http://www.adscam.net A well intentioned rant about the current state of Advertising, with particular emphasis on Big Dumb Agencies (BDA's) Because, no matter how bad you think it is, it's actually a great deal worse! "Advertising is the rattling of a stick inside a swill pail." George Orwell. Tue, 11 Nov 2008 16:49:38 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I fucking laughed so much I spilled my breakfast gin & tonic when I read the piece in today's AdWeek titled... "Promotional Swag More Effective Than Ads." That's fucking right... All those billions blown on Super Bowl ego-fest TV spots would be much better spent on logo inscribed coffee mugs, ... http://www.adscam.net/?p=1566 I fucking laughed so much I spilled my breakfast gin & tonic when I read the piece in today's AdWeek titled... "Promotional Swag More Effective Than Ads." That's fucking right... All those billions blown on Super Bowl ego-fest TV spots would be much better spent on logo inscribed coffee mugs, ... http://www.adscam.net/?p=5 Buried in all the news of ever increasing layoffs was an interesting piece on bnet's media industry column about pending cut backs at CurrentTV. AdScammer's will remember I wrote about this when it was launched by Al Gore a couple of years ago. It was during the height of the ... http://www.adscam.net/?p=6 AdAge has a video interview with broker, Charles Schwab CMO, Becky Seager who goes on and on about how fucking brilliant their roboscoped ads are. Her point is that all the customers featured in the spots say the most marvelous and stunning things, apparently without any kind of prompting. Which ... http://www.adscam.net/?p=7 Interesting to read in mediabuyerplanner that Obama will probably try to do something about the out of control DTC advertising we are increasingly subjected to. In my next book, The Ubiquitous Persuaders, I have a whole chapter devoted to drug and health care advertising, which when you look into it ... http://www.adscam.net/?p=8 After days of fucking around and receiving all kinds of dumb robot generated emails from TypePad, the problem has been resolved... It would seem that since TypePad "improved" it's new interface, if you run certain widgets, it interferes with the ability to post comments... HOW FUCKING DUMB IS THAT??? So, ... http://www.adscam.net/?p=9 I've always been a big fan of Andy Borowitz and subscribe to his column daily... Here's today's, word for fucking word... You should sign up for it. Just minutes after “Morning Joe” host Joe Scarborough dropped an F-bomb live on the air, MSNBC announced that it was re-launching the show to ... http://www.adscam.net/?p=1567 I've always been a big fan of Andy Borowitz and subscribe to his column daily... Here's today's, word for fucking word... You should sign up for it. Just minutes after “Morning Joe” host Joe Scarborough dropped an F-bomb live on the air, MSNBC announced that it was re-launching the show to ... http://www.adscam.net/?p=10 As a special treat, 'cos I know you are all pissed at not being able to post your unfailingly erudite comments... Because the Fucktard's at TypePad seem unable to extract their fucking heads from their fetid arses and fix whatever is wrong with AdScam... Here is a link to the ... http://www.adscam.net/?p=11 Yeah... I was probably drunk, or asleep, or both, but I finally woke up and figured out that Sarah Palin was nothing more than the political version of marketing's Julie Roehm. Julie's resume at LinkedIn is patently bullshit. Amongst her current employers she still lists Chrysler and Wal-Mart. She talks about ... http://www.adscam.net/?p=12