In a recent New Yorker article, Jonah Lehrer reports on the decline effect, which describes what happens when researchers try to validate the findings of prior scientific studies. The article points to a number of findings across a range of fields, some of which have come to be widely accepted as fact, that can’t be...
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Aaron McMahon
The Creative Team is Dead
The creative team has been the most important aspect of my time in an advertising agency. It is what I was first exposed to. It was the only thing I...
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Is Environmental-Friendly Art the Next Creative Advertising?
You can’t help but be moved by the daily images of oil gushing from the severed pipeline miles under the ocean. It makes what we have all known for so...
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Cause Marketing Can Help A Disaster Or Turn Into One
Kudos to P&G’s Dawn brand for donating thousands of bottles of their soap to the horrific oil slick that was once the verdant Alabama and Louisiana coastal regions. Long before...
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The Measurable ROI of Creativity
We in the ad industry have always professed that the more your advertising entertains, the more likely it will be watched and remembered. We claimed that “creative” ads did a...
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