Posts Tagged 80 / 20 Rule Flip

Dante’s Inferno: The Lean Ad Campaign in Action

Great write up from AdFreak — To Hell and Back: EA’s guerrilla marketing campaign for ‘Dante’s Inferno’. And a great example of how ad campaigns will get executed. Start small yet with a big vision. Understand the market for your ideas. Test your theories with early efforts. Learn, measure and revise your assumptions with lessons [...]


The Making of The Man Your Man Could Smell Like

Hello ladies. Here’s the ad that made the rounds and that everyone I know whose seen it loves: The Man Your Man Could Smell Like. That’s interesting enough and if it weren’t the 2010 Winter Olympics of advertising it would merit a post on its own. But it gets better for ad geeks because here’s [...]


Google Sells ‘Media is the New Creative’

A little over a week ago I wrote a post called Suggested 2010 Resolution for Ad Agencies: Understand the Google. The post provided some context around understanding Google’s long-term strategy, based on a great post by Chris Dixon called What’s strategic for Google. In our Suggested 2010 Resolution for Ad Agencies: Understand the Google post [...]


Suggested 2010 Resolution for Ad Agencies: Understand The Google

How many folks in ad agencies understand Google? The business, culture, strategy and the full sweep of their initiatives? Because Google is the company that’s most aggressively laying the foundation for the biggest changes in the ad world. Changes that will affect the ad agency world now and for the next decade. So I think [...]


YouTube Tests Ad-Skip Plan

Brian Morrissey reports in Adweek that Google’s YouTube is testing ad skipping for pre-roll ads: YouTube Tests Ad-Skip Plan. The whole article is well worth reading. Here are a few choice cuts. Google could employ elements of its successful search-ad formula as it adjusts its approach to making money on YouTube. The Web giant is [...]


Creativity in the Age of Social Media: 4A Presentation by Edward Booches

What Is Creative in the Age of Social Media? from Doug Winfield on Vimeo. Lessons for folks in ad agencies looking to get a handle on social media: Stop being scared. Learn to do by doing. Change is accelerating, which means that if you’re not doing, you’re falling further behind, faster all the time — [...]


Shocking Barack Demonstrates the 80 / 20 Rule Flip in Action

Alex Bogusky reports on the Brammo campaign Shocking Barack That’s the thing about this that’s so fundamentally different than anything that has even a tiny media buy connected. With media you know you’ll get something but here, there is a very real chance that absolutely nothing happens. Yet we were also confident that what we [...]


A Counter for Social Media Interaction

People keep blathering on about social media — the changes it indicates in media, the new model for distribution, a person-to-person revolution for sharing. But it’s hard to put those claims into a tangible perspective. We read that every minute 20 hours of video are uploaded to YouTube but that’s pretty far out of human [...]


Crashing the Gatekeepers and Finding a Level

For the past few days I’ve watched comments roll following my own on Edward Boches’ provocative and dandy post Do we still need the gatekeepers? And as the comments have come in I’ve been thinking about gatekeepers a little more — about models that cross disciplines and how those models are all undergoing what feel [...]


What if TV Ads Were Better Than Free?

Seth Godin writes If TV ads were free: If ads had been free, then the way people would have learned how to do TV advertising would have been by running ads. If they were free, why not? Why talk about it if you could do it? Why guess what would work if you could actually [...]


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