I don't know where Bill Green of Make The Logo Bigger finds the advertising he finds, but I do enjoy the results of his research. Check out these spots from Duluth Trading Co... …
Have Popular Digital Media Property, Will Travel
At least four interested parties appear to have submitted bids for Newsweek, the magazine that The Washington Post Company put up for sale on May 5th. We will see how that pans out. In the meantime, digital media properties continue to be scooped up at a brisk pace. According to the The Wall Street Journal, Ziff Davis, which started in the 1920s as a publisher of hobbyist magazines, has been sold to Great Hill …
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Worthy of Further Clickery, Vol. 4
The advertising, media and marketing corners of the bloatosphere is exploding with activity. New sites continue to be born and existing sites continue to improve their content and become more relevant and more popular. Which begs the question, how does one who is busy working in a busy field keep up with it all? Answer: you don't; you let AdPulp do it for you. Here's a fresh batch of sites you may find …
AdPulp To Open Online Store
It's been a kick to provide some of AdPulp's biggest fans 100% cotton, silk-screened perks for all their wonderful contributions herein. There's something about the physicality of it all, about putting the brand into play in this way that I really like. We've got some more AdPulp-branded merchandise ideas up our collective sleeve, as well. When we get permission from rights holders and find the perfect illustrators …
Want Some AdPulp-Branded Merch? Awesome, Start Commenting Again.
design by Steve Gordon of @rdqlus_creative The other day, Gary Vaynerchuk said he wouldn't make videos and do what he does if people in his audience didn't comment. I don't feel that way, but I do wonder what happened to the practice of commenting on blogs. Facebook and Twitter happened, for sure, but the answer isn't quite that simple. I don't know the answer, but it's likely a combination of things. Whatever the …
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Cover Your Niche Better Than They Do, And They’ll Pay You
You know how Venture Beat, ReadWriteWeb and GigaOm have content partnerships with The New York Times? Right. Now Silicon Prairie News has a similar content deal with Omaha World Herald. Readers of Omaha.com's Money section can now access articles originally published on SiliconPrairieNews.com. Silicon Prairie News founders Dusty Davidson and Jeff Slobotski said earlier this month: This partnership is exciting to us …
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On The Way Forward, MadMensch Takes Us Back
Howie Cohen is partner and Chief Creative Officer of The Phelps Group in Santa Monica, California. He's also a Clio Hall of Fame honored copywriter famous for Alka Seltzer's "I can't believe I ate the whole thing" and "Try it, you'll like it." As you might imagine, Cohen has some stories to tell and now, thanks to the launch of MadMensch, he has a place to tell them. Here's one yarn about the time he rented a house …
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Four New Egotists Reporting On An Ego-Heavy Industry
The Denver Egotist, announced at the beginning of the year that they intended to spread the Egotist gospel throughout this creatively endowed land. And they're busy doing just that. The Egotist Network now includes the following sites: The San Francisco Egotist, The Salk Lake City Egotist, The St. Louis Egotist and The Des Moines Egotist. I like Salt Lake's tagline: "Our Version of Spiritual Outreach". From the …
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