Between The Cracks – Week of December 11th
Here’s what you missed this week: Haven’t had enough of the AT&T/Luke Wilson commercial bashing? Read some more. Google quietly releases Goggles, allowing you to search by picture taken from your...
View ArticleBetween The Cracks – Week of December 18th
A brief round-up of what you missed this week: 1. Dominos is entirely changing its core pizza recipe. No word on how many Facebook groups were created to protest. 2. Seen that talking pothole...
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Between the Cracks – Week of Xmas
What you missed while trying to cram in all your work before the xmas holiday: 1. Copyranter makes my week with this vintage ad (above) for After Six polyester. I feel a little bit better about those...
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Between the Cracks – Goodbye 2009
This is my last day of work for 2009. If you expect some kind of year in review or a list of my favorite campaigns or ads over the past year, you’re kidding yourself, that’s a lot of work. Here’s...
View ArticleBetween The Cracks – Welcome to 2010
I have to say that if the first week of 2010 is any indication, we are in for a good year. Found so many good tidbits of creativity this week, I couldn’t limit my list to just ten. Here’s what fell...
View ArticleBetween The Cracks – This Seems Irrelevant Edition
If you were drawn in to the emotional news stories from Haiti this week and forgot what was happening elsewhere, you’re not alone. Fortunately, I gathered most of these stories before the ‘quake...
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Why Are Social Media Blog Post Titles Becoming Increasingly Ridiculous?
Listen, I understand the importance of a blog post title. Just like any other headline, it needs to grab attention, spark curiosity and ultimately make you read the body of the post. Still, blog...
View ArticleGoogle Rent
A very good idea via students– Art Director: Gabriel Kolisch – @bigaeu Copywriter: Isabella Pipitone – @isabellapenatti . Google Rent Project from Gabriel Kolisch on Vimeo. The post Google Rent...
View Article“Klout is one of the worst ideas ever put online.”
Klout is one of the worst ideas ever put online. Klout annoys me for the same reason that search engine optimization annoys me: It’s an enormous amount of effort designed to game an arbitrary and...
View ArticleDisplay Advertising Is Bad Advertising
This is what the display ad crowd is now trying to do. They are trying to sell us the idea that display advertising is brilliant for “branding” — whatever the hell that means. Only a blind fool...
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