The nice people at Campaign US reached out to see if we wanted to write something before the end of the year.  Rosie and I thought we'd write a list of predictions for advertising – as one so often does / reads at the year end – but, y'know, make it funny. Here's the first…

 is a show, like a television interview show, online.  They call them them netcasts on TWIT.TV but that terminology doesn't really help. Because media assemblages have been decompiled, and we don't have the right words in place yet. Or maybe we do, but they are hampered with legacy channel based associations.  Anyhoo.  I did a…

[seen in Dubai, November 2014] July 2012: HSBC 'sorry' for aiding Mexican drugs lords, rogue states and terrorists Lawmakers hammered the British-based bank over the scandal, demanding to know how and why its affiliates had exposed it to the proceeds of drug trafficking and terrorist financing in a "pervasively polluted" culture that persisted for years.…

Part 1 We were in Dubai with a client – the lovely Dubizzle – and they had put one lots of cool things for us to do. We wanted to take a couple out to in some small way return the favor, so we were looking for something non-obvious to do. Sometimes, the non-obvious things…

 The lovely Dave Birss, editor at large of THE DRUM and all round creative renaissance man, has made an excellent documentary series called The Day Before Tomorrow, about innovations happening as of right now in different categories.  [He concepted, wrote, presented, co-animated and wrote the theme tune. Creative polymath. He's probably good at maths too.…

[Master of Glans, supported by Seamen]  <SIDENOTE> You can't advertise alcohol except on premises – so all the premium liqour brands launched water variants with the same logo, which they can advertise. The letter of the law of the spirits. I realise this picture doesn't show that. I tried to get one but they were…

Earlier this year I was putting together a talk to inspire a global group of digital marketers for one of the world's biggest brands.  It was an intimidating brief because they do a lot of very good digital work, in one of my favorite genres of work: do nice things for real people in the…

How Google Works from Eric Schmidt This is a LOVELY deck about how companies should operate for the modern age from someone who is very qualified to talk about it – Eric Schmidt.  He points out that previous management styles aren't just poorly suited to it – they are "dead wrong". Most companies are 'slow…

Post structuralist readings of the modern mediascape are my jam. I have loved Ze Frank since THE SHOW – but now I love him in a whole new way.  He is supremely qualified to talk about what kind of content spreads. The depth is in the exchange not necessarily the content. As I've written about before –…

Thanks to a chap kindly giving me some feedback on some tweaks on new[ish] Genius Steals site, I was looking through some old projects looking for more material to fill out the case studies. I googled an idea I developed for Nikon – the 140 Second Film Festival. [I was the head of digital which…