FedEx Demonstrates Relevant Obtuseness

BBDO has been doing some truly stellar work for FedEx over the last several years. Consistent in tone and tone and message, the work proves that giving a campaign legs doesn’t require annoying schtick like the Aflac duck. Huzzah. Instead, the FedEx spots rely on...

Battery Powered Self-Pimpification

In the 3 1/2 years since I started the sporadic musifying that is The AdHole, I have promoted my own work only once. This has not been out of humility. Rather, the bulk of those 42 months was spent as a self-employed freelancer. As anyone who has freelanced knows,...

iLove You, iLove You Not

Let me say up front that I am torn, like Natalie Imbruglia but without the naked floor writhing, by the new Verizon campaign for the Droid. Which is a phone that has long been sold exclusively to the moisture farmers of Tatooine. The campaign, which is meant to launch...
November 2, 2009

November 2, 2009

Welcomes Simon Gabriel Fox into the world and is promptly served with a trademark infringement suit by moob enthusiast Simon Cowell. Gabe Kaplan accepts a note of apology from Epstein’s mom.