Music moves people. Live music moves people deeply. The experience lingers for days, weeks, sometimes for years. Naturally, brand marketers would love to gain some of this attention for their own purposes, and increasingly they’re turning to experiential marketing to deliver. Which is why it is not surprising to learn that WPP has ponied up [...]
No One Was Hurt During The Making Of This Invasive Advertising
March 14, 2013 By Leave a Comment
Would you stand up for a friend? No, seriously, if a friend called in the middle of the night and needed you to bail them out of a poker game gone wrong, would you rush over there with the ransom money to free your homey? Carlsberg drinkers would. Will Burns, CEO of Ideasicle loves the [...]
What’s The Future Of Business? Comes With An Incomplete Answer
March 10, 2013 By Leave a Comment
When I review books here on AdPulp, I don’t talk about whether I like a book or don’t like it, or whether it’s well-written or not. I simply try to answer the question, “What would AdPulp readers learn by reading this book?” With that mind, I confess: I simply don’t know what to make of [...]
An Agency In Five Days: JWT Pops Up At SXSWi Next Month
February 28, 2013 By Leave a Comment
Big agency services for startups, at retail, for five days only. WALTER looks to be another great idea from JWT. Next month in Austin, technology startups in town for SXSW Interactive will have the chance to meet with JWT’s “collective of industrious outsiders who embrace uncertainty and invent within chaos.” I take it they’ll leave [...]
Spotlight On NW Creative: Carbs Are For Runners
October 15, 2012 By Leave a Comment
Long distance racers like to load up on carbs before they run. Ergo, Brooks is feeding runners what they want and need–pasta. Wexley School for Girls with help from Alexander Exhibits constructed a giant 20’ x 30’ pasta bowl shaped expo booth complete with a 15’ fork suspended above the booth that says, “Carb Happy. [...]
The Puyallup Fair Offers Fairly Good Sales Lessons
September 10, 2012 By Leave a Comment
This past weekend, I went down to the Puyallup Fair, which dates back to the early 1900’s and is one of the largest in the country. Amid the rides, games, gastronomic atrocities, and livestock competitions, are hundreds of sellers pushing practically any product you could think of, and many you didn’t know existed. The halls [...]
What’s In The Box? I Hope It’s An Invitation
May 16, 2012 By Leave a Comment
As you know, I’ve been decompressing from the weight of much too much information. So pardon the self-referential nature of things. I’ll look outward again. Before I do, I want to point to new research from Harvard University that indicates as much as 40% of our speech is devoted to telling others about what we [...]
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