The Greenpeace-supported fake Shell website has gained a lot of social media traction this past week. By using Shell’s logo, among other things, the site comes off as pretty slick and its official-lookingness has a lot of people fooled. The site gives people a chance to create their own “Let’s Go” ads like this one: [...]
When you’re a creative in adveritising, you clearly have to believe that you alone have something unique to offer an agency or a client. We’re all trying to stand out. It’s an adaptation of something we’ve been preaching to businesses for years. Can anyone stand out in a marketing world where everyone’s desire is to [...]
Get ready: The London Olympics are coming in a few weeks. To be honest, I’m not much into the Olympics as a whole, although it was quite cool to be living in Atlanta in the Summer of 1996 when the games were there. But it’s no secret that brands and marketers leap at the chance [...]
When The Book of Gossage was first released in the mid-90′s, I was a student in ad school. I’d never heard of Howard Gossage or seen his work, but his philosophy about advertising and his work clearly had an influence on many ad professionals. Still, he remained a bit of an enigma, a sort-of cult [...]
“Start with a simple idea. Think. Think more. Drink coffee. Stop thinking. Start doing.” Wieden + Kennedy’s new ad for the new 2013 Dodge Dart uses a lot of periods to make its point. But that’s not all it does. The 90-second spot also echoes the agency’s “Fail Harder” ethos throughout. According to Reuters, the [...]
Even if you do not intend to drive a fast car through the empty streets of San Francisco, you want to be wearing DC Shoes. That’s the message here, in this fifth installment of the brand’s “Gymkhana” series: According to Michael Learmonth of Ad Age, the series has amassed 157 million views since the first [...]
When he’s not on a blogging sabbatical, my friend Bob Hoffman is relentless in his search for just “one major consumer-facing non-native web brand that has been built primarily by web advertising.” Even the most ardent supporters of digital advertising are challenged to provide an example. But what if we remove the modifier, “major” from [...]
BP spent years, and lots of money, helping us believe the impossible–that the company is an environmental steward, when in fact the very opposite is true. Now, with the Deepwater Horizon disaster as part of the company’s record, the brand guardians are back at work, saying essentially that with BP’s money and commitment to the [...]
The money in technology is not real. When you look at the sums involved in Facebook’s initial public offering, or at Monday’s news that Microsoft will write down almost the entire value of its 2007 acquisition of aQuantive–a $6.2 billion hit–what other conclusions can one draw? And who aside from Steve Ballmer drops $6.3 billion [...]
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