Monthly Archives: September 2008

Indirect Authenticity

Waggener Edstrom flack Frank Shaw confirms that Microsoft is not going on with Seinfeld, and echoes his underlings’ spin that the move was planned. There is the “potential to do other things” with Seinfeld, which Shaw says is still “possible.” He adds: “People would have been happier if everyone loved the ads, but this was [...]

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revenge of the nerds

And I’ve been won over. I could lie and say that I wasn’t, but I watched all 4:30 of the (not a commercial) episode and thought,
A million people are going to watch this today.
Here’s the pitch: You could have a beer and a brat’ with Bill.
Bill Gates – Everyman. A billionaire everyman.
There are still miles [...]

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Certainly there’s more to come from Seinfeld / Crispin Porter + Bogusky

Like Steve McQueen was a man’s man, Crispin Porter + Bogusky is an ad agency’s ad agency. They have what we all want… big budgets, trusting clients, and huevos grande. Hyperbole? Perhaps, but just consider a few selections from their creative portfolio.
The King, he’s theirs. Truth, theirs too. CP+B created the AND1 Mixtape Tour, [...]

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