And These People Still Have Jobs?
Bob Garfield Gets it Right
Monday, June 16th, 2008AdAge.com’s Bob Garfield nails Madison Avenue’s current woes precisely when he likens the industry’s annual Cannes outing to “Norma Desmond… preening for one last close-up, dwelling delusionally in its glamorous past.” Still, the Cannes Festival goes on, sure proof that you can never underestimate the degree to which institutional inertia can keep alive an industry […]
You Can’t Wake Up a Dead Man
Monday, May 5th, 2008I don’t know about you, but I’m getting sick of hearing about conferences where the advertising industry is issued an urgent “wake up call” to become digitally competent and leave its glorious but completely irrelevant past behind. But this is exactly what happened this week at Dana Point, as reported in The New York Times […]