Is it any wonder the CA Advertising Annual arrives during the holiday season? Mine arrived today via the postal service. Same cast of characters as always. You don't even need to study it. Put the $24 (newstand price) towards some whiskey, is my advise. Or beer, if you favor malt beverages. Crispin Porter + Bogusky, Fallon, TBWA Chiat/Day, Arnold, Carmichael Lynch, DeVito Verdi and Wieden + Kennedy are the big …
Cattlemen Bring Beef To Supreme Court
from Indianapolis Star: A food fight broke out at the Supreme Court on Wednesday, with justices considering whether the government can force ranchers and farmers to pay for ad campaigns with catchy phrases like Beef: It's what's for dinner" and billboards featuring milk mustaches on celebrities. Farmers are challenging the multimillion-dollar beef promotion program, saying they shouldn't have to pay for ads they …
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This Dude’s Got Skills
Steve Rubel points to an interesting spec spot for Apple's iPod Mini. The spot was created by George Masters in order to pimp his considerable motion graphics skills. Nice work, George. …
West Wayne Thaws Out
Adweek reports Minneapolis-based Buffalo Wild Wings is flying south to West Wayne with their $2 million account. West Wayne has offices in Tampa and Atlanta. West Wayne is also the agency famed Minneapolis copywriter, Luke Sullivan, fled to a few years ago. I'm not exactly sure where Mr. Sullivan, author of Hey Whipple Squeeze This, is today. I want to say GSD+M in Austin. Maybe a reader can verify that for us. …
Ethical Standards? What Ethical Standards?
from Ad Age: Once again, ad agency executives can be thankful for car dealers. According to a new national poll, the image of advertising professionals has deteriorated in the last year when it comes to honesty and ethical standards. Only 10% of those polled by the Gallup Organization rated ad people's ethics as "very high" or "high," just ahead of car salesmen, the perennial last-place finishers, who scored 9%. Ad …
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Soap Maker Wipes Away Artifice
Thanks to Greedy Girl for pointing to Dove's new Campaign For Real Beauty. Greedy Girl says, "I …
Marqui Monetizes Blogosphere
Globe and Mail has a thoughtful piece on the emerging trend whereby bloggers are paid to pimp a product. To me this new activity is another form of paid word-of-mouth; therefore, it presents some issues worthy of further investigation and contemplation. Vancouver, BC content management company, Marqui, is currently offering $800/month to a select group of bloggers who agree to mention Marqui on their media …
Paid Word-Of-Mouth An Oxymoron
Broken Type has posted a wicked funny piece on word-of-mouth run amok, as a response to the recent NY Times article on Boston-based w-o-m advocate, Bzz Agent--an article that has several marketing bloggers buzzing. Here's an excerpt from the Broken Type piece: "I showed up to the office Christmas party with a festive array of Al Fresco Chicken Sausages strung around my neck like a lei. I wrote an open-source …
