Posts Tagged ‘Bob LaBarge’

Novemember 20, 2009 @ 6:24 PM

Saturday, November 20th, 2010

One year ago I was given a rare gift. Unemployment @ 43 years of age. There was special language in my release letter that “you are of an age…” that gave me an extra 10 days to make the Monstrous decision whether to sign your rights away OR give ‘em hell.

I choose HELL. Mostly because an UNWARRANTED pink slip deserves RED the color of BLOOD.

HELL + UNWARRANTED + RED = BLOOD

So I had that going for me. At 2 AM after a dear friend had left my house I decided I was going to start my own agency.

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Thursday, November 11th, 2010

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Today’s the Day

Tuesday, September 28th, 2010

William Bernbach, one of the founding members Doyle Dane Bernbach (DDB), once said

“You can say the right thing about a product and nobody will listen. You’ve got to say it in such a way that people will feel it in their gut. Because if they don’t feel it, nothing will happen.”

At LaBarge+Partners, we whole heartedly believe in Bernbach’s words.  There is a lot of advertising out there but the truly great work makes you feel something — makes you talk, laugh, contemplate or feel. Great advertising makes you feel something or relate to a brand in an entirely new way.

The quest for that “feeling” is what makes our job so great.  How do people feel and what is the insight that relates that feeling to a brand?  How does that insight come to market and how do we visually articulate it in a way that consumers understand?

That said, in today’s industry, great advertising also has to do more than just provoke a feeling.  In today’s market, that feeling has to be relevant to the target consumer and has to reach that consumer in just the right way at just the right time.

LaBarge+Partners not only understands this but has built our entire agency on it.

Our belief is that our Client’s business problems are unique and require specialized thinking, not a generalist mentality.  That research is the key to uncovering unique insights.  That insights matched to the right talent will lead to the very best ideas.  And from those ideas we can not only create content that makes consumers feel, we can create relevant content that is delivered to the right person at precisely the right moment.

Insights + Ideas + Integration = Measurable Results.

It all starts today.  Welcome to LaBarge+Partners.

AdAge.com Poll: Is the Appetite for Apps Misplaced?

Tuesday, March 30th, 2010

Last week, AdAge released a poll today asking subscribers to vote on the following:
Are marketers wasting online budgets by focusing so much on apps rather than the mobile web?

Background:
The love affair between marketers and mobile apps is in full bloom, but the obsession with apps and the niche market they represent is coming at the expense of the mobile web, which is exponentially bigger and starving for brand dollars. Nearly 20% of U.S. mobile subscribers used a downloaded app in January, according to ComScore, but that audience is spread across myriad devices. The largest app category, iPhone apps, at best only reaches 25% of smartphone users — a fast-growing segment that represented 42.7 million Americans in January, according to ComScore. Compare that to nearly 30% of all mobile subscribers that used a phone’s web browser on any device accessing the internet, from iPhones and BlackBerrys to Android phones. What’s more, phones will overtake PCs as the most common device to access the internet worldwide by 2013, according to a study from information-technology research company Gartner.

Results:

My take is 50/50. In some instances NO as Apps are another consumer touch-point that when done right can be an entertaining and educational experience. Take Coca-Cola Company’s Spin The Coke,

a good example of branded entertainment but an even better example of integrating into the digital life of their customers.

The other half, YES, like Mt. Dew’s AMP energy drink who took .apping to a whole new and crude level with AMP UP Before You Score.

For the whole story behind this iApp debacle click here.

Conclusion, digital content is a marketers reality. Today, Tomorrow, and for the very distant future. Join the revolution Comrades, join or be irrelevant.

Kliktease – Made by Men for Men (and a woman)…

Wednesday, March 24th, 2010


-for English version click here.

Great insight, great twist an being “caught”, and a great execution.

Agency: Houdini, Amsterdam
Client: Lingerie Totaal
Creative Man Director: Wilbert Leering
Creative Man Director: Boris Peters
Copywriter Man: Wilbert Leering
Art Director Man: Boris Peters
Illustration Man: Jonathan van Loon
Programmer Woman: Kitty van der Gijp

I’m just saying…

Bicycle Bicycle…

Thursday, March 11th, 2010



I remember reading last year that bike sales in the US actually outpaced car sales when the economy was weighing on everyone’s minds @Huffington Post:

so I guess it shouldn’t come as a surprise that Google just added bike routes to GoogleMaps.com

this is a great first step toward promoting alternatives to single-person commuting, but I wish they’d sync up with public transportation systems, too, to have bus routes and schedules, too.