December 2008

Video: Apple Fails Miserably with new Mac vs. PC Ad

Here are are the latest 2 Mac vs PC ads (they’ll play back-to-back). Cute animation a la the 1964 Rudolph the Rednose Reindeer tv special, but I’m scratching my head as to why Apple would take such a departure from the standard Mac vs PC commercials by not touting ANY Mac benefits…

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New Trojan Ad

A great ad for Trojan by the Kaplan Thaler Group

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Video: Truth in Advertising

Depressingly yet hilariously true. Just watch it.

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What Layoffs Mean for Small Employers

Statistics show that small-business hiring is at a standstill, but some companies are finding creative strategies to retain workers for the next upturn.

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Video: Happy Christmas from AKQA

With 630,000 views of this video in the past 10 days, I say AKQA might have a happy Christmas themselves. Well done.

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ESPN is redesigning their website to optimize for advertising

The redesign aims to reduce clutter, slim down text, improve video access, and create more advertising options. Smart move.

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You Might Want to Pay for That…

Tip: if you’re designing a consumer mailer and want to use an image from iStockPhoto, you should probably purchase the license. …especially if the image costs $0.95 and you work for Dell.

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Video: The Machine is Us/ing Us

Unless you live under a rock you’ve probably seen this Michael Wesch’s Web 2.0 video on YouTube (7,466,000 views so far), but in case you haven’t here it is.

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