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Chick-fil-A’s nonprofit arm donates to the Paul Anderson Youth Home, a Christian residential home that teaches young boys that same-sex marriage is a “rage against Jesus Christ and his values.” Therefore, the city of San Antonio voted to boot Chick-fil-A from its airport. In a sane world, this would be the end of the story, but […]

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I call Adpulp, “The Chronicle of Bright Ideas,” because I’m a collector and admirer of smart thinking and elegant doing. After a long week with my head inside a strategy deck, I’m now choosing to unwind on Saturday morning by reflecting more deeply on three articles in my cue. 1- “Brand First” Is the Wrong […]

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Are advertisers responsible for the content that they financially support? The answer to this question has been “no,” for many years, but that’s beginning to change as the line between editorial and ad sales continues to blur. According to Ad Age, Fox News opened up its studios to advertisers on Wednesday to promote a message […]

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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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Facebook is dominant. Therefore, when Facebook goes off the rails, as it has again in 2018, it’s a big story that needs more definition. Before we delve in, let’s look back a few years… Did you know that the National Security Agency and the FBI teamed up in October 2010 to develop techniques for turning […]

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The agency business is melting down. We’ve seen this before; nevertheless, it is disruptive and there are real people suffering behind the statistics. Derek Thompson of The Atlantic notes: For the first time on record, the number of advertising-specific jobs in the U.S. is declining in the middle of an economic expansion, according to government […]

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Chrysler messed up. The tone-deaf auto brand ran a Super Bowl commercial featuring an out-of-context voiceover from the estate of Martin Luther King. What the Super Bowl ad failed to include is the part of King’s sermon in which he warns against the dangers of spending too much when buying a car. Fiat Chrysler Automobiles […]

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How many times have you heard the term “digital transformation” in the past year? Are you feeling transformed yet? San Francisco ad man Tom Bedecarré doesn’t understand what’s taking so long. In response to a Wall Street Journal article about Publicis’ efforts to get the cool kids in a room, Bedecarré wrote this on LinkedIn: […]

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Data collects, mostly into piles of digital rubble. Yet, data is prized and those who provide it are revered. The high priests of data analytics have the floor right now, which is understandable and ridiculous at the same time. It’s understandable that clients are scared to death of their own intuition and risky creative ideas […]

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Cindy Gallop takes names and zero shit. For the sexual harassers in the ad industry, you best run and hide. For everyone else, here’s compelling documentation about just how degrading it is to be objectified at work, and then asked to objectify women in ads. “The biggest issue facing our industry today is not diversity,” […]

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