Ads on coffee cups: Old school . Ads on coffee itself: New.  Weird as hell, but new . From Expedia in Germany (those wacky Germans!) comes this ethereal, foamy and caffeinated ad format:...

Suicide is far from funny. This ad, however, is. It's part of a Pepsi Max campaign over in Germany (!) and created by BBDO in Dusseldorf (!!!) (Check out the other two ads here.) You may hate 'em, you may love 'em, but folks ain't ignoring them. There are always inherent risks in pus...

Don Shula's got big balls. (Almost as big as Stephan Pastis'.) Passed by his beloved restaurant in New York's Westin Hotel a week ago, and was FLOORED by the inclusion of an item-by-item calorie count on the lobby menu. Holy jeez, I thought Arizona's infamous Heart Attack Grill and i...

On the road, and trying to change the world, once again... As you read this, I'll be busy hosting a highly-focused, boutique conference in Toronto, namely Strategy Magazine's Mobile Marketing Workshop.  As a pioneer in the field, my company Airborne Mobile has been at the forefront of mobile me...

Not precise enough to be considered origami, but too deliberate to be dismissed a crumpled-up currency, Dan Tague 's folded, twisted bills are subversive art that have been shocking the senses of those who are taking in his current show at the Jonathan Ferrara Gallery in New Orleans. We've all screw...

Antony Bruno is a man of his word. The Executive Director of Billboard's Digital/Mobile Conferences took a gamble last fall with a free-form, no-holds-barred panel at the semi-annual CTIA convention (a mainstay for us folks at Airborne).  The result was a blast (see re-cap here), and I wondered...

Last Friday, I once again carried out my semi-regular gig of speaking to the marketing students at McGill University's Desautels School of Management, and what started out as the usual, free-flowing affair soon focused in on the topic of Surprise Marketing. First of all, the students' interest in an...

Two follow-ups from yesterday's post on flaunting wealth or thrift: Alan Victor, President of Jack Victor (the internationally-renowned, 95-year-old, high-end men's fashion manufacturer) tells me that in China, men don't clip off the designer logo labels on the wrist-cuffs of their suits, but displa...