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Can advertising copy be as stunning and beautiful as a Porsche?
Most people got that my last post was more of a thought starter than a fire starter. In it I “accused” art directors of being more culpable than anyone for the rise in scam-ads. Most of your comments … more →
Gods of Advertising
A traumatic suspense - part 1
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wrote 4 weeks ago: Her lips quivered like a jellyfish that had caught a cold, sometimes blocked by the subtitles transl … more →
There are two sides to cheating:
wrote 3 months ago: Amidst the current brouhaha over an ‘illegal’ entry in the One Show (a scam ad that should have been … more →
Can advertising copy be as stunning and beautiful as a Porsche?
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wrote 3 months ago: Most people got that my last post was more of a thought starter than a fire starter. In it I “accuse … more →
One Club to ban scams
wrote 3 months ago: It might just be the most contentious topic on the creative side of the biz: What should be done to … more →
Creating scam ads. My controversial theory on who's most guilty!
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wrote 3 months ago: Three scam ads, conspicuously void of copy. In the still-breaking wake of the Brazilian scam-ad fias … more →
Scam or hoax or even worse? An award-winning "ad" blows up in everybody's face.
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wrote 3 months ago: How could they? For obvious reasons, this mind-bogglingly crass “ad” for the World Wildlife Federati … more →
BBH wades into scam ads storm
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wrote 8 months ago: An interesting ad from BBH has appeared in the pages of Campaign’s sibling magazine in Asia, M … more →
Scam ads: how we are dealing with them at the festival in Dubai.
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wrote 9 months ago: Now the ad itself can be a scam (from my post on Adfreak)… It is not a question of whether sca … more →
Why do we put up with scam ads?
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wrote 9 months ago: When I say scam ads I do not mean the same thing the great Keith Reinhard means when he uses the ter … more →
Perverse Engineering --------------- Advertising's dirty secret
wrote 11 months ago: Anyone who works in advertising knows this trick. It’s the ethically fuzzy practice of reverse … more →
Beware of Scads
wrote 1 year ago: Beware of Online Scads, the Scam Ads Alliance Against Bait & Click offers tips to help shoppers … more →
Poaching Lions: the bloodlust of Deitloff
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wrote 1 year ago: I’m at the Leo Burnett Party (another global disco affair, this time at the Palm Casino), a German c … more →
Goodbye Cannes
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wrote 1 year ago: The AdFest held in Pattaya Thailand all but received boos from the ad honchos of the West. That … more →
Scam ads: a debate
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wrote 1 year ago: The debate on scam ad rages on. Here is an extremely well-written and brilliantly argued piece of wr … more →
