Faux News agreed to pay millions of dollars to the family of Seth Rich, the Democratic National Committee staff member who was murdered in Washington, D.C. in 2016. As part of the legal settlement, the details of the case were kept quiet until after the election and the resounding defeat of Don Trump. Ben Smith, […]
Curtail The Tall Tales, Or Get The Hell Out of the Booth
Last week, a radio executive at Atlanta-based Cumulus Media sent a memo telling its talk show hosts to stop spreading rhetoric about a stolen election or face termination. “We need to help induce national calm NOW,” Brian Philips, executive vice president of content for Cumulus, wrote in an internal memo after a mob attacked the […]
To Restore Trust and Confidence, We Need Courage and Bold Moves
It’s time for courage. Without it, we can’t face the truth. It’s also high time for redemption and a deep accounting of what’s wrong in this nation. Yes, America is racist to the core and as sexist as they come. We have a freedom problem. It’s freedom for some. If you have white skin and […]
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 […]
Productivity Is Highly Over-Rated, Particularly In Creative Circles
People are being asked to do more with less. In the ad agency industry, this has been going on since the first days of Digital Disruption. Today, with COVID-19 raging across the land and the globe, so-called “thought workers” who can work from home are doing so, but at what cost to themselves and the […]
Accountability, Please Phone Home
The work, the work, the work. This is what ad people fret over and obsess about. The work has to be much better, or else. Or else no raises, no promotions, no trophies, and no second home, no country club memberships, and no private schools for the kids. What ad people do not obsess over […]
Remote Workers Are Holdin’ It Together, In Advertising and Elsewhere
When was the last time that you spent time with your closest colleagues in person? For many of us, the answer is last March. For me personally, I work most closely with two people in Omaha, a.k.a. “Joemaha.” I have not seen either of them in person in three or four years, which is a […]
Creativity In Service to Brands…It’s What McCann Is All About
At McCann Worldgroup, creativity is viewed as integral to business success. But with the industry in flux, how will the role and meaning of creativity evolve? Mark Tungate of Epica Press Club asked chief creative officer Europe Adrian Botan and chief strategy officer UK & Europe Harjot Singh. Creativity has always been the magic ingredient […]
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 […]
A Conversation Between Copywriters
S. Todd Anthony kindly requested a Zoom meeting with me last month. During the meeting, he asked me a lot of great questions about advertising, copywriting, clients, mentoring, and more. The full interview is available on his LinkedIn page, right now. It will also be published on Pinwheel’s blog. For a taste, scroll down to […]
