves."
Zoe Lazarus, LOWE Counsil
Here are some great ideas that show how this is put to work - and some are nicely combining this with all of the above mentioned features as well - like for example Google Fibre and Nicks First Pitch. Google Fiber tells not only a great story but also puts technology to great use with their "1st telerobotic baseball pitch". The bone marrow drive that found a donor for Nick Legrand exaggerates why speed matters more – truly emotionally explained and experienced.
"The Sound of Honda" brings to life the Ayerton Senna race of 1989. Internati is the Honda navigation system, that has been tested and perfected in racing cars of the 1980s. Therefore Honda told its story by re-enacting the fastest lap by Ayrton Senna from the 1989 Formula 1 Grand Prix of Japan. The collected data from the car's on-board system allowed them to recreate the lap with sound and light of the Suzuka Circuit. Senna is driving with Honda without being there - turning data into pure emotion and story - and letting Honda receive a Cannes Titanium Grand Prix.
The Gaga doll is a creative idea that the team from japanese creative agency PARTY showed as one of their work examples. There were quite a few more intersting concepts like the idea for the Cut Copy album release "We are explorers", a video that only used 3D printed figures - and that started with the users, as the figures came as a bit torrent bundle - just two out of a bunch of tech infused ideas.
Vera Glahn from FIELD showed in her talk at the Google beach a great work for Nike Hyperfeel that also makes the same point on how we fuse human and tech today.
What Cecil B. Evans produced for the London Serpentine Gallery with the bot AGNES. Something that reminded me very strongly about the 2014 film HER by Spike Jonze.
The GIFGIF site from the MIT media lab offers a fun way to vote online.
The GIFGIF site from the MIT media lab offers a fun way to vote online.
And fashion putting it to work with the pulsing GIFs that Diesel produced with Nick Knight or the Gareth Pugh Monolith - an installation at Selfridges London with Oculus Rift & Facebook.
4. Exceptional Entertainment and Real Live ExperiencesCreativity can take us out of our daily reality - and offer fantastic, over the top real experiences and experiments - as well as very staged, animated or extravagant and surprising colorful entertainment.
"Imagination connects people."
Superheros, Make Innovation Fluffy
"Old Spice is an entertainment franchise, not a deodorant brand."
M.Prichard, P&G
"They do not know if they get inspired by an entertainment company or advertising"
David Droga
The key case in Cannes this year was surely "Epic split" from Volvo that by now is close to a 75 mio views - and if you have not already check out the whole case that shows that behind the most prominent stunt is a great number of further experiments of what is possible for and with this brand - always truly rooted in product features.
Further pieces of pure entertainment that take on a very playful mode:
Chipotle Scarecrow shows how it is possible to transport a meaningful message in a very playful and entertaining way - helping to build a sustainable brand. Their App based free game turned them into top social brand and taking on Taco Bells No.1 position. The Cannes Lion is a clear acknowledgement of their creative and commercial success alike - waiting for the Cannes Effectiveness case in 2015.
Chipotle Scarecrow shows how it is possible to transport a meaningful message in a very playful and entertaining way - helping to build a sustainable brand. Their App based free game turned them into top social brand and taking on Taco Bells No.1 position. The Cannes Lion is a clear acknowledgement of their creative and commercial success alike - waiting for the Cannes Effectiveness case in 2015.
OldSpice does it twice - first with the Mom Anthem "Smellcome to Manhood" and taking it to another level with OldSpice "Let your Hair do the talking" in getting a women's attention. Both give hilarious, over the top entertainment experiences.
Newcastle Brown Ale's ifwemadeit.com is a fun way to entertain in a very exaggerated way and build on the Superbowl craze - showing how Newcastle Brown Ale would have gone over the top on their Superbowl commercial if they had the budget - complete with VIP support, winning a Cyper lion for it.
5. Make it close and personal through context
"Mobile makes marketing personal again." S.Sandberg
"People are a moving target..." Contagious
"I'm not interested in user-generated content; I'm interested in user-generated communities." D. Droga
Again we could see how important it is to reflect context in creative ideas in order to get attention and be relevant. The use of media context helps not only to make content relevant, but also to make it close and personal and spark conversations. Some of the ideas that did that truly well are:
British Airways Billboard and their idea to get people to #lookup at Piccadilly Circus in London won a Grand Prix in the media category and is one of the fine examples on how to use media according to its context.
Bob Dylan Box Set Promotion "Like a Rolling Stone" a video that ran across all channels to promote the SONY box containing all his recorded music and offering a great video experience that connects across all channels, letting Dylan take over TV - or rather 16 channels at the same time. It was awarded with 3 gold Lions in Direct, Cyber and Branded Content & Entertainment as well as a Bronze Lion in Film Craft.
Bob Dylan Box Set Promotion "Like a Rolling Stone" a video that ran across all channels to promote the SONY box containing all his recorded music and offering a great video experience that connects across all channels, letting Dylan take over TV - or rather 16 channels at the same time. It was awarded with 3 gold Lions in Direct, Cyber and Branded Content & Entertainment as well as a Bronze Lion in Film Craft.
McDonald Worldcup "Fry Football" on Facebook - letting people reenacting the game with fries. The same idea for 500 m Facebook members that are interested in football – but always offering a personal experience, executed in real time according to Sheryl Sandberg that presented the case in her stage appearance.
Adidas - D Rose jump store offers a great personal experience for the UK market and young, urban London basketball target. The case film will show you more on the award winning idea that gained 4 m people to participate in 10 days with #jumpwithdrose in an audience that is not interested in classical media.
With The Foundary UNILEVER has also taken on an interesting way to provide deeper connections with consumers - as this platform lets them cooperate closely with tech start ups to deliver new solutions. One example Aer with Magnum to share one anywhere – making freezers intelligent, connecting them with people that are craving an icecream.
So what about the (future) Role of Ad Agencies in all this?
We have always had a clear role and that is to push ideas forward to help business grow.
Contagious had a very inspiring session on teaching new technology old tricks. (Unfortunately the video documentation seems to be not available any longer - get in touch with them on how to get access). They highlighted again that we do not need to search long to see how we can add value - and used a great quote by 70s ad icon Mary Wells Lawrence: "Imagine a company that specialises in waking up global marketers to their boring idioticy."
Contagious had a very inspiring session on teaching new technology old tricks. (Unfortunately the video documentation seems to be not available any longer - get in touch with them on how to get access). They highlighted again that we do not need to search long to see how we can add value - and used a great quote by 70s ad icon Mary Wells Lawrence: "Imagine a company that specialises in waking up global marketers to their boring idioticy."
Knowing our clients business, seeing opportunities of where we can add value with ideas is the key to what a lot of industry experts are talking about: being influential. David Droga put it very clear in his appearance on stage.
"We are in the business of influence, clients pay us to have influential ideas. I want to build the most influential business." David Droga
At DDB for example we have even build it into our tag line of "Imagine. Inspire. Influence." and strive to create influential ideas that will make brands influential.
But never forget what Forsman & Bodenfors highlighted when asked about the next step after the Volvo epic split: "There is no recipe."
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Gisele Bündchen is the type of person who looks good wearing yoga pants.
Clearly Tom Brady's wife looks phenomenal in the garment, which can often be unflattering on mere mortals.
And on Tuesday, the 32-year-old mom of two showed just how hot finding your zen can be.
PHOTO: Gisele and baby Vivian hit NYC
In an Instagram shot, Gisele and her yoga guru pal look serene and focused in a twisting lunge position, aka a variation of the Twisted Warrior pose. " A beautiful way to start the morning practicing with my friend Cristina Kalyani Paes." the supermodel writes. "Wishing you a joyful day!"
OK, universe: If we could all look and feel like Gisele after a yoga sesh, that'd be great. Namaste.
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