by: kidsleepy, Mar 29 2023 - 5:08pm
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About a decade ago (give or take a year or two) I was a senior copywriter on adidas Originals at Sid Lee in Montreal.
by: Evan Brown, Jan 11 2023 - 5:06am
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Kim Kardashian is refining her personal brand. Right-wing news outlet Fox TV is gaining viewers through attention-grabbing headlines.
by: carlwjones, Dec 6 2022 - 11:45pm
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This is the story of how Tampax torpedoed its own brand.
by: Dabitch, Nov 22 2022 - 5:53pm
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Dylan Mulvaney has a paid partnership with Haus Labs, Lady Gaga's brand.
by: Dabitch, Nov 2 2022 - 6:15pm
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When you are the leading brand with the largest market share of your niche, it makes sense to expand the market.
by: Dabitch, Oct 17 2022 - 5:19pm
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Major advertisers including DirecTV, Dyson, Forbes, Mazda, and PBS Kids have suspended or canceled advertising campaigns on Twitter because their ads
by: Tom Siebert, Sep 30 2022 - 9:40pm
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As I've said so often before; advertising is the only industry where people think you don't have to be educated for it.
by: Dabitch, Jul 8 2022 - 8:07pm
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Intellectual property is a tricky field, it's far easier being a divorce lawyer.
by: Dabitch, May 3 2022 - 1:03am
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I'll just preface all of this with the fact that I never use Tampax.
by: Dabitch, Apr 27 2022 - 8:45pm
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Only 20% of all board members in Danish companies are female - 1 woman for every 4 men. It's 6%, if you remove family connections.
by: Dabitch, Mar 8 2022 - 8:05pm
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Same old same old. Emphasis on same. And old.
by: kidsleepy, Feb 14 2022 - 4:23am
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The creative and cultural agency, Blanguage is founded by two best friends, Daniel Amoakoh (Head of Creative) & Junior Olomowewe.
by: Rachel Allison, Sep 2 2021 - 12:25am
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Hacks at Peloton nicked a visual concept because they used the same post house.
by: Dabitch, Jun 11 2021 - 5:58am
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"We’re tired of being told our place is in the kitchen so we created some cool shit to fight sexism." The line was meant to meant to promote
by: Dabitch, Mar 12 2021 - 5:16am
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The UK magazine stands for editorial independence.
by: kidsleepy, Sep 6 2020 - 2:22am
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August 7th was International Beer Day, yet another made up holiday designed specifically for brands to capitalize on their social media and PR channel
by: kidsleepy, Aug 14 2020 - 7:49pm
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Back in the mid-90’s Jay Chiat was simultaneously scoffed at and envied for attempting to create the ad industry’s first “virtual offices.” The theory
by: kidsleepy, Aug 9 2020 - 8:31pm
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As Kidsleepy noted in an earlier article headlined Wokevertising for fun and profit, advertising has a way of jumping onto the cause du jour head firs
by: Dabitch, Jul 26 2020 - 11:41pm
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The advertising world only cares about causes just long enough for one or two award seasons before they move on to something else that is considered f
by: kidsleepy, Jul 22 2020 - 6:32am
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This is a tale of two beer brands. Budweiser and Miller. Both had some iconic campaigns around the early 00's.
by: kidsleepy, May 19 2020 - 4:41am
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The pivoting of advertising ideas during the great depression are lessons we should learn from today.
by: Dabitch, Apr 22 2020 - 3:51am
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The following was written by Mike Hughes on his Linkedin and is reprinted with permission.
by: Dabitch, Apr 17 2020 - 7:54pm
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I got to thinking about the atrocity that is the open office plan, and it led me to tweet this.
by: kidsleepy, Apr 7 2020 - 11:47pm
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by: Ian David, Apr 6 2020 - 6:58pm
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Updating your LinkedIn resume--during a pandemic
I don't mean to brag, but I've gotten out of bed, made meals for my family, went for wal
by: Evan Brown, Apr 5 2020 - 4:23am
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My LinkedIn feed is polluted with dozens upon dozens of brands (or students making spec ads for said brands) all manipulating their logos in an effort
by: kidsleepy, Mar 27 2020 - 9:39pm
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A nifty headline over at MediaPost suggested that a Change.org petition signed by 82 people was the reason why a holding company of 70,000+ employees
by: kidsleepy, Mar 16 2020 - 5:59pm
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by: Evan Brown, Mar 13 2020 - 7:53pm
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by: kidsleepy, Mar 1 2020 - 7:15pm
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It was fascinating to watch faux woke joke and quintessential cliche of a PR agency in the worst possible sense Edelman struggle to turn its cowardice
by: Tom Siebert, Aug 3 2019 - 12:45am
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"Don’t you think those people deserved to die? They were involved in kiddie porn.” -- Charles Manson, “Hollywood Star” interview
by: Tom Siebert, Jul 26 2019 - 5:31am
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When I chose freelance as the next step in my career as a creative in advertising the main underlying reason was the hope of flexibility.
by: Belén Wilson, Jul 20 2019 - 1:23pm
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Why are the most famous people in or from advertising today so damn vile?
by: Tom Siebert, Jul 18 2019 - 9:12am
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Farage proclaims in an exclusive interview with Campaign Magazine that the Ad industry has 'no idea what's going on in people's lives&#
by: Dabitch, Jul 17 2019 - 12:24pm
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by: Tom Siebert, Jul 11 2019 - 6:04pm
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The 67 year-old satirical magazine will cease publications this year.
by: kidsleepy, Jul 4 2019 - 8:44pm
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Happy birthday my fellow American patriots!
by: Tom Siebert, Jul 4 2019 - 7:11am
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Despite a Unilever exec’s “Woke-washing” warning, the Cannes Lyin’s Grand Pricks this year didn’t seem to get the cosmic cultural memo that empty-head
by: Tom Siebert, Jun 25 2019 - 9:32am
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I hadn’t really planned on writing (again) about advertising’s biggest narcissist clown confab, the Cannes Lions—or, let’s call them, more appropriate
by: Tom Siebert, Jun 24 2019 - 10:08am
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by: kidsleepy, Jun 24 2019 - 3:31am
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by: kidsleepy, May 17 2019 - 7:30pm
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Like all industries, advertising is filled with good eggs and bad ones.
by: kidsleepy, May 14 2019 - 7:04pm
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In the wake of the Weinstein scandal, many professional women in advertising are sharing their stories in the #metoo hashtag spirit.
by: Dabitch, Oct 19 2017 - 5:37am
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by: kidsleepy, Jun 30 2017 - 6:17pm
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by: Dabitch, Jun 16 2017 - 11:17am
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by: Dabitch, Jun 15 2017 - 11:46am
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The School of Communication Arts in London has launched a clever fundraiser in these pre-Cannes days.
by: Dabitch, Jun 2 2017 - 2:17pm
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by: Dabitch, Jun 1 2017 - 12:08pm
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by: kidsleepy, Apr 27 2017 - 8:33pm
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by: Dabitch, Apr 16 2017 - 9:11am
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by: kidsleepy, Feb 7 2017 - 11:12pm
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When I wrote ”Våga anställa annorlunda – på riktigt” for Sweden's leading advertising & media paper Resumé, it came hot on the heels of anoth
by: Dabitch, Dec 7 2016 - 6:17pm
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he Ministry of Foreign affairs in Sweden have produced this silent ad called #Free the Speech for the 250th anniversary of our Freedom Of the press la
by: Dabitch, Dec 3 2016 - 8:53pm
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by: kidsleepy, Nov 11 2016 - 5:13am
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by: Linnett, Oct 22 2016 - 5:28pm
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by: Dabitch, Jul 22 2016 - 8:51am
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by: kidsleepy, Jul 13 2016 - 7:56am
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Every fortnight I write a piece for the opinion pages of Resumé, this week I decided to translate it.
by: Dabitch, Jun 16 2016 - 9:29pm
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by: Dabitch, May 9 2016 - 10:21am
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by: Dabitch, May 8 2016 - 3:33pm
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by: Dabitch, May 6 2016 - 10:57am
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On Twitter, you might see me as a little red TV adland, as that usually is me cracking snarky jokes at all hours of the evening, though I am not the o
by: Dabitch, May 5 2016 - 10:24am
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Swedish number hijacked by trolls - and may I say "I told you so"?
by: Dabitch, Apr 22 2016 - 12:50pm
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I'm glad Dave Trott, ad-man with his name on many ad agency doors, and many ad books (Creative Mischief is one, Predatory Thinking another, both
by: Dabitch, Apr 19 2016 - 5:45pm
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by: kidsleepy, Mar 31 2016 - 6:36am
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by: kidsleepy, Mar 11 2016 - 9:12pm
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by: kidsleepy, Feb 25 2016 - 12:39am
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by: kidsleepy, Feb 10 2016 - 5:44pm
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by: kidsleepy, Jan 31 2016 - 9:29pm
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by: kidsleepy, Dec 23 2015 - 8:23pm
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by: kidsleepy, Nov 25 2015 - 1:40am
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by: kidsleepy, Nov 11 2015 - 6:18pm
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by: Dabitch, Sep 19 2015 - 2:13pm
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by: kidsleepy, Aug 20 2015 - 9:23pm
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by: Dabitch, Aug 17 2015 - 11:18pm
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by: kidsleepy, Jul 8 2015 - 10:59pm
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by: Dabitch, Jul 8 2015 - 7:38pm
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“Mr. Clean represents patriarchy from some disgusting bygone day.”
by: kidsleepy, Jul 1 2015 - 9:10pm
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