According to The New York Times, Yahoo is looking to a strong woman to resurrect the company in its time of need. On Tuesday, in an attempt to compete better with faster-moving rivals, the company announced a restructuring of its operations into three business units. As part of the reshuffling, Terry S. Semel, the company’s chairman and chief executive, tapped Susan L. Decker, 44, to run the unit that arguably faces …
Fuck Up Big! Go On To Great Heights.
Scott G thinks people responsible for making bad ads should be blackballed from the industry. He fails to mention there would be no one left to hire, but I digress. "Silly Girl" in Kansas City sees the problem differently: Are you fucking kidding me? You will never be anyone in this business until someone has a backstory on you about "that one time you fucked up big". I reject Scott's argument and substitute my own: …
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Without Ego There Is No Genius
Randall Rothenberg dropped in on Peter Arnell and lived to tell his Ad Age readers about it. Mr. Arnell has been unquietly unmaking the concept of marketing services ever since he burst into view in the late 1980s with such out-of-the-box ideas as fashion ads that didn't feature the products, city-inspired in-store installations and architect-designed teapots. It's all of a piece. "Da Vinci, Jefferson, Michelangelo …
Falco Gets Wagged
You may have heard that Time Warner named veteran TV exec Randy Falco, formerly president and chief operating officer of the NBC Universal Television Group to head its AOL division. "With his proven success in operations, business development, video programming and advertising-supported businesses, Randy brings the right tools to run AOL at this important time in its history," Time Warner President and Chief …
Online Soon To Be “The Dominant Advertising-Supported Medium”
Ad Age reports that Norm LeHoullier, one of interactive advertising's first kingpins is retiring from Grey after 30 years of service. The trade mag asked him a few questions on his way out the door. Here's one: Ad Age: What's the role of interactive today in marketing? Mr. LeHoullier: Five years ago, [Saatchi & Saatchi CEO] Kevin Roberts gave a speech at AdTech and said the internet is going nowhere until it can …
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Bingaman’s Blues
Mississippi State professor Kate Bingaman takes a close look at her own consumption, placing herself in the middle of her criticism and her art. According to The New York Times Magazine, she does not see her work so much as a negative reaction to consumer culture as an attempt to cope with it on its own terms. As an active participant in her own cycle of obsessive consumption, it seems to me, Bingaman is the …
Madscam: Long On Common Sense, Short On Cursing
I’ve been eager to get my hands on a copy of the always salty and entertaining George Parker’s (of Adscam and Adhurl fame) new book Madscam: Kick-Ass Advertising Without The Madison Avenue Price Tag. It arrived from Amazon yesterday, and while I haven’t read it cover to cover, I can give you a heads up on what it’s all about. Let’s start with what the book isn’t: It’s not a compendium of George’s blog, or a …
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A Wild Ride From Chicago To Miami To Boulder And Back
Lewis Lazare does a good job of bringing a gossip columnist's persepective to the ad biz. Today, he puts Scott Wild in his sights. He's baaaaaaack!!!!! Yes, indeed. The (in)famous Scott Wild is headed back to Chicago this week. You might recall that some 18-months ago, Wild exited Cramer-Krasselt/Chicago and a comfy $250,000-plus salary, and wound up in a lesser-paying senior copywriting job at the very hot Crispin, …
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