Influx

There was further proof of America’s decline in the recent Global Competitiveness Report from the World Economic Forum, it showed America slipping from 4th to 5th in the world. If America is looking to re-invent itself on the global stage and it’s clear that ingenuity and creativity...

If you happened to turn on CNBC this morning or any other news network, the news of Steve Jobs’ departure from the top slot at Apple was presented as massive news. The journalists and analysts struggled to find words to describe his impact on the world of business and culture as a whole. There...

While many might be suggesting that social media has put an end to television creativity, nothing could be further from the truth. The fragmented explosion of the medium  combined with users lust for content has made television a much more powerful force than it’s probably ever been. By...

Kickstarter just released an amazing set of data about its performance: 1. In  just two years, it’s funded 10,000 projects 2. Over 6,000 of those projects have been in the worlds of music and film/video 3. It’s raised over $75 million 4. The number of backers totals 790,000+ The brand...

There’s the whole idea of getting consumers to create content for your brand, which is pretty pervasive right now and it’s usually forced onto people by an agency or a crowd sourcing house. Most of the time it doesn’t really feel right- OK ideas emerge and you never really know...

It was great to be one of the 180 people that got to participate in the Planningness event in Minneapolis last week. Mark Lewis and Claire Grinton, yet again, showed us how to put on an event that combines raw ingredients with the opportunity to turn those ingredients into something useful. The...

This is a nice presentation from "Account Planning Guru", Paul Feldwick, from a London TEDx conference, where he provides an interesting perspective on the problems surrounding the definition of creativity. He touches on the obvious problem of its very intangibility making it a tough concept for...

It used to be that only very few areas of business got to sprinkle the creative magic dust- these were the marketing folks and they did cool sales events and if they were really lucky they got to do the big prize, television commercials. For many, this was the chance to bask in the headlights of...

The Social Network will likely emerge together with Inception as a contender for movie of the year. While the later uses fantasy to take us to a future world that's built from an understanding of present realities, The Social Network is very much about "the now" and the changes we've seen going...

The world of video games has become dominated by the hyper-saturated, the fast-paced and the graphically intense. Story lines have come back, but graphics still rule. Just because it's the norm, doesn't mean there isn't room for experimentation and the opportunity to transform the experience....

There's a great visual that's circulating around creative and design departments, this very minute, it's a quote from director Jim Jarmusch encouraging people to steal ideas, because there's no such thing as an original idea. Of course, this is a constant topic of debate especially as every...

Behance is a company that serves the needs of the growing network of independent creative professionals. It does everything from helping them find jobs, foster collaboration, generate new ways to think and delivers an engaging environment to view portfolios and creative samples.I spent some time...

Nokia and the Future Laboratory, have just completed a research study that explored attitudes and developments in the use of technology and media. They talked to 9,000 consumers in 17 countries. The breakthough finding and brave prediction is the emergence of what Nokia is calling "Circular Media"...

As the advertising industry falls more and more in love with black boxes, terabytes of data and predictive models, it could be missing out on the one thing it needs to encourage, the random. One of the non-fiction books of the year is Nicholas Taleb’s Black Swan, which examines the...

Here are 15 things that I know, now that I didn’t at 9am yesterday, thanks to Jonah, Scott and Teressa's Ad Age/Creativity Idea conference. 1.    No one has every liked a single one of Russell Simmons' ideas.2.    David Jones is putting digital at the center of...