The year was 1909. The US Army bought the first military aircraft from the Wright Brothers, Sigmund Freud lectured in NYC, and the Manhattan Bridge opened. Meanwhile, in Louisville, KY, the American Advertising Federation convened at the Galt House and — led by Samuel C. Dobbs — took a stand against false advertising. You can …
Bernbach, along with James Doyle and Max Dane, founded DDB in 1949. He had left Grey Advertising in “an act of defiance,” taking one small client — Ohrbach’s Department Store — with him. The reason he left was simple. He had the notion that advertising was an art, whereas most thought of it as a …
In 1999, Time Magazine named Leo one of the most influential people of the 20th century. He earned this honor not only by building an ad agency that now boasts 85 offices worldwide — employing over 9,000 people — but also by creating some of advertising’s most iconic characters. Born in 1891, Mr. Burnett started …
Out of the golden age of advertising came a number of fantastic TV commercials that are forever stuck in the heads of people who grew up in the 70s. Many of these commercials featured ongoing characters. Well before the bears — Leonard, Dylan, Amy, Bill, and Molly — Charmin had Mr. Whipple, who was obliged …
Our media department just got even more effective by cutting out third-party programmatic vendors and managing their buys in the marketplace. Traditionally, agencies would have to go through large media companies to access the marketplace, but thanks to technology and automation, they can now access it directly. Here’s what this means for our clients moving …
Reading Minds: Yet another Super Bowl Blog. You probably saw them popping up all over the place, starting immediately after the Super Bowl. Ads, articles, Tweets, everyone had an opinion on which commercials they liked, which ones fell flat, and which of them left us scratching our heads. But I promise this blog isn’t like …
Nice to meet you. Wanna get married? We’ve never really liked the term “sales funnel” or “marketing funnel” because it’s really just a slick way to explain something we all know. It’s common sense. You don’t start talking about features and benefits up front, and you don’t ask people to buy something without first giving …
As a copywriter, I’ve been a little worried that AI is gunning for my job. So, I’ve decided to make it (AI) look bad in front of management. It’s a preemptive strategy that I’ve rarely used on humans (only the worst kinds), but I have no remorse in doing this to a freaking soulless algorithm. …
Ad legend Vince Cullers was not only creatively gifted, but he was also a black man trying to break into advertising after World War II. A combat artist, who joined the Marines after the war broke out, Cullers illustrated combat scenes and slices of life during wartime in the South Pacific. He was also a …
We don’t get it. People, especially in larger companies, are presented with a superior option for generating documents, and yet they still choose Microsoft Word. Cut it out already. Why on earth would you pay good money to buy something that’s inferior in every way to an existing free product? It boggles the mind. We …
