We Get Email*

“Hi Steve, wanted to see if you were planning any holiday shopping stories focused on major retailers’ interactive marketing plans for boosting this season’s sales.” No.

Remembering Paul Silverman

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I got an email about Paul Silverman and figured the brief description in it along with a comment on Mullen’s blog would sum it up better than I ever might:

The Next Big Cattle Call, aka, The Big Ad Gig

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So it’s come to begging. Forget Twitter RFPs, stand back and watch as thousands compete for four paid 30-day long creative gigs at major agencies. YOU COULD WORK AT… (insert dream shop).

Google Runs the Universe, But You Knew That

Millward Brown’s top BrandZ of 2009 has Google at number one–and Marlboro at number 10. Talk about branding!

Adrants Debuts Comment System That Actually Works

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Sadly, we don’t get a lot of comments here on Adrants. We hope that’s about to change.

Werther’s Party Line.

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“Hey Steve, what’s up. Nah, just wanted to give you a heads-up on where I’m at before you guys get back. Trying to finish up a Werther’s Caramel House Party thing. No, yeah, the grandfather chocolate people. From like the 80s, yeah.

Tribeca Film Festival Celebrates NYC with Gabardine Flashers.

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Give him a break ladies, it’s cold out. To promote the upcoming Tribeca Film Festival, Ogilvy came up with a spot showing the fun you can have with the locals in NYC.

In An Absolute World, Earth Wouldn’t Need Help From Absolute.

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Please, this Earth Day, be kind to the planet, and please, when viewing this short, be kind.

Because Advertising Has Lots of Great Jobs.

No, it does. Says so right here: “This is going to be a great event with tons of job opportunities for advertising professionals.”

Never Let A Good Idea End Up on the Floor

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Tick. Tock. Tick. Tock. It’s almost time, people. Almost time for you to get a glimpse of the first Killed Ideas.

Killed Ideas to Give Your Creative Masterpiece New Life

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OK so you’ve landed the perfect client for whom you’ve been jonesing for years.

Adrants Introduces the Adrants Creative Archive

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WTF? Please! Not another creative archive!

Virgin America Posting

On January 15, Adrants posted a depiction of the downed US Airways plane as a Virgin America ad. Certain topics are fodder for humor. This is not one of them. Our endorsement and depiction of the downed US Airways plane…

Our Apologies

On January 15, Adrants posted a depiction of the downed US Airways plane as a Virgin America ad. Certain topics are fodder for humor. This is not one of them. Our endorsement and depiction of the downed US Airways plane…

Newsflash! Adrants to Speak at Social Networking Conference!

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Yea, yea, yea. I can hear it now. “I need another social media conference like I need diarrhea during a new business pitch!” But this one’s different. I’ll be there.

Adrants Has Been On Twitter For, Like, EVAR! Follow Us!

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So like yea. Angela and I have been on Twitter forever and we love it. We find news. We find insight. We share ideas. We discuss advertising stuff. We find out who’s saying what at conference before anyone else does. And we hang with the AdWeek crew. (We’d happily hang with the Ad Age crew if they were actually on Twitter.)

Claim Your Free Conference Passes to Generational Communications 2008

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So we have two conference passed to the Generational Communications 2008 X + Y + Boomers conference to be held June 19 from 1:30P to 6P at the Graduate Center/CUNY on Fifth Avenue in New York City.

Adrants to Re-Design, We Want Your Input

Yes, friends, we are going into re-design and, in a stunningly brilliant realization, we figured we’d ask our readers what they think of the current design and content since, you know, you guys do this sort of thing for a living

Adrants Adds Staff, Serves Up Social Media Savvy

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Adrants is pleased to announce the addition of a squad of writers who will join Angela and I to bring you more of what you’ve come to love.

Adrants Gets Over Itself, Retires Royal We

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OH: “It’s about time those pompous fuck heads over at Adrants got over themselves and started writing like normal human beings without all that stupid “we” shit.”