The advertising equivalent of a large arms shipment dave trott

We missed the real story: the sunnis are free. Free of Hariri, the “sunni street” didn’t vote blindly. It didn’t vote “en bloc”. Its vote was forced to mature. This could be bigger than the opposition’s breakthroughs. Discuss Jean Riachi Jihad Samra Timour Azhari Omar Tamo

“Where once you campaigned in poetry and governed in prose, now you campaigned in bombast and governed in metaphor” Marina Hyde, take a bow.

How many is too many?

Advertising used to have the power to set the cultural agenda, and now it doesn't says Ramsey Naja Ramsey Naja #opinion #advertising #quality campaignme.com/time-to-turn-o…

The industry likes nothing more than a case study in which the tears factor trumps the sales metrics, writes DDB's Ramsey Naja. #opinion #advertising #awards @DDB_Worldwide Ramsey Naja campaignme.com/a-view-from-ra…

This is great, really

The Starry Night is a great lesson on how technology changes art. Vincent Van Gogh created his masterpiece in 1889. But the painting style was born from the art world's response to the invention of the camera decades earlier. I explain more here: trungphan.substack.com/p/the-camera-v…

If it can be created, it doesn’t mean it should be. (Unfortunately, it will.) bbc.com/news/technolog…

Even if you don't like football you've got to love this Scottish commentary - youtube.com/shorts/DaHAG74…

#Agonista_coffe قد يظن البعض انه مجرد اسم لمقهى يقصده الناس لاحتساء القهوة على غرار بقية المقاهي في لبنان. ولكن المفرح أنً هذا المقهى المتواجد في منطقة #الزلقا المَتنية استثنائي، فطاقمه من ذوي "الاحتياجات الخاصة"! يقف خلف هذه الفكرة الرائدة الاخصائي في العلاج الفيزيائي

Huge

“Marketing departments – and, similarly, ad agencies – are considerably more likely to adopt the Ptolemyan model than that of Copernicus,” says Ramsey Naja, Regional ECD at @DDB_Worldwide. #marketing #ptolemy #agencies #brands campaignme.com/stick-who-care…

I don’t care about #hamas or the #IDF. Nor #palestine nor #Israel. I simply ache for Daniel and Sarah and their little ones. And Ahmad and Layla and theirs. And all people like you and me, doing their best to live good lives, and who end up being used as toys for stupid children

“The moment the brand that I wear starts wanting to have its presence felt, is the moment I want them to pay me. Presence, you see, and its feeling thereof, is the name of the game,” says DDB's Ramsey Naja. #ddb #ooh #dooh @DDB_Worldwide Ramsey Naja campaignme.com/ooh-the-most-i…

This👇

Magnificent. Simply magnificent.

My slightly exasperated bit about ad agencies’ virtue signalling

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