Lewis Lazare looks today at the departure of another creative department mucky muck from DDB/Chicago. Normally, I would hesitate to bring this "news" to your attention, but Lazare dangles the compensation carrot—something I find impossible to resist. As recently as last winter, (Senior Vice President and Director of Content Production, David) Rolfe threatened to leave DDB when he was offered a top production job at …
TV-Centric Creatives Get A Little Cranky
On May 25th, Brand Republic claimed, "the digital world really made its mark at last night's D&AD ceremony." But DDB London creative Rob Messeter ain't buyin' it. In a guest post on Scamp he says: I know it's the future and everything, and everyone seems to be wetting themselves with excitement over it (particularly marketing people) but, is it me, or is most online advertising really pony? I’m not just talking about …
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“Transparency Is Not A Strategy”
In her latest Hog Blog post Sally Hogshead explains the value of anarchy and reminds us the "The Declaration of Independence" was once considered an anarchist document. As much as I love where she's going with her "Anarchy Now!" call to action, what I really like is her paragraph on transparency. Companies are coming to terms with the need to be “transparent” with consumers, realizing that poor service, shoddy …
The Courage To Act
The Wall Street Journal wants to sell its Weekend Edition. Their creative leaders campaign is intended to do just that. Here's their pitch: Even in an industry full of radical thinking there are standouts—individuals whose ideas consistently break new ground, no matter how quickly circumstances shift. These pioneeers realize that even as the work week ends, the next big thing is about to begin. Weekend Edition is …
Timmerman’s Place And Time
According to Adweek, Red Tettemer, a Philadelphia-based independent, is launching a unit led by creative media strategist Rachel Timmerman, formerly of MDC's Crispin Porter + Bogusky in Miami. The division blends account planning and creative development and is designed to leverage campaign ideas across the breadth of today's emerging media landscape. "We think Rachel can inspire creative development by delivering …
Julie Roehm Throws Some Gasoline On A Smoldering Fire
In politics, they call it the "Friday night news dump": Release a bunch of documents and news late on a Friday afternoon so no one really notices because, hey, it's the weekend and no one's paying close attention. So what happened this afternoon, right at the start of a 3-day weekend? Ousted senior vice-president of marketing communications, Julie Roehm, responds to Wal-Mart's allegations in a 42-page legal document. …
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Slick Slides
Ogilvy's Rohit Bhargava received an honorable mention in Slide Share's World's Best Presentation Contest for his blogging types treatise. Why one might need to know this type of arcane material is beside the point. I'm looking at the design of the presentation, and it is elegant for Power Point. …
The Artist’s Statement Reconfigured
Clay Parker Jones is an account guy with a book. Sort of. Jones says this about his approach: Account Executives don’t usually have a book. But I’m not really a typical AE, as I’m sure you can tell if you’re a regular reader here. And I don’t like resumes, anyway. How could you possibly get your entire career, beliefs and feelings onto one page? Ha. Jones, who studied Diplomacy and World Affairs at Occidental …
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