Unique Perspectives from Miles Nadal at MDC
Advertising M+A darling Miles Nadal, founder and CEO of MDC Partners, provides a bird’s eye view from the ivory tower on how to build a winning agency model for today and a sustainable model for the future. In short, it all starts with the agency vibe + culture and we can expect more of the Silicon Valley “run and gun” startup ethic infiltrating the buttoned-up (and buttoned-down) ranks of Madison Avenue. Look at it as the evolution from Mad Men to Rad Men. Like cool man.
Jul 19, 2011 | Categories: Thoughts | Tags: advertising, agency culture, analytics, big idea, brand evangelists, brand recognition, branded content, Branding, campaigns, consumer dialogues about the brand, consumer insights, creative services, creativity, culture, data base marketing, data mining, digital age, digital technologists, discovery, e-tailing, early stage venture capital, emerging media, entrepreneurs, experiential marketing, future of advertising, game consoles, gaming, great ideas, ideas, incremental marketing dollars, innovation, insurgent, Mad Men, Madison Avenue, marketing, mdc, MDC Innovation Center, mdc partners, measurable results, Media, media agnostic, mergers and acquisitions, miles nadal, million dollar challenge, million dollar technology challenge, mobile apps, New Media, nimble agile hostile, offline, Online, process, public relations, roi, Silicon Valley, social media, start-ups, strategy, tangible results, technology, The shoemakers children should not go barefoot, traditional media, trends | Leave A Comment »
Some Insights on Branding from Cannes 2011
Check out who said what at Cannes 2011 regarding building brands in the digital age of on-demand mobile consummerism.
Jul 13, 2011 | Categories: Thoughts | Tags: advertising, Branding, Cannes, Cannes Lions, Cannes Lions 2011, Cannes Lions seminars, digital age, discovery, emerging media, future of advertising, marketing, Media, New Media, Online, process, seminars, technology, trends, video, viral | Leave A Comment »
Advertising in the Digital Age: Part 1
I am a lifetime student and general practitioner of the equal parts art/equal parts science of advertising and my diagnosis is that advertising is in a state of flux-transition-change.
Jun 17, 2011 | Categories: Thoughts | Tags: 360i, advertising, BBDO, Big Fuel, Blitz, Brett Malden ECD, Brett Malden EP, Brett Malden Global Lead of Integrated Production, Co, Common, content marketing, DDB, digial, digital age, discovery, display marketing, Exopolis, Fearless Cottage, GOOD, Goodness Mfg., Grey, Ignited, influencers, Interactive, JWT, Leo Burnett, marketing, New Media, Ogilvy, Online, process, Scholastic, social media, Trailer Park, trends, Victors & Spoils, ZAAZ | Leave A Comment »