No Saatchi

Someone once said ‘You can’t treat every situation like life or death, cause you’ll die a lot of times’.
That’s some advice I should heed. I tell everyone who emails us asking about getting into advertising that rejection is part and parcel of the process and you should never ever take it personally, because they don’t [...]

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PSFK In The Morrow

We’ll be at PSFK London all day tomorrow to report on happenings. If you’re going, come and say hi – we’re the young, exceedingly good looking guys . If you’re not and want to buy tickets, do so soon. The clock is ticking.

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Some Blog Admin

We’ve redone the links sidebars, and will be adding a few more of our personal favorites along with some more advertising/planning blogs over the next couple of days (they’ll all sit in ‘More Planning’ because technically everything is planning – we think). If you feel wronged because we haven’t listed you, we apologize and humbly [...]

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The Second Coming..

of the dot com boom (and then by definition maybe a burst?) seems to be underway. But this time it’s all about social networking and making connections, I think. Last.FM got picked up by American media giant CBS (story here and reaction here) a few days back and it seems there’s a feeling in large [...]

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Live Wii

Whilst feeding my videogame addiction online this morning I stumbled across this (opens in new window). Nintendo and agency Comment UK are debuting the first ever live cinema ads where two members of the audience will participate with a Wii ad for the ever popular Wii Sports.
The ad will feature a character known as Steve, [...]

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First For Irresponsible Journalism?

We’re trying to get our heads around something. What exactly is the role of an industry trade magazine/website/forum? Is it to report in a factual way about events from with a BBC methodology and thus provide two sides to a story or is it to report on those which the editorial team have a relationship [...]

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Windows, Labels and Broken Barriers

Today has been a day of catching up on the ‘I should blog about that’ list. So I’ll press on. This post is broadly about how the internet is making it harder to hide yourself. By that I mean your whole self. Convergence and social networking and web 2.0 have all unwittingly contrived to make [...]

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User Generated Chocolate

I’ve been wanting to write about this for a few days now, I waited to see if anyone would come at the recent Mars vegetarian will they/won’t they issue at the same angle as I’m about to..but no-one has, so I’ll jump straight in.
Am I the only one that smells PR stunt with this one? [...]

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A Sandwich of Suggestions

This is one of those posts where everything that we’ve missed out on doing the last couple of days is rolled into one. Like a sandwich, get it?
Anyway, let’s begin:
First a reminder to anyone interested in going to snap up their tickets for PSFK’s London Conference, many big names and some not so big [...]

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Returning Final Years Take Note

If you’re going to start your final year in a prestigious and hallowed academic institution this autumn (like Sam) then you may be interested in applying for the Omnicom Summer School that runs on the 30th and 31st of August.
For those of you that don’t know, Omnicom’s roster of agencies in the UK include DDB [...]

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