Advertising, ad campaigns, ad agencies, and the people that make it happen

My old pal Steve Coulson points out that JWT has bought all the ad space for one week on the The Huffington Post, which will showcase nine of the agency's best television ads including Levi's and HSBC. Funny they should have chosen a left wing blog (of which I am an avid reader) when I always considered JWT to be a little to the right of center. But, no matter, I think it’s a smart move on their part. JWT wants to use the "roadblock" buy-up, where a single advertiser takes over a website, magazine or radio program, to show that it is modern enough to compete in the digital industry. Funnily, when “Media Bulletin” a British trade rag talks about it they list some of the blogs writers, including George Clooney. As further proof that most journalists these days don’t do their homework… Clooney does not write for them, and was very pissed when Arianna made up a post for him and ran it without his permission. Guys… Always check your facts!

Arianna who?