Minute Maid Questions What Good Is, Decides, “this is GOOD”

Parents today see picture-perfect families everywhere, especially in social media. Minute Maid’s new brand campaign is encouraging parents to embrace their perfectly imperfect family moments and show how even though it’s not always Instagram-ready, “this is GOOD.” Minute Maid partnered with Edison Research to commission the “This is Good Parenting Survey” to better understand how […]

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Social Media Is A Breeding Ground For “Sowing Discord”

Buying followers—real or fake—on Twitter and other social media platforms has been an irritating problem for years. The shady firms who offer these services play the vanity card to perfection and it works. It works because we are human and humans need to organize. Like wolves, we need a pack leader, and people mistake high […]

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When You Decide To Support Quality, You’ll Find A Way To Pay

Imagine if all you ever ate was free food that you found floating by in a fast moving river? In this dystopia, you don’t have time to assess what you’re eating—if it looks like food you eat it without question or hesitation. Of course, only a desperate or crazy person would live this way. But […]

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Norwegian Taco Subs Come With A Crunch

I’m not a fan of pre-roll. No one is. Nevertheless, if you’re going to go there, you need to understand what works while you’re holding people hostage. To promote their Taco Sub—the first sub ever to make a distinguished sound when you eat it—Subway Norway and McCann Stockholm built a narrative around “Good cracks vs. […]

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Sears Is On The Wrong Screen

Just 11% of Sears sales come from e-commerce. No surprise there. Smart retailers know that TV advertising drives interest and newspaper circulars drive traffic. According to The Wall Street Journal, Sears Holdings Chief Executive Edward Lampert is on another page. He champions the use of digital marketing over traditional TV and print advertising, arguing that […]

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Off Madison: Blogging Is The New Busking

OFF MADISON—Blogging is the new busking. Talented writers are presently posted up outside the official news edifice where they’re busy bringing their readers a sharper, more personal point of view on a particular topic of interest. In a recent survey, bloggers said it now takes three hours and twenty minutes, on average, to create a […]

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Smarten Up; Facebook and Your Mobile Phone Make You Dumb

Sean Parker, Facebook’s first President, gave an interesting talk recently, where he reveals the thinking behind the machine. The problem the Facebookers sought to solve: How do we consume as much of your time and conscious attention as possible? The “solution” they ended up inventing: “It’s a social-validation feedback loop … exactly the kind of […]

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There’s Just So Much Digital Smoke Being Blown Up Our Asses

If you haven’t yet had to good fortune to read BadMen: How Advertising Went From A Minor Annoyance To A Major Menace by Bob Hoffman—his “frightening and highly entertaining look into the hidden, corrupt, and dangerous world of online advertising”—may I suggest an audio preview on the topic, care of Radio New Zealand? “There is […]

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Readers Won’t Carry The Payload, Not Today, And Not Alone

Paywalls are a huge turn-off. So why do publishers, including Adpulp, put them in the reader’s way? Because content is a commodity and publishers of every variety are barely scraping by, that’s why. According to Digiday, “third-party micropayments — in the United States at least — have flopped.” I find the pronouncement a bit harsh […]

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Digital Advertising’s Frankenstein Is Wreaking Havoc and Damaging Democracy

“We need a digital economy where our data and our attention is not for sale to the highest bidding authoritarian or demagogue.” -Zeynep Tufekci What has the digital ad man wrought when the same algorithms companies like Facebook, Google and Amazon use to get you to click on ads are also used to organize your […]

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IMPEACH DON WITHOUT DELAY

“What has our government become?” asks billionaire environmental activist and former hedge fund manager, Tom Steyer. Great question. Styer makes a case for Impeachment with the following truth: “Today people in Congress and his own administration know this president is a clear and present danger who is mentally unstable and armed with nuclear weapons. And […]

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How Dumb Are Smart Phones At The Dinner Table?

Chances are good that you may be too distracted to read this. On the off chance that you’re able to focus for a few minutes, I’d like to share some findings from the Common Sense Census. Did you know that 42% of young children have their own tablet device, up from 1 percent in 2011? […]

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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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Add Value Or Be Labeled An Advertiser (Not In A Good Way)

TV is done. Radio is toast. Print is dead. Everything is always coming to an end. Unless it isn’t. Maybe life is circular, not linear. One thing that does not appear to be coming to an end is the endless onslaught of bad advertising. Many companies can’t waste their time and money fast enough on […]

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Sunday Showcase: Don Trump Versus The NFL

Today is an historic day in the National Football League. In addition to today’s slate of games, there’s a media game being played by Don Trump. It’s another game he can never win. On Friday, the President of the United States—in an effort to stir up more racial and class hatred—called NFL players who take […]

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Welcome To The Chronicle of Bright Ideas

This has been a year of transformations for Adpulp. We stopped taking advertising (including paid posts), switched to a new responsive template, secured our hosting setup, loaded Facebook-enabled comments, implemented a micro-payments platform, and now we’ve refreshed our brand identity. The Chronicle of Bright Ideas The new logo was made by Jessica Knedgen, a designer […]

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Is Adland A Risky Place for Investors?

The stock market is on fire. So, why are advertising agency stocks are languishing on the vine? According to The New York Times, WPP, which owns agencies including Y&R and Ogilvy & Mather, said annual net sales may be flat or grow up to 1 percent as it reported that the measure shrank in the […]

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Start Paying For High Quality Niche Content

A movement is afoot. Micro media publishers around the globe are starting to use inklpay, a new micropayments service (based in Sydney), to request financial support from readers. The beauty of inkl’s solution is one subscription provides access to a multiplicity of mainstream news sites (the core of inkl’s offering) and access to a growing […]

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Epica Is An Award Show With A Marked Point of Difference

Too many award shows are back-slapping affairs where hungover creative directors drop a bean in a cup when they see a campaign they like. There’s a much higher standard for the industry’s output—the intended audience for the work. Did they bite or did they ignore? That’s the ultimate test of any ad campaign. Having said […]

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InklPay’s WordPress PlugIn Opens The Door To A New Day

Unlike larger and more mainstream online publications, AdPulp has the ability to reject online advertising in its current state. Like thousands of other independent publishers across the globe, we pay no rent for an office, no salaries, and no dividends. Having said that, removing advertising from this website is much more than a financial move. […]

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