Hugh Macleod is writing a book about creativity in Alpine, Texas. Facebook is a pain in the ass (or whichever body part it comes into contact with). …
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Blessed Are The Barbarians
The Barbarian Group launched a new self-promo site. It's good. Rick Webb, Co-Founder and COO, explains: Taking six months to make a website is pretty ridiculous, but we were doing several things during that time. building a whole publishing platform. This site has a full, rails-based custom, multi-level blogging platform. Each employee has a blog, and then posts are bubbled-up to the Barbarian Blog, and the most …
Must Have Commodity Benefits from Branding
According to The New York Times, gasoline prices surpassed $3.50 a gallon nationwide for the first time and oil jumped to a record high on Monday. Given the intense price pressure on consumers, it's interesting to note this article in Ad Age about consumers buying gas on brand preference, not price. Karen Wildman, brand and communications manager of the Shell brand at Shell Oil Co., said the industry hasn't done a …
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Guest’s Slumming for DIRECTV Hits A Nerve
I love the copy in this new spot from DIRECTV. Here's the cable exec's babble: Problem: People everywhere are hooking up their new flatscreens to DIRECTV and they are blown away by the picture and all the amazing HD channels. Solution: We go viral. We get on the net and we blog it out. Ta da! We are up 800% among suburban tweens. Who just saved Q3? This campaign is directed by satirist Christopher Guest. Speaking …
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Down With Pee Pee Tee
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Art Film or Commercial? You Decide.
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There’s Wacked and Then There’s Super Wacked Mixed Metaphors
Captured today on Victory Drive in Savannah, GA Do me a favor, when you see this kind of craziness, snap a pic and send it in. The insanity must be documented! …
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Rare Coinage
Can you get rich working in advertising? The answer is yes, if you start a company and someday sell it for millions. Of course, there is another answer—ascend to the top of a big time holding company and make millions each and every year. According to Media Daily News, Michael J. Roth, Interpublic's chairman of the board and CEO, received $1.1 million in base salary for 2007, only about a 3% raise from 2006. The …
