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This legendary 1947 letter on the lack of creativity in advertising is even more true in 2016

Idea to Value

A major issue around advertising and marketing nowadays is that there is a drive to “learn and perfect” it. And this is resulting in less actual creativity being used. Apparently this has been an issue going all the way back to the start of the advertising age, two years after World War 2 in 1947. In that year, William “Bill” Bernach was the Creative Director at Grey Advertising, before leaving to become one of the founders of DDB.

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‘Get in the Grove’ Campaign for IUP Takes Silver in National Education Advertising Awards

Brunner

As a public university with stellar academics, big-time research, and a warm, welcoming culture, Indiana University of Pennsylvania needed unique ways to help future students learn what the school has to offer. Winning Silver at 37 th Annual Education Advertising Awards.

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Podcast S2E41: Rodd Chant – What it takes to be a Creative Director

Idea to Value

In today’s episode, we speak with Rodd Chant, who describes himself as a Creative Something. Rodd started out in music, before leading Advertising companies in Australia, Singapore, New York, Tokyo and now back in Australia. We talk about what it takes to succeed in the creative industries, and how to lead creative individuals. Topics discussed in today’s episode: 00:03:00 – What actually does a Creative Director do?

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Super Bowl 50 Advertising Winners and Losers

BrainZooming

Maybe for the first time in many years, I was more excited about the football than the advertising. There were questions about why the advertisers seem not to understand the value of integrating social media and digital with their $5 million thirty-second advertisements. A word to the wise advertiser: there’s a place between no spoken copy (Acura, PayPal, Budweiser) and too freakin’ much spoken copy (RocketMortgage) where a $5 million Super Bowl ad actually works.

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What the #*&! is a Hybrid Creative? Advertising mumbo jumbo.

Brunner

Google “advertising hybrid creative” and you’ll find shiny phrases like “rare breed,” “next-generation,” “shaking things up,” “the future.” Nowadays, if you write, shoot, edit and design, you’re revolutionizing the world of advertising. Creatively speaking, hybrids have always existed: Gordon Parks , Jeff Bridges , Emma Watson , Jessica Lange — Stacy Wall. Kids don’t limit creativity, grownups do. As a child, I didn’t dream of being an “adman” or “creative”.

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Podcast S5E108: Dr Robert Alan Black – The history of creativity research

Idea to Value

In today’s episode of the Idea to Value Podcast, we speak with international creativity advocate Dr Robert Alan Black. We touch on his history working with the late, great Prof Paul E Torrance and speak about the history of creativity research.

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Unlocking Innovation with Data, Creativity, and Automation

Tullio Siragusa

Unlocking Innovation with Data, Creativity, and Automation. For some, it may be through hard work and determination, while others may find success through innovation with creativity, data, and automation. Creativity. To innovate, you must be creative.

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Artificial creativity (A.C.): Can a computer be creative? It’s scarily close

Idea to Value

In 2013, I wrote a breakthrough article on the nascent examples of computers beginning to generate ideas in a way similar to human creativity. Here I revisit the article with all-new evidence showing how close we are to artificial creativity. In the not too far future machines and robots will not only become more advanced, they will also begin to exhibit aspects of Creativity, and may soon exceed people in the ability to produce simple creative outputs.

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Valentine's Day: Creative Gifts and Most Popular Picks

Innovation in Practice

TGI Friday's: NPS of -22 In addition to choosing from one of these popular favorites this Valentine's season, you can learn creative gift ideas for that special someone via my interview on Fox 19 HERE. If you're interested in learning more about branding fundamentals, please see my online course through Lynda.com. Advertising Methods Research

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PBTO44: Out-think, Out-pace & Out-Wit your competition with Lakshmipathy Bhat

Rmukesh Gupta

He is also a failed entrepreneur with some learning to show for it. His blog – BhatNaturally ranks among the one of the best blogs on advertising, marketing and creativity. Difference between branding, advertising and marketing. Advertising is showcasing the personality. Relevance of Traditional advertising (carpet bombing): certain categories for which the carpet bombing is fully relevant. the only reason for Advertising to exist is to drive sales.

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The Creative Power of Thinking Big: How to Improve Your Ideas with One Simple Trick

Innovation in Practice

But does this apply to creative thinking as well? . Can you really improve your creative thinking by just thinking big? . A quick way to boost your creative thinking and improve the quality and originality of your ideas is to forecast their potential effect. Think big.

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The Creative Power of Thinking Big: How to Improve Your Ideas with One Simple Trick

Innovation in Practice

But does this apply to creative thinking as well? . Can you really improve your creative thinking by just thinking big? . A quick way to boost your creative thinking and improve the quality and originality of your ideas is to forecast their potential effect. Think big.

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How Traditional Ad and PR Agencies Can Compete with Tech Companies in the Digital Era

Tullio Siragusa

How Traditional Ad and PR Agencies Can Compete with Tech Companies in the Digital Era WPP, Publicis, and Interpublic are three of the largest multinational advertising and public relations companies in the world. This includes strategic planning, creative development, and market insights.

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Novelty Stimulates Curiosity and Creativity

Michael Roberto

Source: Blue Diamond Gallery If you want to encourage creativity, exploration, and learning on your team, you should think carefully about how to introduce and provide novel experiences. Scientists Nico Bunzeck and Emrah Düzel have shown that the brain responds to novel stimuli in a manner that increases exploration and learning. Novelty may not pay dividends overnight, but it will stir the creative juices over time. creativity curiosity innovation learning novelty

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Brunner’s Creative Campaign for City of Asylum, “Dictator Book Reviews”, Wins Seven Silver District ADDY Awards

Brunner

At the 2021 award ceremony held Friday, April 30, Brunner’s creative campaign for client City of Asylum entitled “Dictator Book Reviews” won ten sliver Pittsburgh American Advertising (AFF) Awards and seven silver District 2 ADDY Awards in categories Elements of Advertising and Public Service. The creative campaign promoted City of Asylum’s freedom of expression mission. To learn more about City of Asylum, please visit cityofasylum.org.

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Podcasting and Content Marketing – Top Creative Clicks for the Week by the Gal Friday

BrainZooming

I have always been a big believer that radio advertising – great radio advertising- was the most creative, and most difficult of the traditional advertising formats. Unfortunately there is also a tradition of really bad radio advertising. When audio storytelling is good, it works the head and the heart, which is the essence of great advertising. As always, you can get to the creative clicks via the headlines. Creative Clicks for Podcast Listening.

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True Disruption Often Leads to Invention, but So Does Anticipation

Daniel Burrus

While doing so, you start to consider other problems that may disrupt the newest iteration of this product you’re working on, and when it’s ready, start advertising to the local population your business is founded in. Anticipation Helps You Creatively.

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How to Stay Ahead of the Game in a Fast-Changing Industry

IdeaScale

At the intersection of modern technology and advertising, digital marketing is one of the fastest changing industries in the world. At Level Up Digital , we help companies navigate this ever-changing landscape of advertising on these platforms. —– Google Ads Platform Changes: When it comes to paid advertising on Google Ads, changes to the platform are generally easier to track as they are announced by Google either on the Google Ads blog or with in-product notifications.

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Segmentation is Killing Your Brand: Five Reasons To Find Your Unicorn Customer

Innovation in Practice

The creative process will become easier, and everything the brand does will be more thoroughly informed by this one anchoring concept. You focus in on that one person – your ideal mate – and learn everything you can about them – their favorite flowers, what TV shows they like, what they do on Friday nights. Learn more about the ideal customer and let those insights inform the brand identity. Advertising Culture of Innovation Marketing Innovation Practitioner Strategy

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3 Creative Thinking Skills Ideas from Gas Can 2016

BrainZooming

Last Friday’s Gas Can Creative Conference sponsored by AAF-KC (American Advertising Federation – Kansas City) was a half-empty gas can, at best. While there were a few presentations and ideas to stimulate our creative thinking skills, there were far too few for an all-day event. 3 Creative Thinking Skills Ideas from Gas Can 2016. Today, here are three valuable creative thinking skills ideas no matter where your creative community is located.

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Ring Fencing Constrains Innovation

Paul Hobcraft

Let’s look at five: CBInsights nicely puts it in its Amazon teardown document as “Amazon barreling into physical retail, financial services, healthcare and AI-led computing” All of these on the back of a massive e-commerce presence, transport, logistics, developing hardware devices, food delivery, open-source educational resources and advertising. Just imagine the position of AWS, the positioning of its AI assistant of Alexa, both cutting edge and learning platforms.

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Best Sharing and Communication Tools

IdeaScale

The internet is now the greatest and most popular platform to advertise and share your business. Social media isn’t just for teenagers sharing photos with their friends anymore; it can be a great platform for your company to advertise and share information while staying up to date with news and ideas from all over the world. Websites are an easy approach for people across the world to view and learn about your product. No matter the size, every company (and person!)

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Case Study: Xaxis Teaches Us About Accelerating Careers and Solutions

IdeaScale

In a competitive, creative industry, innovation often makes a company a market leader. To learn more about Xaxis, read our company case study. And if you’d like to tap into your team’s full creative potential, learn how great teams create great ideas.

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Brunner’s Founder is Honored with Outstanding CEO and Top Executives Award

Brunner

More than 30 years after its inception, Brunner remains one of the top 100 independent advertising agencies in the country and a key reason for that success is Michael Brunner, Founder. Michael’s goal for Brunner has always been to be one of the best advertising agencies in the country, and his clients will tell you that he and his team are relentless in going above and beyond. To learn more about Brunner, please visit www.brunnerworks.com.

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Employee Spotlight: Abbie Hediger

Brunner

She’s got a creative background and a dream of writing and illustrating a children’s book. Read on to learn more about what keeps Abbie busy! A: I’ve been interested in Brunner since I first learned about the agency while studying advertising in college. A: Creative. Meet Abbie Hediger—Brunner’s new Senior Lead, Marketing Communications Planner. Q: Why did you choose Brunner?

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Brunner POV | Attribution, Targeting, and the Customer. What will they look like in a Cookieless World?

Brunner

With the soon to be extinct third-party cookie, advertisers, and agencies are going to have to look to new ways to track digital customer engagement as well as target key audiences. Because no one can expect to control or predict what Google, Apple, and other huge players do, advertisers need to come up with ways to track customer behavior and target key audiences. How can advertisers do this in a creative and non-invasive way?

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Exploring the Connection between Idea Management and Customer Experience

IdeaScale

This includes learning their preferences for product development and making sure they are receiving products with the greatest benefits. If you examine the ways brands are researched, marketed, and advertised, all these components affect customers.

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7 Free Gifts that People Won’t Return or Forget by Late January

BrainZooming

Yet, advertisements, emails, and online remarketing campaigns demand that we keep shopping throughout the weekend if we are truly going to have positive impacts on our relationships with friends, loved ones, and co-workers. Boost Your Extreme Creativity with “Taking the NO Out of InNOvation”. Download our FREE “Taking the No Out of InNOvation eBook to help generate extreme creativity and boost your creative thinking skills!

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What This Video Of A Drone Fishing For Tuna Can Teach You About Disruption

Faisal Hoque

The publishing industry spent the last decade creating an advertising-led free content model that’s now being sideswiped by simple ad-blocking technologies. Learn to radically reinvent their competencies—including those that made them the most competitive only yesterday.

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What This Video Of A Drone Fishing For Tuna Can Teach You About Disruption

Faisal Hoque

The publishing industry spent the last decade creating an advertising-led free content model that’s now being sideswiped by simple ad-blocking technologies. Learn to radically reinvent their competencies—including those that made them the most competitive only yesterday.

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The Role of Imagination in Creating The Next Set of Breakthrough Innovations

Rmukesh Gupta

If the human race has produced since the invention of movable type a total record, in the form of magazines, newspapers, books, tracts, advertising blurbs, correspondence, having a volume corresponding to a billion books, the whole affair, assembled and compressed, could be lugged off in a moving van. Man cannot hope fully to duplicate this mental process artificially, but he certainly ought to be able to learn from it.

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11 Hacks for Strengthening Your Brand’s Visual Vocabulary

BrainZooming

You can do this by: Combing through brand foundation materials and existing creative briefs. Document what you learn through: Writing ideas describing the images you found. Brainzooming - All Posts Branding Communication Creativity Marketing Social media Strategy Tools brand promise visualization

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Are You More Innovative Than You Think?

Innovation in Practice

New research published in Harvard Business Review suggests that we tend to underestimate our creative ability and that we give up too early. Lucas and Loran Nordgren, shared the following: "In a series of experiments we observed that people consistently underestimated the number of ideas they could generate while solving a creative challenge. As a teacher of creativity, I agree that persistence is an important success factor when producing new ideas.

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User Research With Small Business Owners: Best Practices and Considerations

Boxes and Arrows

Finally, consider offering small business owners and employees the opportunity to participate in an exclusive Trusted Testers community, which provides the option to share feedback, receive “insiders” information and tips, and interact with and learn from other small businesses. For starters, we always state that the goal of the study is to learn from the participant. advertising, marketing, journalism, PR). Discovery, Research, and Testing Learning From Others Methods

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Brunner has been named a 2022 Google Premier Partner

Brunner

This program is designed for advertising agencies and third parties that manage Google Ads accounts on behalf of other brands or businesses. With performance marketing and boundless creativity at our core, we put decision analytics first and mine for consumer insights that lead to big creative ideas. Learn more at brunnerworks.com. Pittsburgh-based agency, Brunner , has achieved 2022 Premier Partner status in the Google Partners program.

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A New Model to Start Innovation

Gijs Van Wulfen

In no time they had put together a website advertising lodging for overnight guests which they called “Airbed and Breakfast”. I learned that to convince the management of an organization or (in)formal investors to let your innovative idea enter the formal development process and give you the resources needed, you must bring to the table a well-founded convincing new business case. creativity design thinking innovation idea route innovation maze

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23 Experts Predict What’s the Most Exciting AI Trend in 2023

Acuvate

With commercialisation in mind, we will see business applications extending to sectors such as marketing, advertising, legal and customer services. AI will keep on improving in the field of Perception, Representation & Reasoning, Learning, Human-AI Interaction, and Societal Impact.

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Open AI: The Beginning or The End, or Somewhere In-between?

Brunner

To fully caveat our point of view, it will most likely evolve, and like AI technology, it will change over time as we learn more about the capabilities and use cases.

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A New Model to Start Innovation

Gijs Van Wulfen

In no time they had put together a website advertising lodging for overnight guests which they called “Airbed and Breakfast”. I learned that to convince the management of an organization or (in)formal investors to let your innovative idea enter the formal development process and give you the resources needed, you must bring to the table a well-founded convincing new business case. creativity design thinking innovation idea route innovation maze

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Taking Final Ideas to Market is the Hardest Part

Paul Hobcraft

Here in Europe, it is often suggested that “Europe is the cradle of creativity”, perhaps but I think the United States is “the crucible of innovation”, it forges ideas and takes them to market far better. It seems so simple doesn’t it – “bringing final ideas to market”.

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The 5 Benefits of Greater Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion

CMOE

Greater Innovation and Creativity. It’s no secret that a more innovative and creative approach to business directly correlates with increased revenue.

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Why Many Mid-Career Marketers Are Dinosaurs and Not Great Social Media Strategists

BrainZooming

With traditional marketing communication, there were numerous clear divisions among important roles: Creative vs. analytical. I’m continually moving between intense analytical and creative roles in developing and executing content-based workflows. The realization really hit me while attending a Facebook list building, advertising, and re-marketing workshop at the Social Media Strategies Summit.

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Tony Hsieh – The Remarkable Cultural Innovator at Zappos

Destination Innovation

After graduating Hsieh worked for Oracle Corporation but quit in 1996 after just five months, to co-found the LinkExchange, an advertising network. New hires spend their first few weeks manning phones in the call centre learning how to respond to customer needs.

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