Holidays are full of travel, family, food, and for many people today, an unending stream of social media updates to their "smart" phone appendage. Sadly, this is where politics and the weight of the world can creep in. Tessa Films in Chicago believes we can put our phones down for the betterment of America and a more enjoyable holiday. https://youtu.be/qumkBh5GWps According to Reel Chicago, "A Holiday Wish" …
Dear Bad Men of Advertising, Your Reign Is Over
Cindy Gallop takes names and zero shit. For the sexual harassers in the ad industry, you best run and hide. For everyone else, here's compelling documentation about just how degrading it is to be objectified at work, and then asked to objectify women in ads. https://youtu.be/ruowB5L33gY "The biggest issue facing our industry today is not diversity," she says. "It’s sexual harassment because it prevents …
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Digital Advertising’s Frankenstein Is Wreaking Havoc and Damaging Democracy
"We need a digital economy where our data and our attention is not for sale to the highest bidding authoritarian or demagogue." -Zeynep Tufekci What has the digital ad man wrought when the same algorithms companies like Facebook, Google and Amazon use to get you to click on ads are also used to organize your access to political and social information? Zeynep Tufekci an associate professor at the School of …
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Will Ad People Ever Focus On The Right Things?
Karoshi is the Japanese word for "death by overwork." Sadly, the term has currency today, inside and outside of the ad world. On Christmas Day in 2015, 24-year-old Matsuri Takahashi jumped to her death from her Dentsu-supplied dorm in Tokyo. In September last year, a labor standards office in Tokyo determined she had worked 105 hours of overtime over a one-month period before showing symptoms of depression. …
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Command and Control Is for 20th Century Egotists, Not 21st Century Marketers
Bad advertising is here to stay. Bad advertising is about to go away. Which is it? Here's a fresh sample of how bad, bad can be: I know that hurt. Sorry for putting you through that. Is there any hope for an industry that consistently churns out this kind of rotting flotsam? According to Andrew Essex, former chief executive of the influential creative agency Droga5, and author of a new book, …
BREAKING NEWS: It’s Amateur Hour on Pennsylvania Avenue
Trump and his administration are a brand in crisis. Witness the desperation and lame wish to control the message in this bizarre attempt at a presser by Sean Spicer, the new White House Press Secretary: https://youtu.be/yfcKvAWJbL0 I'm not interested in the political calculations here. I want to focus on the marketing communications problems, which are significant. The White House Press corps is an elite …
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Mike Diva Makes The Impossible Possible: The Donald Can Dance!
https://youtu.be/ZbM6WbUw7Bs Art Net News calls it, "a hypnotically-brilliant video." The New Republic says, "It makes the end of the world seem as sweet as bubble gum." All high praise for North Hollywood-based Mike Diva, the director behind one of the best political ads of the season, hands down. If Trump's team knew what they were doing, they would embrace this ad at once. The fact that the ad is a …
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Craft Brewers Snap Bud’s Ass With Beer-Stained Towel
AdPulp's publisher reported this morning that a small brewer in Mason City, Iowa dared to poke Budweiser in the nose, in response to the macrobrewer's negative portrayal of craft beer and craft beer drinkers on Super Bowl Sunday. http://youtu.be/JZhiUstiRvY I then added a note to Shawn post about a response from video producers HopStories in Oregon. http://youtu.be/VCgkTeuJkR8 And the hits keep …
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