Motor neurone disease, also known as amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) or Lou Gehrig’s disease, is a debilitating illness that afflicts hundreds of thousands of people each year, including physicist Stephen Hawking, who lived with the condition for 55 years before succumbing to it in 2018. Currently, there is no cure, and charities say research into…
Updated: 50 Years Ago ‘Advertising Age’ Was The Bible Of The Ad Industry, Says It Still Is
Some skuttlebutt I heard this weekend that “Ad Age” is on the block was incorrect, but the premise of this column — the more things change, the more they remain the same — apparently is.
50 Years Ago, ‘Advertising Age’ Was The Bible Of The Ad Industry
According to skuttlebutt I heard this weekend, but have not yet confirmed, that may no longer be the case soon.
Behind Crayola’s Continued Push for More Inclusion in Its Products
As the issue of race in America remains at the forefront of the national conversation, brands are increasingly under the microscope on how they view inclusion, both internally in their company’s staff and externally in their products. Some children’s brands took the issue to heart years ago. In 1968, Mattel debuted its first Black doll….
Digitas Weighs In On New Mississippi Flag Design
A group of creatives at the agency has proposed several alternative designs each honoring the state and what it stands for, including faith, hospitality, and the Mississippi River.
W3C Ad Tech Members Panicked About Slow Progress For Third-Party Cookie Alternative
When Google Chrome announced in January that third-party cookies would be phased out in two years, senior ad tech leaders joined the W3C – the group that creates common standards for web browsers – to find ways for browsers to support advertising use cases such as targeting, attribution and frequency capping. Now six months have… Continue reading »
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July 6, 2020 – My friend had a…
My friend had a start at writing some moving poetry, but gave up when he couldn’t find a good rhyme for ‘U-Haul.’
Pearls Before Swine by Stephan Pastis for Mon, 06 Jul 2020
It’s Complicated: PBS Women’s Suffrage Doc Is Timely Two-Parter
The arrival of this new documentary is meant to coincide with this summer’s marking of the 100th anniversary of the 19th Amendment.
The Current State of Digital Measurement by Attribution Is Flawed
My great grandfather Lawrence “Chubby” Woodman invented the fried clam on July 3, 1916, in front of his restaurant, Woodman’s, on the North Shore of Massachusetts. When the Depression hit, the restaurant business was slow, and Chubby tried his hand at gambling. He won but knew his wife wouldn’t approve so he hid his gambling…