Ad Men
I wanted to address Adrianna’s comment from the COM 592 Wednesday night class that advertising is a necessary cost of business that must be included in any budget.
The absolute best show on television right now is Mad Men, and it just happens to be about advertising, advertising in the early 1960s when it was experiencing a renaissance. On the DVD extras of season one, there is a great vignette about advertising, in which someone notes that the greatest feat of the advertising industry is convincing people they need advertising. If toilet paper weren’t advertised, would you stop buying it?
The segment on advertising is really fascinating and I’m unable to do it justice in a blog post. Regrettably, I could not find it on-line, but this Making of Mad Men vignette has some insight into advertising as well. If you haven’t seen the show, you are missing a truly remarkable and unique piece of storytelling.
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Alvin Singh
Informative post and really convinced me to check an episode the next time I see it on TV. I saw the ads for Mad Men and now I have read a background blog post about how the show is about advertising! Don’t you just love the groundswell.
Oct 25th, 2008
Pam
I love Mad Men! The imagery and writing make for a terrific package (the clothes– both men’s and women’s– are great). Although, I might argue that the past two seasons have been more about imagery than plot
(but things seem to be picking up on the plot side of things this season). What’s interesting to me is how “print” oriented most of the pitches are in the show, despite how central the TV was in most households.
Oct 26th, 2008
Michael Bean
Interesting post.
I’ve been asked to wait another day but the network of sports blogs I write for recently got a huge infusion of vneture capital. One of the primary investors was one of Facebook’s major investors after they had shown substantial promise. There’s still LOTS of money out there waiting to be poured into good ideas.
Oct 27th, 2008
Michael Bean
Been asked to wait another day to disclose the details*
Oct 27th, 2008
Joseph
Perfect. flipthemesia.com is killer.
Mar 8th, 2010
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