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The Advertising For Peanuts Archives 11 Oct 2010 | 11:33 am
Hi there. Welcome to the Advertising for Peanuts Archives. In case you aren't familiar with the legendary advertising blog of the Oughts, here's a little back-story. I started AFP in in 2005. I was a...
Thanks to all 27 Nov 2008 | 02:56 am
My hat is permanently off to Littlejohn for, among other things, having created and evolved this blog over the last few years. That’s a long life for any blog. And to have kept it vital the entire tim...
The Death of an Advertising Blog 25 Nov 2008 | 09:08 am
(BOULDER, Co) - Advertising For Peanuts, the daily blog known to all its readers as the Consumer's Guide to Advertising, Media and Organic Produce, has died at the age of 3 (which, in blog years, was ...
Advertising: the cottage (cheese) industry 28 Oct 2008 | 06:30 am
In these troubled times, here’s a reassuring thought. Advertising may languish at times like these, but it will never die. Because, like so many other disciplines, the effectiveness of which is wide o...
A penny for your parallel thoughts 14 Oct 2008 | 05:29 am
There is a kind of silly movie that came out in September called Eagle Eye. This movie relies heavily on the following device: the protagonist spends much of the movie being directed, via one electron...
Sadly, not beckoned 1 Oct 2008 | 02:34 am
I feel compelled to react to Littlejohn’s most recent post, in which he points a big arrow to Amy Krouse Rosenthal’s latest project to make a film comprised of “lovely things” submitted by everyone so...
The Beckoning of Lovely. 26 Sep 2008 | 03:03 am
In advertising, we get to make a lot of stuff: videos, posters, websites, widgets, booklets, characters, sometimes even new inventions. Making stuff is my favorite part of advertising. I think it's mo...
I’m Joe Blow and I approve this message. 23 Sep 2008 | 03:43 am
Now that this silly waste of time has become well-established in political advertising, let’s take a moment to examine it. I guess its original intent was to help viewers distinguish between an offic...
hidden desires 17 Sep 2008 | 09:33 am
I only have time for a quick post today to point you to a fascinating documentary (The Century of the Self) about Freud's theories and their influence on politics, marketing, advertising, and how we a...
Beg High The Roof Beam 9 Sep 2008 | 03:46 am
In advertising, it’s important to have a grasp of how and why language is used, so that we can use it appropriately and effectively with whichever audience we are having a conversation. To that end, i...
