I like it when bloggers tell stories. Steffan Postaer comes through with his latest offering on Gods of Advertising, So you want to be a rock star creative? A long time ago, while on production in LA, I had a free weekend and so spent it at the hotel pool. I had my book, a pile of magazines and a smoothie from the bar. This is the life, I thought to myself. My reverie was soon interrupted, however, by the presence of …
Interesting Way to Sell A Razor
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Dare To Dazzle Your Audience With Content
Benjamin Palmer, CEO of The Barbarian Group, has some intriguing things to say about branded content. What makes a great show, game or film? Artistic merit, humanity, story, talent. These occasionally overlap with marketing demographic, industry sector and brand penetration, but more often than not, they do not. God, that's sad. We're sort of in denial about that, aren't we? But I think perhaps it's best that we …
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Turning Tide
It's a story that ad bloggers don't like WPP's "Synarchy" Name? Apparently so. Ad Age named George Parker and High Jive as sources. …
VML Carries Torch
Kansas City Star honors Valentine Radford founder, Herb Valentine, who recently passed away. In 1926, Herb Valentine and Earle Radford each headed off to kindergarten at Bryant Elementary School, met in Miss Wally’s class and became instant friends. Years later, the two hooked up upon returning from World War II and went on to form what was for many years the biggest, highest-profile, most successful advertising …
The Non-RSS Subscription Model
My dad's a retired dairy exec. He used to read The Milkweed, a dairy industry trade rag that's been in continuos operation for 27 years. He relates to AdPulp through that lens. So, it was neat to see Peter Hardin, The Milkweed's editor and publisher in this morning's New York Times. The Milkweed has over 7500 subscribers and accepts no advertising. Which, of course, is a wonderful way of building trust with one's …
The AdPulp Interview: Alan Wolk
Tangerine Toad hopped out of the anonymous blogger closet. First on Twitter, and now in a feature interview on AgencySpy. Toad's real name is Alan Wolk. He is a copywriter/creative director who favors the "tradigitalist" moniker. His agency experience spans nearly two decades with stops at Anderson & Lembke, AtmosphereBBDO, Frankfurt Balkind, Ogilvy, JWT and most recently DraftFCB. Wolk is presently looking for a job …
Caption It #26
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