Hasta La Creative!

Stan Richards, 88, never intended to retire or resign from the job he loves. Now, amid a firestorm of controversy over comments he made in an internal agency meeting—and the mass exodus of clients that resulted—Richards decided to resign last night from the agency he spent his life building. Dan Goldgeier and I discuss the […]

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S. Todd Anthony kindly requested a Zoom meeting with me last month. During the meeting, he asked me a lot of great questions about advertising, copywriting, clients, mentoring, and more. The full interview is available on his LinkedIn page, right now. It will also be published on Pinwheel’s blog. For a taste, scroll down to […]

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I recently reviewed Steve Harrison’s new book here on Adpulp.com, Can’t Sell Won’t Sell: Advertising, politics and culture wars. Why adland has stopped selling and started saving the world. In this special edition of Ad Chatter, I talked with Steve a little more about his book. We covered a wide variety of topics, including: Groupthink […]

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Diminish a once-powerful industry and lose all respect inside and outside the agency. What is influencer marketing? What is programmatic? What is artificial intelligence? There is a virulent strain of stupid on the loose in the business world today. The disease leads those infected to strip the soul of creativity from the marketing communications industry. […]

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Two advertising professionals and OG ad bloggers enter a podcast recording booth… Tune in now to find out what was said. This ep of the adland podcast I chat with @davidburn of @adpulp about trademarks (like adland) paying people for their work, digital debris and much more. Namechecked the @adcontrarian more than once. ? https://t.co/h06dmkJLPN […]

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The Texas Compassionate Use Program was first established in 2015, allowing the use of high-CBD, low-THC cannabis oil only for Texans diagnosed with intractable epilepsy. Though legal, marijuana is still classified as a Schedule 1 drug and is not covered by insurance. As a result, the cost for treatment can range from $250 to $1,000 […]

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Access—you can’t get there without it. In the advertising agency business, access has been afforded to the few. The industry is elite by design. The people on the inside ask those on the outside to “break-in,” if they can. The entire set up is adversarial from the get-go. Yes, there’s talk of a meritocracy for […]

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Direct to Consumer (DTC) is H O T Oregon Public Broadcasting reports that Nike is in the midst of a reorg. The announcement comes as part of Nike’s “Consumer Direct Acceleration” plan, which execs in Beaverton call a “digitally empowered phase” of the company’s strategy. In other words, retail is reeling and the company has […]

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Wieden+Kennedy, the agency with 11 Agency of the Year credits to its name,  laid off 11% of its global workforce due to financial impacts from the coronavirus pandemic. W+K has offices in Portland, New York, Amsterdam, Tokyo, London, Shanghai, Delhi, and Sao Paulo. Prominent W+K clients include Airbnb, Coca-Cola, Disney, Facebook, Old Spice, Ford, McDonald’s, […]

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Editor’s note: This third article in our new Emerging Voices Series is made possible by the generous support of our patrons on Patreon. The advertising industry is a solar system. The sun represents the brands we make work for—they give us our central purpose and provide vital resources. The planets are advertising’s preeminent cities like […]

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