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 […]
Melting on the Emmys Red Carpet
Okay, so where am I? Yes, indeed I am at the newly named Microsoft Theatre (formerly the Nokia Theatre) in Downtown Los Angeles at the Primetime Emmy Awards. Before I talk about the triple digit heat on the red carpet, I must declare that I really want to party with three women: Click here to […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Making it at a Media Party
Oh let’s face it… …if you don’t know how to drink or look like you’re drinking while nursing a cold bevie, you’re going to have a tough time in the ad game. Advertising parties may or may not look like this 🙂 Before I get to the fun stuff, how about a quick rundown on […]
Drink Like a Mad Man
I have never missed an episode of Mad Men. No one quite gets this about me. However, if you only knew how similar this show is to the PR guy world I lived as a kid — even down to the Joan P. Harris (née Holloway) type that used to sashay down the halls of […]
