Can we start you off with a free sampler?

THAT’S A LOL JOKE! ALL OUR SHOWS ARE FREE!

So maybe you have a friend who doesn’t know what the show is like. Well, send them this new sampler covering a few minutes of regular features we do such as “I need a name for...” and “10 For 10.”  Go on, share it with someone you love.

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AdVerve - Episode 16 - Life After Social Media Snake Oil

To parasteal from Bono, Joseph Jaffe stole the :30 spot — we’re stealin’ it back.

It’s been almost five years since he pissed off people in Ad Land™ talking about Life After The :30 Spot; we look back to see what still holds up.

Supporting that theme is this idea of the social-media-as-snake-oil bias still prevalent in advertising circles. If you were among those that the Chief Interruptor (at crayon, in turn acquired by Power) disrupted, listen close: what's really in question is the advertising model in general. We also manage to get in a few shots at Facebook, Walmart and the Stupor Bowl mindset.

(Want more Jaffe Juice? Catch him on Twitter.)

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Topics:

00:00 – 1. Intro - Blahg, blahg, blagh—a brief history of time
14:15 – 2. Social media snake oil
26:58 – 3. Life After The :30 Spot—5 years later & the death of TV
40:35 – 4. Media, freaking
47:00 – 5. Nobody doesn’t like free.
50:23 – 6. Branding disconnect
56:18 – 7. The Stupor Bowl Effect™
1:12:36 – 8. Disrupt that shit
1:17:28 – 9. That’s a wrap

Linkage:

• Walmart’s Clown spot.
• Whopper Freakout breakdown.
• Intelevision.
• Chevy Volt iPhone app.
• Philips Carousel.

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Ben Kunz on Apple's Potential for Saving Publishing: Now in Technicolor™!

Ben Kunz, who did the Five Minutes With... segment for our "Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms" episode, turned his cameo into a visual manifesto with witty subtitles and music saturated in foreboding.

What we like about Ben is his special way of looking at hype from a critical perspective -- not just to be a contrarian, but because he accounts for both the history of Apple and the trajectory of industries similar to publishing. It's wrapped up all nice, swaddled in logic, and you sit there wondering why you never saw it before.

Give it a watch and decide whether he's right. We've got thoughts on this, but by now it should be clear we like to save those until we're compromised by a stimulant or abject boredom.

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AdVerve - Episode 15 - Alcohol, Tobacco & Firearms.

Who can’t use more of each?

Did your mother drink and smoke while pregnant? Then have we got a show for you. After exploring most of the adult vices we could think of, we devote the show to one of our favorite segments, 10 For 10. (We basically hit each other with topics the other doesn’t know about ahead of time.)

From there, Ben Kunz of Media Associates delivers a Five Minutes With... showing why he’s smart. Like, blog smart, especially on his Thought Gadgets where he lives. Whatever that means. We then wrap as only we can—for another 10 minutes and cover things like the idea of heroes and drowning. IT’S 97 MINUTES OF PURE PLEASURE.

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Topics:

00:00 – 1. Intro - A man can always use more alcohol, tobacco & firearms
12:48 – 2. Fuck Skype
13:32 – 3. 10 For 10 - Diesel
18:35 – 4. 10 For 10 - Guys With Scarves
21:04 – 5. 10 For 10 - Personal behavior
22:41 – 6. 10 For 10 - Breaking Dawn & Vampire World
31:16 – 7. 10 For 10 - Save the children
37:08 – 8. 10 For 10 - FourSquare
43:21 – 9. 10 For 10 - Ace of Base
45:57 – 10. 10 For 10 - Hated but still used
47:38 – 11. 10 For 10 - Google, meet China
49:31 – 12. 10 For 10 - I saw it on the YT
53:44 – 13. 10 For 10 - Advertising water
58:14 – 14. 10 For 10 - Disturbing profiles
1:01:09 – 15. 10 For 10 - Red
1:02:55 – 16. 10 For 10 - The Apple rules
1:05:57 – 17. 10 For 10 - Ikea
1:11:09 – 18. 10 For 10 - The brand you hate
1:12:36 – 19. 10 For 10 - Privacy
1:15:22 – 20. 10 For 10 - The brand you love
1:19:11 – 21. Five Minutes with... Ben Kunz
1:24:27 – 22. That’s a wrap... and *other* stuff

Linkage:

• Thank You For Smoking trailer.
• Bob Roberts trailer.
• Diesel’s Stupid campaign.
• Robert Scoble on FourSquare at CES.
• Breaking Dawn review.
• Quick Burger.
• Charlie Bit Me — autotuned!
• Shirley Temple's Baby Burlesques.
• Twitter for Culture Buzz: @vanksen_com.
• Boomsday by Christopher Buckley.

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AdVerve - Episode 14 - Music madness

Music freaks, rejoice!

No, this won't be some bullshit hard-to-keep-up-with Top 10 list. In this segment we talk about technology and its effect on music. From creating it to sharing and making money from it to where things are headed. WE GO THERE.

That we do this without mentioning Black Eyed Peas once is a testament to something, just not sure what.

Joining the fun is Darryl Ohrt and Matt Hunsberger from The Greatest Agency In All The Land. Find Darryl on Twitter; Matt can be found there and fronting Pop Heroes.

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Topics:

00:00 – 1. Intro
01:17 – 2. James Cameron’s Tech Garage
03:32 – 3. Technology in music
30:01 – 4. Buy! Buy! Buy!
37:31 – 5. Pirates!
49:35 – 6. Selling out
57:23 – 7. Touring importance
01:04:23 – 14. That’s a wrap

Linkage:
It Might Get Loud.
Umphrey's McGee on Jamband, the live event and previous Plaid work for the band.
Linda Perry, 4 Non Blondes.
Giving it away. Yep, Prince and Radiohead.
Here, There and Everywhere: My Life Recording the Music of the Beatles.

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AdVerve - Episode 13 - Bloggers suck

It’s harder for us to title these things anymore since we go off in so many different directions in each show now. The timestamp breakdown gives you a semblance of what we covered. From dudes who love cars a little too much to Angela’s new gigs at Hypios, Culture Buzz and position on Top Sexy Geek lists. The topics we spend the most time on include how blogs are still not taken seriously by “real” journalists (or some ad agencies), and the fear about being too open on them. Then the show devolves into a pop culture ceviche from there.

We also have back a regular feature 5 Minutes With... featuring Matt McDermott of Renegade. (Follow him on Twitter and their agency blog too.)

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Topics:

00:00 – 1. Intro and Angela’s new thangs
06:30 – 2. Speak no blog evil
22:37 – 3. Bloggers aren’t journalists
25:49 – 4. When is young too young?
33:42 – 5. Bad credit? No credit? No problem!
35:45 – 6. Money edumacation
38:48 – 7. 5 minutes with... Matt McDermott
44:49 – 8. Feeling irregular
47:30 – 9. European New Year’s
50:10 – 10. Everywhere is home
51:56 – 11. AmeriFrench cuisine
55:12 – 12. Memorize!
59:11 – 13. Current currentness
01:10:06 – 14. That’s a wrap

Linkage we mentioned:
Psychological violence under fire in France.
Alice Cooper in Germany.
Flight 1549 & Captain Sully billboard.
Louis CK: Everything’s amazing-nobody’s happy.
Car lover dude.
Fashion wunderkind Tavi Gevinson.
The Cablevision mess.
Super petaflop.
McPunched.

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AdVerve - Episode 12 - End of Yearness

It’s our end of year madness. While it may be a little pretentious of us to run a year-end episode after only 12 episodes, eh, so what. Some of what makes it into this one are things we never got to cover during previous episodes but which we proudly beat the hell out of now.

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We wander everywhere, from music and films to current stories floating around the net. Safe to say, we earn the explicit tag with this show. (Chapter breaks below, a loose guide at best.) Tarantino to Star Trek to Brad Pitt to Facebook sibling revenge sex lists and beyond, the show goes there. We’ve also included links to anything we mentioned throughout.

(Few small clarifications first. In the discussion on Tarantino, even though movies about WWII now are good (Saving Private Ryan, Thin Red Line and Schindler's List), at the time, the acting in all films was melodramatic and sucked. We butchered Javier Bardem’s name and referred to Brad Pitt’s True Romance character as Stoner when we meant Floyd.)

Lastly, and more importantly, thanks to all who downloaded and listened to the show and/or who have given us coverage so far. We could’ve done it without you, but then, it would just be two angry people ranting into a mic... sans audience. And this, well, this would suck.

Topics:

00:00 – 1. Intro - Year in review - ads, music, films
08:05 – 2. Inglourious Tarantino
11:11 – 3. Brad Pitt
16:27 – 4. Star Trek
25:57 – 5. Tarantino: CPR for acting careers
32:12 – 6. Michael Moore
33:21 – 7. Shitty presents
36:48 – 8. Tiger Woods
40:49 – 9. Asian parents & sibling revenge
51:22 – 10. Yelp = Nope
52:07 – 11. When to Twitter
59:26 – 12. Let’s get married
01:04:52 – 13. That’s a wrap

Linkage:

Music –
Beth Orton
Fleet Foxes
Gomez
Imogen Heap
Juliette and The Licks
Pink Martini
Scarlett Johanson & Pete Yorn

Movies –
12 Monkeys
2012
27 Dresses
Burn After Reading
Coraline
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Grosse Pointe Blank
High Fidelity
Hunchback of Notre Dame 2
The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus
Inglourious Basterds
Kalifornia
Le Vilain
Love Actually
Seven Pounds
Star Trek
The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3
True Romance (Brad Pitt as Floyd)
The Whole Nine Yards

Stories/Misc. –
Claymation Britney from Starveillance.
Facebook sibling busted
Inappropriate Twittering instead of parenting
Tena Incontinence

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AdVerve - Episode 11 - The Sexism Song-and-Dance

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Our extra-special pre-holiday Episode 11 features Åsk Wäppling of Adland.tv, infamously known among ad land old-schoolers as @dabitch.

This week we tackle Sexism™, one of the more obvious "isms" in this fair industry we call advertising.

Having clocked in at a number of European shops and freelanced at some American ones, Åsk gets gritty about why it's tough for women to ask for more money, why breeding potential is an irrational metric for hire and what made method's scrubbing bubbles ad so uncomfortable to watch.

You can read more of Åsk's sexism thoughts on Adland, where she synopsizes a lot of what we discussed, and hammers in points we didn't have time to talk about.

In case you plan to check out early this week, happy holidays and check the shower before stepping into it. If you can, catch our year-end pop culture roundup next week.

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AdVerve - Episode 10 - The Jordan Kretchmer Show

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Interview time with co-founder of new social networking start-up LiveFyre Jordan Kretchmer. (Also of Current TV and Twitter RFP fame.) Pull up a pair of headphones as we talk about the sexy stuff -- including what went down behind the Twitter RFP -- and discuss the anatomy (pun!) of start-ups, YouTube losers and why creatives need to get out more.

(Find Jordan on Twitter.)

Topics by timestamp:

00:00 – 1. Intro
00:50 – 2. LiveFyre
28:24 – 3. Achangecy of the future
42:58 – 4. Editor in chief
50:07 – 5. Current TV & the  Twitter RFP
01:10:51 – 6. Final thoughts
01:16:26 – 7. Wrapping it up

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AdVerve - Episode 9 - Ageism and advertising

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That’s right frens, another “ism” show. This one features Ad Broad Helen Ross on the topic of age as it relates to the advertising industry. We cover a range of topics, from younger vs. older creatives, client challenges, and the changing agency dynamic. Along the way we also delve into Helen’s other side gig as Mad Men fanista Betty Draper on Twitter. You can find her regular self there too. Plus her regular blog Ad Broad as well as new creation Brand Fiction Factory.

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