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"I always loved radio. Writing it. Listening to it. I also like to talk. One of my strategies in life is to 'just keep talking until something good happens.' That’s what a podcast is. The secret is to let the guest talk." -Rob Schwartz When Dan Goldgeier and I started the Adpulp podcast, Ad Chatter, last year deep in the COVID stuck-at-home scare, we saw it as a natural extension of what we do here on the website. …
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ShoutLA conducted an interview with Bre Fernandez, senior copywriter at BBDO NY and co-founder of BreakingAD—an Instagram account that helps introduce creative people to the ad agency business. During the interview, she opens up about her childhood and how it shaped who she is today: Can you open up a bit about your work and career? I’m a political refugee. My parents and I fled Cuba’s tyrannical chokehold …
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The ad business is a Boys Club of the highest order. Zoe Scaman, a strategist, recently reaffirmed this fact and set the Interwebs on fire with her front-line reporting of the abuse she endured while working in agencies not her own. Her narrative is both raw and ugly as can be. Painful though it is, I encourage you to click over and read it. I tell you these stories not to be sensationalist and not to seek out …
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Rory Sutherland roars like a lion. The Vice-Chairman of Ogilvy UK appears on Campaign's podcast, wherein he pontificates at length about the agency business and how it has been boxed into a corner by clients and so-called partners who are anything but. Sutherland argues for the power of creativity to change the score for brands. He suggests that ad men and women fight their way out of this problem. …
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Editor's Note: The following article was written and kindly provided by Mark Tungate of Epica Press Club. Havas Group may have just cracked the production challenge of the multi-platform digital era. In partnership with Wellcom Worldwide, the holding company has created a world-spanning creative production network called Havas Studios. The operation is headed by Paul Ward, formerly group chief operations …
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Rishad Tobaccowala is the singular voice rising above all others, for me, and for many others working to make better communications and stronger and more meaningful bonds with customers. Rishad is a Senior Advisor to Publicis Groupe, a holding company with 80,000 people. He also freely shares his insights with anyone who wants to subscribe to his Substack newsletter, The Future Does Not Fit in the Containers …
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In this special edition of AdChatter, we introduce London-based brand strategist, Toby Donaldson to listeners, plus we feature a special guest, Silicon Valley entrepreneur Santi Bibiloni. Santi founded an eCommerce agency in Argentina when he was just 22 years old. The agency grew to be one of Argentina's fastest-growing companies. Today, Santi is the founder and CEO of COR, a next-generation solution for …
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In this fun, informative, and optimistic episode of Ad Chatter, Dan Goldgeier speaks with featured guest, Deborah Morrison, Ph.D. Morrison is the Carolyn Silva Chambers Distinguished Professor of Advertising at the University of Oregon. She’s also hard at work finishing her new book, Brave Work in the Age of Climate Change. Her book takes one of the big topics of our day. Advertising is a business that promotes …
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There are a few people working in the agency business who truly love the new business game. The hot pursuit. The pressure that creates diamonds, and eventually, the thrill of victory. But none among us wants to experience the agony of defeat. Nevertheless, we all do. It's part of life and part of business life too. When I was intently viewing MasterClass lessons from Jeff Goodby and Rich Silverstein last week, I …
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Agencies are mirrors and the people who work in them often learn to 'mirror' the client's language, preferences, and standard modes of conduct. It is natural and sometimes good that bonds are made with members of the client team by "speaking" their same language. It's not always good, of course. When ad people mirror a client's toxic behaviors, all sorts of problems begin to manifest back at the …
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