by Alistair Mokoena (@AlistairMokoena) As an advertising professional, what is your love language and do you know your clients’ love languages? Are you treating your clients the way they’d like to be treated or do you default to how you’d like to be treated?
Category archives: Adland
Hermaneutics: Two narratives on MetropolitanRepublic sanctions
by Herman Manson (@marklives) Two very interesting but diverging stories ran on Thursday, 7 November 2013, in, ironically, two media products that also shares a newsroom. Both cover the MetropolitanRepublic/Loeries awards scandal, which saw the agency stripped of its awards for entering work that did not meet entry criteria, and then blaming its juniors, the broader ad industry and the Loerie organisers when caught out (it did eventually take full responsibility for its actions).
Creative Circle sanctions MetropolitanRepublic
On October the 28, 2013 the Creative Circle received a letter of complaint from the Loerie Awards regarding the recent behaviour of one of our members, Metropolitan Republic, hereafter referred to as MR.
Letter from NY: Matthew Bull’s house rules for entering award shows
by Matthew Bull (@StixBull) When it comes to entering awards with our work, we have a simple set of house rules we like to remind ourselves about. Here, for the first time ever, we publish them.
ACA suspends MetropolitanRepublic membership
The Association of Communications and Advertising (ACA), the self-regulatory body of the South African advertising and communications sector, has imposed severe penalties on MetropolitanRepublic following its disqualification from the Loeries 2013. This includes the suspension, with immediate effect, of its membership of the ACA for a period of twelve months.
Hermaneutics: Lessons from MetropolitanRepublic’s Loerie nightmare
by Herman Manson (@marklives) There are many lessons to be drawn from the current fracas surrounding MetropolitanRepublic being caught out for failing to adhere to the submission rules of The Loerie Awards.
Dumb ways to die #adlandedition
[Satire] With apologies to Tangerine Kittie and Metro Trains. By Anonymous
The Ad Contrarian: Big data and marketing bull
by Bob Hoffman (@adcontrarian) The era of “big data” is quickly becoming the era of “big bullshit” — bullshit on a grander scale than ever before. We’ve always had ability to bullshit with words. Now we have the ability to bullshit with math.
Industry reacts to MetropolitanRepublic Loeries scam ad scandal
As news broke late Friday that MetropolitanRepublic has been stripped of all its Loeries wins @marklives started retweeting industry reaction on our Twitter feed. We have reprinted some of those retweets here.
What MetroR, MTN should know about education in Uganda
by Anton Crone (@antoncrone) The advertising industry is full of well-educated, extremely talented people, but it is driven blind by awards and the creative egos that chase them. Awards are vital; they raise the bar. But with the brains that the industry has, far more concerted effort could be put into making a positive difference.