-BBDO Milan came up with an amusing idea for client Linear Insurance: a crowdsourced “supporting track” that provides solitary athletes with the sound of cheering crowds.
-Verizon is going to debut some work from its new in-house agency, but that work doesn’t appear to be live yet, soooooo…
-This weekend we learned that Jeffrey Tambor made $40,000 for that 1977 Avis ad spoofing O.J. Simpson’s famous Hertz spot.
-You should read this excellent obituary of Kenneth H. Bofinger, who went from a school for “fatherless boys” to become head of print production at Philly-area agency Earle Palmer Brown.
-Droga5 London won the Peroni creative review right after that thoroughly mediocre beer brand got bought by Asahi.
-More About Advertising thinks maybe PHD’s Sainsbury’s media win had something to do with pricing.
-You will be shocked to learn some people in the tech industry argue that women just can’t do certain (read: executive-level) jobs because they have “higher anxiety and lower stress tolerance.” This sounds familiar…
-And other Google employees think the dude who wrote that memo should be protected from the PC police because men with edgy (read: sexist) opinions are the real victims. This also sounds familiar.