In a move that aims to enhance the storytelling experience, HBO has unveiled a four-panel video installation that offers four different perspectives on the same scene simultaneously.
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August 17, 2009
The Farm: A Pop-Up Solution to Agency Recruiting
We live in a time of instability. There’s the economy, political strife, and the use of pop-up everything by marketers everywhere (see wedding chapels, apartments, dance parties, and stores). Well now there’s the pop-up agency.
Digital agency Proximity BBDO’s Belgium outpost has designed ‘The Farm,’ a program for hiring new talent. Seemingly inspired by the recruiting practices of major league sports, it is the solution to their struggles finding talent amidst high local agency competition.
The “agency-within-an-agency” nurtures 12 recruits who will get the opportunity to work on some of the agency’s top accounts. During their time there they will undergo an [...]
June 5, 2006
Ad Agency Blogs: All Talk, No Trousers
A couple of months ago there was a little bit of hoo-ha about Hill Holiday turning their website into a blog. If we look at the number of posts they’ve produced since that date (and compare the effort with other agency blogs), it looks like HH’s efforts was all talk and no trousers.
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