If you're searching for the agencies with the largest trophy cases, here's a good place to begin. Creativity compiled results from six leading awards shows--ADC, AICP, ANDYS, Cannes, Clios, D&AD and One Show--to come up with this top ten list of most awarded agencies in the world. …
What A Waste
Last week we brought your attention to Yahoo's creatively challenged $100 million ad push. Here's the TV piece of the new You-centric campaign: Sadly, this ad looks like any number of credit card or soft drink ads we've all seen a thousand times before. By showing us a world of diversity, we are meant to find ourselves in the mix and agree, "Yeah, that's me!" But who does that? Yahoo might be a solid company with …
Success Is Being Good To Yourself
Alex Bogusky is offering some thoughts on success and how one pursuing an ad career might achieve it. Don't expect anyone else to be responsible for who you are or what you do. The best people in the business are really decent people. All the awful backstabbing people you hear about are not the best people. They are all very average. And that kind of thing will never take you past being average. I've known people …
Today In Twitterverse: No Need To Tweek
Moses Ma, a partner at Next Generation Ventures, writing in Psychology Today says Twitter "acts to fill a deep psychological need in our society." ...we are a culture starved for real community. For hundreds of thousands of years, human beings have resided in tribes of about 30-70 people. Our brains are wired to operate within the social context of community - programming both crucial and ancient for human …
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Apple Makes Itself Look Bad In Order To Look Good
According to BusinessWeek, Apple Computer--a company with plenty of critics in the environmental movement--is working to change the debate about carbon emissions. Company executives say that most existing green rankings are flawed in several respects. They count the promises companies make about green plans rather than actual achievements. And most focus on the environmental impact of a company's operations, but …
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Down With The Spreadsheet
Shelby Bonnie, the CEO of Whiskey Media wants to kill the tradition of buying online ads on a cost per thousand (CPM) basis. In a guest post on TechCrunch, Bonnie argues: OK, Advertising Week just ended... does anyone else feel like the online advertising industry is the orchestra, playing on while the Titanic is sinking? I have been in the Internet media space for 16 years and will start by stating the obvious: The …
Yankees Suck
Okay. We have a winner. Nicely done, Arnold. [via The Denver Egotist] …
“Nature Boy” And The Lottery – A Perfect Tag Team
Ric Flair of Charlotte, NC, also known as "The Nature Boy," is one of the most well known professional wrestlers in the world and a a 16-time World Heavyweight Champion. I'm sure he'll be a winner for the Tar Heel state's lottery, as well. [via YesButNoButYes] …
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