One can always count on George Parker to tell it like it is. Chuck my Ass! What is this shit with the new Charles Schwab campaign. The one with comic book style type balloons featuring the immortal line “Talk to Chuck.” I mean, give me a break. I’ll bet some dufus at the agency, either […]
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Knock The Hustle: Simply The Best Ad Book I’ve Read In A Long Time
I’ll readily admit that I’ve been waiting for my copy of Hadji Williams’ new book Knock The Hustle: How to Save Your Job and Your Life from Corporate America for 3 months now, since I first heard about it and saw the excerpts on his website. And now that it’s here and I’ve read it, […]
Hall Enjoys Sailing And Other Important Factoids
Night Agency interviewed Steve Hall of Adrants last week. Here’s an excerpt: Night Agent: Steve Hall, what did you have in mind when you started Adrants? Were you launching a revolution or were you just bored? Steve Hall: I wish I were that insightful. Actually, I started it during a period of unemployment in March […]
The Power Of Lazarus
Fortune has named O+M CEO, Shelly Lazarus, one of the most powerful women in business for 2005. According to Fact Monster, Shelly graduated from Smith College in 1968 and earned an MBA from Columbia University in 1970, where she was one of four women in her class. She started working at Clairol, but within a […]
Nancy Vonk Talks With Sally Hogshead
As part of her “Naked Career” podcasts, Sally Hogshead lands what they call in show bidness a big “get”: Nancy Vonk, Co-CD of Ogilvy Toronto, whose comments about Neil French…well, if I have to fill in that part, you must’ve been in the Kalahari for the last month. You can download the podcast at Talent […]
Notice Us (And Our Ads Too)
According to Wieden + Kennedy’s London office, these guys – Dave and Ian – were outside this morning with their banner, no doubt encountering all sorts of abuse from passing students, drunks and conceptual artists.
Time Warner Lightens Its Case Load
Wired: Steve Case, a co-founder of AOL and one of the key architects of the disastrous AOL-Time Warner deal, said Monday that he has resigned from Time Warner’s board of directors. Case had relinquished the role of chairman two years ago, but remained on the media conglomerate’s board of directors, despite the opposition of shareholders […]
The More Things Change…
“Human nature hasn’t changed for a million years. It won’t even vary for the next million years. Only the superficial things have changed. It’s fashionable to talk about changing man. A communicator must be concerned with unchanging man – what compulsions drive him, what instincts dominate his every action, even though his language too often […]
New Stars Are Made As Media Planning Takes Center Stage
Business Week: Media strategists used to rank just above accountants as the kind of people advertisers wanted to meet in the industry. In recent years, however, disdain has been replaced with adulation as the attention spans of consumers have shrunk. With the Internet, ad-skipping digital video recorders (DVRs), video cell phones, and portable music and […]
Men Are Extreme (What Can We Say?)
Danny G’s post on Mr. French and his antiquated views is the entry that keeps on giving. Today, “Gay Like A Fox” chimed in with this: I suspect the dearth of top-level women creatives is rooted in nature. Looking beyond the realm of advertising we see that, historically, very, very few of the top contenders […]
