Pirelli calendar 2014: Helmut Newton's 1986 Pirelli portraits brought back to life

http://fashion.telegraph.co.uk/columns/bibby-sowray/TMG10464944/Pirelli-calendar-2014-Helmut-Newtons-1986-Pirelli-portraits-brought-back-to-life.html

This year's Pirelli calendar may come as a surprise to some - but unusually it won't be because of the top models and exaggerated eroticism that we've come to expect in recent years thanks to photographers such as Terry Richardson, Karl Lagerfeld and Mario Sorrenti. The 2014 edition is in fact a previously unpublished calendar that was shot by the late Helmut Newton - who passed away in 2004 - with the intention of releasing it in 1986.

Viral Video Chart: Channing Tatum, Sandra Bullock and Tom Hiddleston

http://www.theguardian.com/media/2013/nov/22/digital-media-sandra-bullock

1. Volvo Trucks - The Epic Split feat. Van Damme (Live Test 6)
Damme, he's good

2. Jenko's Epic Split 
Channing, you're not!

3. Gravity Short About the Stranger Sandra Bullock Called From Space
Icy response

4. Cookie Monster Learns a Lesson from Tom Hiddleston
How the Cookie crumbled

5. Disney's Maleficent Official Teaser Trailer 
Dark curtain-raiser

6. Mike Tyson Returns Evander Holyfields' Ear
Now look hear

7. GoldieBlox, Rube Goldberg, & Beastie Boys "Princess Machine" (a concert for little girls)
Deconstructing stereotypes

8. 10 Years of The X Factor in 60 Seconds - The X Factor UK 2013
A decade on song

9. HD video of Jeremy Fry - Celtics Fan Dancing to Bon Jovi Living on a Prayer at a Celtics game
This one's old – but has rebounded up the charts

10. Jingle Hoops 
Having a ball at Christmas

Source: Viral Video Chart. Compiled from data gathered at 14:00 on 21 November 2013. The Viral Video Chart is currently based on a count of the embedded videos and links on approximately 2m blogs, as well as Facebook and Twitter.

Tourism slogans from around the world

http://www.theguardian.com/travel/2013/nov/21/tourism-slogans-around-the-world

Fiji Me 
Latvia – Best enjoyed slowly
I feel SLOVEnia
Naturally Nepal – Once is not enough
New Zealand's Hutt Valley - Right Up My Hutt Valley
Israel - Size doesn't matter
Indonesia – Admit It You Love It

Tactile

Lithuania – See It! Feel It! Love It!
Anguilla – Feeling is Believing
Paraguay – You have to feel it

Google Translate

Greece – You in Greece
Grenada – Live the Rhythms of Spice
Slovakia – Little big country
South Africa – Inspiring new ways
Uruguay natural
Serbia – Life in the Rhythm of the Heartbeat

Disturbing

Panama – It stays in you
Colombia – The only risk is wanting to stay
Morocco – The country that travels within you

Overexcited

There's nothing like Australia
Incredible !ndia
Brazil Sensational!
Smile! You are in Spain!
Incredinburgh

Odd

Jump into Ireland
Visit Bangladesh before tourists come
Dumfries and Galloway - A touch of the exotic

Epic

Montenegro – Wild Beauty
The Kingdom of Swaziland – A Royal Experience
Egypt – Where it all begins

Clean and simple

Germany – The travel destination
Go to Hungary
Definitely Dubai
1 Malaysia
Fargo, North Dakota - Always Warm

Ad break: Jean-Claude Van Damme's epic split for Volvo, Baileys 'Nutcracker'

http://www.theguardian.com/media/2013/nov/21/ad-break-jean-claude-van-damme-volvo-baileys

In this week's roundup of advertising from around the world, Jean-Claude Van Damme impresses with a spectacular stunt for Volvo; Baileys unveil a captivating ballet-influenced festive ad; a French commercial for paper reminds viewers that they shouldn't settle for second best; a US toy company turns gender assumptions on their head; and the NHS charms us into donating blood.

Advertising to children

http://www.economist.com/news/international/21590489-are-children-fair-game-sophisticated-and-relentless-marketing-techniques-many

To market anything that might appeal to young consumers is to risk a scolding. Advertising entices children to drink and smoke, makes them fat and sexualises them early, its critics allege. To tout even wholesome products to children, some claim, is to exploit their naivety and thus to deceive them. Crusaders like Mrs Obama have helped embarrass companies. Coca-Cola said in May that it would not advertise to children younger than 12 anywhere in the world. Last year Disney promised not to promote junk food on television programmes for children.

Reincarnation at Nokia

http://www.economist.com/news/business/21590363-after-sale-its-devices-division-microsoft-what-was-once-worlds-biggest

Nokia has reinvented itself before. It began in pulp, in 1865. It switched into power generation, stretched into rubber goods and cables, and tuned in to televisions that in the 1980s were among Europe’s best sellers. But its consumer-electronics division fizzled, made deep losses and was sold, as were rubber and cables, in the 1990s. Mobile phones were Nokia’s future then. Soon they will be its past, and 32,000 Nokians—including the former chief executive, Stephen Elop—will be Microserfs. Mr Elop, an ex-Microsoft man, declared Nokia’s own mobile-phone platform to be “burning” in 2011 and leapt onto Microsoft’s instead. He may soon be his old firm’s new boss.

#lookup in Piccadilly Circus

http://www.britishairways.com/en-gb/flights-and-holidays/flights/lookup

To make it work took quite a bit of digital wizardry, for both the poster site you might have seen in Chiswick and the video billboard at Piccadilly Circus.

Piccadilly Circus and globalisation

http://www.economist.com/node/18806149

For the past century, the glittery displays have reflected shifts in international influence in business and beyond. British and European brands predominated until after the second world war: Perrier, a French drinks firm, was the first to spell its name in lights; Guinness, Bovril and Schweppes, three other beverage-makers, were also early presences. Yet the London landmark has not hosted a British company for nearly 40 years.

By the 1960s Americans were well established: Coca-Cola has been adding life to the lights since 1955; other American torchbearers have included Budweiser and McDonald's. As Asian companies began to conquer global markets in the 1970s, so Japanese businesses started to colonise the Piccadilly boards. Canon led, followed by Fuji and TDK. The South Koreans came next. The illuminations in New York's Times Square, which feature multiple American brands and also advertise shows, are comparatively parochial.

The Independent is banned from Azerbaijan's Baku World Challenge

http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/motoring/features/the-independent-is-banned-from-azerbaijans-baku-world-challenge-for-wanting-to-look-beyond-the-marketing-hype-8952750.html

As many as 100 representatives of the global media are converging today on Azerbaijan's glittering Caspian shoreline to watch a weekend of car racing. The Baku World Challenge is a jewel in the heavily burnished crown of the re-elected President, Ilham Aliyev, a man who would rather the media be dazzled than dwell on his increasingly relaxed approach to democracy, human rights, and press freedom.

This was an opportunity to scrutinise Azerbaijan's relentless, oil-fuelled march to market itself abroad as a centre for commerce and tourism. A car race alone might not have provided all the answers. What was it about life under President Aliyev that they did not want me to see?

4 management lessons from Amazon

On Monday, The Everything Store, which traces Amazon’s rise, was named FT/Goldman Sachs Business Book of the Year for 2013, partly, in the words of one judge, because of its management lessons.

1) Look after the customer

2) Timing is vital to successful innovation – but it is not the whole story

3) Think long term – and be transparent

4) Reinforce a virtuous circle of advantages

The World in 2014

The coming year promises to be one of sporting shows, political shocks and economic shifts. Keep checking this page for more on what's in store for the world in 2014.