Elon Musk once said “Running a start up is like eating glass. You just start to like the taste of your own blood.” Ouch. In the wake of Nik Studzinski’s departure from Droga5 London you have to look at advertising start ups with a similar philosophy. In London there have been ...
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We need ad agencies like I need cancer. We are bombarded and berated with bright neon lights purloining everything from hand sanitizer through to funeral care. Yet we tolerate their existence. We even endorse them at certain points in our life. Could advertising be some sort of reflection of humanity, that we ...
Friedrich Nietzsche once wrote “To see others suffer does one good, to make others suffer even more: this is a hard saying but an ancient, mighty, human, all-too-human principle... Without cruelty there is no festival.” Why does this statement feel like it should be embedded in the motto of every ad agency. TBWA: ...
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I've just found a great blog entry by another advertising blog on Scam Ads. It talks about examples and why scam exists. http://www.adsulikeit.blogspot.co.uk/2013/04/by-roger-pe-its-awards-season-again.html
In the early days of youtube, we saw a myriad of ad agencies from good to awful that used youtube vids as ‘inspiration’ for their ads. In fact it still goes on today. ...
It’s an anomaly. An advertising agency whose trade is to 'be creative' quite often has the least creative name possible. Often sounding like a secret society for admittance to the annual Soggy Biscuit beat off championships, they seem to be law firms masquerading as ad agencies. Break out the cognac and ...
