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.
We are informed that Gen Z is flooding crapola social sites with 2016-era junk, from flower crowns to hazy Instagram filters. Social media strategists say this resurgence of earlier aesthetics, points to a growing rejection of hyper-curated, AI-saturated platforms and a renewed appetite for lower-stakes, more human online expression. In other words… Get off your fucking phone and get a life!
Do as you are told!
Amazingly, many of the countries that coughed up a billion to sign on to join Der Trumpf’s bullshit “Board of Peace” to build luxury Trump hotels on Gaza are also banned from immigrant visas by the State Department. Albania, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Egypt, Jordan, Kazakhstan, Kosovo, Morocco, Mongolia, Pakistan and Uzbekistan are among the 75 countries the Trump administration has deemed likely to require public assistance while living in the United States. According to J.D. Vance, they will also eat your dogs and cats.
Der ubergropenfuhrer’s next award.
News just in… Iceland Retail Media, the media network operated through UK grocers Iceland and The Food Warehouse, is now collaborating with STRATACACHE, the global leader of In-Store Retail Media and advanced visual display and sensor solutions, to provide in-store digital signage across 766 locations. This will help MAGA “Morans” distinguish between Der Trumps repeated confusion between Greenland and Iceland during his rambling and incoherent speech in Davos yesterday.
He also won “Bigly!”
AdAge, in its infinite wisdom tells us that “Advertising may still trade on its Mad Men mythology.” (It’s not a myth… It’s a fucking fact, you douchenozzles.) But the business itself is being rebuilt around technology. As AI reshapes how ads are created, bought and measured, agencies are redefining themselves as platform companies, developing operating systems designed to automate production, media and optimization. And nearly every major holding company is now staking its future on software. That’s why its product… Advertising, remember? Is so shitty!
Back when!!!
Just done another piece for great British ad site… MoreAboutAdvertising…
Enjoy…
Dos Equis beer is bringing back “The Most Interesting Man in the World,” the iconic brand character and campaign that it sunset in 2016. The original campaign ran for a decade and helped to more than triple the size of the beer brand, per parent company Heineken USA. Which begs the question… “Why the fuck did they stop running it?”
This man never stopped being interesting!
For Melanias new Oscar/Nobel/Dog of the ear award winning movie. Here’s what they are saying…
News just in that Minneapolis mom Renee Good was found with not three, but four gunshot wounds after an ICE agent shot her at point-blank range last week. Paramedics found Good, 37, in her SUV with two gunshot wounds on her right chest, one on her left forearm, and one to the head, says a report from the Minnesota Star Tribune. This means that the ICE agent murderer was able to get off four shots with his right hand whilst filming everything using a cell phone in his left hand. All this whilst according to ICE Barbie being run over by Good’s car.
Good job it wasn’t a Tesla!.
Der Trumpf today announced his “Big Beautiful Health Plan” which is a mish mash of things that will never work, merely knocking more millions of their already meager health plans. Ya think the reason why he wants to invade Greenland is because it operates under a welfare system modeled after other Nordic countries, providing universal health care, social security, and other benefits to all residents. Then he can extend those benefits to all Americans?
Are you fucking crazy?
For over a week, Der Trumpf has threatened to attack the Iranian government for its harsh crackdown on protests and the execution of dissidents. Wanna bet this aint going to happen? Cos this ain’t Greenland. Any boots on the ground US operation will end in disaster, and economic sanctions against companies dealing with Iran, will not dislodge the Ayatollah or his henchmen. Nothing new to see here… Keep on walking!
That Trump guy is a funny fucker!
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