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 better job of selling because people were less likely to ignore the message that was being delivered.
We never had any concrete data to prove this. We...
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An Ad Guy’s Solution to Cutting Healthcare Costs
When you look at the rising cost of healthcare, there is a whole lot of blame to go around.
But one villain has gone unnoticed: The ad regulators.
I was recently watching...
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Judging the ADDYs. A report from Pittsburgh.
This past weekend I had the honor and the pleasure of judging the Pittsburgh Addys. Besides the fact that my car broke down on the drive there, it was a...
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The death of magazines. Is it suicide?
According to the New York Times, in 2009, the majority of magazines lost ad pages. Leading the pack were Fortune (down 36 percent) and Money (down 29.1 percent).
So why are...
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Join us in Making Change for 20
Last year about this time, Point to Point’s owner Mark Goren, walked into our conference room and handed each of us in the company a fresh, crisp $20 bill.
His instructions:...
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