People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, or PETA, wants you to refrain from catching and/or eating fish. According to Associated Press, Bruce Friedrich, PETA's director of vegan outreach, said, "No one would ever put a hook through a dog's or cat's mouth. Once people start to understand that fish, although they come in different packaging, are just as intelligent, they'll stop eating them." To press their …
Outstanding Mission Statements: Fourth In A Series
Corporate Message from the Billboard Liberation Front Headquartered in San Francisco, the BLF is a privately-held, worker-controlled shadow entity with no phone number and no permanent address. Our highly secure operating environment and extralegal status guarantee our clients the acme of service, while our internationally recognized creative team delivers unmatched "wow." Unlike traditional agencies, the BLF is not …
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Burning Rubber No Longer Good Enough
New York Magazine reports that True advertising agency staged a kind of interactive street theater for Nissan on the corners of Houston and Lafayette, Third and 13th and West Broadway and Grand. Christopher Davis, True …
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Managers Show Workers Some Love
According to this South African news service, an expensive team-building trip for employees of the Coega development corporation to the Fish River Sun hotel allegedly turned into an orgy of sex and booze. More than one reliable source confirmed that at least six married managers were involved in steaming sex scenes with colleagues next to the pool of this luxury casino hotel near Port Alfred on Thursday night. The …
Portuguese Agency Puts It All On The Blog
TBWA Portugal has a blog. I can't read it, but I salute their efforts, just the same. Oh, they also do great work, like their surf dude peers in Playa Del Rey. Unique outdoor placement for Amnesty International. …
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Nike Sticks Its Neck Out
The CEO of S.C. Johnson in Racine, WI--one of the world's largest makers of consumer chemical products, including Drano, Glade, Johnson, OFF!, Pledge, Raid, Shout, Windex, and Ziploc--is on his way to Beaverton, OR and the campus of Nike. Nike founder, Phil Knight, 66 is letting go of the day-to-day operations (and his corner suite) in favor of this marathon runner from outside his cultish organization. Nike execs, …
Donny, You So Purty.
Gareth Kay, a planner for Modernista, posted this gorgeous plateware on his blog recently. In his comments area, one person suggests that this item would be perfect for a lovely afternoon of skeet shooting. I concur. A more responsible type (and former Deutsch staffer) says "The Donny" did not, in fact, commission this personal artifact. His staff did. Whatever. It exists. …
Resisting The Resisters
Decorated copywriter Ernie Schenck recently wrote, "According to Naomi Klein, author of No Logo, consumers are like roaches. They've been sprayed so much, they're beginning to develop immunities. Can't argue with that. How else to explain the emergence of alternative branding tactics of every ilk, everything from experiential marketing to product placement to television programming developed around brands. Klein made …