Posts Tagged ‘agency’
Dear ad agencies, Don’t you know these in-house video things NEVER turn out well? They’re always horrible, unfunny turds left to stink up YouTube. No, it’s not as bad as the Agency.com debacle, but seriously, when is this going to stop? Creative directors – if one of your teams comes to you with “Hey, let’s […]
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Tags: agency, ridiculous, video
It’s no secret I’m not a fan of Bob Hoffman of Hoffman/Lewis. On his blog, The Ad Contrarian, he has this painfully contrived schtick where he sets up digital strawmen and then knocks them down – supposedly cutting through the bullshit and interactive hucksters out there. His argument are usually so full of holes and […]
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Tags: agency, Commentary, online, ridiculous, social media
I’ve been in advertising long enough to remember the holiday bonus check. That’s one of those things that seemingly disappeared in advertising with the dot.com bust and never returned. And with the unsettled economy, you’d think something extra for the holidays would still be non-existant. But apparently, not so. The Kaplan Thaler Group in New […]
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Tags: agency, good, technology
An agency site I actually like.
Here’s an agency site I actually like – the new one from JWT. It’s a really interesting concept that pulls from multiple sources like Twitter, RSS, etc. and creates small content boxes out of each piece of information. Here’s the kicker: the site goes on forever. The farther down you scroll, the more content it […]
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Tags: agency, good, technology, website
These are the kind of stories I love. After 31 years, Harley Davidson and Carmichael Lynch parted ways on Monday. Which side broke up with the other is currently a debate, but Harley made it clear that they weren’t going to conduct a new AOR search and instead go with a roster of shops. Now […]
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Tags: advertising, agency, crowd_sourcing, good
Copy them.
I’ve always wondered why more agencies don’t copy other successful agencies. True, every agency is different, but if you want to be like Crispin, or Wieden or Goodby, why don’t you model your agency after theirs and do what they do? Too many smaller agencies I know have no plan – they don’t know what […]
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Tags: agency, good, strategy
Very cool agency site.
The San Francisco Egotist came across this very cool agency site for Grip Limited. The nav is unlike anything I’ve every seen before and while the site is jam packed full of content, it doesn’t feel overwhelming at all. In fact, it’s so well designed that all those little nuggets of information make me want […]
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Tags: agency, good, website
Big thinking from Rethink.
If I asked people to name the top 20 most creative agencies in the world right now, you’d expect the Goodbys, Cripsins and Wiedens. It’s too bad most people wouldn’t include Rethink from Vancouver, BC. If I didn’t know they were for real, I’d look at their work and think – that’s all too crazy […]
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Tags: agency, campaign, good, outdoor
This cracks me up. Australian agency Happy Soldiers decided to mock all the buzzwords on ad agency websites by showing just how over used engaging 360-degree solutions on the brandscape are. (Did I just say that?) Anyway, a great, funny idea that shows Happy Soldiers is really thinking outside the box. (Crap, I did it […]
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Tags: advertising, agency, good, website
The Dog & Pony Show 
How do you build culture?
SID LEE COLLECTIVE | Boot camp 2011 from sidlee on Vimeo. Here’s an interesting video by Sid Lee about how you build a culture that people want to be a part of. I find a lot of agencies are content to let their culture build itself – they’ve got no vision as to what they’re […]
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Tags: advertising, agency, Commentary, good