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Chain of fools or tool for the wise?

“Chain, Chain, Chain... Chain Of Fools” is not only a brilliant Aretha Franklin song (RIP), some say it also aptly describes Blockchain advertising; something that may have plenty of potential, but in its current form, is more like building “Castles In The Sand” (a Jimi Hendrix gem... I am on fire today!)

Well, to those naysayers, I say: “oh ye of little faith; brace yourself for the revolution...”

It is still unknown whether Blockchain’s creator is a single person or a group of people; all we

All aboard the Hello Kitty train!

Do you want to take a ride on the Hello Kitty train? Of course you do!

But before I answer the ‘What, now?’ and the ‘What the Heck?!’, let’s start with where this squishy thing came from and how it become a global phenomenon.

To clarify, she is not so much a cat as a Gijinka; the personification of a cat. Yeah, I’ll be throwing lots of Japanese terms around, deal with it!

From the land of the rising sun where we got such gems of mistranslations as “My tummy is crying” and “Let’s wellness”, we

30 years of just doing it

I can’t think of a more iconic line, or one more burned into our collective consciousness than ‘Just Do It’. Some say it is advertising’s last great tagline (being in advertising myself, I don’t say it, but some people do). Not only is it a great tagline, did you know it was inspired by Gary Gilmore, a prisoner on death row, who when faced with the firing squad said: “Let’s do it.” Later Dan Wieden (founder of Wieden+Kennedy) immortalised these words – well a slightly different version of them.

Campaign Watch

I lead a double life. By day I am a mild-mannered creative manager at an advertising agency, accommodating clients’ unfair demands (which is why, they pay me the middle to small bucks!), but by night, I am a voracious reader, a reservoir of useless pop culture, a connoisseur of eclectic music, a hippie at heart and a caped vigilante espousing various social justice causes. So, presented with the opportunity to offer my two cents’ worth on recent campaigns, I naturally chose those that had a mess

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