Monday, August 6, 2012

Great Billboards



Hi there fellow readers, sorry for the lack of updates recently. I've been a little pre-occupied by life these days. But not too occupied to share with you my current top two favorite billboards.

Brief look at Billboards




Billboards are an extremely common form of advertising and often at least a small part of a lot of marketing campaigns, however you don't see many great billboards out there. Lets take a brief look at the billboard industry and a few simple pointers we need to keep in mind when designing for this medium.

Monday, May 21, 2012

Is Social Media Advertising In Trouble?



As many of you are aware, Facebook recently went public on the stock market (Friday May 18, 2012) and for its first day of trading before the market closed, it was staying put at a respectable $38 and change a share. So when Wall Street opened back up on Monday today (May 21, 2012) and the stock dropped little over $4 a share to $34, a lot of people are wondering why. Is this the start of an unfortunate trend for Facebook? Read on past the jump and I'll cover why its value dropped and what exactly this means for social media advertising.

Saturday, May 5, 2012

Differentiation and Ad Agencies



The more I research the advertising industry, the more and more I run into a glaring problem: differentiation. Just how the heck can an advertising agency differentiate itself from its competitors?

Thursday, March 15, 2012

Facebook Reach; The future of Facebook advertising?



Facebook has done some major revamps to how they're handling advertising these days. One of the new 'tools' they've introduced is the "Facebook Reach Generator", or simply Facebook Reach. If you'vee got a hankering for social media advertising, you'll probably want to give this post a read.

Thursday, March 1, 2012

Stay on Target



Hi-a kiddos! We've dug into social media and other aspects of marketing and advertising, so how about the tough part? Actually identifying your target?

Wednesday, February 22, 2012

QR Code Boogie



Ah QR codes, that decades old technology that's just now starting to see more use than that bar code on the side of your soup can. What are they and how can you make them work for you and your designs/ clients? Press on dear reader.

Tuesday, February 21, 2012

Aggregate and Assault



Hi guys, It's been a while since my last little blog post. Truth be told I'm having a bit of trouble figuring out just what to write on as I work on planning out those 'big hitter' posts I talked about a few months ago.

Wednesday, January 25, 2012

C's, TM's, and "Fair Use"



Ah back to the warm embrace of 'the law' this week. Join me as I listen to a few podcasts and give my opinions and other vague legal insight. People like reading other peoples opinions right?

Monday, January 9, 2012

The law and you



Hi guys and welcome back and to 2012. I hope you all had a nice vacation because it's time we put our serious pants on for the first blog post of the new year. So to start things off, lets talk about suing!

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