August 26, 2015 The McWhopper Proposal This is a tough one. I think it’s one of the best marketing ideas I’ve seen in a while on one hand, and depressingly…
August 20, 2015 Who Does Advertising Serve? I’m catching up on some reading and came across this article written by Tracy Follows: “Cannes Lions: will advertising ever again be about the…
July 13, 2015 Kidzania: Innocent Fun or Capitalist Dream? I just spent some time in London for work, and a friend of mine who has a small child told me about this brand…
June 29, 2014 Saturday Streaming #2 It’s a day late but in any case here are my favourite videos from the past week. At the Cannes advertising event, or rather…
June 21, 2014 Saturday Streaming #1 Happy summer solstice everyone! I just realised I spent most of the longest day of the year working on a video edit for an…
June 15, 2014 Reverse Engineering the Gillette Manscaping Video In my last post, I wrote about the idea of celebrating the bottom of the ad barrel with a series of posts. Yesterday I…
June 12, 2014 Scraping the Bottom of the Ad Barrel: A New Series of Posts Image credit: midiman I haven’t wrote about advertising for a while, and given I’d like to ramp up activity around here I thought it…
May 25, 2014 What Do You Want To Do When You Grow Up? Metal Beard from The Lego Movie, voiced by Nick Offerman There are a few different things that inspired this post, starting with the fact…
June 23, 2012 Google’s Project Re:Brief. It’s Like Inception for Advertising I hadn’t heard of Google’s project Re:Brief yet and came across the full version documentary that was released a couple of days ago. Cheers…
October 5, 2011 My Kind of Planning There is always a lot of talk around the Plannersphere town about different types of planning and new types of planning, I guess it’s…