Managing Creatives
Okay, so where am I? I’m still recovering from the red carpet at the Oscars. Every year, for seven straight years, the photographers pit takes a little more from me. This year I may have brought back the flu bug from either the hundred or so camera clickers or the one of the beautiful people […]
ANAHEIM DUCKS: You Should Have Called The Media Guy!
Post-Thanksgivings are always difficult, It’s nearly unfathomable to me how two days of eating turkey and unlimited carbs can set you back. So there I was struggling on the elliptical machine at the club when this video pops up of a tattooed man waltzing through an office with nothing on but an electronically super imposed […]
Don Draper is a Demigod
Only Don Draper could write $1,000,000 checks AND have his ads run 50 years later. Today I ask myself this definitive questions: Is is bad to be jealous of a fictional character? Strolling through New York City—49th and 7th to be exact—revealed that Don Draper’s “Pass the Heinz” ads are running a full fifty television […]
Everyone Needs a Muse – A Tribute to Glenn Frey
Okay, so where am I? It’s been a busy week for the Media Guy! I’m in Hollywood this week with what seems like LL Cool J Week. First, I run into him at the fabulous Redbury filming NCIS: Los Angeles and today I watched him get the 2571st star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. […]
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 […]
Notes from a Tinseltown Weekend
Okay, so where am I? Top left and around: Taylor, Seacrest, Nick Jonas, Ludacris, me, Iggy, the red carpet, Pia Toscano, and my credential. I’m in Hollywood getting ready to fly out on another top secret media campaign. Well, not so top secret, more of a non-disclosure, which binds my silences. Before the free drinks […]
Family Travel in the Electronic Age
In the Don Draper Mad Men Days you could bring your secretary to watch the kids on a family trip and then fall in love with her and get married on a whim. The kids had a good time at Disneyland and you could even cram in ten or twelve meetings. God knows I lived […]
