Hasta La Creative!

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It seems there’s a lot of negative reaction to this year’s SXSW.
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On Friday the masses arrived in Austin for SXSW. As is always the case, it was a meet and greet fest of epic social media proportion. Even Robert Scobel is here if anyone actually cares.
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In his address during Monday’s AAAA’s Transformation Conference, Publicis Groupe’s Rishad Tobaccowala told attendees the advertising industry needs builders, people with the audacity to “remake industries.”
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No one needs to go to another social media conference, right? Wrong.
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In line with our less than pleasant mood today comes this campaign for the 2010 Chip Shop Awards.
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On Monday night at Affiliate Summit in Las Vegas there were no less than five parties. And one had a live chicken running around but we’ll get to that in a minute.
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On Sunday night at Affiliate Summit West in Las Vegas the Palms was where all the party action was.
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After a two month submission period, the judges have finally handed down the list of “winners” of the First Annual Tracy Awards, an awards show created to honor the worst of the worst in advertising.

You can debate the merits of booth babes at conferences but that’s like debating the merits of smart people versus un-smart people.

Lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender media advocacy group, GLAAD announced award recipients at its 1st GLAAD Media Awards in Advertising ceremony.