Denver in AgencySpy, AdPulp, Tellys and AdRants

Whatever feelings you may have about The Denver Egotist, you gotta love them selling our town in national blogs like AdPulp and AgencySpy. Nicely done, Egotist. If I knew who you were, I'd buy you a Double Cheeseburger. But I don't. Your loss.

And while I'm back-slapping, congrats to Citizen on their 10 Tellys. And Cactus for making AdRants.

The Egotist is getting old.

Party on, Egotist.

StrawberryFrog is in London (and just about everywhere else)

Over the past few days, I've started to suspect that I'm being stalked by StrawberryFrog. I look on the Cannes shortlist and there it is. I turn on CNN and there it is. I wonder what's up in London and, now, there it is:

Last year, SF moved headquarters to New York and is moving its European operations to London...

It's no secret that StrawberryFrog has been successful by being smart and ahead of the game. They've been one of the most talked about shops since their inception in 1999. Goodson says, "I think it's fair to say that in today's ever changing market you need to stay entirely agile while remaining focused on delivering innovation, strategic and creative excellence." And that's exactly what StrawberryFrog seems to be doing. I see this as just another smart move on their list of good calls.

We're lucky to have StrawberryFrog founder and CEO Scott Goodson judging the 2008 Denver 50. Norm, Citizen Pictures and I are filming the call for entries now. Look for the video in about four weeks.

TD50 column at AdWeek

A couple months ago Steve Conroy asked me to pen an op-ed about the Denver 50 that he could pitch to AdWeek. I did. Time passed. I forgot about the whole thing. Then last Thursday, I got a call from Libby Estell informing me that AdWeek was going to run my piece online:

But while agencies try to move forward, awards shows seem stuck. Particularly at the local level, they tend to reward executions and vendors, instead of breakthrough ideas.

When we launched the new Denver Ad Club in 2006, we decided that we could make a powerful statement by reinventing the awards show.

The rest is at AdWeek.com.

UPDATE: Pure, Andy and the Egotist give link love. (Thanks, guys.) And I just heard Amatucci's cover photos for the 2007 show book won a Gold National ADDY.

Dumber every day

"Is Google Making Us Stupid?" is awfully interesting. Sort of along the lines of a post I wrote last year named "Am me getting myself dumber now?" But it's a really long article and I didn't quite finish it. Just too much stuff vying for attention. Like this Mercedes spot about all the stuff vying for attention, via AdFreak: