Desember 2013

Advertising Needs Troublemakers

My mother once explained her attraction to my father to me. She said that among the young men in her crowd he was "the best of the not-very-good dancers." In that spirit, we continue saluting the best of the not-very-good Ad Contrarian posts from 2013. Here's one from October.

The advertising industry has become too respectable, too congenial, and too polite.

We are in desperate need of

Belated Christmas wishes from Triskele Books

Well, the only excuse I have about this extremely late festive message is being too busy walking on the beach and swimming in the rock pool at Towradgi... what I wait for the whole year round, in France.
Anyway, I thought this clever little Xmas wish, put together by my talented Triskele Books colleague, JJ Marsh too good not to share.

Merry Christmas

Everyone here at Ad Contrarian world headquarters wishes you a very happy holiday.

The 7 Secrets Of Lazy-Ass Bums

Today at Ad Contrarian Worldwide Headquarters we continue to post our faves from 2013. Here's one from June.

I hate working.

I hate sitting in an
office. I hate going to meetings. I hate writing performance reviews. I
hate "nurturing" people. I hate listening to bullshit artists and
know-nothing loudmouths who dominate our business. Yet somehow I managed
to have a reasonably successful

Advertising Industry Gives Up

We are continuing our favorites of 2013 parade. This one was posted the day after Omnicom and Publicis announced they were merging.

I would like to be all outraged and upset by the announcement that
Omnicom and Publicis are merging. But I can't. It is just the
advertising industry's way of telling us that it has joined the parade.

As
in so many other fields, the ad industry has discovered

How Dumb People Become Successful

We are continuing our rerun of favorite posts from 2013. Here's one from May.

After a few years in the business world, something occurred to me. I
realized that the majority of the people I met in business were
astonishingly stupid.

Years later I was sitting around a
bar with a couple of my agency colleagues. We had won a very important
piece of business from a world class client. We were

Let's Get Phygital

For the holidays, I'm taking a few weeks off from blogging and re-publishing
some of my favorite posts of the past year. Here's one from last February.

We are so used to massive bullshit in the advertising business that it really takes something special to shock us.

I'm happy to say, however, that our industry is up to the challenge. You want bullshit that's something special? We got it.

Pepsi Selling Its Soul

Lazy bastard that I am, a few years ago I decided that a good way to take a few weeks off from blogging around the holidays was to re-publish some of my favorite posts of the year. So for the next couple of weeks we're going to be in re-runs. Here's one from last January.

One of the great things about the marketing world is that
if things get really bad, if everything is caving in around you,

The Third Path to Publication: Is it Right for You?

Many thanks to Anne R. Allen for inviting me to her blog to talk about the Author Collective and its place in today's publishing world.

The Top 10 List Of Top 10 Lists

Tis the season of top 10 lists.

As we get closer to the new year, top 10 lists will thrive like blue fuzzy stuff on last week's cream cheese.

Recently, Emily Nussbaum, TV critic for The New Yorker, wrote a piece about why she hates year-end top 10 lists and how she refuses to write them. Clearly, Emily is out of touch with the prevailing digital-age zeitgeist.

Here at The Ad Contrarian

Acronyms and Abbreviations

Our Triskele Books handy list of acronyms and abbreviations for the indie author.

Mailbox Monday

Many thanks to Yvonne from Fiction Books, for featuring Spirit of Lost Angels and Wolfsangel in Mailbox Monday!

Wolfsangel Podcast

My Podcast of Wolfsangel is now live in the current issue of Words with Jam.

Attack Of The Billionaire Hypocrites

The Silicon Valley aristocracy, who have made billions and billions of dollars by collecting ungodly amounts of personal information about us, came out in force yesterday to denounce governments for collecting ungodly amounts of personal information about us.

They're shocked -- shocked I tell you! -- at the intrusion into our privacy.

I have two words for these greedy, lying,

Get Ready For Hysteria

After a decade of irresponsibly reporting the death of TV viewing, the clueless news media are sure to go into full hysteria mode after the release of Nielsen's latest cross-platform report.

Last week, Nielsen reported that in the 3rd quarter of 2013, average daily total TV viewing among all Americans (including live TV and DVR playback) dropped by 3 minutes. Ohmygod!

Daily TV viewing in the

Delighting In Digital Dumbness

If you have a healthy sense of the absurd, there is great joy to be found in the dumbness of some digital mediacrats.

Last week in this space there appeared a post called Astounding News From Moronsville. The post was about a digital media agency that created an infographic asserting that ads that were "viewable" were more effective than ads that were "non-viewable." I guess you have to be a

First French Review!

Very happy to find that French readers relate to Spirit of Lost Angels too! Here is my first French Review.

December Book of the Month

Wolfsangel is December book of the month over at France Book Tours. There is also a giveaway to win a signed copy if anyone is interested.

Why Do Marketers Hate Old People?

One of the most infamous advertising campaigns in the history of the auto industry was called, "This Is Not Your Father's Oldsmobile."

The premise was that Oldsmobile was suddenly a vehicle for young people. There were only three problems with this campaign:

1. Young people couldn't afford and didn't buy new cars

2. When they did, they'd rather stick a jelly donut up their ass than buy an

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