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You Can Waste A Ton of Time In Sixty Seconds…

On Monday, MSNBC’s Technolog posted the graphic below which outlines exactly what happens out there on that World Wide Web every blessed minute of the day…on average of course.  Even a casual perusal can be kind of mind blowing: Google … Continue reading

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What Agencies Can Learn From JuicyStar07

I spend a lot of time talking to my daughters about the importance of making things rather than simply consuming things. Anyone can buy stuff; it’s far more interesting to create something–a poem, a drawing, a video. But maybe I … Continue reading

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Arianna Huffington: Canned Commentary at the CMA National Convention

So early on this wet Toronto morning, in one of the cavernous convention halls of the Westin Harbour Castle, the Canadian Marketing Association presented its opening speaker–Arianna Huffington.  We were all really looking forward to it–she’s very smart and one … Continue reading

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So We Had This Conversation About The Future of Advertising…

Last night, I participated in an event sponsored by the good people of MIMA–the Minnesota Interactive Marketing Association. Truth be told, I was filling in for Matt Howell, Arnold’s Global Chief Digital Officer who himself, was filling in for Andrew … Continue reading

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Wanna Feel Better About Yourself? There’s a Tumblr for That…

Specifically, it’s called Zero Views. And it is amazing. Feel free to waste your weekend hours watching the next to unwatchable. You will walk away feeling better about yourself…aside from the fact you wasted the weekend watching astoundingly bad user … Continue reading

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This National News Clip Brought To You By an iPhone 4

By now, millions of people have seen this footage, taken out the window of a passenger flight from Orlando to Richmond, Virginia, documenting the blast off of the space shuttle Discovery’s final trip into space on February 24th.   What’s … Continue reading

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Filmed Ad Content for Broadcast on Social vs. Broadcast Networks: There Is A Difference

Online merchant Vat 19 bills itself as “Purveyors of Curiously Awesome Products.” If you happen to be partial to things like Magnetic Putty or The World’s Largest Gummy Worm, they can set you up nicely. Budgets being what they are … Continue reading

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Yet Another Superbowl Ad Post-Mortem

Fanhouse has their aggregation of the 2011 Superbowl ads, quarter by quarter, brought to us by Kia. The faith-in-humanity-reducing USA Today Ad Meter declared its increasingly-suspect winners as chosen by a 282 person sampling of Californians and Virginians. Hulu.com weighed in … Continue reading

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Some Friday Video Awesome, Bollywood Style

One of the lessons video production inevitably teaches is that while action grabs the audience’s attention, reaction gets them involved.  In other words, the most amazing stunt in the world will always feel hollow unless it’s followed by a shot … Continue reading

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Today’s Friday Video Awesome: Scandal!! Shock!! Yawn…

Apparently, the mainstream media didn’t get the message.  Specifically, the one about how nobody pays attention to television commercials anymore.  Otherwise, they wouldn’t waste so many column inches on the annual parade of BANNED SUPERBOWL COMMERCIALS! We haven’t even played … Continue reading

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