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 …
AI is racist and sexist because we were first
Artificial intelligence is a handy tool. It’s also somewhat misleadingly named tool — as much emphasis as we tend to put on the “intelligence” part of it, it’s the “artificial” …
Everything I need to know about advertising, I learned in… advertising school. (But not really.)
Not everything. I’d say my, like, seventeen years out of college have also been thoroughly educational. But I consider myself lucky to have stumbled across advertising as a college major. …
Please don’t ditch your internship program just ‘cause there’s a raging pandemic
Well, that escalated quickly. And by “that,” I mean COVID-19 numbers. Back in March, expectations for July frequently involved tentatively returning to work on modified schedules, taking socially distanced vacations, …
“Brand Canceling”: Not Really a Thing
People are SUPER sensitive about their beans, y’all. We have discovered this by way of a recent bean-related political dustup. (Have no fear — overall, this post isn’t going to …