I'm pleased to announce AdPulp's media partnership with WebVisions '09, an important conference for the digerati and the City of Roses. WebVisions explores the future of web design, technology, user experience and business strategy. The conference started in 2001 and is now in its 9th year of bringing the leading visionaries of the web to Portland, Oregon. Schedule and Speakers WebVisions takes place from May 20-22 …
Gyro Takes The Country Out Of Racing
Indy racing has always been a notch above NASCAR in terms of sex appeal. Gyro Worldwide has always been a notch above in terms of sex appeal. Here the twain meet. Credits: CEO/Executive Creative Director- Steven Grasse Creative Director- Ron Pushkar Agency Producer- Joe Conti Production- Buck LA Music- "A New Race" by Radio Birdman …
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Turning Into A Gum Shoe
Christopher Hanson, writing in Columbia Journalism Review recalls his time as a reporter at Seattle Post-Intelligencer, a paper with no pulp it in. He says it's "no accident" that Hearst is experimenting with a paperless paper in Seattle, a coffee shop rich, high tech city, (even though Hearst has said nothing about attracting new readers and advertisers to the online-only edition). Hanson also reflects on the …
Spotlight on NW Creative: Under the Rose Again
Last November we took a quick look at Sub Rosa Spirits, the Oregon micro distillery run by Mike Sherwood. Today I got to meet Mike and sample his distinct-tasting Saffron Vodka and Tarragon Vodka, plus a rum and liqueur he's preparing to bring to market. See the full story on Liquid Oregon. …
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Newtonian Economics
Perspective is a good thing to have, especially in tough times. If you study history at all, you come to realize that modern day Americans don't know what tough times are. There's no famine or plague, no domestic holocaust. David Young of Young & Laramore in Indianapolis knows British history. A Plague Year (1665) is a microsite he created to remind people that while times are tough, they're not bubonic plague …
Why Asking May Be The Answer
Watching Jon Stewart grill Jim Cramer last week, I started thinking why more of us don't ask tough questions, particularly in the ad industry. In advertising, the answers to marketing challenges don't often come easily. You have to dig, to prod, to challenge conventional wisdom. And the beautiful yet exasperating truth is that there are always many, many solutions to a marketing problem. So be wary of anyone in the …
If You’re Not A CEO, Please
And the story continues: Even George Parker likes the videos above (and what's not to like?). Kudos to JWT, New York for a really great campaign for jetBlue. Funny as hell... But also perfect in its timing and messaging. Great casting, great production, watch it at least three times to get the nuances (that's French for details). …
Two New Cogs In The W&K Machine
Tony Davidson and Kim Papworth are stoked. According to The Guardian, the ECDs at W&K/London just made partner. "If you want to be a partner at W&K you've got to be some kind of saint and some kind of crazy," said Dan Wieden. "No one exemplifies that more profoundly than Tony and Kim. They have raised the bar, broken rules, lifted hearts and shocked the world." It's the first time Wieden named a partner outside of …