How To Humanize A Technology Offering with Exceptional Brand Story and Brand Identity

How do you send digital files that are too large for email? Specifically, which provider do you use? Dropbox? Dropsend? Sharefile? WeTransfer? One of these tech companies is an impressive marketer with a full suite of tools for creative people. One of these companies believes in the power of brand, art, story to separate it […]

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Bee-Two-Bee Is In Need of Some New Buzzy Buzz

With industry conferences and live events now off the table because of COVID-19, business-to-business marketers are busy looking for new avenues and new methods to help them connect to prospects and current customers. According to Carla Piñeyro Sublett, the chief marketing officer of NI (formerly known as National Instruments), spells it out in a lengthy […]

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Square and Stripe Tell Powerful Stories of the Small Business Owner’s Struggle

Small business is the backbone of the economy. Small businesses are also a radiating pain point during this devastating economic downturn. According to WBUR in Boston, earlier this summer, MassINC Polling Group surveyed 1,868 small businesses (defined as having fewer than 500 employees). Their findings show that 44% of small businesses lost at least half […]

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Uncle Cooper Says “Go With The Coopers”

Fallon and Cooper Tires created a new spokesman for the company. His name is Uncle Cooper, and Uncle Cooper knows a lot about tires. There are several explanatory videos like the one above in this campaign. Uncle Cooper was inspired by consumer research which revealed that consumers lack confidence in their tire buying decisions. Drivers […]

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Find A Mentor, Forge A Path: How People In Trades and Guilds Transfer Knowledge

Academy Award-winning director, Kathryn Bigelow, learned how to be an artist in the world from a strong mentor. Now, Rolex is doing us the favor of capturing her thoughts about her mentor (Lawrence Weiner) and mentoring’s role in the development of an artist. Rolex features a print interview with Bigelow too. She offers this gem, […]

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Not Compassionate: Medical Marijuana Patients Face Pointless Barriers in Texas

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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Social Media Platforms Make Mountains of Money On the Back of Someone Else’s I.P.

Who do you want to program your screens? Who do you want to take you for a digital ride? It’s a fundamental question for consumers of information. When you choose the social media platforms as your answer, you become the product that they monetize via your daily obsessions and rapt attention, which is now the […]

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Project Pandora’s Box: Apple’s Cheeky Take on Working From Home

Do you know this woman? Maybe you are this woman. Maybe you work with her. Maybe you live with her. I wonder aloud because I find the portrayal of her work style and her work ethic striking. She is all in, of that, there can be no doubt. When the unreasonable boss-lady chirps her unreasonable […]

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Commercials And Content Marketing Are Advertising’s Meat & Potatoes

When you make a commercial, you have between 15 and 90  seconds to tell the brand’s story and convince people to learn more and to desire more. It’s not easy to do, and it’s not done all that well all that often. When it is done well, we take notice. Right now, Levi’s is getting […]

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Words Matter; Ergo, The Content That Fortifies Dictionary.com Matters

Words. There are so many of them. It’s hard to know them all or to know what they all mean. We used to have a dictionary and thesaurus nearby to look up unknown words. Today, we make a quick visit to Dictionary.com to confirm our hunch, or to get the official version. For instance, here’s […]

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In the Deep End with Klay Thompson, Care of Kaiser Permanente

NBA superstar Klay Thompson went to the floor in pain during Game 6 of the 2019 NBA finals. His ACL was torn. The Toronto Raptors went on to win the series and the title four games to two. The five-time All-Star missed the abbreviated 2019-20 season but is expected to re-join the Warriors lineup when […]

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As Always, Progressive Finds Its Way

Are you tired of seeing commercials with zero production values? Commercials shot on iPhones? Or commercials captured from a Zoom chat and edited in post? Have some patience! This trend—borne of dire necessity—has just begun. Plus, not all Zoom chats are created equal. Let’s take a look… Shot on iPhones and leveraging a new condensed […]

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A Cash Positive Place for Emerging Advertising Voices

To help develop new writers and broaden our coverage, Adpulp.com is now accepting pitches from high achieving undergrads, grad students, and recent graduates. If you study or studied journalism, advertising, or marketing and you want to work with a copywriter/creative director and the editor of this website, here’s your chance. For what it’s worth, I […]

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Adpulp Unbound: Social Media Marketing

This website is unbound, and do its size and the breadth of coverage, somewhat difficult to navigate. You can search by topic, but then what? Then you must scroll and click to get to the best material Adpulp has to offer. Unless I intervene and aggregate the aggregator (me). Which is precisely what I am […]

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When A Small Percentage of Readers and Fans Also Become Customers, You’re In Business

Every company has an origin story. Some are fascinating. Some are simple. In Adpulp.com’s case, my colleague Shawn Hartley and I both saw an opportunity to create a micro media business that covers the ad industry in a fresh, knowledgeable, and irreverent way. For sure, this web resource for marketing, advertising, PR, and media pros […]

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Meet Li Ziqi, A Bohemian Chic Capitalist from the Mountains of Sichuan Province

Meet Li Ziqi. The 29-year-old is one of China’s biggest social media stars. She has 22 million followers on the microblogging site Weibo, 34 million on Douyin, and another 8.3 million on YouTube (which is banned in China). Ziqi lives in the village of northwestern Pingwu, Mianyang City, Sichuan Province, China. She began posting rustic-chic […]

Laura Desmond Meets with Advertising Students at UT, Learns Why They Block Ads

Stan Talks is a library of short videos produced by the Stan Richards School of Advertising & Public Relations in the Moody College of Communication at The University of Texas at Austin. This new talk, released last month, features Laura Desmond, founder and CEO of Eagle Vista Partners in Chicago. Desmond is intent on building […]

3 Steps to Brand Marketing Success: Consider, Believe, and Buy

I can’t recall how many articles I’ve published here about the power of content marketing, a.k.a. brand storytelling. So many. Because the need is ever great, here’s another… When good fortune is on your side, and you have a well-made ad campaign (backed by sufficient media dollars to reach a multitude of desirable audiences in […]

The Ramen Looks Amazing in New Culinary Arts Campaign from P.F. Chang’s

Restaurant advertising is often created with the intent to create appetite appeal. To achieve this, the quality of photography and videography is critical. This new ad campaign from P.F. Chang’s, care of The Richard Group, uses powerful visual storytelling to take viewers on an epicurean adventure that is meant to entice the senses while revealing […]

Did You Know That Bon Appétit Has 4.61M Subscribers on YouTube?

People love food-focused programming. Yet, many food brands rely on TV to carry their messages, which is an expensive way to build an audience of buyers. San Antonio-based grocer H-E-B, one of the nation’s largest family-owned businesses with 350 stores throughout Texas and northeast Mexico run lots of TV commercials but only has 32K subscribers […]

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