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Ad Chatter, Episode 8: Political Vulgarities, Pop Songs, Plus Oreos on Ice

All episodes of Ad Chatter are now available on Buzzsprout \ Apple Podcasts \ Spotify \ Stitcher \ Amazon Music \ Listen Notes \ Deezer \ Podchaser \ Podcast Addict \ Google Podcasts \ iHeartRadio We kick off this new episode of Ad Chatter with a shout out to our friends at BlackLabelBacon.com who kindly provided me with a Breathable Bacon mask. The 2-ply cloth wraps my nose and mouth in a "blissful bacon barrier …

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Disruption Alert: A Whole New Way To Buy New-ish Tech

Negligent waste and rabid consumerism are always in. What about refurbished? Can refurbished goods ever become cool enough to scale and compete with the shiny and new? Before you answer that, consider that Americans throw away 151 million cellphones every year, and that’s just a fraction of our annual electronic waste. To slow this pace of new device production and consumption, Back Market—a tech company that …

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You Won’t See This in the Trades: Rodrigo Maycotte Admires Stan Richards

A week and a day have passed since Stan Richards opted to step down after the firestorm of controversy surrounding his comments in an internal creative review for Motel 6. Comments that were quickly passed along to the client, who then fired the agency. What I've heard through the grapevine since is the activist role that Adweek may have played in this case. The word on the street is Adweek's reporters called all …

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Do What’s Necessary? Or Do What’s Easy? Strategists Know the Difference

This new article in our Emerging Voices Series is made possible by the generous support of Adpulp's patrons on Patreon. Please join us and help pay writers.   Life is a series of forks in the road. The same is absolutely true of a career in strategic communications. Somewhere early in your career, you’ll go from delivering for, to partnering with clients. It becomes your responsibility to use your …

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Next Level Customer Care, Care of The “Buy Now” Blocker from Fifth Third Bank

Is it a bank's job to help its customers save money? The more customers' deposits remain in the bank, the more the bank can use the money to invest, so yes. It's also the right thing to do. But how? How does a bank move people to care about saving money, instead of spending money? What if the bank hacked the algorithms? What if the bank turned modern marketing on its …

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Bronze Seeks Silver Shows The Personal Side of A Pivotal Era In the Ad Industry

“Even with every advantage I was given, I’ve had to plan, sweat, and fight for each move on this marketing game board." -Mat Zucker There are two styles of books advertising professionals write when they want to tell their career “war stories” and impart some of their learned wisdom: Either it’s a cradle-to-boardroom minutiae-laden biography or a series of simple, 1- or 2-page digestible …

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Live Entertainment Is Missing, And We, the People, Badly Miss It

Last month, I asked Rob Schwartz, CEO of TBWA\Chiat\Day NY this pointed question. Adpulp: Who and/or what do you admire in the ad biz today? Schwartz: I think the best advertising today is coming from one place: The Lincoln Project. All of their work is relevant, surprising, emotional, and exceptionally powerful. And people are talking about it. Oh, and let’s not forget the volume. These guys do a Super Bowl …

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Chipotle Sends Its Workers Back To School (Tuition-Free)

In the ad agency business, we know that all the company's assets walk out of "the building" at the end of the workday. It's another way of saying that ad agencies don't have hard assets—that all the value is in the team. What about other fields like the restaurant industry...do restaurant owners and operators see their workers as critical to the enterprise, or as expendable cogs in the machine? For Chipotle …

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