Smelly, oppositional misfits: How not to neurodiversity
As someone with a deep and personal interest in neurodiversity in the advertising industry, I was stoked to see an article by the founders of Motto about the value of …
Agency going back to the office full time? What if you, like, didn’t? (Part 1 of 2)
This is, admittedly, a pretty boring post, and unfortunately, it’s going to be followed by another pretty boring post, but I promise the post after that will be fun and …
Dear Baby Creatives: Advertising movies aren’t real life
Dear Baby Creatives, I mean, of course advertising movies aren’t real life. They’re movies. (If you haven’t grasped that fictional movies are fiction, you’ve got bigger issues than ad industry …
Oh, honey, no: How not to do what Burger King did
You don’t have to be a Burger King enthusiast, a Brit, a Burger King UK Twitter follower, or a woman to have seen — and cringed mightily at — the …
Storytime: Neurodiversity and the ad industry
Good lord, this was a tough one to write. Also a long one. Because it’s talking about neurodiversity, which can be a tough subject, and a personal one, and one …
Robinhood’s brand-management fail
You might not know a lot about the stock market. You might not even own stock — just over 50 percent of people do. But you might have developed an …
Remote work and creativity: I mean, like, yeah
Nuclear-powered introvert though I am, I’m happy (or was, at least, pre-pandemic) to visit clients’ offices for meetings and creative sessions. I even have, on occasion, worked in those offices …
Gettin’ on up there: Ageism in advertising
I had a fun post planned for this week, in observance of my birthday on Sunday. I was going to throw way back to my own times as a baby …
Beat ‘em v. Join ‘em (2020): When brands meet fan content
Brands have a delicate balance to maintain when it comes to fan-generated content. On the one hand, intellectual property (and, for that matter, physical properly) is a real and valuable …
What the eff is happening with TikTok?
I get it: You’ve only just worked out a TikTok ad campaign, or you’ve come up with a viable TikTok strategy for your brand, or you’re one of the three …