From the vault: And the Oscar goes to...
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By Adam Kleinberg
On the Oscar's tonight, Chris Rock told America that being a voiceover artist was the easiest job in the world. "I just go into a booth. A guy tells me the next line. I say the line. He tells me the next line. They pay me a million dollars." (not an exact quote, but close enough)
On the Oscar's tonight, Chris Rock told America that being a voiceover artist was the easiest job in the world.
"I just go into a booth. A guy tells me the next line. I say the line. He tells me the next line. They pay me a million dollars." (not an exact quote, but close enough)
My 8-year old daughter, Alice, asked me, "Daddy, is it really that easy?"
Which lead me to break into the vault and pull out some work we did on a shoestring budget (with tongue firmly implanted in cheek) for Sun Microsystems to launch a product called Java Studio Creator a few years back.
See if you can recognize the talent behind the Oscar-worthy performance of Captain Creator in this gem.
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This week's Ad Age predicts that creative agencies are going to have to learn to move faster. What will be the implications if that's true? How will we adapt?
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My wife gave me the Steve Jobs biography for Hanukah. I'm two days in and a hundred pages down. I'm mesmerized by Steve's greatness and accompanying weirdness. He was never ordinary.
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Last week I was invited to participate in a panel discussion held by the ANA on the topic of Agency Relations. A hot topic of conversation was performance-based compensation.