RICHARD WHITMAN
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- Stagwell's Sport Beach Will Have Some Competition At Cannes in
Mediapsssst on
05/16/2024
Front Office Sports, a multi-platform media and news organization covering the business of sports, is hosting an event in partnership with Publicis Sports and NBC Sports on June 19th.
- Omnicom Doubles Down On India Investments in
Mediapsssst on
05/13/2024
India is the eighth largest ad market according to GroupM's latest global forecast. In a recent earnings call Omnicom CEO John Wren said he expects the company's operations in the country will triple in size over the next two to three years.
- Billingsley Resurfaces After Abrupt Departure From Publicis Groupe in
Mediapsssst on
05/10/2024
Justin Billingsley has joined Media.Monks as Chief Growth Officer after his abrupt and not-so-amicable departure from Publicis Groupe in October of 2022 that included 18 months of required garden leave.
- Cannes Lions Selects Journalist As This Year's LionHeart Honoree in
Mediapsssst on
05/09/2024
Maria Ressa is the Co-Founder and CEO of Rappler, a digital news site leading the fight for press freedom in the Philippines.
- Omnicom Creates Scholarship In Reg Murphy's Name in
Mediapsssst on
05/01/2024
You may remember Murphy as the kidnapped editor of the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. He also served on Omnicom's board for close to two decades.
- 'AI Washing' Is A Thing More Creatives Should Know About in
Mediapsssst on
04/30/2024
According to Designit, part of Wipro, the practice is a growing concern, yet most creatives are unaware of it. The SEC is on the case, however.
- Havas Split From Vivendi Not In The Cards For This Year in
Mediapsssst on
04/29/2024
Senior executives are still pondering alternative schemes for the best way to split up the company, including, most recently, what they are calling a "partial split" of the entertainment giant.
- Stagwell Lines Up Big Names, Blue Chip Sponsors For Sport Beach '24 At Cannes in
Mediapsssst on
04/26/2024
NFL quarterback Joe Barrow of the Cincinnati Bengals and World Champion skier and businesswoman Mikaela Shiffrin have joined the speaker roster while Meta, Diageo, NBA's Chicago Bulls and others have signed on as sponsors.
- When Will Adland's Technology Category Start Growing Again? in
Mediapsssst on
04/25/2024
From WPP's perspective the answer is not this year. The good news: spending cuts have bottomed out and some improvement is expected through the rest of 2024.
- Digital Agencies Still A Drag On IPG Growth in
Mediapsssst on
04/25/2024
Huge and R/GA are still posing a significant drag on the company's growth-about 1.5 percentage points in Q1.
Comments by Richard All comments by Richard
- Good Grief
by
Bob Garfield
(Garfield at Large on
12/05/2016)
Wow! That is totally forgettable! And, yes, vocal fry (although it's somewhat mild in this case) is the most annoying thing in the world!
- Agency Full of 'Experience Mavens' and More Cowbell Gets New Management Team
by
Richard Whitman
(Mediapsssst on
12/01/2016)
I will have to read that, George! :)
- If You're Over 50, Please Take This Survey (And Everyone Else In Advertising Who Isn't)
by
Richard Whitman
(Mediapsssst on
11/02/2016)
Marcelo, I agree. Which is why I took the survey myself and was not presented with any sort of registration form nor did I receive any follow up.
- To No One's Surprise, Morale Sucks In the Ad Industry
by
Richard Whitman
(Mediapsssst on
10/24/2016)
I am real! Richard Whitman is real! This is not a joke! ;)
- Art Directors Club And The One Club Decide To Merge
by
Richard Whitman
(Mediapsssst on
10/04/2016)
Jack, sorry. I see my editor fixed it. I had originally intended to write almost 100-year-old ADC but I see that I submitted "almost 20-year-old ADC." My bad!
- Ad Agency That Can't Spell Pokemon Creates Pokemon Characters That Can Be Found At Ad Agencies (Face Palm)
by
Richard Whitman
(Mediapsssst on
07/25/2016)
Always great to see you here, George!
- Correction: Droga5 Web Site, Petition
by
Richard Whitman
(Mediapsssst on
06/28/2016)
I'll just stop by to drop this: "On 25 Jun 2016, at 10:01, Olivia Sweeting <olivia@persuasioncomms.com> wrote: Hi there, Some satire: www.removeeverythingnotbritishfromtheworldwideweb.com. Made by Droga5 London. " I'm thinking most people would fully conclude that this work came from Droga5 London. Am I right?
- What Everyone Didn't Notice About that Racist Chinese Detergent Ad
by
Richard Whitman
(Mediapsssst on
05/30/2016)
I have eyes everywhere!
- CNBC Launches In-House Agency to Reach Audiences 'A Thousand Different Ways'
by
Richard Whitman
(Mediapsssst on
04/14/2016)
Thanks, Jerry:)
- Over Two Thirds of Digital Display Is Bought By Robots, Er, Programmatic Computers
by
Richard Whitman
(Mediapsssst on
04/07/2016)
Granted, creativity is best left in the hands of humans but consider the endless amount of ads for kinives you see next to stories about knife murders or the annoying ads you see for something you just browsed for, or worse, just bought on Amazon. Sure, programmatic can certainly ease the human burden and increase the efficiency of digital advertising but there are just too many examples of of "Yup, that shit was placed by a computer" for me to be satisfied that removing the hman element is a good thing.
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