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Agency News Flash

Carey Says Ums — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 01:39:28 +0000

[Insert Big Vancouver Ad Agency Name Here] kicks ass! Um . . .

I love Flash. It’s awesome, but it’s a terrible way to share news with visitors, right? Some might disagree.

Meet Advertising, one media-making industry that just can’t get past its Flash fetish. When [Insert Big Vancouver Ad Agency Name Here] has a artsy news spread a few pages into its site, how am I supposed to come back to it? Del.ici.ous? Nah. Crawl back? Nope. Print out the PDF version from a button? Not a chance. Just like 38,257,356 other web users just like me, I want my news fed to me. Some agencies get it. Rethink. Cowie and Fox. Karo. And others. But [Insert Big Vancouver Ad Agency Name Here]? Nada.

Don’t get me wrong. Your news section looks dreamy. It just doesn’t give me a chance to dream on with you.

Today, there are only two options: connect or die (in a flash).

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Barack Beats Scissors

Carey Says Ums — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 21:05:23 +0000

When Toronto-based Elemental decides to spoof the U.S. president-elect speech in an offer to cut fees, they prove that, no matter how clever the concept, you should never follow a great speaker with a blasé plea. See WhatsInYourBudget.ca. Cut rates? Clever. Cut it out? Yes, please.

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Ad Agency Ad

Carey Says Ums — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 03:14:31 +0000

I dig the way one firm sells itself on YouTube.

BooneOakley.com is a full service advertising agency for “people who dare to do daring work.” When they dared themselves to create a unique web presence, they produced this YouTube video, linking to about us and work.

Being the super-consumerist that I am, I had to click to their online store at the right. I want the boss mug by booneoakley, because it really speaks to me. Hey, I should get my ass on Zazzle.com to create and sell my own mug.

The Carey Says Ums latte? That’s a bitter bean.

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