Advertising News and Know-How
By David Burn
Henry Copeland of Blogads spoke to the IFsters recently. I like what he said here: Cutting edge advertisers are starting to realize that the game isnt' just "buy ads on blogs" or "buy the blogosphere" but splicing your brand/service/ideas into specific networks of blogs, specific conversations, specific blogospheres. Second, a very few advertisers are realizing that demographics are like coal in Newcastle... …
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By David Burn
Mark Fenske teaches advertising in the graduate program at VCU in Richmond. He used to keep a sketch book, or what he calls a workbook. Here's a page from his workbook: Here's some text from Fenske's blog entry about workbooks: The job of a copywriter or art director isn't fun and it isn't easy. Jackasses often get the final say about whether our work runs or is even presented to a small group of people. Genuine …
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By David Burn
Need a reason to read the print version of Adweek? Here's one. They weave interesting tidbits into the print version that are not found online. Former DDB-Dallas copywriter, Will Clark, has a new book out. It's a black comedy about a psychic ex-dot-com-millionaire who falls in with paranormal spies, a Charles Manson-loving yogi, a chubby blue incarnation of the Hindu god Vishnu and a pair of mentally conjoined …
Brokerage firms are almost always eternal optimists when it comes to stocks. Even if they don't like a stock, they'll trot out a euphemism like "sector underperform" or "underweight" when they recommend dumping the stock but can't really say that due to corporate politics. So you know this is serious: Merrill Lynch on Thursday downgraded its rating of Interpublic Group's stock from "neutral" to "sell" with a high …
By David Burn
Take everything you love about iPod and shrink it. Now shrink it again. With 2GB (500 songs) and 4GB (1,000 songs) models starting at $199, the pencil-thin iPod nano packs the entire iPod experience into an impossibly small design. …
By David Burn
Promo Magazine: Departing from standard practice, the National Hockey League has hired an entertainment marketing agency to help restore the brand's image and build a stronger emotional fan-player connection following a 301-day lockout during the 2004-05 season. Conductor, a Los Angeles, CA-based agency, will serve as the NHL's lead marketing communications and integration agency to help unite fans and players for …
By David Burn
Here's some of that "dramatize the product benefit stuff" I like to talk about. This ad for Nivea self-tanning spray, care of TBWA\ Brussels does that, but in this case, one might be inclined to ask why. Thanks to Frederik Samuel for the pointer. …
By David Burn
From the land of Birkenstocks, comes Bionade—the world's first purely organic non-alcoholic refreshment drink. Hey, Heiko Hebig likes it. …
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