Disney Meets Instagram
Instagram is now a media monster with well over 300 million members who share upwards of 70 million videos and photos every day. Brands are flocking to it because it seems that no one pays attention to branded interactions on Facebook and Twitter anymore. Take this little nugget found on Sprout Social: At 4.21%, Brand […]
Eight Ways to Toast Globally
I’ve shown you how to make it at a media party, how to drink like a Mad Man, and even how to get your client to push away from the hosted bar after walking the red carpet. But, have you ever wondered how people drink beer across the globe? I can be your tour guide. […]
A Tobacco #TBT
I’ve never done a #TBT, aka Throwback Thursday. Gosh, I feel so old. Tobacco has long been a fascination of mine. When I was growing up in the mid-70s, every magazine seemed to have a super cool cigarette ad with gorgeous, dynamic women and manly men. I learned that since the late 1700s, when the […]
Bullsh*t!
First, the big news… It only took three years, but my movie “Black Hand” is set to premiere in South Korea. The thriller I penned (and was later translated by the great Byeon Hye-joo) has a wonderful cast including Han Go-eun who goes a bit haywire after her new hand she had surgically attached provides some […]
Hail the Public Relations King of the Middle East
Okay, so where am I? No I’m not on vacation—more on that later—right now, I’m hunkered down, barricade-style, on a mission to finalize my Clio submission. Yes, it’s awards season in the ad world and fresh off my Telly Award wins (hate to brag, well, no, it’s nice to be able to…), I felt it […]
Thought of the Day: Make Yourself Indispensable
Business isn’t conceptual rocket science. It’s about making money, trading goods and services and basically, getting stuff done. In spite of that, it’s still something that confounds a lot of people. How DO other people make money? Why are some people rich and other people poor? Why am I poor when I work so hard […]
Don Draper…I Owe You.
I may owe my career to Mad Men. “But, why?” you ask… The answer is simple: Advertising was dying in 2007. I mean it was a bloodbath. Budgets were getting sliced like deli meat and the wise guys in accounting were cutting costs and the media departments took the big hits first. Add to that […]
Gizelle: Model, Spy and World’s Greatest Muse
First, the big news… The Media Guy strikes again. A double winner in the 2015 Telly Awards competition. What are the Tellys? Only one of the most prestigious honors in the the advertising industry. Sure, the Clios get all the glam, but the Telly Awards carry a lot of juice. Yet I digress… Okay, so […]
Godzilla and His Loose Connection to Azerbaijan: Me
Okay, so where am I? There’s no truth that I was able to secure a plum seat ringside for the Mayweather v. Pacquiao at the MGM this weekend in Las Vegas…yeah, uh, $4,000 for a ticket just to get in is a bit too much. And, I may or may not be in Azerbaijan looking […]
Slow Down
How to slow down your life…right now…just as soon as I see what my Starbucks name is… In what is definitely solid proof that the Internet (and Starbucks for that matter) is a place of endless possibilities, some brilliant dude or dudette has created a name generator that simulates the experience of having your name […]
