September 30, 2016
CAN A PERSON AGE 20 YEARS IN JUST THIRTY SECONDS?
September 30, 2016
CAN A PERSON AGE 20 YEARS IN JUST THIRTY SECONDS?
That was the critical question Asher faced on a recent television commercial shoot for SUBWAY® Restaurants.
Posts by Dan Schroeter
VP, Creative Director
A native Detroiter, Dan worked at McCann-Erickson and Bozell before becoming Creative Director of the $500 million Dodge national retail account at BBDO. His work has been honored in the London International Awards, the Kelly Awards, New York Festivals, National ADDY Awards and the Detroit CADDY Awards.
September 27, 2016
Advertising Awards Don’t Matter
September 27, 2016
Advertising Awards Don’t Matter
Sure they don’t.
That’s why, last year, agencies submitted over 40,000 entries to the Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity.
The American Advertising Federation’s three-tiered award program – called the ADDYs – generated another 40,000 entries. And, that’s just two of the big ones.
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December 16, 2015
Part Two: Account Executives Make Strange Bedfellows
December 16, 2015
Part Two: Account Executives Make Strange Bedfellows
Editor’s note: This is the second half of “If you want to be successful in the ad business…”
It happens pretty early in the career of a young creative. Almost from day one.
It doesn’t matter if you’re an art director. A writer. A broadcast producer. Every day at global agency brands in the largest holding companies and at regional boutique shops a common thread that binds us is being woven.
October 15, 2015
If you want to be successful in the ad business… Part One.
October 15, 2015
If you want to be successful in the ad business… Part One.
It’s almost impossible to go it alone in advertising. It is, after all, a collaborative business.
Part one focuses on developing partnerships that evolve into friendships. Let me illustrate a game of six-degrees-of-separation for a moment.
If I asked you who John Orr Young was, the response, most likely, would be a head scratch. But if I tell you he was an agency account guy who partnered with a talented writer named Raymond Rubicam? Well, you’d most likely get Young & Rubicam.
McCann had Erickson. Weiden, of course, is inextricably linked to Kennedy. The list goes on and on. Would they have succeeded on their own? Maybe. Would they have created such lasting legacies? Maybe not.
