Is your sky Carolina blue? Do you fight for The Irish? Are you a Deamon Deacon? Have you been introduced at parties as a college sports nut? If you can say yes to any of the above, here’s some good news. There’s a new college sports network with your name on it, and it’s coming […]
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No matter how high you reach in your career, you’re never done paying dues and the more dues you pay, the more you begin to realize just how true this time-honored maxim is. WONGDOODY Creative Director Jennie Moore, like most successful people in business, paid plenty of dues along the way to the corner office, […]
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The winds of change are blowing through the corridors of American culture, politics, and business. In the ad agency business, where the pace of change is dizzying, you either adapt or perish. In the adapt column, we have Signal Theory. After almost 50 years, Sullivan Higdon & Sink today changed its name to Signal Theory. […]
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“El presentador de noticias de 88 años” is a new effort to fight ageism from Fundación Las Rosas in Santiago and Chilevisión. The Chilean TV channel recently brought legendary Chilean anchorman Javier Miranda, 88, back to the primetime news show to deliver a special announcement about the value of senior citizens participating in today’s aging […]
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Once upon a time in Adland there was a line that acted like a velvet rope. The line separated above-the-line TV-centric agencies from the dullards who toiled below-the-line, producing pedestrian point-of-purchase displays and other necessary but unsexy collateral. Then the digital blew the hole row of agency houses down. Today, there’s no line. Only the […]
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Workplace strife between account people and creative people is the stuff of ad industry legend. Here’s a new twist on the same old story… Ed Tsue, Group Strategy Director and Managing Director at Anamoly in New York City, examines the tension between brand planners and the creatives they hope to inform and advise. Planners like to […]
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Editor’s note: The following article was provided to Adpulp by Epica Press Club and was written by Paris-based journalist, Theda Braddock. One of the most demanding positions in advertising requires a blend of attention to detail, authority, business flair, people skills, flexibility and – yes – a love of creativity. Wining and dining, champagne, swanky […]
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In 2014, Alfonso Cuarón became the first Mexican filmmaker to win the Oscar for Best Director, when his work on ambitious sci-fi drama Gravity was recognized by the Academy. Since he went home with that trophy, his fellow countryman Alejandro G. Iñárritu has won twice, for Birdman and The Revenant. Then, Guillermo del Toro won an Oscar last year for […]
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Cindy Gallop continues to wallop the industry with painfully necessary truisms. In a recent interview she said: Q. What is the biggest mistake companies – brands or the industry – are making in their attitude to age today? A. They don’t understand that experience and expertise are incredibly time and cost-efficient, and that they could […]
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Bart Cleveland has a lot of energy and much to teach today’s up and coming advertising professionals. An art director by trade, he has been a partner in three successful ad agencies—Cleveland Clark, and Sawyer Riley Compton, both in Atlanta; and McKee Wallwork Cleveland in Albuquerque. Today, Cleveland is the founder of Job Propulsion Lab […]
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Are you planning a Super Bowl party? You won’t need a Benjamin or two to feed your friends, because this year, a stack of Lincolns gets the job done. GSD&M’s new ad campaign for Pizza Hut—the agency’s first, after adding the account last year—relies on two of the foundational concepts in marketing: price and promotion. […]
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Do you recognize these sounds? Which brands do they represent? All of these brands carry a distinctive sound. Apple’s power up sound; it’s simple and elegant just like the brand. I can almost imagine Steve Jobs chanting this on one his meditative retreats. NBC’s three-note tag is a mnemonic. It helps you remember the brand […]
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As a new year’s gift, Colle McVoy sent me a series of “cubespirations” to help keep me properly motivated throughout the year. Here is one of my favorite messages in the collection. Note the letterpress printing. I like this design concept. With just two words, the agency’s creative team is making a significant statement. Artists—and […]
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Teachers take complicated subjects and make them easy to understand. Before Bob Hoffman became an ad man, before he started, ran and sold Hoffman/Lewis in San Francisco, and before he was known as “The Ad Contrarian,” Hoffman was a science teacher. Now that he’s enjoying his retirement from the agency, he makes time to speak and […]
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There’s an odor to ageism. Limburger smells better. According to Lindsay Rittenhouse at Adweek, the stench of age-based discrimination led copywriter and creative director Susan Walsh, who worked for Doner for 10 years, to file a lawsuit against the agency for age discrimination. Walsh says the only explanation she received for her termination was that […]
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Crispin Porter Bogusky is building a woodshed in the lobby of its Boulder headquarters. The woodshed will be a designated place to host important conversations. Is it a podcast? Is it an incubator? Is it a plane? It can be hard to say what grand designs exist in Alex Bogusky’s mind. Here’s the teaser: We […]
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How do you get bored kids in dead-end McJobs to want to be part of something bigger than their present-day circumstances? For decades, military service has been framed as a way out and a way up. For kids who are not looking at college, the military offers training, pay, shelter, a sense of belonging and […]
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Crispin Porter & Bogusky isn’t like other ad agencies. They’re notably better. When the agency introduces a new website to showcase its best thinking and attract the best clients and best talent, it’s worth clicking around to see how the Boulder-powered creatives frame things. Artfully, is the answer. At the same time, there’s a clear […]
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When you’re a Friend of Adpulp (FoA), you get special recognition from time to time. Matt Ingwalson is a FoA. He’s also the new vice president of creative strategy at Heinrich Marketing, a Denver-based marketing agency. Ingwalson joins Heinrich following 18-years on the job at Vladimir Jones, IMM and KarshHagan. He worked as creative director […]
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One problem that many consumer promotions suffer from is believability. People don’t believe they will ever win the prize that’s being dangled before them. Like winning the lottery, the odds are against it. One way to combat this is to make the promotion even more unbelievable. JetBlue and MullenLowe have managed to do this with […]
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