Workspaces Archives - Adpulp https://www.adpulp.com/category/workspaces/ Advertising News and Know-How Sat, 12 Mar 2022 14:09:21 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.1 https://www.adpulp.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/cropped-adpulp-logo-reddark-grey-32x32.png Workspaces Archives - Adpulp https://www.adpulp.com/category/workspaces/ 32 32 29582147 “Owning A Large Portion of the Best Talent” Is Pre-COVID Thinking https://www.adpulp.com/owning-a-large-portion-of-the-best-talent-is-pre-covid-thinking/ Thu, 10 Mar 2022 18:06:40 +0000 https://www.adpulp.com/?p=37450 Like so many businesses, the agency business is a talent business from top to bottom. Nothing good happens without extraordinary efforts made by dedicated, gifted people working as one. Agency heads used to say the agency’s “best assets,” a.k.a. the talent, walk out the door and go down the elevator each evening. Of course, these […]

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]]> 37450 Put Some Serious Stock In Slack https://www.adpulp.com/put-some-serious-stock-in-slack/ Sun, 30 Jun 2019 20:12:35 +0000 https://adpulp.wpengine.com/?p=30393 Are you on Slack? Over 10 million people log on to the messaging App every day. People in all sorts of industries are deciding if it’s a helpful tool or a nagging reminder (that there are unread messages waiting for you to act on). The answers to these questions will vary depending on how your […]

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]]> 30393 All Work And No Play Makes Johnnie and Joanie Witless Screen Zombies https://www.adpulp.com/all-work-and-no-play-makes-johnnie-and-joanie-witless-screen-zombies/ Mon, 28 Jan 2019 23:27:09 +0000 https://adpulp.wpengine.com/?p=28839 Advertising like law, journalism, technology, engineering, medicine, and other professions demands countless hours from its workers. This, despite damning evidence that productivity and creativity fall flat after about six hours of concentrated work. According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the average American works 44 hours per week, or 8.8 hours per day. A 2014 national Gallup […]

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]]> 28839 The Avalon Ballroom Is Argonaut’s Launchpad To New Space https://www.adpulp.com/avalon-ballroom-argonauts-launchpad-new-space/ Fri, 22 Sep 2017 17:14:16 +0000 https://adpulp.wpengine.com/?p=25001 “Hipsters, tripsters, real cool chicks, sir, everyone’s doin’ that rag…” -Robert Hunter Fifty years ago in San Francisco, LSD-fueled rock-and-roll parties raged deep into the night at The Longshoreman’s Hall, The Avalon Ballroom, and The Fillmore. A new culture was born from this artistic Renaisance—a culture which continues to feed people’s spirits and bank accounts […]

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]]> 25001 Ad Grunts Want To Work for Pay, Time Off and Coffee (Not Trophies) https://www.adpulp.com/ad-grunts-want-to-work-for-pay-time-off-and-coffee-not-trophies/ Thu, 16 Jul 2015 23:35:58 +0000 https://adpulp.wpengine.com/?p=23082 Advertising is a glamorous industry. Or so it may seem to some from the outside looking in, partly due to how the industry is portrayed in TV shows, film and lifestyle press. Of course, there are ad people enjoying a corner office with views of the San Francisco Bay or the equivalent, but they’re in […]

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]]> 23082 Wolf & Wilhelmine’s #WolfHowl Reverberates Coast-to-Coast https://www.adpulp.com/wolf-wilhelmines-wolfhowl-reverberates-coast-coast/ Fri, 26 Sep 2014 23:14:43 +0000 https://adpulp.wpengine.com/?p=22102 Heidi Hackemer, founder and director of strategy for Wolf & Wilhelmine, has the right idea—either rebuild the agency of the future around her own human needs or get the hell out of dodge. Hackemer is a Wisconsin-bred New Yorker who believes in good ideas, a good run and good hair. She also eloquently states several […]

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]]> 22102 The Optimists At 72andsunny Are Rockin’ In The Paid World https://www.adpulp.com/72andsunny/ Tue, 02 Sep 2014 20:35:32 +0000 https://adpulp.wpengine.com/?p=22004 The Hundreds paid a recent visit to 72andsunny in Playa Vista. The result is a look inside one of today’s top agencies and their remodeled mid-century modern offices. If we were an architectural lifestyle ‘zine, we’d jump all over the intricacies of the building design, and how Howard Hughes once worked here. But what AdPulp […]

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]]> 22004 How Ad Agencies Do Less With More https://www.adpulp.com/ad-agencies-less/ https://www.adpulp.com/ad-agencies-less/#comments Thu, 03 Oct 2013 20:59:06 +0000 https://adpulp.wpengine.com/?p=20618 Robin Williams once said cocaine was God’s way of saying you make too much money. Something tells me he’d say the same about ad agencies’ current fascination with turning even the smallest task into a gigantic group project. You’d think in these days of tight budgets, rapidly changing media and constant connectivity, agencies would not […]

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]]> https://www.adpulp.com/ad-agencies-less/feed/ 1 20618 Want To Get Stuff Done? Can Your Chief Interruption Officer https://www.adpulp.com/want_to_get_stu/ Fri, 26 Feb 2010 06:51:57 +0000 https://adpulp.wpengine.com/want_to_get_stu/ The post Want To Get Stuff Done? Can Your Chief Interruption Officer appeared first on Adpulp.

]]> 7656 Private Space At Work? How 20th Century Can You Get? https://www.adpulp.com/private_space_a/ Tue, 09 Feb 2010 19:24:54 +0000 https://adpulp.wpengine.com/private_space_a/ The New York Times is running a piece on Grey’s new offices and what motivated the move to an open floor plan. Before, most everyone had an office; now there are three in the entire company. And the floor that houses the creative and production departments lacks even cubicle walls. Tor Myhren, the chief creative […]

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