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Agency: Starting A Creative Firm In The Age Of Digital Marketing

Agency: Starting A Creative Firm In The Age Of Digital Marketing

Modern agency upstarts need a different sort of education, and Agency provides a remarkable crash course.

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2020 Media Consumption and Picks

Previous lists: 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016, 2015

29 min readJan 1, 2021

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My Photo Organizing System

This is a method of organizing photos for the average human with thousands of camera phone photos that would like them decently organized…

7 min readDec 3, 2020

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A cultural historic guide to my (now your) record collection, to my daughter after the apocalypse

Note: I wrote this in one go a year ago — March 16, 2019. I petered out towards the end and had a bunch of notes at the end. It was going…

19 min readMar 24, 2020

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2019 Media Consumption and Picks.

Previous lists: 2018, 2017, 2016, 2015

30 min readDec 31, 2019

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2017 Media Consumption (re-posted)

In the style of Soderbergh: http://extension765.com/sdr/22-seen-read-2014

20 min readDec 31, 2019

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Five myths about advertising

When you apply the economics to advertising you learn some interesting things. Things that have profound ramifications for us in how…

15 min readFeb 12, 2019

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Five myths about advertising

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2018 in Media

Rough totals: 260 albums, 20 live acts (so sad), 55 new movies, 31 TV series, 64 books.

25 min readJan 1, 2019

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My Internet Mea Culpa

I’m sorry I was wrong. We all were.*

10 min readDec 26, 2017

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We’ve Forgotten That Where We Run Our Ads Matters

Digital has ignored the theory of signaling — to the detriment of both advertisers and society. Where a customer is, is crucial.

9 min readNov 7, 2017

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We’ve Forgotten That Where We Run Our Ads Matters

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Google’s $350 Billion Haircut

The math’s not pretty on digital advertising’s future revenues. That could mean a massive devaluation for both Google and Facebook.

11 min readOct 16, 2017

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Rick Webb

Rick Webb

11.4K Followers

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author, @agencythebook, @mannupbook. writing an ad economics book. reformed angel investor, record label owner, native alaskan. co-founded @barbariangroup.

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