The CGC Participation Trophy: Funeral Home Edition
I love a challenge. When, as a baby creative, I was building out my college portfolio, I assigned myself a spec STI prevention campaign for the CDC just to see …
Oh, honey, no: Listening-to-your-audience edition
Dealing with tampons is gross. (Have I completely lost you there? The bounce rate on this post is going to be monumental.) (And it’s not going to get a whole …
What if Nas was one of us?: Lil Nas X, Pro Digital Marketer
In which I ruin a good thing by over-analyzing it. As is my way. Unless you’ve been on a full media cleanse for the past six months, you’ve heard the …
Aww, man: The most disappointing brand April Fools’ pranks
April Fools’ Day can be a fun one for advertising people. It’s hardly mark-your-calendars fun, really, but it’s fun to have the freedom to think up non-campaign-related, mildly off-brand high …
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 …
Unrelated to advertising: This has to stop
I didn’t do a blog post last week because I had it all ready to go, and then I couldn’t click “Publish” because in the wake of a mass shooting …
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 …
Words matter. (Note: Only mildly political here)
Note: There’s a political bit in here, but you’ll get plenty of warning, if you’re not into that stuff. I am fairly dedicated to words. I don’t know if this …
Brand-on-brand Twitter
Anyone who works in brand social media can tell you that it’s super-fun and easy all the time HAHAHA no, sometimes it’s super-fun and sometimes it’s a desperate slog for …
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 …