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Post Ad Anachronisms of the Mad Men Season 4 Premiere
If you’re at all interested in the ad biz, we know where you were last night at 10pm: on the couch, eyes transfixed on the tube, eagerly ingesting the premiere of Mad Men’s fourth season. We grinned...
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Mad Men Advertises About Advertisers Advertising Before Their Advertisements
Let’s start this week off right with a look back at yesterday’s episode of Mad Men. As usual, we’ve been keeping a close watch on the show and its sponsors. While most of the folks at Sterling, Cooper,...
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Rival Agencies, Psychotic Ex-wives and Repetitive Placements (Or, Mad Men:...
It’s that time of the week — a new episode of your favorite primetime drama about the most despicable industry of all: advertising! This week’s entry in the Mad Men canon featured a plethora of both...
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Working for the Weekend: Peggy Gets Naked in a Hotel Room (Season 4, Episode...
As Matthew Weiner and co. hauled home more Emmys on Sunday night (Mad Men scored its 3rd straight win for Best Drama), AMC forged ahead with another new episode of their mega-hit show in which,...
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Luggage + Booze + Your Boss = Best Birthday Ever! (Mad Men: Season 4, Episode 7)
Okay, great Mad Men episode, or greatest Mad Men episode? In either case, “The Suitecase,” was all about the advertising. More specifically, it was about idea generation, and all the blood, sweat,...
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“Go Shit in the Ocean!” (Mad Men Season 4, Episode 8)
It took half a season to pick up, but Mad Men is certainly on to something in these last few episodes. Sure, Sunday night was light on the actual advertising process, but all the HR/office dramatics...
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Mad Men’s Disastrous, Awful, No Good Season 4 Finale
(Warning: spoilers from the season finale of Mad Men, as well as excessive vitriolic ranting below.) And, like that, it’s over. Was this really what we were waiting all season for? There’s a unanimous...
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Will the New York Times Paywall Succeed?
As just about anyone with internet access is now painfully aware, this week the New York Times imposed a “paywall” on visitors who want to read more than 20 articles per month. In other words, the...
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Mad Men’s Renewal Saga
Oh gentle, ad-obsessed readers, it seems like only yesterday Mad Men was on the air and we at Post Advertising were serving up weekly slabs of inspired ad industry analysis to go with it. Where do the...
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10 Brands Doing Post-Advertising Right: Fall Edition
Each week, our social media team at Story hops on a conference call discuss the latest and greatest in the world of social media, content marketing, brand storytelling and the like. While most everyone...
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3 Television Shows that “Get” Social
Television has been “social” for years now, but the rapid embrace of real-time marketing in 2013 (and we’re only two months into it) has shifted social TV into a higher gear. But the topic of brands...
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For Second Screen Engagement, Twitter Leads the Pack
Last fall my favorite TV show was American Horror Story. I enjoyed all the twists and turns, but more than that, I loved getting together online with friends and perfect strangers every Wednesday night...
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