Volney Palmer
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Not surprisingly, I think people aren’t using #AI and #creativity the right way. But of course I could be wrong. Some thoughts on Creativity and AI: www.martinbihl.com/business-thinking/creativity-ai-music-miles-davis #jazz #advertising #marketing #artifcialintelligence
Milestones: Some Thoughts on Creativity and AI — Martin Bihl
How what happened to Herbie Hancock in Stuttgart decades ago can help you deal with #AI right now.
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November 26, 2025 at 1:51 AM
Not surprisingly, I think people aren’t using #AI and #creativity the right way. But of course I could be wrong. Some thoughts on Creativity and AI: www.martinbihl.com/business-thinking/creativity-ai-music-miles-davis #jazz #advertising #marketing #artifcialintelligence
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Yes #FScottFitzgerald worked in #advertising for a time, but that’s not why we’re writing about him here. Though we reserve the right to do so in the future for that reason. We review #IdDieForYou: the-agency-review.com/die-for-you #creativity #writing
I’d Die For You
Pour yourself a strong one and consider with us one Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald, a writer we admired before reading I’d Die For You, and one we actually admire more after. But wait, why discuss hi…
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November 26, 2025 at 2:12 AM
Yes #FScottFitzgerald worked in #advertising for a time, but that’s not why we’re writing about him here. Though we reserve the right to do so in the future for that reason. We review #IdDieForYou: the-agency-review.com/die-for-you #creativity #writing
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In the first episode of the second season, we ask editor Lucas Harger - who pulls brilliant stories out of thousands of hours of film - the question we asked Olivia Kenney in season 1: Do we make our lives or do the people and events around us make them for us? open.spotify.com/episode/2KSS...
Episode 17-Lucas Harger
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November 27, 2025 at 12:34 AM
In the first episode of the second season, we ask editor Lucas Harger - who pulls brilliant stories out of thousands of hours of film - the question we asked Olivia Kenney in season 1: Do we make our lives or do the people and events around us make them for us? open.spotify.com/episode/2KSS...
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Wait, there’s more? Yup, and the introduction to the second season episode explains what’s the same, what’s different and why you should care. Well, mostly the first two. Check out Episode 16: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/e... #YoureOnMuteThePodcast #podcasts #seasontwo
Episode 16-Introduction to Season 02
Podcast Episode · You're On Mute · 01/30/2025 · 2m
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November 26, 2025 at 1:30 AM
Wait, there’s more? Yup, and the introduction to the second season episode explains what’s the same, what’s different and why you should care. Well, mostly the first two. Check out Episode 16: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/e... #YoureOnMuteThePodcast #podcasts #seasontwo
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Lawrence Ingrassia dives deep into the rise of direct-to-consumers brands and shows why they succeeded, and also how they could be beaten. We review #BillionDollarBrandClub: the-agency-review.com/billion-doll...
Billion Dollar Brand Club
It would have been enough if Lawrence Ingrassia had simply written a book about the rise of “Direct to Consumer” companies. A brief history like those that have documented social media companies or…
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November 24, 2025 at 11:55 PM
Lawrence Ingrassia dives deep into the rise of direct-to-consumers brands and shows why they succeeded, and also how they could be beaten. We review #BillionDollarBrandClub: the-agency-review.com/billion-doll...
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How to help your #client be better – and therefore you too. www.martinbihl.com/business-thi...
How to Client — Martin Bihl
There are literally thousands of books that will tell you how to manage a brand. And there are at least that many that will tell you how to run a company. Put those together and you might have the num...
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November 24, 2025 at 11:48 PM
How to help your #client be better – and therefore you too. www.martinbihl.com/business-thi...
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Some thoughts on work-from-home, hybrid and on-site work that will probably get me in a lot of trouble with everybody: www.martinbihl.com/business-thinking/culture-and-on-site-work #remote #onsite #hybrid #advertisingagencies #advertising agency #office #work #workplace #culture
Out of Sight, Out of Mind: Culture and the Return to On-Site Work — Martin Bihl
There’s a lot of talk about culture at advertising agencies, why work from home is killing it, and how to save it. Here’s some more.
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November 24, 2025 at 3:46 AM
Some thoughts on work-from-home, hybrid and on-site work that will probably get me in a lot of trouble with everybody: www.martinbihl.com/business-thinking/culture-and-on-site-work #remote #onsite #hybrid #advertisingagencies #advertising agency #office #work #workplace #culture
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The fact that most of New Orleans is under sea level is frankly the least of the challenges when one tries to make sense of it. Which is why Emma Fick’s #SnippetsofNewOrleans is so impressive. Our review: the-agency-review.com/snippets-new... #NewOrleans #NOLA #artistsnotebook #illustration
Snippets of New Orleans
Every city is difficult to write about because every city is many cities, creating an MC Escher maze of contradiction and repetition that will drive anyone foolish enough to try it, mad. Think of J…
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November 24, 2025 at 3:52 AM
The fact that most of New Orleans is under sea level is frankly the least of the challenges when one tries to make sense of it. Which is why Emma Fick’s #SnippetsofNewOrleans is so impressive. Our review: the-agency-review.com/snippets-new... #NewOrleans #NOLA #artistsnotebook #illustration
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Is a pardon just a “lighter” version of forgiveness, or are they fundamentally different, despite obviously overlapping? Matt Mizenko explores this and other things on episode 15 of #YoureOnMuteThePodcast: open.spotify.com/episode/1uSZ... #forgiveness #pardons #podcast
Episode 15-Matt Mizenko
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November 24, 2025 at 11:22 PM
Is a pardon just a “lighter” version of forgiveness, or are they fundamentally different, despite obviously overlapping? Matt Mizenko explores this and other things on episode 15 of #YoureOnMuteThePodcast: open.spotify.com/episode/1uSZ... #forgiveness #pardons #podcast
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How the founders of branding agency Motto turn “vices” like Rebellious, Obsessed, Hot-Blooded, Weird, Audacious, Hypnotic & Emotional into “virtues” you can use. We review #RareBreed: the-agency-review.com/rare-breed/ @sunnybonnell @ashleighsnotes @wearemotto
Rare Breed
Howard Bannister: “You’re just… different.” Judy Maxwell: “I know. But from now on, I’m gonna try and be the same.” Howard Bannister: “The same as what?” Judy Maxwell: “The same as people who aren’…
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November 22, 2025 at 9:11 PM
How the founders of branding agency Motto turn “vices” like Rebellious, Obsessed, Hot-Blooded, Weird, Audacious, Hypnotic & Emotional into “virtues” you can use. We review #RareBreed: the-agency-review.com/rare-breed/ @sunnybonnell @ashleighsnotes @wearemotto
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What narrative has to do with curiousity, fear, hope and how you face the future. Clean Energy Executive #JeffreyKing explores them all and more on episode 14 of #YoureOnMuteThePodcast: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/e... #cleanenergy #cleantech #future #podcast
Episode 14-Jeff King
Podcast Episode · You're On Mute · 02/29/2024 · 12m
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November 24, 2025 at 3:27 AM
What narrative has to do with curiousity, fear, hope and how you face the future. Clean Energy Executive #JeffreyKing explores them all and more on episode 14 of #YoureOnMuteThePodcast: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/e... #cleanenergy #cleantech #future #podcast
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Anyone with a historical perspective of #advertising knows that agency consolidation is nothing new. That doesn’t mean it’s good, of course, it just means it’s not new: www.martinbihl.com/business-thinking/small-is-the-new-big-agency-mergers #marketing #smallagencies #bigagencies
Small is the New Big: Thoughts on Agency Mergers — Martin Bihl
Barkley, OKRP, Havas, Uncommon, Dentsu, Tag, Carmichael Lynch, Tierney, and don't get me started on VML Is it time for your agency to jump on board the merger train, or has the merger train jumped the...
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November 22, 2025 at 9:01 PM
Anyone with a historical perspective of #advertising knows that agency consolidation is nothing new. That doesn’t mean it’s good, of course, it just means it’s not new: www.martinbihl.com/business-thinking/small-is-the-new-big-agency-mergers #marketing #smallagencies #bigagencies
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I take a few minutes away from yelling at the kids on my lawn to think about #AI and #advertising. You’re welcome. www.martinbihl.com/business-thi... #artificialintelligence #creativity #marketing #advertisingagencies
That Thing You Do: Early Thoughts On AI — Martin Bihl
These are early days in AI so here are some early thoughts about it, advertising, humans, LLMs and what they may all mean. Or not. Hard to tell. It's early days...
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November 21, 2025 at 1:26 PM
I take a few minutes away from yelling at the kids on my lawn to think about #AI and #advertising. You’re welcome. www.martinbihl.com/business-thi... #artificialintelligence #creativity #marketing #advertisingagencies
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Can art be new? Can art be anything but new? Writer & teacher #ChrisTrotter navigates the derivative nature of art on episode 13 of #YoureOnMuteThePodcast: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/e... #art #creativity #podcast
Episode 13-Chris Trotter
Podcast Episode · You're On Mute · 02/29/2024 · 13m
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November 22, 2025 at 7:26 PM
Can art be new? Can art be anything but new? Writer & teacher #ChrisTrotter navigates the derivative nature of art on episode 13 of #YoureOnMuteThePodcast: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/e... #art #creativity #podcast
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What can businesses learn from the place where “the future, which is what we now happen to call the present, was conceived and designed.”? We review Jon Gertner’s #TheIdeaFactory: the-agency-review.com/bell-labs/ @jongertner #innovation #creativity #business #BellLabs @belllabs.bsky.social
The Idea Factory: Bell Labs and the Great Age of American Innovation
One day in late January 1997, 87-year-old John Pierce – who had spent his career at Bell Labs before becoming Chief Engineer at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory – wrote out in large capital letters th…
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November 21, 2025 at 1:30 PM
What can businesses learn from the place where “the future, which is what we now happen to call the present, was conceived and designed.”? We review Jon Gertner’s #TheIdeaFactory: the-agency-review.com/bell-labs/ @jongertner #innovation #creativity #business #BellLabs @belllabs.bsky.social
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What the Columbian Exposition of 1893 foreshadowed about the 20th century – despite very few people noticing – and why it’s important. We review @exlarson’s #DevilintheWhiteCity: the-agency-review.com/devil-white-...
The Devil in the White City
We seek what is significant. We dig for it in the products our clients wish us to sell for them, but we also sift through the flotsam and jetsam of the passing culture in the hopes of separating wh…
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November 21, 2025 at 3:30 AM
What the Columbian Exposition of 1893 foreshadowed about the 20th century – despite very few people noticing – and why it’s important. We review @exlarson’s #DevilintheWhiteCity: the-agency-review.com/devil-white-...
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How talent and imagination factor into both what makes an artist an artist and how an artist perceives him or herself. #TedJohnston on episode 12 of #YoureOnMuteThePodcast: open.spotify.com/episode/329X... #artists #creativity #podcast
Episode 12-Ted Johnston
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November 21, 2025 at 1:19 PM
How talent and imagination factor into both what makes an artist an artist and how an artist perceives him or herself. #TedJohnston on episode 12 of #YoureOnMuteThePodcast: open.spotify.com/episode/329X... #artists #creativity #podcast
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If everyone says they’re “middle-class” then the term means nothing. Here’s why they do, & how to think about it all differently & maybe more effectively: www.martinbihl.com/business-thi... #class #marketing #advertising #strategy #culture
The Price of Everything and the Value of Nothing: A Different Way of Thinking about "Class" — Martin Bihl
Charles Dickens was really rich and he was really poor during extremely volatile economic times. Is there anything we can extrapolate from his work to apply to our own era's understanding of class? Pe...
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November 21, 2025 at 3:18 AM
If everyone says they’re “middle-class” then the term means nothing. Here’s why they do, & how to think about it all differently & maybe more effectively: www.martinbihl.com/business-thi... #class #marketing #advertising #strategy #culture
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I decide to weigh in on creatives, #AI and the current state of #advertising. Oh well, it was a nice #career while it lasted. www.martinbihl.com/business-thi... #ArtificialIntelligence #Advertising #AdvertisingAgencies
Pearls Before Swine: some thoughts on creatives and AI — Martin Bihl
I place AI in the context of the past few decades of advertising and it makes absolutely no one feel better about anything. You’re welcome.
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November 19, 2025 at 7:52 PM
I decide to weigh in on creatives, #AI and the current state of #advertising. Oh well, it was a nice #career while it lasted. www.martinbihl.com/business-thi... #ArtificialIntelligence #Advertising #AdvertisingAgencies
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.#ZachBruno posits that the sustainability of love is not a static thing; it changes as much as you and the culture do as time passes. Episode 11 of #YoureOnMuteThePodcast: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/e... #love #podcast
Episode 11-Zach Bruno
Podcast Episode · You're On Mute · 02/29/2024 · 15m
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November 21, 2025 at 3:02 AM
.#ZachBruno posits that the sustainability of love is not a static thing; it changes as much as you and the culture do as time passes. Episode 11 of #YoureOnMuteThePodcast: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/e... #love #podcast
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In #TheMediaAddictsHandbook, Jeff Einstein makes the case that humans are addicted to media and suggests a solution. But we think there’s something more important implied by his thesis. Our review: the-agency-review.com/media-addicts/ #advertising #marketing
The Media Addict’s Handbook
We have contended, here and elsewhere, that writing about advertising allows one to look at culture through the cracked lens of advertising to better understand how it works. Jeff Einstein’s The Me…
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November 19, 2025 at 8:01 PM
In #TheMediaAddictsHandbook, Jeff Einstein makes the case that humans are addicted to media and suggests a solution. But we think there’s something more important implied by his thesis. Our review: the-agency-review.com/media-addicts/ #advertising #marketing
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There are a lot of useful things for creative people in @davetrott’s #OnePlusOneEqualsThree but space limits us to only a handful in our review. Check it out here: the-agency-review.com/one-one-three/ #advertising #marketing #creativity
One + One = Three
There are books that complain about advertising. And there are books that mythologize it – past, present and fictional. But books that you can turn to when you’re trying to figure out how to actual…
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November 18, 2025 at 7:37 PM
There are a lot of useful things for creative people in @davetrott’s #OnePlusOneEqualsThree but space limits us to only a handful in our review. Check it out here: the-agency-review.com/one-one-three/ #advertising #marketing #creativity
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“I’m not always waiting for an anvil to fall on my head by any stretch of the imagination” – Expert Recruiter #MichaelaMorgan on if bad things resonate longer than good things & why. Episode 10 #YoureOnMuteThePodcast: open.spotify.com/episode/3TEM... #badthings #goodthings #podcast
Episode 10-Michaela Morgan
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November 19, 2025 at 7:34 PM
“I’m not always waiting for an anvil to fall on my head by any stretch of the imagination” – Expert Recruiter #MichaelaMorgan on if bad things resonate longer than good things & why. Episode 10 #YoureOnMuteThePodcast: open.spotify.com/episode/3TEM... #badthings #goodthings #podcast
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Some advice about #animation that is uncharacteristically functional but don’t worry, I wrap it up with some 40,000 foot platitudes. What I noticed while judging the #CollisionAwards : www.martinbihl.com/business-thi... #awardshows #marketing #advertising
Greetings from an Uncanny Valley: Notes from an Awards Show — Martin Bihl
The use of animation in advertising and marketing is accelerating rapidly. So what works, what doesn’t & why? I use the experience of judging the Collision Awards as an opportunity to make some observ...
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November 18, 2025 at 7:26 PM
Some advice about #animation that is uncharacteristically functional but don’t worry, I wrap it up with some 40,000 foot platitudes. What I noticed while judging the #CollisionAwards : www.martinbihl.com/business-thi... #awardshows #marketing #advertising
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The difference isn’t between #B2B agencies & #B2C agencies. It’s between good ones & bad ones: www.martinbihl.com/business-thi...
Keep the Customer Satisfied: The differences between B2B & B2C advertising — Martin Bihl
Ask a B2B shop about their B2C cousins and invariably you will hear something like this: “B2C agencies are a bunch of undisciplined, overpriced children who should stay away from the serious bus...
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November 18, 2025 at 2:48 AM
The difference isn’t between #B2B agencies & #B2C agencies. It’s between good ones & bad ones: www.martinbihl.com/business-thi...