AdScam/The Horror!

Hurry... Hurry!

You will be thrilled shitless to hear that MediaPost is seeking nominations for  its annual ”Agency of the Year” Awards. You are invited to nominate candidates in the following categories,

     MEDIA Agency of the Year

     OMMA Digital Agency of the Year

     Holding Company of the Year

     Social Agency of the Year

     Search Agency of the Year

     Mobile Agency of the Year

     Creative Agency of the Year

     Client of the Year

     Supplier of the Year

     Executive of the Year.

Funny, there's no "Agency of the year" category. Oh yeah... We don't do that ad agency bullshit anymore, do we?

Fuck it... It's Friday!

CP+B bins LA office!

News yesterday that CP+B is shuttering its LA Office after doing the same for its Miami office earlier this year. Hey someone has to come up with the extra dosh to pay Alex "I am a super creative god" Bogusky's take home loot for the next couple of years. Yet another sign that the original "Little Dumb Holding Company"  MDC is in serious shit.

CP+ LA Staff gets ready for the move.

WPP divisions are on the march!

There's a piece over at MoreAboutAdvertising about how three WPP agencies have announced new “divisions” in recent weeks, aimed at giving clients a reason to work with them other than just buying media or making ads. Wavemaker’s new Precision offering claims to help clients make their technology work harder and turn data into a strategic asset. Geometry’s Innovation unit will “rapidly develop ideas and initiatives that create financial growth for clients across channels and categories.” And Grey’s Consultancy division is about solving business problems to accelerate growth for clients. This whole farrago is accompanied by a rather strange picture of the Geometry management team.

Would you buy a used agency from these people?

All you need to know about the ad biz!

Read it and weep...

Talk shit!

So, there's a conference in New York today (Hey, there's a million conferences every day in New York) all about "Blockchain." The vast majority of the attendees, who have paid big bucks to get there, have no fucking idea what blockchain is and what it can do for them. I certainly don't, but then again, I stopped trying to keep up with all the buzzwords years ago. Remember "Datametrics?" Apparently it now means ruggedized IT equipment... Who da thunk it?

My hero.

Smash shit up!

In case you missed it, this week is "AdvertisingWeek," in New York. That's where the Douchenozzles running the BDA's and BDHC's get together and talk shit about things that have no relevance to the ad biz. The one bright spot was Jeff Goodby's chat about how vandalism will save advertising. Read it, it's great. You realize the current state of the ad biz when Larisa Law over at MediaPost describes it as a Tuesday mid-afternoon presentation to an audience filled with younger members of the industry and college students. Yeah who the fuck needs those scruffy young wankers... Let's get back to industrial roofing!!! Jeff knows what I'm talking about.

I used to be a fucking CD at a BDA.

You've lost all that shit no one cares about!

I have to admit that I couldn't care less about the recent brouhaha concerning the fact that more than fifty billion douchenozzles dumb enough to spend their worthless lives on Facebook, have been hacked. Users are in danger of losing all that valuable information about what they had for breakfast and their latest picture of "Tiddles" the cat. Why don't I care? 'Cos I've been banned from Facebook yet again. I was reinstated for about two hours, then I said "Fuck," then I got banned again.

Fuck Facebook!

Forget Mars then!

A new NASA funded study shows that on long interplanetary trips such as those to Mars, astronauts could age prematurely, suffer from brain damage and have their guts turn to jelly. Apart from that it should be a breeze.

Where the fuck is the loo?

Charles Aznavour... RIP!

Not that anyone in America gives a fuck, or knows what I am talking about...Charles Aznavour just died. One of the great singer, writers of the last one hundred years, hopefully, he will join Lenard Cohen on the iCloud of the immortals. For a taste of what songwriting should be all about, listen to "Yesterday when I was young." Magic.

What a guy... What a talent!

When Parker was "Smokin!"

I just posted this comment on MoreAboutAdvertising. The FCB – Draft merger was touted as creating the “Agency of the Future.” Yawn, fucking yawn. Apropos of nothing, my very first job in advertising was at Y&R London on Baker street, and my very first boss was Brian Palmer… Who?… Yeah, long before you were all born. For your additional titillation... The first account I worked on was Gallagher's cigarettes, this was back in the days when cigarettes were good for you...

See, they are "Green."

You could also buy them in packets of five.