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Motek
Motek Entertainment BV is an animation, motion capture, format development and production studio specializing in creation and production work for features, commercials, television, games, virtual and augmented media. Motek is based in Amsterdam, Netherlands. History The company is a subsidiary of Motek BV and was founded in The Netherlands by Oshri Even-Zohar as Lamalo BV in 1993. It became Motek BV with the inclusion of private investors in 1996. The company's core business lines: Medical, Simulation and Entertainment grew more independent and in 2004 the separate companies Motek Entertainment BV and Motek Medical BV were formed. About Motek operates a performance capture studio in Amsterdam, and was formerly a partner with the Noordelijk Hogeschool Leeuwarden's motion capture studio in the Gameship initiative. The studio is equipped with Vicon T-Series cameras. Motek is known for being highly innovative in other fields as well, such as medicine. Their immersive virtual-reali ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sprookjesboom
Sprookjesboom, also known as "The Fairy Tale Tree", "Märchenbaum" and "L'Arbre des Contes", is an animated television series for children from the Efteling theme park. The show is produced by the animation studio Motek Entertainment in Amsterdam, based on a concept from Efteling's director, Olaf Vugts. The television program is broadcast daily in several international markets including the Netherlands on TROS and z@ppelin, in Germany on NRW and in Belgium on Ketnet and Club RTL. ''Sprookjesboom'' is similar in theme to DreamWorks' ''Shrek''. It tells the story of the characters that live in the Sprookjesbos, or ''Fairy Tale Forest'', including Cinderella, Little Red Riding Hood, and Tom Thumb. The narration is provided by a talking tree. Behind every 5-minute episode is a subtle moral message. Episodes are in Dutch, with some having been translated to German, French and English. The character animation is based on motion capture Motion capture (sometimes referred as moca ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Internet Movie Database
IMDb, historically known as the Internet Movie Database, is an online database of information related to films, television series, podcasts, home videos, video games, and streaming content online – including cast, production crew and biographies, plot summaries, trivia, ratings, and fan and critical reviews. IMDb began as a fan-operated movie database on the Usenet group "rec.arts.movies" in 1990, and moved to the Web in 1993. Since 1998, it has been owned and operated by IMDb.com, Inc., a subsidiary of Amazon. The site's message boards were disabled in February 2017. , IMDb was the 51st most visited website on the Internet, as ranked by Semrush. the database contained some million titles (including television episodes), million person records, and 83 million registered users. Features User profile pages show a user's registration date and, optionally, their personal ratings of titles. Since 2015, "badges" can be added showing a count of contributions. These badges range ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Coca-Cola
Coca-Cola, or Coke, is a cola soft drink manufactured by the Coca-Cola Company. In 2013, Coke products were sold in over 200 countries and territories worldwide, with consumers drinking more than 1.8 billion company beverage servings each day. Coca-Cola ranked No. 94 in the 2024 Fortune 500, ''Fortune'' 500 list of the List of largest companies in the United States by revenue, largest United States corporations by revenue. Based on Interbrand's "best global brand" study of 2023, Coca-Cola was the world's List of most valuable brands, sixth most valuable brand. Originally marketed as a temperance bar, temperance drink and intended as a patent medicine, Coca-Cola was invented in the late 19th century by John Stith Pemberton in Atlanta, Georgia. In 1888, Pemberton sold the ownership rights to Asa Griggs Candler, a businessman, whose marketing tactics led Coca-Cola to its dominance of the global soft-drink market throughout the 20th and 21st centuries. The name refers to t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Loerie Awards
The Loeries (The Loerie Awards Company NPC) is a non-profit company administering awards for the brand communications industry, in Africa and the Middle East. History The Loerie Awards first took place in 1978 in Johannesburg. Television was introduced to South Africa relatively late in 1976, and the delay was due to the political belief at the time that television was "undesirable". Once television had finally been introduced, the first television commercials commenced in 1978, and consequently, the Loerie Awards were introduced in the same year to promote the new medium of television advertising. Since 1978, new categories were regularly added and today the awards include not only traditional advertising, but recognise virtually every touch-point between a brand and the consumer - including architecture, design, digital media, live events, sponsorship, as well as integrated campaigns. In 2004, the Loeries were almost "consigned to the scrap heap." Until then, the awards were man ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
International Advertising Association
The International Advertising Association (IAA) is a global association that represents marketers, ad agencies and mass media that carries advertisements. The association is headquartered in New York City and maintains chapters in 77 countries. History The association was founded on April 9, 1938 at the Harvard Club of New York by Thomas Ashwell, publisher of ''Export Trade & Shipper'' magazine, and 12 other advertising industry managers. Initially known as the Export Advertising Association, the association's goal is to exchange information about successful practices in international advertising. In 1954, the association adopted its current name. IAA as an international industry association positions itself as a platform for advertising industry issues, and as an organization that protects and advances the freedom of commercial speech, responsible advertising, consumer choice, and the education of marketing professionals by researching and providing advertising regulation l ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Creativity (magazine)
''Creativity'' is a website that covers the creative aspects of advertising and design. ''Creativity'' started as a printed magazine in 1986 but moved online in 2009. ''Creativity'' is part of Crain Communications, a privately held publisher of more than 30 trade titles. AdCritic.com Founded in 1999, AdCritic.com is a site containing a library of videos, namely television commercials. Due to the high cost of the bandwidth, the site shut off access to all videos in December 2001. The site was acquired by Ad Age Group in March 2002, at which time it changed to a subscription The subscription business model is a business model in which a customer must pay a recurring price at regular intervals for access to a product or service. The model was pioneered by publishers of books and periodicals in the 17th century. It ...-only service bundled with ''Creativity'' magazine. In August 2007, the site was relaunched as Creativity Online. References External links Official website ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
BBDO
BBDO is a worldwide advertising agency network, with its headquarters in New York City. The agency originated in 1891 with the George Batten Company, and in 1928, through a merger with Barton, Durstine & Osborn (BDO), the agency became Batten, Barton, Durstine & Osborn. With more than 15,000 employees at 289 offices in 81 countries, it is the largest of three global networks of agencies (BBDO, DDB and TBWA) in the portfolio of Omnicom Group. BBDO was named "Network of the Year" in 2005 by trade publications '' Adweek'', ''Advertising Age'' and '' Campaign''. In 2006, then-mayor of New York Michael Bloomberg proclaimed January 10 as BBDO day in recognition of the strength of its advertising, as well as its contributions to New York City. BBDO was named "Network of the Year" by ''The Gunn Report'' for thirteen consecutive years beginning in 2006, and it has won "Network of the Year" seven times since 2007 at the Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity. It was named "Glo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Snickers
Snickers (stylized in all caps) is a chocolate bar consisting of nougat topped with Caramel#Candy, caramel and peanuts, all encased in milk chocolate. The bars are made by the American company Mars Inc. The annual global sales of Snickers is over $380 million, and it is widely considered the bestselling candy bar in the world. Snickers was introduced by Mars in 1930 and named after the Mars family's favorite horse. Initially marketed as "Marathon" in the UK and Ireland, its name was changed to Snickers in 1990 to align with the global brand, differentiating it from an unrelated US product also named Marathon. Snickers has expanded its product line to include variations such as mini, dark chocolate, white chocolate, ice cream bars, and several nut, flavor, and protein-enhanced versions. Ingredients have evolved from its original formulation to adapt to changing consumer preferences and nutritional guidelines. Despite fluctuations in bar size and controversies around health and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ketnet
Ketnet is a Flemish public children's television channel in Belgium owned and operated by the Vlaamse Radio- en Televisieomroeporganisatie, VRT, Flemish public broadcaster. It broadcasts a mix of locally produced and imported productions on the VRT 3 channel from 6 am until 8 pm. History On 1 December 1997, BRTN 2 was replaced by VRT Canvas, Canvas and Ketnet. From the start of the channel, the program offering from Flemish soil has been diversified. The best-known and/or longest-running titles are :nl:Amika_(televisieserie), ''Amika'', '':nl:Dag_Sinterklaas, Dag Sinterklaas'', '':nl:De_Boomhut, De Boomhut'', :nl:Karrewiet, ''Karrewiet'', ''Kulderzipken'', ''Mega Mindy'', ''Samson en Gert (TV series), Samson en Gert'', ''Spring (television soap), Spring'', and :nl:W817_(televisieserie), ''W817''. In addition, various foreign series are also purchased. Ketnet started as a channel for 4 to 15-year-olds. Programs were broadcast to young teenagers such as ''Studio.Ket'', ''K ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
TROS
TROS, originally an acronym for Televisie Radio Omroep Stichting ("Television Radio Broadcasting Foundation"), was a Dutch television and radio organisation part of the Dutch public broadcasting system. This broadcasting association was particularly well known for its entertainment programmes, quizzes and focus on Dutch folk music in programmes like and the digital channel TROS Sterren TV. In 2014 TROS merged with fellow broadcaster AVRO to form AVROTROS. History A group of entrepreneurs who disliked the type and amount of TV shown by the single public broadcasting channel in the Netherlands acquired a North Sea off-shore drilling platform — the REM Island — and mounted a TV transmitter in the summer of 1964 ( TV Noordzee) and started to broadcast American TV shows like '' Mr. Ed''. This new unofficial TV proved quite popular but was shut down by a government raid, as the government claimed the island's transmitter trespassed frequency spectrum regulations. Due to the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tom Thumb
Tom Thumb is a character of English folklore. ''The History of Tom Thumb'' was published in 1621 and was the first known fairy tale printed in English. Tom is no bigger than his father's thumb, and his adventures include being swallowed by a cow, tangling with giants, and becoming a favourite of King Arthur. The earliest allusions to Tom occur in various 16th-century works such as Reginald Scot's '' Discovery of Witchcraft'' (1584), where Tom is cited as one of the supernatural folk employed by servant maids to frighten children. Tattershall in Lincolnshire, England, reputedly has the home and grave of Tom Thumb. Aside from his own tales, Tom figures in Henry Fielding's 1730 play '' Tom Thumb'', a companion piece to his ''The Author's Farce''. It was expanded into a single 1731 piece titled '' The Tragedy of Tragedies, or the History of Tom Thumb the Great''. In the mid-18th century, books began to be published specifically for children (some with their authorship attributed to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Little Red Riding Hood
"Little Red Riding Hood" () is a fairy tale by Charles Perrault about a young girl and a Big Bad Wolf. Its origins can be traced back to several pre-17th-century European Fable, folk tales. It was later retold in the 19th-century by the Brothers Grimm. The story has varied considerably in different versions over the centuries, translations, and as the subject of numerous modern adaptations. Other names for the story are "Little Red Cap" or simply "Red Riding Hood". It is number 333 in the Aarne–Thompson classification system for folktales. Plot The story centers around a girl named Little Red Riding Hood, named after her red hood (headgear), hooded cape that she wears. The girl walks through the woods to deliver food to her sickly grandmother (wine and cake depending on the translation). A stalking wolf wants to eat the girl and the food in the basket. After he inquires as to where she is going, he suggests that she pick some flowers as a present for her grandmother. Wh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
