Ads I Wish I’d Made: No Decision Without Us
CoorDown has released their annual video in honor of World Down Syndrome Day 2025, which is tomorrow, March 21. And I Wish I’d Made it because I would have loved …
5 more government social media teams that are having way too much fun*: Edition of Transportation
*Which is to say, exactly the right amount of fun “BridgeFest is like the Utah Coachella.” Which is pretty much all you need to know about this, our newest celebration …
7 tips for feeling comfortable in front of the camera
Am I comfortable in front of the camera? Hilarious. You’re adorable. Point a camera at me, and I have a tendency to fully dissociate — just mentally bail and hope, …
Intro to the Mechanics of Communication for Arty Types
So, a couple of weeks ago, I’m pretty sure I might have given a sadz to some corners of the creative community in my post analyzing the new iPad Pro …
Egad! Bad ad: The Apple iPad Pro ad
Last Tuesday, Apple released an ad for its new, improved iPad Pro — a video once, but no longer, destined for TV — and it was… controversial. And in the …
Pay your damn writers. (Or, Why You Need Screenwriters on Set During Shooting)
Currently, the Writer’s Guild of America is on strike for a number of reasons, all of them perfectly valid: better pay in general, better streaming residuals specifically, better pensions and …
The coolest thing to come out of NASA that isn’t actual space travel
is this trailer for NASA’s next space travel. I’d say the crew introduction video for NASA’s Artemis II mission to the moon is cooler than it has any right to …
In which I don’t have time to do a Super Bowl ad so I let a robot do it
I have lots to say about AI robots stealing my job, and you’ll hear about it, but I have a confession to make: It can be kind of helpful from …
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, …
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 …