Making sense of life, & communications, online & offline.
Imagine Don Draper, the suave, cigarette-wielding ad man from the golden age of Mad Men, waking up in 2025. His smooth pitches, once delivered in smoky boardrooms, now…
Sometimes it’s still hard to talk to ‘traditional ad guys’ and get them to understand how the business of communications has changed, how the web has exploded the…
I’ve had a few conversations recently about the changing remit of the advertising agency and the growing inter-relationships between different agencies, be they pure event/activation groups, web development…
There is a growing contradiction in recruitment for the agency business, one that is potentially driving us faster into the chasm that I described last week rather than…
Advertising is dying, but this time from the inside. We’ve seen many of the recent articles in FastCompany (The Future of Advertising, 17 November 2010) and Business Week…
The end of BDW’s Making Digital Work in New York and a chance to look back over the last couple of days and our take aways from the…
Too often I hear account directors and those in client service complain that their clients are not ready, not mature enough or not open minded enough for us…
In a couple of days I’m taking the 14 hour flight to head to New York for Colorado University’s, Boulder Digital Works Executive Workshop – Making Digital Work.…
‘Digital is not a medium’ is a post that I have wanted to write for a long time – but that I have repeatedly stopped myself doing because…
For far too long this industry has treated creatives like the goose that lays the golden egg – a mysterious creature that must be locked away, waited on…
