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“Is advertising radical enough?” Martin Weigel, Head of Planning at Wieden+Kennedy Amsterdam since 2009 was asked to present answers to this non-rhetorical question. He came up with 80 answers, all pithy, and all on point. Weigel's radical vision is laid out in black and white on his website for all to see. Okay! Any questions? When you're a serious ad person, your first item of business is to free …
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How many people of color do you work with? How many people of color are on your company's executive team? [bctt tweet="If you work in an advertising agency, chances are high that your diversity numbers are low."] Meanwhile, African Americans are showing up and spending $1.3 trillion dollars this year. This, despite the fact that only a fraction ($2.24 billion) of the $75 billion invested in television, …
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Cindy Gallop takes names and zero shit. For the sexual harassers in the ad industry, you best run and hide. For everyone else, here's compelling documentation about just how degrading it is to be objectified at work, and then asked to objectify women in ads. https://youtu.be/ruowB5L33gY "The biggest issue facing our industry today is not diversity," she says. "It’s sexual harassment because it prevents …
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Sean Parker, Facebook's first President, gave an interesting talk recently, where he reveals the thinking behind the machine. https://youtu.be/WIfrMwql6Fo The problem the Facebookers sought to solve: How do we consume as much of your time and conscious attention as possible? The "solution" they ended up inventing: "It's a social-validation feedback loop ... exactly the kind of thing that a hacker like myself …
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Over the last three decades in the workforce, I've had plenty of opportunities to pause and ask myself, "How did this guy get to the corner office?" Sometimes, I will answer my own question with inane chatter like, "He shows up every single day!" Thankfully, social scientists have looked into the matter, and now we can all see the source of this particular corporate ineptitude. According to Tomas …
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If you haven't yet found time to read BadMen: How Advertising Went From A Minor Annoyance To A Major Menace by Bob Hoffman—his "frightening and highly entertaining look into the hidden, corrupt, and dangerous world of online advertising"—may I suggest an audio preview on the topic, care of Radio New Zealand? “There is a huge criminal underworld that knows how to fake online traffic and fake online clicks and …
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