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.

...but not their life.

Paul Tilley, the ECD of DDB/Chicago, apparently took his own life Friday night. [AdAge, Adweek] There has been all sorts of conversation on Twitter about whether a Feb. 18 post on the anonymous ad agency gossip blog AgencySpy was at all to blame.

A long time ago, I saw a quote from Wonkette herself that changed my blogging:

[I]t's OK to ruin someone's day but not their life.

The intensity of our industry is not proportional to its importance. Play hard, but play fair. Life is short. My heart goes out to Tilley's family.

Agency segmentation: A slideshow

A couple of years ago, I realized my favorite agencies don't market themselves as brand agencies or online agencies or promotional agencies. BBH, Anomaly, Strawberryfrog and others are just out there doing, you know, stuff.

But I'd never advise a client to position itself as an all-purpose stuff doer. So I started mulling over new ways to position agencies. And an online discussion primarily driven by Adam Crowe, Zeus Jones and AgencySpy resonated with me.

As a way of sharing the discussion with coworkers, I created this PowerPoint presentation. (I know, I know. Scary stuff, writers messing with presentation software. It's literally my first time using PowerPoint.)

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