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By David Burn
The Anti-Advertising Agency has ambitious goals (and the tools to get them there). Here's how they see things: Through long-term commercial saturation, it has become implicitly understood by the public that advertising has the right to own, occupy and control every inch of available space. The steady normalization of invasive advertising dulls the public’s perception of their surroundings, re-enforcing a general …
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By David Burn
Self-promotion is a big part of the ad biz. Every agency has a self-promo site and many make self-promo print ads to run in specialty publications. Then there's the whole "make an ad for yourself" thing that happens, as ad people seek higher and higher realms. One might even argue this site is a self-promo campaign of some sort. Anyway, Casey McKinnon doesn't say she's an actor, writer, producer in the video above. …
By David Burn
Everyone's writing about Cutwater's viral video campaigns for Ray-Ban and Levi's. I guess I better get in on it too. But first, a message from the sponsors... Added to YouTube on May 6, 2007. 3,490,589 views since. Added to YouTube on May 5, 2008. 3,291,680 views since. The vids are the work of "Benzo" Theodore, and both were seeded on the Internet by The Feed Company. Adweek notes that the number of views made …
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By David Burn
Ad blogs are becoming commodities, but today I stumbled on one that's worth noting. It's called Creative Beef. It's written by an anonymous copywriter who offers insightful analysis wrapped in biting humor. Check this: 1) An ad agency is like a collection of small hostile tribes that are constantly battling each other for resources, power, etc. To succeed you must prove your loyalty to all of them. 2) Unless you are …
By David Burn
[Recovering Workaholics ad via Ads of the World] …
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By David Burn
Ariel Waldman has a problem with Twitter. The reality of Twitter is that they refuse to warn and/or ban people who use their service to “abuse, harass, threaten, impersonate or intimidate other Twitter users” (to quote their forth line item on their TOS page). What does this mean? In short, anyone can use Twitter to consistently harass you and ruin search results for your identity and Twitter won’t execute any means …
By David Burn
Don't let the economy quash your vacation plans. That's the message coming from several destinations, as consumers face inflationary prices at every turn. Stuart Elliott of The New York Times points to Las Vegas, Panama City Beach, Orlando and other cities that are stepping off their brand messaging platforms in favor of price promotions. “ ‘What happens here stays here’ is being given a rest,” said Rob Dondero, …
By David Burn
Ad Age credits George Parker's Adscam with the scoop. One of my many talented spies around the world informs me that the "frat boys" at CP+B just lost their piece of Nike. Seems that the folks at Beaverton were none too happy with the CP+B Boulder outpost. Maybe the dudes spent too much time boarding and biking and not enough time doing Weiden quality work. Or this: Nike's account somewhere other than W+K just …
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