"Don't be fooled by the talk in the ad industry: it is as deeply conservative as accounting." -Brian Morrissey Apparently, people in some far off land where gravity is not king, are upset about the new Skittles Web site. I'll be honest, I haven't read any of the source material. I made some comments on Twitter about how the site is a direct lift from Modernista!, and left it at that. Shawn also took note of the site …
Please Go Away (For A Day)
The Portland Egotist is alive and kicking. So don't look here, look there. By the end of the day, there will be a collection of 10 posts about Portland's perfect climate for creative pursuits. …
The Metaphysics of Modern Communications
Josh Spear believes one must understand infinity (no small task) in order to speak persuasively to digital natives. As a 'born digital' consumer, I'm engaging with infinity day in and day out. My inbox is never full. I upload as many photos to Facebook as I damn well please. (Facebook by the way is now the largest photo-sharing site in the world, with users uploading more than 850 million pictures each month). We can …
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The Portland Egotist For A Day
Tomorrow at this time The Denver Egotist won't be what it was. That's because it'll be "The Portland Egotist" for a day. The anonymous creator(s) of The Egotist believe there's a significant market for hyperlocal ad business content, and they intend to discover if their brand can play at lower elevations. I'm honored to be the first outside Colorado to take The Egotist reigns. After tomorrow's Portland experiment, …
LinkedIn Is Serious
Abbey Klaassen at Ad Age notes that LinkedIn is well positioned to capitalize on the downturn in the economy. The professional networking site hit 36 million members last Monday and is adding them at a rate of about one member per second. According to ComScore, it's gone from about 3.6 million unique monthly visitors a year ago to 7.7 million today, which would make it even with Yahoo HotJobs, the third-largest …
Crispin Hires Coen Brothers To Mock Coal Industry Rhetoric
Digital Freedom Fighters On the Rise
Scott Cleland--who works at the nexus of capital markets, public policy and techcom--has a problem with free. He's not the only one. The dotcom bubble ethos that "information wants to be free" is like a gross mold destroying the incentives to create and distribute valuable content digitally. Let's take a analytical slice across both the content economy and the digital "ecommony" in order to fully grasp the …
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Girls School? Maybe. Reform School? Definitely.
Ad agency digs have long been creative, but creative within certain well heeled parameters. Lots of modern lines and Eames inspired furnishings. It's a refined creativity, not circus creativity. But there's an agency in Seattle that refuses to play by those rules, or any rules regarding the business and matters of taste. Wexley School for Girls announces it presence in a dramatic way. Creative spaces in advertising …
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