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George Tannenbaum on the future of advertising, the decline of the English Language and other frivolities. 100% jargon free. A Business Insider "Most Influential" blog.

Friday, May 24, 2024

We Fri Harder.

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Hello. It's Friday. As in "Thank george it's Friday." Not too many minutes ago, I was wandering lonely as a cloud, takin...

Thursday, May 23, 2024

Disconnect.

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Not long ago, one of my many friends in the UK brought the commercial pasted above to my attention. During an age where no one trusts anyt...

Wednesday, May 22, 2024

Giving a Hoot.

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For 99.79-percent of the world, it's ok to suck. It's ok to lie. It's ok to say one thing and do another. It's ok to have th...

Tuesday, May 21, 2024

Because I'm Your Mother That's Why.

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Just about every commercial I see being trumpeted on LinkedIn or Agency Spy (I never see anything on real TV that isn't for a telco, an ...

Monday, May 20, 2024

World on Fire.

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If you've read a decent amount of history in your time, you learn things about the world that they don't necessarily teach in histor...

Friday, May 17, 2024

Throwing Bricks.

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I often say that I'm a lot of clients second call. They don't call me first because I'm not a normal agency. Or not their normal...

Thursday, May 16, 2024

40 Minutes.

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I arrived, startlingly enough, in Manhattan yesterday afternoon ten minutes early. That's right, the Amtrak pulled in early to Penn Stat...

Wednesday, May 15, 2024

The Comedy of Tragedy.

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It's sad to me that there are people who really really love movies and they don't know Preston Sturges. That's like loving thea...

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