Marino has sent me a video entitled “The Google Master Plan.” It’s quite interesting and should get the conspiracy theorists off and running. Basically, it’s about how “The Terrible Trio” is plotting to take over the world. I say trio ‘cos while we laugh about Sergey and Larry arguing about where to hang their fucking […]

I know I’ve gone on about useless conferences before, and when you consider I’m hosting a panel at the PSFK Conference on March 6th (You’d better get your arse there!) you might think I’m being a bit two-faced here - Who me? - But I just got another email for AdAge’s Digital Marketing Conference on […]

Wayne Friedman writes in MediaPost’s TV World about all the corporate sponsorship showing up at the Daytona 500, and how NASCAR in common with International football (soccer) and cycling are also nt shy about having sponsors logos splashed all over their jerseys, pointing out that a race leader will zip up his jersey before crossing […]

Huge apologies and arse kissing here. I am in deep shit. I was not supposed to post those links for MadScam, as the site is not fully up yet. So, please don’t hate me ‘cos I’m a fucking idiot. I just jumped the gun for those of you out there desperate to have more of […]

OK… Here’s the deal. I obviously don’t have enough things to occupy my gin soaked brain, so I’m doing another blog! That’s right, a THIRD one. This is for Haymarket Press of England, publisher of Campaign and Brand Republic magazines, amongst others. It’s my point of view on the American Ad Biz… So you know […]

Is it just me that finds the news of a possible merger between GM and Chrysler the equivalent a marriage between Brontosaurus and Stegosaurus, in as much as both are facing extinction because of their failure to adapt to changing circumstances? The fact that the advertising for both companies is as prehistoric as the products […]

The news today that TBWAChiatDay today cut nearly twenty jobs at its New York office is just one more sign of the current state of the business. And with the impending departure of Sprint Nextel, which is by far its biggest revenue earner, you can expect a hell of a lot more heads to roll […]

I’ll be honest with you. I don’t really understand what the big deal is with “Second Life!” I know it’s addictive, ‘cos I’ve had a few emails from people who have had serious problems with their partners after they get hooked on either MMORPG’s or Second Life. Both operate on the same principle, which as […]

Because “Jetpacks” is a loyal reader, promoter and fellow blogger, I have to do an “homage” for his Valentine Day post, which I assume, was pointing out the hypocrisy of current day PC verisimilitude! (You have to admit that constant reading of AdScam, certainly bumps up your pathetic vocabulary!) It would seem that a great […]

Hey, I know I am not currently a great fan of CP+B and their somewhat infantile approach to advertising, about how they unceasingly seem to home in on that “UberDemoGraphic!” The 18 to 34 year old wankers who have nothing else to spend their minimum wage, burger flipping, hard earned cash on than video games […]

When I did my brief review of the crappy ads we were blessed with while watching the Super Bowl, I asked the question, when is someone going to make a decent car commercial? Maybe the answer is, when they start selling Chinese cars in the US . Roy sent me a news story outlining that Daimler-Chrysler is […]

Palisades Park points out in a comment below that Julie and Sean have now graduated to the “Conference” circuit. It would seem they are presenting at THE Conference on Marketing, March 19-21 at The Venetian in Las Vegas. They will be presenting on Marketing 2.x - Living between the Internet age and what comes next. Whatever […]

So, today’s the day when J.C. Penney unveils its big new ad campaign. We are advised by the Wall Street Journal that this breakthrough in retail advertising and the first real demonstration of the power of Kevin Robert’s LoveMarks bullshit will be centered around their great new tag line… Wait for it… “Every Day Matters!” […]

If by some strange chance you are attracted to my somewhat piss & vinegar sense of humor/outrage/swearing, you might want to drop by the blog of an English ad bloke, living and working in London. His pseud is “Fishandchimps.” And the blog is “Chimp Media Monitor!” He seems to have a similar foul mouth to […]

Drentzel points out in a comment below (actually, he points it out three times, so he must be steamed about it) another one of these fucking puff pieces on the ad biz, which only goes to prove that journalists are wankers, who unfailingly do no research on their subject and swallow everything the dickhead they […]

Drentzel points out in a comment below (actually, he points it out three times, so he must be steamed about it) another one of these fucking puff pieces on the ad biz, which only goes to prove that journalists are wankers, who unfailingly do no research on their subject and swallow everything the dickhead they […]

OK, here’s the deal, for $39.95 you can have a flashing message on your license plate. Guaranteed to have some jerk tailgate you when they try to read the message while driving behind you, talking on a cell phone, drinking hot coffee and applying a few tons of Britney Spears wannabe mascara. You can store […]

Apparently the entire population of Zimbabwe is being asked to contribute funds towards a big birthday party for President Robert Mugabe, who turns 83 on the 21st of February. The celebrations, due to be held in the central town of Gweru, will cost $1.2m, an official said. As Zimbabwe has been mired in its worst […]

I just received an email from highjive with a rather crude Photo Shop rendition of me doing nasties (well, it depends on who’s doing the giving and who’s doing the receiving) on Julie “Time has run out” Roehm. I have to share it with you, ‘cos I know most of you have the same […]

Wow… Now I’ve heard everything. The fucking MBA’s are taking over the world and leading us down the path to hell. In the news today there’s a piece from the Associated Press, which has to be one of the lamest so-called news organizations around, spelling out the “proof” for the current administration’s claim that Iran […]

As Tangerine Toad points out in a previous comment, certain people (I’m looking at you Marino!) want me to carry on with the Roehm Rant, which as the SIXTY days have passed with no news of Ms. Roehm’s beatification or nomination for a Nobel prize, I have decided to stop flogging that particular horse. Having […]

I’m getting a bit tired with all this “Social Media” shit everyone is going on about. Second Life in particular seems like some kind of loser’s paradise, where some geek with acne and bad teeth can create a Brad Pitt avatar to meet an Angelina Jolie, who is in reality a 400 pound transvestite with […]

With the news today that Michelle Wie has injured her wrist in a fall while running and is wearing a hard cast that will keep her away from golf for at least a month, I have to say… So fucking what? Does that mean we won’t have to read in every Godamn newspaper that she […]

I have a question… How many David Droga’s are there? Every time I get an email about some wanky “Creative Challenges in the Post Web 16 Era,” conference being run by AdAge or Plastic Benders Weekly for a mere $2,000 for five hours of listening to the same bullshit, plus a no host bar “Networking” […]

I have promised certain people in New York, who shall be unmentionable, ‘cos I don’t want to get them in trouble, that I will stop posting about Mss Julie and J.Crew model Sean for a while. Having said that, today is DAY SIXTY … And still no word that the “Rock Star” has been appointed […]

I posted yesterday about the awful Kleenex campaign currently poluting the airwaves. Well now they’ve got a new spot out… Same formula, cheap blue plastic couch in the middle of the fucking street. Same bald dufus interviewer. But in this one, the street is in the middle of New Orleans and they’re interviewing a Katrina […]

JULIE BABY… FIFTY NINE DAYS AND COUNTING! . Julie… Wanna come in and get your perm wet? You have less than 24 hours left to go in off the deep end! Oh, and I think that dead body on the bottom of the pool might be Sean!!! Published by George ParkerContinue reading: THE ROEHM CLOCK… SPLASH… SPLASH!

So, Marino commented on a previous post… To which I replied… Fuck you are so right… We have all worked on tech accounts that promised the next “Paradigm Shift” Which was the same old shit rehashed… Fuck this for a comment… I’ll run this out into a full blown post… Stand by. So, picking up […]

I just love all these fucking invites I get to go and attend AdAge conferences and Hoo-Haw sessions that cost attendees millions of dollars for a couple of hours of content and about twenty hours of golf… Best piece of bullshit was the one I got today… I quote… As a valued subscriber to The […]

Anyone seen he new Kleenex campaign… “Let it out?” This is the one were they interview people sitting on plastic couches in the middle of Times Square, or on to of Mount Fujiyama (I made that one up) But, it’s fucking stupid… Here’s why… The basic idea is good. It’s supposed to be about people […]