–FCB Cape Town created testicular cancer “Testi-monial” PSAs for the Cancer Association of South Africa (video above).
–An in-depth Bloomberg report confirms what we have long suspected: office perks are fucking dumb.
–Chicago-area copywriter Jesse Alkire (the guy behind the fake football uniforms and baseball hats) designed some uniforms for Windy City agencies’ softball teams. Someone give him a job already.
-Digital agency Definition 6 appointed Diana Lochridge as executive producer/creative director of its entertainment division.
–The Martin Agency associate creative director Neel Williams wrote a story for Digiday explaining where Game of Thrones characters would work if the show happened to be an ad agency.
–Someone actually wrote a LinkedIn post titled “1999 Marketing Ideas from Prince.”
–Copyranter argues that death is a better selling point than sex these days. It’s really more fun, too.
-Grey London CCO Nils Leonard discussed “the dark con of advertising” at the D&AD Festival. Whatever could he mean?