And then there's the one with the idiot Miss Teen South Carolina. I would love to have been a fly on the wall in the conference room where this idea was presented. It was probably more bizarre than I could imagine. …
Life is Not a Two-Page Visual Solution Spread
We do a lot of commenting here on AdPulp about new campaigns and brand efforts. What's interesting is, many of our topics come from other blogs, press releases, Adweek and Ad Age. That's not an accident. Lots of brands and ad agencies are going to great lengths to get added publicity for their campaigns--and that's as much a part of the campaign as anything else. All the elements matter now--because any piece of it …
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StarterCards Boost Entrepreneurs–And The Agency Behind Them
Elizabeth Baskin is the founder of Tribe, an ad agency in Atlanta, so it's not a surprise that she's a fan of entrepreneurs. But she's taking it a step further with StarterCards, a series of cards offering easy steps for entrepreneurs to follow when starting a new business. And while you can order a set of real cards on the website, for just 99 cents you can download a sneak preview "Start Your Own Company" iPhone …
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Enough Caffeine Will Light You Up
McDonald's does do a lot of interesting outdoor executions. Here's a lamp post from downtown Vancouver, courtesy of agency Cossette Post. Hat tip to Direct Daily. …
Want to Get Off The Grid? Say Yee-Haw
Last night at Gallery Stokes in Atlanta, I had the pleasure of meeting Kevin Bradley, the proprietor of Yee-Haw Industries, a printmaking studio in Knoxville that operates old school--completely custom, hand-pressed posters, invitations and the like. Kevin's work shows up in Print's Regional Design Annual quite a bit, and some ad agencies use him to design ads and packaging. In addition, he hosts agencies like …
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Are PR Firms Hiring Ad Creatives?
From across the pond at Major Players, a marketing recruiting firm, comes an interesting trend: More PR firms looking for creatives and planners from the ad world. Major Players' Head of PR, Lorraine Barker, explains: To keep from being drowned out in an increasingly crowded media space, PR agencies are evolving. Creative Directors are being drafted in to inject fresh thinking and bring a new dimension to campaigns, …
e Squared: It’s A 2009 Sequel. But No Twitter? OMG? WTF?
A creative guy travels to Nigeria to respond to a scam. The managing partner is always off at a flaky New Age seminar. And someone's nicking the office bit by bit and selling it on eBay to pay off gambling debts. The fun rolls on! When it was first published 10 years ago, Matt Beaumont's "e" was a sensation. A brilliantly conceived novel about an ad agency, as told strictly through a series of e-mails. It was funny …
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The One Club Takes A Stand Against Scam
Amidst the sturm-und-drang of this week's 9/11-WWF-DDB Brasil-One Show controversy, The One Club decided to take a stand with a new policy: Effective beginning in 2010: An agency or regional office of an agency network that enters an ad made for a nonexistent client, or made and run without a client's approval, will be banned from entering the One Show for five years. The entire team credited on the "fake" entry will …
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