Our Relationship To Money Is Changing, Visa Wants To Talk About It

Women today are challenging gender norms and tackling taboo topics, but there’s one taboo topic that remains unaddressed: money. According to research, Millennial women feel more comfortable talking about sex than money. Visa wants to change that. This week, Visa is launching phase two of its popular social and digital series ‘Money is Changing’ with the help […]

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All Work And No Play Makes Johnnie and Joanie Witless Screen Zombies

Advertising like law, journalism, technology, engineering, medicine, and other professions demands countless hours from its workers. This, despite damning evidence that productivity and creativity fall flat after about six hours of concentrated work. According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the average American works 44 hours per week, or 8.8 hours per day. A 2014 national Gallup […]

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Doner Sued for Age Discrimination

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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Escapist Fantasy or Effective Recruitment Advertising?

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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When Activated, Hate Becomes Crime

Hate crime. “It’s not just offensive. It’s an offence.” The Home Office today launches its latest campaign, created by M&C Saatchi London, which aims to communicate that targeting someone with verbal, online or physical abuse because of their race, religion, disability, sexual orientation or transgender identity may be a hate crime. The campaign breaks on […]

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What Did You Learn Today?

When I was a boy, my grandpa would ask me the same question over and over. “What did you learn in school today?” The repetitive nature of his questioning helped to create an awareness in me that school was important and that I needed to bring focus and attention to it, to get the most […]

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Oddly, Workplace Ghosting Is The Trend That Reveals

Do you know what ghosting is? It started with online dating, but the practice of disappearing in the middle of a project you’re working on, or a job interview you’re in the middle of, is now widespread. It’s a sickening trend and its end is not now in sight. The LinkedIn post I made about […]

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Data Is The Machine-Fed Marketing Narcotic…Drip, Drip, Drip

“Data excite advertisers.” What a great line from Ken Auletta in The New Yorker. Auletta argues: In the advertising world, Big Data is the Holy Grail, because it enables marketers to target messages to individuals rather than general groups, creating what’s called addressable advertising. “Addressable advertising.” Help us, Lord. Tracking digital movements of the people […]

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Tacoma Time Is Play Time for Big Kids

The Toyota Tacoma is built for the endless weekend. In other words, the Japanese manufacturer has decided this truck is playful. This positioning decision opened the door for the agency, Saatchi & Saatchi in this case, to have fun. The new adventure campaign features adventure seeking personalities like legendary off-road racer Ivan Stewart and Motorcross […]

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The Wider the Pay Gap, The Less Respect the Men In Charge Have

Women in advertising are fighting for fairness. Did you know that 70% of young female creatives say they have never worked with a female creative director or executive creative director? With so few mentors within the business, young female creatives don’t receive the right skills, advice or tools to help them succeed. Nicola Kemp, the […]

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Hot Desert, Cold Brew

To make Peet’s Cold Brew, the craft coffee company steeps freshly-roasted East African Baridi coffee slowly, without heat, to create a refreshingly bold and smooth beverage. To make Peet’s Cold Brew the beverage of choice at Coachella, Peet’s lined up a series of experiences, a.k.a. “brand activations,” for the music-loving people to enjoy, including an […]

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Don’t Worry About Brand Loyalty—Focus on Creating Connections Between Customers

We are social creatures who organize around common interests and shared experiences. We’re not just college graduates, we’re Cornhuskers or Ducks or Bulldogs. We’re not just music fans, we’re Deadheads or Parrotheads or Panic freaks. Our identities are formed in association with these groups or institutions. Belonging to the group, or tribe, is central to […]

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Walk-Ins Welcome at the Bumble Hive on Melrose

Whether it’s for dates, meeting friends or growing your professional network, you can use Bumble to make “empowered connections.” Starting today, Bumblers in LA can put down their phones and connect in person, thanks to a new pop-up space from Bumble on Melrose. Designed to embody Bumble’s digital experience in a physical form, Bumble Hive […]

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A Delicious Product In A Slim Can

Diet Coke is a running Super Bowl ad for the first in 21 years. The new spot, which will run during the second half on Sunday, will be part of Diet Coke’s new “Because I Can” campaign. Here’s a taste of what’s to come… Actress Gillian Jacobs says Diet Coke makes her feel good. Uh, […]

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Visit Your Bank Branch? You’ve Got To Be Kidding

Did you know that 68% of people say they’d rather talk about their weight than their money? VC-backed Varo Money, Inc., a mobile banking startup, today debuted “Money Diaries,” a series of videos that looks at the lives and financial issues of the core demographic—ambitious, professional millennials—that Varo is serving. Someone’s ready to talk! Emily […]

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With A Little Help from Made, TaxAct Targets Today’s Workers

How are you feeling about tax time this year? Corporations, for the most part, are feeling good about reduced tax burdens, but what about individuals operating a business in today’s gig economy? Boulder-based Made, a marketing agency specializing in brand transformation, partnered with TaxAct to help freelancers and contract workers manage their tax needs and […]

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Two Righteous Republicans Search for the Party’s Soul in Alabama

The Grand Old Pedophiles are rallying around one of the saddest characters in politics today, a twice deposed Alabama judge who has a trail of sexual molestation claims against him longer than the rope he used to hang himself with. Some Republicans—the ones who still believe in the Republic—are more than a little put out […]

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Diversity Isn’t A Board Game; Drop Your Excuses At the Door

How many people of color do you work with? How many people of color are on your company’s executive team? Meanwhile, African Americans are showing up and spending $1.3 trillion dollars this year. This, despite the fact that only a fraction ($2.24 billion) of the $75 billion invested in television, magazine, internet, and radio advertising […]

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We Have A Big Fat Platform Problem

Fake news is such an innocent term. The fact that it masks what it really is—propaganda—seems to get lost in the equation. Nevertheless, what does “fake news” actually look like? It looks like this: Sadly, fake news, a.k.a. propaganda is not innocent, nor does it exist in a bubble. According to Bloomberg, Russian meddling is […]

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When Micro-Dosing Had No Meaning

As the former owner of two VW camper vans and one Jetta Sportwagon TDi (which was part of the diesel emissions scandal), the offer made in this new VW did grab my attention. The new six-year/72,000-mile bumper-to-bumper warranty is twice the length of what is typically offered by competitors. The new ad from Deutsch LA […]

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