ROTATION AND BALANCE

You know those crossover episodes on TV, where one show starts a story and then the characters crossover to another entirely different show ...

A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away, the Super Bowl wasn’t just a game. It was an annual event for those of us who couldn’t tell a to...

I am devastated and heartbroken. My friend and advertising icon Jeff Weakley passed away suddenly this weekend. I don’t remember exactly whe...

Every once in awhile on a Zoom call, my colleagues see me wearing this hat. And they always want to know the significance of 3:30. I explai...

Yesterday I was talking about radio with my pal Rich Siegel, author, owner and grand poobah of Round Seventeen . In one of my many business...

A little over six years ago, I put up this post about overthinking. And I'm happy to say in that time, what with the thousands hundreds...

I've said it before and I'll say it again. If you get fired in advertising, all it means is you showed up one day. Jobs in the ad b...

Almost six years ago, I wrote the post you see here. I know what you're thinking: "He's been pumping out this crap for six year...

You might think what you're looking at is a ratty old baseball cap with 330 embroidered on it. You'd only be half right. What you...

In the limbo dance (I'll pause while you all hear "Leembo Leembo Leembo" in your head), the goal is to see how low you can set...

Like the lawn in a torrential downpour, or cocktails at the craps table in Las Vegas, ideas for Super Bowl spots from advertising agencies—l...

A few weeks ago, , an article in the online edition of Adweek called Why Today’s Ad Agencies Are Reluctant To Call Themselves ‘Ad Agencies’ ...

Here's a sign you'll never see in advertising agencies. Not because it's a bad idea, but because you couldn't buy enough of...

Depending how much you enjoy packing five days worth of clothes into a carry-on, TSA pat downs, crying babies (on the plane, not at the agen...

Creative directors often have an over-inflated sense of their contribution to the process. Their value to the agency. Their rapport with the...

In an ad agency - excuse me, I mean a fully integrated, digitally progressive, socially engaged, experientially driven, disruption oriented,...

Every ad agency has their own way of recording hours employees put toward each job. And you couldn't blame anyone for thinking that, bei...

According to some estimates, there are over 1,025,029 words in the English language. But to anyone who works in an agency creative departmen...

Here are two things you need to know about Rich Siegel , proprietor and managing editor of Round Seventeen : First, he'll be very happy ...

I don't know whether you've noticed, but every once in a great while I use this blog to rag on advertising , the monster egos , the...