Ad Aged

Jim Nolan and I don't really know each other, though decades ago we worked at Ogilvy together, and we've been connected on Linked In for six years--which should have been longer, but we were eac...

http://adaged.blogspot.com/2024/05/notes-from-writer-guest-post-from-jim.html

One of the issues with today's marketing world is the constant commentary you can find about anything and everything. And marketers' concomitant impulse to be always commented upon themselves.  ...

http://adaged.blogspot.com/2024/05/bronzing.html

GEORGE BERNARD SHAW'S WRITING HUT WAS BUILT ON A TURNTABLE SO HE COULD MOVE IT WITH THE SUN. HE CALLED IT LONDON. IF HE HAD UNWANTED VISITORS, HIS STAFF COULD SHOO THEM AWAY  BY SAYING,...

http://adaged.blogspot.com/2024/05/george-on-george.html

About four years ago, I was spending a decent amount of time with a client who had developed a new technology, but was not having an easy time explaining what the technology did in a way sexy eno...

http://adaged.blogspot.com/2024/05/tide-in.html

Unlike so many people I know, I am not a giant Godfather/ Godfather II fan. I like the movies. I'll watch them anytime I can, but my sensibilities are more moved by smaller movies like Elia Ka...

http://adaged.blogspot.com/2024/04/king-me.html

I had a row with a friend of mine not long ago. I pointed out that she's making the same money now that she was making over 18 years ago. But if you plug those figures in an inflation calculato...

http://adaged.blogspot.com/2024/04/fraud-cried-maddened-thousands.html

I'm sure there are about 92 million podcasts, blogposts, webinars, seminars, ad courses, ad schools, pontificators and powerpoints that purport to teach people how to write. My simple realization...

http://adaged.blogspot.com/2024/04/duking-it-out.html

We live in an HR-inflected era that quite often puts an emphasis or a priority on amity, congeniality, and collegiality rather than quality. As I've written before, "can't we all just get along,...

http://adaged.blogspot.com/2024/04/shiv-not-lest-ye-be-shivved.html

I had a shitty week last week. A week way up there on the Olympus of shit. Last week my soul occupied shit's highest Pantheon. I wasn't as mad at the world as I ever was--I'm reserving that lev...

http://adaged.blogspot.com/2024/04/nada-on-brand.html

ht Nicole Yershon. There's a campaign running in people's feeds on LinkedIn for Coca-Cola. I doubt it's real in any real way. Rather, it's a contrivance spread and spread and spread by a vari...

http://adaged.blogspot.com/2024/04/what-waste.html

As more and more people in the ad industry are no longer in the ad industry, as in matter of fact, now that the ad industry is no longer in the ad industry, I get a lot of calls from friends and ...

http://adaged.blogspot.com/2024/04/lancing.html

A couple weeks ago I met some advertising friends for dinner at the Old Town, an ancient, beery-bar down on 18th Street between Broadway and Park Avenue South. As the city has changed, the nei...

http://adaged.blogspot.com/2024/04/immoderate-friday.html

Remember how Google+ was going to change everything? Remember how Second Life was going to change everything? Remember how 5G was going to change everything? Self-driving cars? 3D printing?...

http://adaged.blogspot.com/2024/04/remember.html

You wouldn't think about it if you were normal, but 350 years or so ago, pins, for clothing, for wigs, for god knows what, were a big deal.  Pin manufacturing in the 17th Century (I say...

http://adaged.blogspot.com/2024/04/adam-had-em.html

In logic , reductio ad absurdum (Latin  for "reduction to absurdity"), also known as argumentum ad absurdum (Latin  for "argument to absurdity") or apagogical arguments, is the form of ar...

http://adaged.blogspot.com/2024/04/ad-absurdam.html

I love cars. I used to love car advertising. Especially, work done at Carl Ally for Volvo, Fiat and Saab. At Scali McCabe Sloves for Volvo. Of course, VW at DDB. And especially at Ammirati & Pu...

http://adaged.blogspot.com/2024/04/an-open-letter-to-every-automaker.html

There was a time when agencies and even some creative people bought books. I mean real, actual books. Things you could stub your toe on. Not just ones and zeroes. I still do. At the bottom ...

http://adaged.blogspot.com/2024/04/friday-fun-time.html

A friend just wrote to me through some chat mechanism. Messenger, or Slack, or Teams, or Goose, or Restraining Order.  It doesn't much matter which one. They're all the same and everyone hat...

http://adaged.blogspot.com/2024/04/scout-pout-out.html

  I'm getting angry. Angrier than usual. Which is going some. I'm angrier not only because of the destruction of the industry by "malefactors of great wealth" but also because everyon...

http://adaged.blogspot.com/2024/04/silenced-by-fear-of-power.html

What it is, ain't exactly clear. And that lack of clear-ness isn't fine. Especially since it's by absolute design. - I spent the first 55 years of my 66 years on our dying pale blue dot hea...

http://adaged.blogspot.com/2024/04/theres-something-happening-here.html

I know it's swimming against the tide but I don't care. Besides, with strong arms, broad shoulders, big legs and feet (size 13 EEE) as big as swim fins, I've always been a strong swimmer. Or in...

http://adaged.blogspot.com/2024/04/advertising-streaking.html

I first heard the word "semiotic" from my internist of three decades, Dr. Richard P. Cohen.  I'd visit Dr. Cohen once a year for my annual physical. An EKG, the scale, the turn and cough, and ...

http://adaged.blogspot.com/2024/04/small-town-living.html

I've known Jeff O'Keefe for over two decades now, though to be honest, we haven't spoken-spoken for 21 of those approximately 25 years. Back in the 1990s and the "oughts" we toiled together--in ...

http://adaged.blogspot.com/2024/04/how-to-manifestly-manifesto-guest-post.html

I seldom read fiction anymore. At least fiction of the non-Classic, non-epic sort. I try to re-read the Iliad and the Odyssey once a year. They are like looking at a great painting or talking to ...

http://adaged.blogspot.com/2024/04/james-not-jim.html

I'm not sure which came first, the General Tso's Chicken or the egg roll, but something is rotten in the state of Denmark, and every other state, business, precinct, relationship or spinning of n...

http://adaged.blogspot.com/2024/04/damn.html