In an industry starving for innovation, some wild ideas will be thrown at the wall. Some of them will even stick, before sliding down and out of view. Quick, look at this idea — a smart beer cup connected to your Facebook account — for it too may slide from view. Chris Matyszczyk writing for [...]
I have been staring at hundreds of advertising and digital agency websites on my Pinterest directory trying to decode each agency’s objectives and strategies. Frankly, the lack of ad agency website differentiation, especially if you view these websites from a new business perspective, is confounding. Every once an awhile I come across an agency that [...]
A while back, I wrote about the automated Fantasy Football recap articles I’d been getting this year. It got me thinking. With so much space to be filled (see David’s post from earlier this morning), is it worth it for brands to get humans to do this work? If the data can be analyzed and [...]
The lack of distinctive agency brand positions has been a thorn in our industry paw for years. We’ve all heard the cobbler’s children’s shoes metaphor and the harangues from agency consultants telling us that despite our own branding skills, our sales propositions all sound alike. Lately there has been a slow shift to agency USPs that has been brought on [...]
Kirshenbaum Bond Senecal + Partners came up with an elaborate idea for BMW, one that reminds me how much distance there can sometimes be between a concept and its execution. To pull this “direct marketing” idea off, the agency turned to the digital printing crew at Classic Color in Chicago. And the printers saved the [...]
Artist Stephen Glassman is tilting at windmills billboards. His vision for a living, breathing non-commercial space suspended above Los Angeles traffic is taking shape thanks to help from OOH Advertising company Summit Media. There’s also a Kickstarter campaign which seeks to raise $100,000 to structurally retrofit the first prototype billboard, secure licenses, permits, and insurance, [...]
Increasingly ad agencies are incubating high tech startups under their hood. It’s a way to stay close to the action, and to see first-hand how products and companies are born. It’s also a new business strategy, as the companies being born could become clients someday. The agency might also help fund and advise the company. [...]
How is technology impacting retail? Better yet, how are retailers adjusting to all the changes that technology-empowered shoppers are ushering in? Seattle-based retailer, Nordstrom, has created an Innovation Lab to answer these questions. Here’s a look at some of the work Nordie’s nerds are doing: The Innovation Lab was created with a simple mission — [...]
People who build things online have little need for, nor love for advertising. Facebook’s Jeff Hammerbacher put it this way: “The best minds of my generation are thinking about how to make people click ads. That sucks.” Todd Garland, founder of BuySellAds, in a piece for The Next Web aims to persuade propeller heads otherwise. [...]
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