Orange and Bleue: Because soccer sexism is for suckas
Fun fact: Players at the 2023 Women’s World Cup will be earning, on average, just 25 cents for every dollar earned by men at the 2022 Men’s World Cup, which …
Ads I Wish I’d Made: Visual Solve edition
As a non-art director, I’ve always been a fan of visual solves. I mean, I kind of hate them, because I’m a copywriter and they don’t have copy on them …
Introducing: The Creepy Awards, Super Bowl LVII
I hadn’t planned to provide any further commentary about this year’s Super Bowl ads — I’ve already done my obligatory post — but I’ve received an actual, honest-to-dog request, which …
How to make ads on the fly like Ryan Reynolds
Update 12/17: And Just Like That… Peloton has pulled the ad because it turns out Chris Noth might be a rapist. The turnarounds keep turning. All indications are that Maximum …
The 2021 Olympics Ads Olympics* (*please don’t sue me)
I know 2021 has been a weird year for anything Olympics-related because, well, there wasn’t supposed to be an Olympics in 2021. The Olympics were supposed to be last year, …
Ad Campaigns That Haven’t Gotten Old
I’m a bit of an advertising gourmand. I know, theoretically, I should have the highest of standards for the industry that has become my life, and I do. But no …
On mastery
I’m not jealous of mastery. Okay, I am a little bit. (Who wouldn’t be?) But I’m more impressed with it. And fascinated. I love watching people who are masters at …
Ads I Wish I’d Made: Coronavirus Edition
I’ve mentioned that the path to my advertising career started at a young age, and that seeing Ads I Wish I’d Made played a part in keeping me on that …
The five best ads never to run during the Super Bowl
If you’d tried to run an ad during this year’s Super Bowl (I can say that, right? I can say “Super Bowl”?) you would have paid around $5.6 million for …
Ads I Wish I’d Made
I’ve been interested in advertising — like, as in doing advertising — since I was a little kid. I was about seven when my cousins came to visit and brought …