The following articles on Adpulp.com are my favorites of 2021. For me to like an article and recommend it, as I am doing here, the piece needs to contain more than news. For readers of Adpulp.com, the value is often in the news. Hence, our binary "Advertising News and Know-How" approach to the editorial product. A Book for ‘Ad People’ with Brains The Machines Have Moved In. The Machines Have No Feelings. …
Job Number One: Ask Good Questions and Take Good Notes
I started interviewing people when I was 18 years old and a freshman at Franklin & Marshall College. One thing I know about myself—I have a journalist's temperament, which I bring to the ad business, sometimes successfully. In this new collection of 18 interviews with 19 advertising professionals, there's a series of successful moments where people I admire and respect get a chance to wax poetic about life, …
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A Book for ‘Ad People’ with Brains
One of the best things about Adpulp.com is the people we meet. The site opens many doors and behind many of these doors are amazingly unique people with fascinating stories. My new ebook—Ad Brains: Conversations with Advertising's Icons, Rebels, and Rulers—captures some of these stories. Ad Brains is now available for $10 from Amazon.com, Kobo.com, Barnes & Noble, and Apple Books, and Google Play. All …
The Year in ‘Pulp: Twenty Twenty
Disruption is an opening. It's also a closure. This was true for many people and many creative companies this year, as success stories ran parallel to the stories of business failure and industry-wide pessimism. Here on Adpulp.com, we put in much time and effort and saw positive results. We introduced the Emerging Voices series to help find, pay, and elevate new writers on the Marcom beat. We published four …
Make the Logo Better!
In the beginning, there was pulp. We took this excess fiber from the communications industry and made it into something. This is what our logo looked like in 2004 when the site launched and for many years thereafter. Thank you, Shawn Hartley. In 2017, I hired a designer in Portland who had recently graduated from the University of Michigan to make a new logo for the site. I wanted a different look and …
Ad Chatter, Edición 7: Longing for Summer and Some Sense of Normal
It's summer but it's like no summer we've ever known before. Due to the pandemic and resulting confinements, even the simple act of going to the park or briefly chatting with a neighbor are real pleasures and moments we now savor. The simple pleasures are not so simple when it's dangerous to be in public. Dan Goldgeier and I discuss... https://youtu.be/sjH7wz0ep0A Thank you for taking the time to hear us …
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