I read this today in a New York Times once-over of an advertising conference, specifically, the AAAA (Alcoholics Anonymous in American Advertising — or maybe something less truthful.) Said Ben: [Read more →]

 

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The Wife Unit and I were fast forwarding through the tundra of commercials in last night’s tragic Green Bay loss to the Giants, and we stopped on this commercial because we like it so much. The Wife hadn’t seen it as often as I so we ran through it four times, marveling at what a great job the Cowboys personnel (and the director) did with it. After the fourth viewing, the Wife Unit said, “That was great. (pause) What was it for again?”

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Yes, I have an example so odious it called for a double negative in the post title. As you know, in addition to amassing more data than the NSA on each and every current, former, and possibly future global citizen, Google is trying to make itself the default operating system for advertising.

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Who is the agency anyway? TBWA\Chiat\Day?

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