Blogs

The International ANDY Awards are known for bringing together the best and brightest creative minds in the industry to judge work from around the world. Beyond the show, we hope to continue a dialogue with creative students throughout the year. In this effort, are hosting invite only Google Hangout sessions featuring various high level creatives…

The industry has reached the end of an era as ad icon Stuart Elliott shared his final column at The New York Times yesterday. In this fantastic piece (see below), he recounts the top 5 changes in the advertising industry over the past 25 years. The ADVERTISING Club will always have a special place in our hearts for Stuart’s spirit and voice…

Website Operators Must Provide Enhanced Notice By Richard Eisert, Technology, Digital Media & Privacy Partner and Paavana Kumar, Advertising, Marketing & Promotions Associate at Davis & Gilbert LLP   In the Better Business Bureau’s Online Interest-Based Advertising Accountability Program’s first enforcement action since issuing a compliance warning in October 2013, five website companies were challenged in November for not providing notice…

Anheuser-Busch InBev, the world’s largest brewer, set out to provide an improved customer experience that would increase brand-affinity and generate sales lift in retail stores across the country. To accomplish this, Anheuser-Busch wanted to leverage their in-store Cooler assets to creatively engage customers and facilitate their intent to purchase A-B products. A-B required a unique…

Laura Swinton celebrates W+K’s ANDYs film and ponders the values of advertising apostasy In an industry that takes permissiveness, ranting directors, public nudity and functioning (functional?) alcoholism in its stride, there’s very little that’s truly taboo. Yes, the levels of permissions and approvals eclipse anything Dante could have dreamed up in his nine circles of…

Out-Of-Home Must Transcend Advertising by Karl Greenberg I nearly embarrassed myself. I was at The Advertising Club’s Wednesday event in New York on the state of the OOH marketplace. During the first panel, moderated by our own Steve McClellan, I was about to stand up and ask about new out-of-home marketing technology as a channel…

Join us to kick off the holiday season alongside the advertising, marketing and media community. Hosted by The ADVERTISING Club Board of Directors.   Thursday, December 4th, 2014 6:00 – 10:00pm Arena, 135 W 41st Street, NYC Featuring DJ Orange Calderon + an All-Access Silent Auctionincluding top experiences with executives & one-of-a-kind gifts. Check out…

Ron Urbach, Chairman and co-chair of the Advertising, Marketing & Promotions Practice Group of Davis & Gilbert, is the author of the advertising focused blog, Madison Ave Insights. On the blog, Ron shares the views and commentary of industry leaders and experts on the latest hot button issues in advertising in weekly Q&As. Ron recently…

David Berkowitz Chief Marketing Officer at agency MRY, international speaker, columnist Why Your Next New Car Could be a Smartphone Nov 14 2014 What do cars and smartphones have in common? Fairly little, on the surface. Yet new research by MRY in conjunction with Whitman Insight Strategies shows how millennials in particular are valuing their smartphones…

MRM//McCann’s McLaren: Digital is still at the B&W TV stage November 19, 2014 by Jason Wincuinas The agency’s global CEO talks about the next steps for digital and points to some new developments in China HONG KONG – Digital technology has multiplied the ways brands can reach people. But all the opportunity also means less simplicity.…