Here is an ad for Harvard University, not that Harvard needs ads. One reason, among many, that Harvard does not needs ads is numbers. The institution has all the numbers on its side. For example, The Atlantic looked at data that shows that 3,000 graduates of Harvard University are worth more than $30 million, and that most of them earned rather than inherited their money. It's a stat that sticks out -- …
Clean Is The New Black
Here is some exceptionally good news. According to Digiday, The Banner Industrial Complex Under Threat. “From a publisher’s standpoint, there really is no choice but to go this way,” said David Payne, Gannett’s chief digital officer, of the move away from the banner. “I think we’ve all proven over the last 12 years that the strategy we’ve been following — to create a lot of inventory and then sell it at 95 percent …
Eyeballs Yes, But Publishers Need The Rest of You Too
In the old days, editors assigned stories to reporters, then made suggestions for improvement as the copy came in. Today, it's a bit more complicated. Today, an editor needs to have the capacity to run the presses. Paul Smalera, tech editor at Reuters, warns on Medium that editors need to know some code and possess a working knowledge of design, or risk forfeiting maximum exposure for their stories. …
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An Agency In Five Days: JWT Pops Up At SXSWi Next Month
Big agency services for startups, at retail, for five days only. WALTER looks to be another great idea from JWT. Next month in Austin, technology startups in town for SXSW Interactive will have the chance to meet with JWT's "collective of industrious outsiders who embrace uncertainty and invent within chaos." I take it they'll leave their suits back home in New York and Atlanta, because this sounds like a …
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An Agency Website That Works From Copacino+Fujikado
I have been staring at hundreds of advertising and digital agency websites on my Pinterest directory trying to decode each agency's objectives and strategies. Frankly, the lack of ad agency website differentiation, especially if you view these websites from a new business perspective, is confounding. Every once an awhile I come across an agency that is doing something different. In this case, the …
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Do You Care Enough To Overcome Consumer Indifference?
"Fail harder" is a Wieden+Kennedy maxim. But if failure isn't your thing, you can take the following advise from Martin Weigel's, "How to (not) Fail" deck. Weigel is Head of Planning at Wieden+Kennedy Amsterdam, and his deck neatly illustrates "the gulf that exists between marketing’s bouts of hubris and the consumer’s reality." I particularly enjoy slide 100. "Our task is not nurturing enthusiasm but …
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Yahoo! CEO Marissa Mayer Gathers The Troops
Location, location, location. It's more than a Realtors' call to arms today. Some of the nation's most influential business leaders are promoting the value of face time and physical proximity. "Opportunities flow through congregations of people. Those with good ideas and information tend to hang out with one another," Reid Hoffman of LinkedIn wrote recently. He added, "Collaboration happens best when information …
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Leadership Conversations Challenges Us To Move Up If We’re Ready
What does it take to be a leader in an advertising industry or marketing firm? As I’ve noted before, many great copywriters and art directors don’t make great creative directors. It’s a different set of skills. And sometimes, for the agency or the person, this discovery is made too late — either after a promotion or after someone has left an agency for another, better opportunity. For a closer look at what …
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