(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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Rollback: Walmart abandons DEI and other ‘woke’ policies
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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Ad Review: Jaguar ‘Bud Lights’ itself with ridiculous new ad
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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How to survive The Great Marketing Shakeout
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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Cranky Case File: The communications VP from Hell
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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‘Writers have two years left. Designers a little more.’
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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