Slammed. Overwhelmed. Overworked.
Take your pick. I know that’s no excuse to abandon my blog, but I’ve barely seen my apartment let alone my friends. I just haven’t had time to post anything new.
I do have a ridicuoulous back log of half thought out posts waiting in my drafts folder, so when I have time I’ll be back in a flurry!
My boss promises next week will be better….we’ll see…
Favicons are the most underrated design elements of any website. I love this execution and they made a pretty kick ass video about it FTW.
Enjoy!
via someecards
After an extra long weekend snowboarding in Utah, I now have twice as many hours of work then there are actual hours in the next seven days.
Back to blogging next week (hopefully).
It’s Super Bowl Sunday! WOOOHOOO.
For those of us with teams not in the super bowl (it was rebuilding year for the Raiders) who have a love for advertising, its really all about the commercials. According to the twitterverse NBC sold 69 30 spots this year, raking in $206 million. Which agencies sold a superbowl spot this year?
Thankfully some people have put together some tools to evaluate the ads in real time. So now I can go to work tomorrow armed with comments, opinions and insights on all the spots. You can tweet using #sbads09 or just read twitter comments here. Or participate on SuperAdSunday which comes with a comprehensive guide to calling fouls.
My personal favorite of the fouls is the Incomplete T ‘ N ‘ A.
Cannes Lions Festival is putting some good back into the world with the next round of submissions.
Find out more here.
I’m having a hell week.
- 1 RFP due Friday
- 1 New RFP to start
- 2 Full Web evaluations due Thursday (and I just found out about them today)
- All media invoices due to clients by the 15th (that I haven’t had time to touch)
- PURLs training to be done by Thursday
- Plus all my other usual job tasks I have to do
If you are unfamiliar of what a Hell Week is at my agency check it.
Thankfully, I’m taking next week off for a few days in Vegas and some much needed non-work time.
Tis the season for agency’s to create useless sites, games and videos. Here are a collection of my favorites thus far this season.
Apptera created their Holiday Card 08 which ties in mobile with the online. Annoyingly you have to go online, then receive a call, go back online after receiving a text, then have to call in again. At least they can track when each person drops out of the process and build a database and demonstrates their mobile capabilities.
First Round Capital rallied the companies they fund to create their Holiday Video. Hilarious to watch these folks dance around…my personal favorite is at 0:55 two guys from Gnip who look terribly awkward.
R/GA created a site where you can Tattoo Santa or Tat the Fat. Something about giving Santa a tramp stamp just doesn’t seem right to me…
Wagner Design Associates created a pretty basic online card that’s simple but cool.
You can play virtual White Elephant with Preston Kelly. I opened a can of peaches but stole a Wii Fit, then lost my Wii and stole a bottle of Grey Goose. Gifts will be awarded according to what each player possesses when the game ends at approximately 12:00 pm Central Standard Time on Friday, December 19th, 2008
AKQA created one of my favorite videos this holiday season…musical microwaves with a holiday beat
Colle+McVoy created a 3D site called SnowdIn, I’ve sent away for my 3D glasses but have not yet received them.
You can make a wish with in their Snowflake Wonderland (site takes a lot of memory to run, so it might slow you down) and check out what others have wished for!
I bought my car from a dealership client.
Worst. Decision. Ever.
The car pretty much sucks. In the first 6 months the check engine light came on 3 times and the second time flat out broke down the morning I was headed up to LA for the weekend. The problems were all generally the same (involving an engine coil that is a known defect in the year and make of my car) and each time I was told it wouldn’t happen again.
I later disovered that the brand’s policy to fix this well-known defect is not to replace the coils until the car is brought in 4 times, purely because their assholes. I didn’t need a 4th time, by the 3rd time I was frustrated and disappointed.
It was a horrible experience; customer service was astrocious and they brushed their hands of me by saying “well the brand says we can’t do anything, so you’re really not our problem”. It took me dropping the name of the agency principal to get the approporate level of treatment. While I appreciate the fact that I had the connection to get treated well, I couldn’t help but wonder what would have happened if I didn’t have that.
This week has been crazy and with 3 RFPs due in the next 3 weeks, it will not be getting better anytime soon. Ugh I thought Q4 was supposed to be slow in the ad world!
At times like these my only comfort if BoogieBoogiehedgeHog….ENJOY!
As the recession continues to kill of the ad industry, there are a lot of blog postings about how to make sure you are not one of those laid off. While I don’t count myself as any sort of expert as I’m only 25 with less than 4 years of experience in this industry, I was able to acquire a job at an agency with no openings and I’ve been able to grow with my firm.
Based on my experience these are my 3 tips.
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