It really has become quite the phenomenon for ad agencies to roll up their trademarked processes and new business presentations in full-length books. We get a strong whiff of that in Storyscaping: Stop Creating Ads, Start Creating Worlds by Gaston Legorburu and Darren McColl of SapientNitro. At its core, Storyscaping is essentially an exhortation we’ve heard many times before: Brands and companies need to …
Telling A Life Story Reaps Rewards For Buntin
Congrats to friend of AdPulp Jason Wright and the crew at The Buntin Group in Nashville. They recently won a Silver at the national American Advertising Awards for this short film done on behalf of A Life Story Foundation, which promotes awareness of ALS (Lou Gehrig’s Disease). The video features Kevin Swan, who was diagnosed with ALS in 2012. Shot by the creative team (no outside director), the film is part …
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Holding Companies Don’t Hold All The Cards
A recent article in Adweek wondered if independent ad agencies can thrive in the "merger era." The answer, of course, is yes. In the era of "storytelling" and "content" nearly anyone and their project manager can get into the advertising business. But it's not a guaranteed path to success. The weaknesses of upper management are more visibly pronounced and felt. Dysfunction can’t be covered up in layers of …
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Mobile Magic Reveals Some Not-So-Secret But Valuable Information
I can’t say that I’ve ever associated “Saatchi & Saatchi” with “mobile,” but as we’ve seen before, it’s an agency that’s quite fond of dropping books as self-promotional pieces. This time around, we get a little more useful information in Mobile Magic: The Saatchi & Saatchi Guide to Mobile Marketing by Tom Eslinger. Now, keep in mind it’s May 2014, so the information is Eslinger’s book is timely and likely to …
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Let’s Stop The Mass Use Of Artisanal Language In Advertising
When I was first learning to be a copywriter, I was told that powerful advertising writing exists in the verbs. Not the adjectives. Many advertisers don't understand that. Real estate clients are quite guilty of this. And restaurants. But this is quite a doozy: Hey @McDonalds--I don't think "artisan" means what you think it means. pic.twitter.com/RzjqdPLdCO— Tom Furtwangler (@tomfurt) April …
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Power Branding and Unconscious Branding Provide Two Great Viewpoints
Two books – one new, one newly in paperback – provide equally valuable looks at branding from two very different perspectives. I’ve always liked Steve McKee’s columns on BloombergBusinessweek.com, and he’s taken the best of them (I like that idea too!) and weaved them into Power Branding: Leveraging the Success of the World’s Great Brands. Each section is three pages at most, and little lessons from dozens of …
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Legal Marijuana Businesses Need Sophisticated Marketers
It’s quite an experience to be living in Seattle, where marijuana has been legalized for recreational purposes. However, retail shops aren’t open yet, and communities and the State of Washington are still passing other laws to cope with the realities of this new business. And there’s also one thing missing right now: Marketing and advertising on a grander, more sophisticated scale for marijuana-related businesses. …
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Remembering Tom McElligott And A Classic Style Of Advertising
Over at his Stuff From The Loft blog, Dave Dye asks, "Hands up Who's Heard of Tom McElligott?" I'll bet 97% of today's advertising students and people with less than 10 years of experience in the business haven't. Tom McElligott was one of the driving forces behind Fallon McElligott Rice (now just Fallon) and a man who was a definer of what some people called the "Minneapolis style" -- where clever headlines were …
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