Wednesday, November 17, 2021

A Confession About Fruit

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When I was a kid--32 or 30--I went to work for the 1980s Agency of the Decade, Ally & Gargano.   Unfortunately, I began when their...
Tuesday, November 16, 2021

Solemn Tuesday.

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I wrote this for a client. They didn't buy it. So, it becomes a post. -- Hello. Meet an old acquaintance. Something you encounter ev...
Monday, November 15, 2021

An Advertising Lesson I Got From an Annual Report.

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When I joined the "Agency of the Decade," Ally & Gargano in early 1990, I was handed two type-written sheets of paper with sin...
Sunday, November 14, 2021

"Dentsu’s median age is 27." -- Wendy Clark, Chief Executive Officer. Dentsu International

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  Dora, 6, never stops exploring new ways to push the boundaries of the new media-eco-scape and connect with lucrative pre-natal consumers i...
Friday, November 12, 2021

How Creatives Work.

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There's a lot that the financial interlopers into the advertising business fail to understand. It's why they've been so successf...
Thursday, November 11, 2021

Things Go Better with Press Releases.

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My well-worn baseball cap is off to my old compatriot, Rob Reilly and my recent nemesis, Mark Read for winning "Coca-Cola Co.'s mas...
Wednesday, November 10, 2021

Killing snakes.

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When you're just 17 and laying in bed in the deep of night next to your mostly-unclothed first inamorata, there's very little about ...
Tuesday, November 9, 2021

Extrapolation. And more.

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About two decades ago, I picked up historian Niall Ferguson's great book, "Colossus: The Rise and Fall of the American Empire....