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When It Comes to Cultural Insensitivity, Valpo Ain’t Playin’

The culture war is being won by people who value culture, history, and knowledge. Valparaiso University, a 3,100-student Lutheran school located in northwest Indiana, announced that it is dropping the team name Crusaders, the school mascot, and all logos associated with the term. https://youtu.be/oGHrmYXNHJ0 The decision comes after a decades-long debate that had intensified recently because groups such as the …

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Stop the Semantic Obfuscations: This Is Why People Don’t Like Strategists and Planners

There’s been an interesting debate on the strategy internet as of late about what the difference is between a planner and a strategist. Given the indecision in the industry today, I thought I’d go ahead and find an answer that works for all of us. That answer is simple: It literally does not matter what you're called. They’re just words. Go do your job. By the way, this is also why account handlers and creatives …

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In Fight to Diminish Apple, Facebook Runs Attack Ads, Creates New Microsite

Facebook versus Apple. The battle of the tech titans is on. According to Facebook, "Apple announced product and policy changes that will impact data sharing across iOS. The policy and the limits it places on advertising will harm the growth of businesses and the free internet." Here's the interpretation of the above in a full-page print ad (that ran in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, and …

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Farmdrop Is Celebrating England’s Hard-Working Farmers

This is a call to action: Enter Food Euphoria. The call comes from Farmdrop, an online grocer in England that delivers fresh organic produce and "everyday groceries" using electric delivery vehicles. During the COVID-19 pandemic, Farmdrop sales have skyrocketed. Consequently, the company has been able to help keep smaller farms and producers up and running after demand collapsed from the restaurant trade during …

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The Glenlivet Remains Whisky’s Challenger Brand

Scotland. A rugged nation rising above the northern sea. Home of free thinkers, poets, and revolutionaries. Here's one: In 1824, George Smith established himself as an original thinker by defining the Speyside style of whisky, where The Glenlivet began. Way to go, Mr. Smith! https://youtu.be/lgQtPgDNAQs Time travel on The Man's conveyor belt. There's an idea that's well outside the box. The Lady Doesn't …

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Massive Consolidation by Dentsu, Another Glaring Sign of Things to Come

The sky isn't falling, but brand value in the ad agency sector is plummeting fast. Here's the latest news on this front from Japan. Dentsu will be restructuring its operations into four operating pillars after deciding to consolidate its brand agencies into six global brands. The new plans will come into effect in February 2021. Announcing the move, Toshihiro Yamamoto, president and chief executive officer at …

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Do What’s Necessary? Or Do What’s Easy? Strategists Know the Difference

This new article in our Emerging Voices Series is made possible by the generous support of Adpulp's patrons on Patreon. Please join us and help pay writers.   Life is a series of forks in the road. The same is absolutely true of a career in strategic communications. Somewhere early in your career, you’ll go from delivering for, to partnering with clients. It becomes your responsibility to use your …

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Chipotle Sends Its Workers Back To School (Tuition-Free)

In the ad agency business, we know that all the company's assets walk out of "the building" at the end of the workday. It's another way of saying that ad agencies don't have hard assets—that all the value is in the team. What about other fields like the restaurant industry...do restaurant owners and operators see their workers as critical to the enterprise, or as expendable cogs in the machine? For Chipotle …

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Vital Farms Takes “Cage-Free” Out of Its Cage

Advertising that reveals brand truth is advertising that's worth making, viewing, and sharing. Vital Farms—the largest supplier of pasture-raised eggs in the country—understands this, and is wisely using their brand truth to establish a competitive advantage. Let's look at some of the ads the company has made over the past few years. https://youtu.be/k3fgYoJf08M Austin's creative powerhouse, Preacher, worked …

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Bee-Two-Bee Is In Need of Some New Buzzy Buzz

With industry conferences and live events now off the table because of COVID-19, business-to-business marketers are busy looking for new avenues and new methods to help them connect to prospects and current customers. According to Carla Piñeyro Sublett, the chief marketing officer of NI (formerly known as National Instruments), spells it out in a lengthy piece in The Drum: If we continue to run the same plays in …

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