Media All Star Named, Pixar Lamp Gets Electric Chair

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Matt Seiler, Global CEO of Universal McCann, has been named the MediaWeek’s 2009 Media All Star “Executive of the Year.”

Blogworld Hikes Up its Skirt in Disneyland For Adults

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So the Blogworld Conference and Expo happened last week in Las Vegas.

Audience Conference Aims to Eliminate Bullshit

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Perhaps we should call this conference The No Bullshit Conference because the man behind it, Loren Feldman, never bullshits.

Blogworld Set to Rock Vegas

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Pardon the conference-related commercial interruption but we feel it’s our duty as a respected advertising industry media outlet to make sure everyone knows where the wilds thing are during a conference.

IZEAfest Day Two Brings Social Strategy and Buckets of Booze

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Aaron Brazell gave the keynote and spoke to the issue of finding an audience, cultivating that audience and becoming a leader in one’s area of expertise.

IZEAfest Delivers Drama, Scares, Learning, Ice, Pizza

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Oh the salacious things we could tell you aboutIZEAfest which occurred this past weekend in Orlando.

More F’ing Advertising Week

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Whoa. It’s Thursday and we’re just getting to Tuesday. Wait, what? You mean you don’t realize it’s Advertising Week?

Geoff Ramsey, Microsoft Illuminate Advertising Week

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Yesterday Advertising Week kicked off and as part of the week, the Internet Advertising Bureau held its MIXX Conference at the Crowne Plaza Hotel in Times Square

Newsflash! Advertising’s Walk of Fame Winners to be Announced!

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So it’s Advertising Week this week and what’s the most important thing about the week? Icons and slogans, of course.

The Webby’s Wants Your Five Word Speech

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OK so the Webby’s will never be the Emmy’s of the Oscars or, well, anything remotely that grand and important but, hey, in our own little world of advertising, we like to make things as self-…uh…important as we possibly can.

Effies Call, Bourbon Quizes, Hocky Moms Fight

Entry materials for the 2010 Effie Awards are now available on www.effie.org. The On-Time Effie entry deadline is October 14, with the last chance to enter set for November 4.

Advertising Week’s Battle of the Ad Bands to Deliver More ‘More F’ing Cowbell’

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If you’ll be in New York for Advertising Week September 21 – 25, you absolutely positively have to go to the YouTube Battle of the Ad Bands.

ad:tech Chicago: Sharpie, Ben Jerry’s Squeeze Merit Out of Social Media Sphinx

My last ad:tech Chicago session was the Social Media Industry Forum, presented by Geoff Ramsey of eMarketer.

The sesh had a festive air for many reasons, not least that it was Ramsey’s birthday. ad:tech’s Warren Pickett burst in near the end to furnish him with candle-lit cupcakes.

Need A Vegas Fix? Go to Blogworld in October

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From October 15-17, Blogworld & New Media Expo will hit Las Vegas.

ad:tech Chicago: Weighing Hearts and Brands on Ancient Scales

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ad:tech Chicago’s “Love for Sale — How Great Creative Seduces Its Target” session was broken into two discernably useful parts: statistics on online dating, and seduction as a metaphor for marketing.

ad:tech Chicago Attendees Politely Converse at CIMA Enclave Party

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Last night CIMA and Tatto Media sponsored a party at the Enclave nightclub in Chicago after the first day of ad:tech.

ad:tech Chicago: Hard Knocks in Social, Starring Rishad Tobaccowala

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I admit it: I was eavesdropping.

ad:tech Chicago Delivers Usual Eye Candy

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The Chicago ad:tech conference is always much smaller than the coastal behemoths New York and San Francisco but the “windy” city (which, by the way didn’t get it’s name from the wind , rather the “windy” politicians) has its charms.

Get Your Party Pants On; ad:tech Chicago’s Just Hours Away

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For those of you that value conferences for the “networking,” ad:tech Chicago’s opening night party kicks off at 8PM on Tuesday.

Case Studies And Advice Focus of ad:tech Chicago

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On September 1, ad:tech will kick off its fifth annual show in Chicago. It will focus on helping companies build their brands in a digital world. The event will take place from September 1-2, 2009 at Chicago Navy Pier.