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Sitting on the plane on the way home from Cannes is always the best time to reflect on the event on a holistic basis. While you’re there, everything is happening so fast, and you’re so tired, that you’re almost too close to see anything. A week...
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Looking back at big historical events, they often look painfully obvious when viewed through the lens of modern narrative. In 1913, as the web of...
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Mandatory Credit: Photo by AWEurope/REX/Shutterstock (10157118m) Alex Collmer (Founder and CEO, VidMob) and Julien Decot (Director of Platform...
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As is almost always the case with new companies, VidMob began with the kernel of a big insight. But the vision surrounding that insight was wrong in...
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In the midst of a never-ending wave of press releases, analyst reports, and industry coverage, it’s easy to forget that corporations are made up of...
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Earlier I wrote about the tension between the Old Agency model and the emerging New Agency model. New agencies have smartly recognized that their...
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Ever the overachiever, Adweek reported that Sir Martin Sorrell is eyeing a comeback. In roughly the same amount of time it takes to set up a service...
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The sad fact is that all ads die. Just like plants, animals, and radioactive elements, ads decay over time and eventually cease to function. This...
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One of the first movies that really left a mark on me was WarGames. It was the summer of 1983. I was 8 years old and was already what can probably...
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AN OLD DINNER All the guests arrived on time. The whole team was there—all the developers, who had labored for years to build an innovative product,...
