February 21, 2004

the future of advertising

young adam lovely drawing.jpg
For the last year or so I’ve been wri­ting about “the future of adver­ti­sing”.
Yak yak yak, yada yada yada.
Then a cou­ple of weeks ago I deci­ded to stop tal­king about it, and just start doing it.
And now tens of thou­sands of peo­ple know all about Young Adam, and I believe see it in an infor­med and pos­tive light.
young adam wee bar.jpg
Had I put a wee bit of money into media-buying, that figure would have been millions.
No fancy ad agen­cies. No large herds of suits scre­wing around. No fancy com­mer­cial shoots. Just one guy, some car­toons, a com­pu­ter and some strategically-placed media buys is enough. Millions of peo­ple.
The car­toons are essen­tial. Gives peo­ple a rea­son to be here besi­des hea­ring me sha­me­lessly plug a movie.
What is the future of adver­ti­sing? You’re rea­ding it.
Any ad folk out there who want to con­ti­nue this con­ver­sa­tion offline feel free to e-mail me: hugh at gaping­void etc.

4 Responses to “the future of advertising”

  1. Bret says:

    Young Adam bet­ter be awe­some after all these plugs.

  2. hugh says:

    Well, I think it is, obviously ;-)