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Maurice Lévy’s remote control greeting #TheVeryGoodWishes

on December 16, 2014 by Bridget Comments

Publicis Groupe CEO Maurice Lèvy is back again with another interactive holiday greeting on youtube www.publicisgroupewishes2015.com created by Lost Boys Paris. For the last couple of years Mr.Lévy has used some clever creative tech to transform a corporate speech into an innovative and engaging experience. This year is no exception, Read more…

File under: Agency Card, best, christmas, Lost Boys Paris, maurice levy, publicis groupe

Publicis Omnicom celebrates the human side of the merger

on December 17, 2013 by Bridget Comments

Last year, I thought it was a tough brief to do something interesting with Maurice Lévy’s end of year digital greeting. We were chuffed with the interest generated by The Human Youtube Player, but it only made the brief for this year more difficult.

Maurice Lévy gives a super human YouTube performance

on December 11, 2012 by Bridget Comments

This video starts just like any of the previous end of year greeting videos from Publicis Groupe CEO Maurice Lévy (he’s done one each year since 2010) . But there is one big difference, when you skip forward (which of course everyone does) there’s a surprise. He stops his speech and starts shuffling through his notes to find the part of the speech that you want to skip to. It’s just one of the many very human interpretations of the standard YouTube player functionality built into the 2013 greetings.

You can try out the video for yourself below :

My two favourite features are volume and quality. Changing the volume gives you 4 different options for the speech (shouting, normal, whisper or even Bob Dylan style on mute). Changing the quality of the video results in 6 or 7 hands coming onto camera to change the quality of the décor of Maurice Lévy’s office whilst he continues his speech.

If you pause the video, he keeps himself busy with a range of activities from dusting Cannes Lions, playing Pacman, watching the laughing baby video on YouTube to even recording a new message for Publicis Groupe.

This concept is dependant on people interacting and playing with the video. Without giving the game away, Maurice Lévy gives us a wink in the the very official corporate email to hint that it might not be as boring as it looks.

Kudos to the creative team that had the guts to pitch this idea to the boss of their boss of their boss with the insight that his videos were too long — and hats off to Maurice Lévy for taking on the challenge and not taking himself too seriously.

Agency : Digitas France

https://vimeo.com/55443057

File under: best, corporate communication, Digitas, maurice levy, publicis, youtube

Levy from Publicis: the best, not the bigger

on June 27, 2005 by Martina Comments

The CNN presents an interview with Maurice Levy, president of Publicis, the world’s fourth largest advertising company. Talking to Todd Benjamin, Mr Levy shares his ideas on leadership, personality and atmosphere and when asked whether Publicis wants to be the world’s biggest advertising company he replies: “The most important ambition in the world is not to be the biggest. You don’t need just a big checkbook to be the best. To have the best people, to attract the best client, to sell them the best work; this is a real ambition. This is a much bigger ambition than just a question of numbers.”

File under: interview, maurice levy, publicis

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