BREAKING: AI Replaces Whiteboard At Agency

New podcast interview out--this time about TV commercials in the 1980s: "Where's the Beef?!" The Apple 1984 commercial, Michael Jackson for Pepsi, and more (link below)

open.spotify.com/episode/6A3rq3… or podcasts.apple.com/xk/podcast/the…

Perhaps the 1980s were a "golden age" of TV commercials: high budgets, elaborate cinematics, catchy jingles, huge audiences. Hear me discuss them (link below)

An advertiser is asking fans to supply new lyrics for a jingle—just as advertisers have long used slogan contests to engage consumers in defining the brand (much cheaper too)

Alex Osborn, a founder of BBDO, would pleased to see that brainstorming (a technique he promoted) is still around

"In a recent survey 87% of the housewives interviewed said: "We prefer bakery products protected by cellophane!" (1940s)