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The Best Ads of 2020 Were Made By Small Teams You’ve Never Heard Of

2020 has been a difficult year for many people working in advertising. Hundreds of thousands of people had to learn to work remotely, practically overnight. Many agencies lost accounts and consequently, many people lost their jobs. Yet, even with these stiffest of headwinds, the industry's best creative outputs are as good as anything I've seen in years. Inside the industry, when we see something we admire, we …

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This Is A CRM. This Is A Mask.

One of the biggest business headlines of 2020: Salesforce just purchased Slack, a work messaging app, for $27.7 billion. According to Seeking Alpha: "Tech companies have had a phenomenal year and Salesforce is no different. Its shares are up 100% since the lows experienced at the start of March. There are good reasons for this. The increasing digitization of business has contributed to the proliferation of data …

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Farmdrop Is Celebrating England’s Hard-Working Farmers

This is a call to action: Enter Food Euphoria. The call comes from Farmdrop, an online grocer in England that delivers fresh organic produce and "everyday groceries" using electric delivery vehicles. During the COVID-19 pandemic, Farmdrop sales have skyrocketed. Consequently, the company has been able to help keep smaller farms and producers up and running after demand collapsed from the restaurant trade during …

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Crispin Porter Bogusky To Depart Boulder Warehouse for Posh LoDo Digs

Crispin Porter Bogusky shocked the advertising agency world 14 years ago when it moved a large percentage of its operations and people from Miami, FL to Boulder, CO. At the time, the agency wanted to give its team members—including Alex Bogusky—the option to live in Colorado. Now, the agency is on the move again. In July 2021, CPB will move into a new 20,000 square-foot office space currently under construction in …

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Happy ‘Next’ Holidays from Hotwire

Hotwire wants to help you travel. To do that, the company is looking forward to a time when it is safe to travel. And that time will hopefully arrive sometime next year. To focus on future holiday joy and togetherness, Hotwire's Agency of Record, Fallon, built a “Happy Next Holiday” generator, to create customized messages that can be emailed or sent as a postcard. Creating a custom message will also …

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Like Real Campfires, Digital Campfires Are Meant to Illuminate

Lucky Post Helps Craft Launch Video Featuring Animation & Design To Inspire Change There's a new media project in town. New_Public, a media project seeks to build better digital public spaces. Edited by Vice Media and Wall Street Journal alum Marina Garcia-Vasquez, and backed by an editorial board of leaders in technology, media, and design, New_Public is a new hub for individuals imagining and building a more …

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How Are You Adjusting to The Future of Work?

Substack—the new email newsletter platform—is on fire. You have one, I have one, and he, she, and they all have one too. Yet, not all newsletters are created equally. Some are true acts of labor, where others are more for show. Rishad Tobaccowala's Sunday edition is the former. Each Sunday, Tobaccowala's refined thinking comes to my electronic mailbox, and unlike 99 out of 100 newsletters that come my way, when I …

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Allegheny Health Network’s ‘True Nurse Stories’ Brought to Life by Doner and Marvel

Recruitment advertising and content marketing are being called on to play an important role in solving the healthcare crisis. April Hansen, executive vice president at San Diego-based Aya Healthcare, said there are now 31,000 openings for travel nurses, more than twice the number being sought when the pandemic surged in the spring. "It is crazy," Hansen said. "It doesn't matter if you are rural or urban...if …

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