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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.

Wednesday, October 23, 2024

Yikes!

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Not too long ago, working alongside Steve Hayden, I got paid to write a manifesto for a venture capital company. Almost by definition, inves...

Tuesday, October 22, 2024

The Fall. And Branding.

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I guess it's a sign of my having been in advertising literally my entire life, since my father was in it before me, and my uncle, his br...

Monday, October 21, 2024

Old Friends. "A Guest Post by Rich Wallace. (An Old Friend.)

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RichWallace and I have been friends for a long time, at least by advertising standards. We sat next to each other and worked alongside each...

Friday, October 18, 2024

A Good Stretch.

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When I was just seventeen, so many sad years ago, and playing my one long summer for the Seraperos de Saltillo in the Mexican Baseball Leag...

Thursday, October 17, 2024

Shorthand.

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For the first twenty years of my forty year-career we didn't worry about what decks looked like. In part, because we didn't have dec...

Wednesday, October 16, 2024

Escalation of Dumb.

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A lot of our modern world, from discourse online, to advertising, to politics can be explained by a scene from the 1950s Broadway musical th...

Tuesday, October 15, 2024

Vout-o-Roonee.

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This fell into my feed late last week and made me laugh. Then cry. Because if you think about it, it's exactly what's gone wrong wit...

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