American Copywriter left a telling comment on Gods of Advertising. Let's take a look: There are light and dark sides to everything. It’s good celebrate exceptional creative. But there’s no perfect way to do it. And without results attached, well, it’s really about what’s wonderful in and of itself, yes? Are scams a sin? Without question. But unlike poaching no one dies. And, while it’s easy to shake your head about …
More Than A Toy
Fred Wilson wants to get serious and break out of the 2.0 box. I am a bit jealous of friends who are working on finding and funding alternative energy or biomedical technologies that have the potential to address the serious problems facing the world. At times it seems that helping the web become more social, intelligent, mobile, and playful is not as impactful. The work that we do at Union Square Ventures can’t just …
Invent Something (With the Materials at Hand)
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Step Up to the Drafting Table
Alan Wolk wants to be an architect, not a builder. Me too. Years ago, when I worked at the legendary Anderson & Lembke, Steve Trygg (who started the shop) was fond of saying that “an ad agency can be the contractor or it can be the architect. And you always want to be the architect.” Wolk argues that typically ad men and women are not architects today. We’ve turned ourselves into the contractors. The guys who make …
The Door To Disney
The internet is a special medium for a number of reasons. For one, it devours content. It must be fed and fed and fed. Or it just peters out. Here's a story about it: The Walt Disney Company, concerned that its main Web site is not entertaining enough, is moving once again to overhaul Disney.com. It will be the second recent makeover for the company’s marquee site, which is still the top Internet destination for …
Twins Fans Make Decent Cubs Campaign (for Nuveen Investments)
There's nothing new here, and no high bar to clear, but I like the Cubs and this is a well done ad (from Fallon). …
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Little Debbie Meets Bob’s Big Boy
As construction of the Advertising Icon Museum — part of Kansas City's $100 million West Edge development — moves ahead, the museum has hired Leslie Strube as its first development director. The museum, originally slated to open in late 2007, is now expected to open in spring 2009. The Advertising Icon Museum will showcase a huge collection of three-dimensional advertising icons owned by Bob Bernstein, founder and …
Will Make Web Video For Food
According to San Francisco Chronicle, popular web video series like "Break a Leg," are not being shown the money. Even with a YouTube partnership, contest winnings from Internet video clearinghouse Metacafe and other recognitions, "Break a Leg" has grossed about $2,500 for two years' work. This is a show with an average monthly viewership of 1.5 million people. "Break a Leg" embodies the key contradictions of the …