AdVerve - 28 – Failed America Edition

Well, if we didn’t anger the gods last show, Where’s My Jetpack’s Dave Wilke helps us bat clean-up. This time out, we collectively diss the failed promise that was supposed to be a greener, cleaner Jetpack in every home. Oh, and we give Jack Bauer a little what for too. French politics and marble countertops? Well, ya just hafta listen to find out! More Dave on Twitter as well as a lotta places else!

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Topics:

00:00 – 1. Intro to a failed America

15:06 – 2. Jack Bauer saves America

23:10 – 3. Maps

28:48 – 4. Watching you

41:08 – 5. A Return To Americana

1:05:30 – 6. Wrap

Linkage:

• McDonald’s streams music.
• Jetpacks alligator break.
• christophe aguiton, kevin slavin and maps.
• V.
• Article on the iPhone.
• Gator rescue girl.
• Yahoo search share stats. (Correction to segment: Profits up while search share is slightly down.)
• TV is headed in this direction.
• Revised gator strategy: just fucking run.

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AdVerve - 27 – God’s Privacy Policy

Aaron Strout of CMO of Powered, joins us to discuss agencies of the future now, why privacy is not only an illusion but something you can’t even buy, and, oh, by the way, we save the Catholic church. No, we do, really. (Aaron can also be found on Twitter, his Quick-n-Dirty podcast and his Stroutmeister blog.)

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Topics:

00:00 – 1. Intro - agencies of the future

29:10 – 2. A little privacy please

41:15 – 3. Saving God

50:06 – 4. Something nice in YouTubetopia

Linkage:

• Nestlé Facebook culpa.
• MySpace data dump fire sale.

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AdVerve - 26 – George Parker edition

It’s George Parker—the hell ELSE you need to know. He of AdScam blog fame. Of non-Twitter fame. Of MadScam and Ubiquitous Persuaders book fame.

Normally, we do a timeline breakdown of the topics, but that wasn’t happening this time out as we cover in no order the arrogance of Apple, child labor, Modernista!, Crispin, critics, lawsuits, Domino’s pizza, Microsoft, eBay, tag sales, iPad, Will it Blend, French things, cigarette penis envy, GoDaddy and a buncha other stuff.

And we even manage to drop a few F-bombs *here and there*.

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Linkage:

• The very first flashmob. 
• Will It Blend? 
• The Most Interesting campaign.
• Old Spice campaign.
• Kohler campaign.
• Windows campaign.
• Domino’s Turnaround.
• Form and function with the iPad.

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AdVerve - 25 – Sexy time!

We didn’t intend to go where we did, WE JUST ENDED UP THERE IS ALL, OKY?. From Ricky Martin to fidelity in marriage (and Tiger Woods’ lack thereof), to copywriting jobs for adult film titles, no stone was left unturned this week.

Fear not, for some things we cover are SFW. Like Tim Burton and the idea of adapting classic books always pissing someone off. Oh, and because we have a thing for film, why do people always a foreign language in their native tongue perfectly, but just fake a bad accent? We tell you. Nobody else will, but we do. Find out why God hates people who yell during the quiet parts of songs. Oh, and we also invent a device to rid YouTube of shitty videos. (We’re looking for funding, so, email us on that.)

We also balance the narsty with the beautious, too. SO there.

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Topics:

00:00 – 1. Accents in film
06:33 – 2. Tim Burton’s House of Adaptations
14:44 – 3. Tiger Woods House of fidelity
21:15 – 4. Something nice in YouTubetopia
26:08 – 5. Chatroulette guy
29:33 – 6. What’s next
34:45 – 7. Adult movie copywriter wanted
39:34 – 8. Just apologize already
41:31 – 9. We love the Ricky Martin
43:19 – 10. God loves concerts
44:49 – 11. The Shit YouTube Video Filter Thing
46:02 – 12. Ricky Martin, part II
48:35 – 13. Fidelitus Interuptus
49:51 – 14. Wrap

Linkage:

• Bonfire of the Vanities bomb damage.
• Eric Whitacre’s Lux Aurumque.
• Adaptation.
• Alice.
• Rhea Scott, Come wander with me.
• Indiana Jones’ perfectly accented villainess.
• More Diesel Stupid.
• Talking breasts.
• Ashley Madison banned Avatar spinoff ad thing.

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AdVerve - 24 – The Lost Edition

Aka, the make-up replacement edition, not the *show* Lost. SUCKA!

We cover it all: Monkey AIDS conspiracy theories. Warren Buffet’s dance of love. Bob Garfield’s comments of... whatever they are. Angela then breaks down the difference between American and French dogs. Both it seems, need a certain degree of therapy.

We also recap Parisian tech conference techness and why your privacy is an illusion—and why people still don’t care. Five Minutes With... features Aaron Strout, CMO of Powered. (On Twitter too.) We also mange to get the show in under an hour, based on our crowdsourced fan poll. (Gonna try to do a 30-minute show sometime. No promises; WE'RE GONNA TRY.)

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Topics:

00:00 – 1. French dogs
03:23 – 2. Lostcast
04:47 – 3. Annie Vuitton
07:08 – 4. Tech, crunched
10:49 – 5. Fun with AIDS conspiracies
14:53 – 6. All the Wiki that’s fit to print
18:29 – 7. Bowie vs. Gervais
20:11 – 8. Chatroulette Piano Guy
22:36 – 9. Welcome to Google World™
24:15 – 10. The *other* B.G.
30:38 – 11. Evil Nestlé and animal testing
42:13 – 12. Ben Stiller’s new shitty movie
43:34 – 13. Five Minutes With... Aaron Strout
48:35 – 13. Privacy? HA!

Linkage:

• Bowie vs. Gervais.
• AIDS conspiracy.
• Annie Vuitton.
• Chatroulette Piano Guy & Ben Folds
• The *other* B.G.
• Evil Nestlé.
• The Timeless Way of Building.
• GEICO Warren Buffett.
• Ben Stiller’s new shitty movie.

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AdVerve - 23 – Erik Proulx and Making Lemonade Out of Layoffs

The Lemonade dude.

Erik Proulx of Please Feed The Animals and Twitter fame chats with us on all things Lemonade, being fired, Michael Moore, whether documentarians are journalists, and why advertising will rip your heart out. IT JUST WILL. We also get into nitty gritty details about HR telling you to please come in... and shut the door.

(*shudder*)

IT’S 96 MINUTES OF PURE AUDIO PLEASURE.

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Topics:

00:00 – 1. Lemonade
39:52 – 2. Detroit, rocked city & journalism
1:01:55 – 3. Life after Lemonade
1:15:26 – 4. Movie minutia
1:31:14 – 5. Auto madness
1:32:53 – 6. Scott Monty - Carmaker, pizza delivery guy & just general maker of magic

Linkage:

• Louis Malle.
• Nazi Pop Twins.
• Caspian. The Kasabian that was also mentioned.
• The Smartest Guys in the Room.

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AdVerve - 22 - Plagiarism in Advertising

There isn’t any. Nothing more to see here, so move on. We kid! So we finally get to an “ism” episode that we had planned ever since our first show on Racism in advertising. This topic comes up from time to time, but usually only on ad blogs and only by people in the industry. Regular consumers? They could give a shit.

Homage? Tribute? Imitation? A rip? Inspiration? Direct lift? Copycat? Whatever you call it, we discuss all the issues surrounding a touchy subject with copywriter Dan Goldgeier of Partners + Napier. (In addition to being Ad Pulp columnist and regular Talent Zoo columnist, he’s also on Twitter.)

In addition, we go over why plagiarism is different in music, film and fashion. Because there, it’s not *just* plagiarism—it’s an homage, people.

An homage.

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Linkage:

• Old Spice horse spot, Gillette’s take on the genre, and a rider that pales.*
• AT&T “Hey” spot, the Bud classic.
• Coke spot comparison.
• Duval-Guillaume AIDS spot, and Travelers Insurance.
• Wrath of Cannes.
• Derren Brown subliminal/fake client experiment.
• Toshiba Space Chair Project, and the original.
• One shot scenes: Good Fellas, Clown Posse and Speed.
• Pedigree spots from TBWA.

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*Get it? That was an homage to a Clint Eastwood film. Homage ftw!


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AdVerve - Episode 21 - The Death of Media

If newspapers weren’t dead, they are now after we killed them. Well, with a little help from Ben Kunz, director of strategic planning at Mediassociates, the blog Thought Gadgets, as well as a Business Week column. From natural disasters to that 52” HDTV you’re buying this weekend, he helps us deconstruct how media has changed—and the ways it won’t. Newspapers? Meh. Who needs paper with ink smudges anyway. At some point, we manage to drag Twitter into the fray, kicking and screaming.

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Linkage:

• Pew study.
• Yahoo: Social drives traditional.

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Bitches, We're a Top 100 Small Business Podcast!

Where in the ranking, we don't know, but we're gonna make like our moms and imagine that the number is 1. (And you're all, "Wait, there are 100 podcasts out there in the world?" YES! There are! And AdVerve's a Top 100 Small Business one!)

Check us out in the "Marketing and Sales" section of the SMB Trendwire list, along with our homies fo' life, Marketing Over Coffee and The BeanCast. Description is refreshingly sparse: "This is a podcast about advertising and marketing." Thanks for noticing, guys. But for those rare few that are all, "INSUFFICIENT DATA," we go by a simple philosophy that leads to a thorny description.

We're about the culture of advertising: the serious stuff, the not-so-serious stuff, the boring stuff and the Gold™. And the culture of advertising draws from everything. So in the lamentable event that you lack an agency water cooler, or just aren't cool enough to stand there, give us a listen and we'll give you the what's-what.

You are jealous, we can smell it, but no worries, we share the wealth. Download our latest episode  (a delectable primer on AD LAW!) directly here. Or subscribe via iTunes:

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