Quick. In a sentence tell me what your agency is all about. Come on, we don't have all day. Ad People Can't Seem To Sum Themselves Up Darren Woolley is the founder and global chief executive of TrintityP3, an independent global marketing management consulting company. Q. A what? A. He's a consultant. Over the past two decades, I have seen more than a thousand agency credentials presentations, either …
Marketing Philistines Are Everywhere. Don’t Be A Marketing Philistine.
"Training in marketing makes marketers better. It’s the way we all improve and ultimately move the discipline of marketing forward" -Mark Ritson Mark Ritson is a Marketing Week columnist, consultant and adjunct professor at Melbourne Business School. Last year, he wrote about marketing philistinism. I didn't see the article then, but I see it now. To be a philistine today means to be ignorant and lacking in …
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Your Ego Will Lift You Up, But Eventually, There’s A Wicked Fall from False Heights
One of the first challenges a person faces in the advertising business is the need to grow a thick skin. Like yesterday. Sadly, it's a lesson unlearned by way too many acting professionals, inside and outside of media, marketing, and advertising. According to Suzanne Pope, professor of advertising at Humber College in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, a percentage of advertising students that she teaches also suffer …
California Dreamin’ On Such A Winter’s Day
Does digital advertising work as intended? Several loud, convincing voices say no. This is what Econsultancy says: "The fact that some of the brightest, most qualified minds in the industry are admitting that digital advertising’s supposed efficacy is more myth than reality isn’t likely to dent advertisers’ faith in digital ads. But savvy advertisers might rethink their approach to digital channels." Why do …
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Åsk Wäppling’s Adland Torpedoed By “Nuisance DMCA”
Åsk Wäppling is a warrior in the midst of a legal battle to preserve 20 years of her digital work. Thanks to the Digital Millennium Copyright Act and the lawyers who misuse it to intimidate everyday citizens, Adland.tv is now offline. DMCA criminalizes production and dissemination of technology, devices, or services intended to circumvent measures that control access to copyrighted works (commonly known as digital …
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Content Kings and the Never Contented: A Modern Fable in Reruns
Gary Vee. The guy manages to get our attention. Furthermore, he manages to get paid for the attention he gathers. Gary Vee had my both attention and my respect when he was the wine guy blowing up the business of wine reviews on YouTube. Since that time, he’s moved into the ad world. My world. Maybe your world too. It’s Advertising Week in NYC and Gary Vee Is on the Mic Gary Vee wants to buy the New York Jets …
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Put Your Portfolio Down and Let Me See Your Eyes Shine
Inquiring minds want to know—what's the best way to land a job at a creative ad agency? According to Anselmo Ramos, founder and CCO at GUT, an independent ad agency for brave brands, intangibles matter most. Most important factors to take into consideration when hiring creatives (from most to least important): - Referral - Spark in the eyes - Potential - Ad Nerdiness - Chat - Resume - …
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Chief Communications Officers Are Movin’ On Up
In the agency business, the CCO is the Chief Creative Officer. On the client-side, the CCO is the Chief Communications Officer. The Chief Communications Officer is not the Chief Marketing Officer (CMO), but the roles are intertwined. Or they were. According to PR Week, modern CCOs are now tasked with brand management in addition to their public relations and public affairs duties. Jon Iwata, former …
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