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Pondering whether the new Adweek will hit its target -- or miss it 16 Apr 2011 | 07:02 am
For anyone who worked at Adweek during its glory years (which ended, roughly, about four or five years ago), this week has felt odd, like a much-anticipated birth and an inevitable death are happening...
More thoughts on why ad industry coverage has changed 6 Apr 2011 | 03:59 am
Advertising Age yesterday ran a story on the decline in newspaper advertising columns, which was pegged to the recent departure of Lewis Lazare from the Chicago Sun-Times. As of now, the only five-da...
How to improve upon TED's "Ad Worth Spreading" 8 Mar 2011 | 07:23 am
As you may have noticed, last week the TED conference named the winners of its "Ads Worth Spreading" contest, a TED-esque spin on that hoary institution, the advertising award. It's an intriguing idea...
Today in stupid: The Grammys 16 Feb 2011 | 04:58 am
Unfortunately, finding media and advertising companies who do things that aren't in keeping with the times (pun!) is like shooting fish in a barrel. Still, you have to hand it to the Grammys for attai...
Should Adverganza come back from the dead? 15 Feb 2011 | 03:55 am
So, I'm trying to figure out whether to revive this little thing called Adverganza, which, once upon a time, had a bit of traction in the crowded marketplace for advertising blogs. It went comatose be...
Conan gives Groupon the parody ads it deserves 11 Feb 2011 | 11:08 am
Granted, the Groupon campaign that launched on the Super Bowl is pretty low-hanging fruit, but you gotta love this series of five spoof ads (so far) produced by the gang at Conan. All manner of human ...
I'm still an ad expert, per USA Today 10 Feb 2011 | 04:45 am
Hi all. I know I haven't weighed in here in awhile ... A long while, but as this is Adverganza, thought I should at least share this link from USA Today to what the so-called experts, including me, th...
Sergio Zyman tells "The Daily Show" the ugly truth about Coke's "Mean Joe Greene" commercial 7 Jan 2010 | 06:47 am
Had to share this clip of ex-Coke executive Sergio Zyman on "The Daily Show with Jon Stewart" last night. The context: correspondent John Oliver tries to identify what those simpler times were that ke...
The demise of Cliff Freeman and Partners -- and a certain kind of TV ad 10 Nov 2009 | 12:09 pm
The demise of Cliff Freeman and Partners last week marks the end of an era in many ways. First, it in all likelihood is the end of a certain comedic style — unless Freeman manages to move elsewhere — ...
My BNET Media posts for the week of November 2, 2009 7 Nov 2009 | 10:07 am
This week at BNET Media, I wax on about Conan O'Brien climbing in the trunk of a Ford Taurus, Jay Leno getting real, and "Southland" scaring NBC -- even though Halloween is over. Here in reverse chron...
