[kran-kee]
adjective
ill-tempered; irritable; grouchy
These stupid TV commercials are making me cranky.
(AKA It’s time for advertising to grow up) The advertising industry as we know it is dying, and for good reason. Just … not the reason many ad people would
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With its controversial new ad campaign, “Copy Nothing,” British luxury car company Jaguar becomes the latest brand to sacrifice its reputation and sales at the altar of “modern audiences.” I
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A phallic shadow. The word “SEX” etched in ice. The American public has been bombarded with subliminal messages for decades, and the practice continues to this day. In 1957, researchers
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The advertising industry has lost its way. It’s obvious every time we turn on the TV or open the mailbox. But what makes today’s ads so bad? Recently, advertising industry
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If you only watched TV, you might think that white people (including fumbling, bumbling white males) are a minority in the United States. Depending on the commercial break, you might
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BREAKING! In a seismic shift that will send shockwaves throughout corporate America, retail giant Walmart said on Monday that it will roll back a number of diversity, equity, and inclusion
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If you haven’t noticed, the marketing and advertising fields are a bloodbath right now. AI is surely one reason for all the layoffs, but mostly, I think it’s a reckoning
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In the spirit of Halloween, this Cranky Case File tells the tale of my first-ever meeting with a new VP of communications — an encounter that might have scared me
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So says Nick Galanadies, founder and creative director at TAXI FOR NICK, in a LinkedIn thread in which he shares his candid assessment of the marketing jobs market as artificial
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