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Katherine Hollar Barnard is a force, a dynamo, a badass. She's the founder and CEO at Firesign in Kansas City, which offers "enlightened legal marketing" to its clients. We became friends two years ago and I want to mention why that is. This lady is fierce. I admire this in her, and in others. Katie is also brilliant and funny. Plus, she's a straight-shooting Midwesterner who loves sports and barbecue. In other …
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David T. Jones is a Chicagoan. He makes ads, he draws cartoons, and he started his own ad agency with two friends from Indiana University. Many of us already have an inkling about his perspective on the business thanks to his Ad Land cartoons. In this interview, we learn more about the man and the maker, and how he became Chief Creative Officer at Third Street. Q. When did you begin drawing advertising comics? …
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Ian Sohn is a global client lead at WPP. Formerly, Sohn was CEO, Wunderman Thompson (Central Region), and before that Managing Director at SapientRazorfish. He is also one of the advertising professionals who I most want to hear from on Twitter each day. This is the case because I value calm, patient people with an inclusive approach and a well-considered point of view. Sohn is an agency leader who knows. I am …
Åsk Wäppling is a warrior in the midst of a legal battle to preserve 20 years of her digital work. Thanks to the Digital Millennium Copyright Act and the lawyers who misuse it to intimidate everyday citizens, Adland.tv is now offline. DMCA criminalizes production and dissemination of technology, devices, or services intended to circumvent measures that control access to copyrighted works (commonly known as digital …
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Bart Cleveland has a lot of energy and much to teach today's up and coming advertising professionals. An art director by trade, he has been a partner in three successful ad agencies—Cleveland Clark, and Sawyer Riley Compton, both in Atlanta; and McKee Wallwork Cleveland in Albuquerque. Today, Cleveland is the founder of Job Propulsion Lab (JPL) in Austin, Texas, which is an innovative and customized training …
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Copywriters are Sherpas. Their service to brands is both a bold adventure and a grueling test of endurance. There's compensation, but all glory goes to the client (who would never see such elevated heights without a dedicated support team). Jim Mitchem and Jason Fox are copywriters who have been to the mountaintop and back. Both men have distinct voices and unique points of view, along with portfolios full of …
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SEATTLE—It's Friday afternoon in August. The agency is empty but for a handful of dedicated souls working on a new business pitch. Mike Hayward, Executive Creative Director at Copacino + Fujikado, greets me warmly and shows me around the agency's 7th-floor offices. C+F will enjoy its 20th anniversary in 2018. Hayward, a copywriter, started at the agency 13 years ago. He's a home-grown creative leader at one of the …
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A decade ago many “digital agencies” were primarily production shops sub-contracting out to the big agencies in big cities. It was a profitable business for several years, but many clients were not fully satisfied. Something was missing. According to Joe Olsen, CEO of Rova, that something was the strategy that would wed digital production to their business goals. This unmet need introduced consultants into the …
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