May 15, 2018 11:21AM ● By Jason Fox
I may not be Nostradamus, Jeane Dixon, or even Miss Cleo (and thank goodness, considering they’ve all ceased to be), but I’m fairly confiden...
Nov 22, 2017 11:13AM ● By Jason Fox
In the last edition of The Brand Brief, I was a bit blunt in my dismissal of what I termed “overly earnest advertising.” The type of adverti...
Nov 09, 2017 02:27PM ● By Lisa Lukecart
When Mike Hagel landed at Chicago O’Hare Airport back in 1970, he didn’t know what to expect.“Get out and start life,” his mother Betty told...
Aug 24, 2017 10:40AM ● By Jason Fox
Stop me if you’ve seen this one: Open on a shallow depth-of-field shot of a business owner, dentist, or HVAC repair technician. They begin: ...
May 20, 2017 11:31AM ● By Jason Fox
In 2009, filmmaker Doug Pray released Art & Copy, a feature-length documentary that, according to IMDb, aimed to reveal “the work and wisdom...
Dec 20, 2016 04:36PM ● By Jason Fox
There is no shortage of bad marketing to lampoon, nor is just a small amount of it targeted at women. When writing this column, I worried th...
Nov 11, 2015 09:33AM ● By Elizabeth Mack
Jingle writers have done their job if they create an earworm—a song so catchy it sticks in your head and won’t leave. “When I tell people I ...
Dec 09, 2014 08:00AM ● By Jason Fox
In that specific world where only closers get coffee and WKRP’s Herb Tarlek is spoken of in reverent tones despite being 30 years past his p...
May 25, 2013 01:57PM ● By Wendy Wiseman
Chances are you are a “digital immigrant,” one who was not born bathed in bits, who played video games as a toddler or learned keyboarding i...
Mar 25, 2013 05:52PM ● By Mary Quinn
Spring cleaning is a yearly tradition for most households, and while we all have shopped our fair share of garage sales, a lot of people don...
Feb 25, 2013 04:08PM ● By Wendy Wiseman
Just to set the stage in the simplest of terms: Hulu is streaming TV (and a movie service with original content, but put this part aside for...
Feb 25, 2013 10:36AM ● By Kyle Eustice
Omaha resident Will Simons has worn many hats. As the managing editor of the now defunct Omaha City Weekly, he flexed his journalistic prowe...
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