Do you want to let academics who study the creative process as it relates to advertising inside your award-winning head? If so, operators are standing by at PureProcess.net. …
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Ride The Barkley Rocket To Another Reality
The Daily Biz points to Barkley's Mentorship Program, which is "dedicated to advertising enlightenment and transformation." Barkley claims that "qualified students will come to Kansas City to live, learn and create amazing work in an advertising utopia." Which leads me to wonder what qualities an advertising utopia might embody. Maybe there'd be no bad ads there, or even better, no ads at all. …
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Looks Like Irony Jumped The Shark In Vegas
The city of Las Vegas welcomes all kinds, including douchebags. [via Shabooty] …
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Smoke And Rails
Paul Johnson, writing for Ad Age's Small Agency Diary makes a good point about interactive capabilities at traditional shops. There are a lot of ad agencies talking a mean game and touting their capabilities in pitches. To paraphrase the head of a web-development firm (after I plied him with a few cocktails), 90% of the small agencies out there chasing interactive business have one guy on staff who knows anything, …
Data Is The New Gold And People Will Do Anything For It
Let's pick up one of Danny G.'s favorite topics this morning—privacy, or violations thereof. According to The New York Times, a data miner called Phorm, has created a tool that can track every single online action of a given consumer, based on data from that person’s Internet service provider. Phorm is right now trying to negotiate deals with telephone and cable companies, like AT&T, Verizon and Comcast, that provide …
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Today’s Lesson For Agency CEOs: Don’t Defraud The Government
Didn't anyone learn from the Ogilvy scandal? If you're going to inflate timesheets, pad the bills, or just generally defraud a client, don't make it a government client. From KHQA in Illinois: The owner of a Springfield advertising agency accused of stealing $500,000 in federal funds that was to pay for anti-drunken-driving billboards has pleaded innocent to fraud charges. Robert Sullinger is the owner of Great …
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The Audacity Of Coincidence
Courtesy of Valleywag, comes a very dubious ad placement on MSNBC's live stream of Barack Obama's speech today: …
As The Pendulum Swings…
Newsweek is floating the idea that the heyday for consumer generated content has come and gone. In short, the expert is back. The revival comes amid mounting demand for a more reliable, bankable Web. "People are beginning to recognize that the world is too dangerous a place for faulty information," says Charlotte Beal, a consumer strategist for the Minneapolis-based research firm Iconoculture. Beal adds that choice …
