Helping Your Small Business Find Its Voice
Over the last five or six years as a freelancer, I’ve submitted a lot of spec work to various contests, projects, and assignments – mostly in video, but some in copywriting and audio as well. Work done “on spec” means there’s no guarantee of payment out of the gate: You submit the work, and if […]
Since launching in 2007, video crowdsourcing company Poptent recently paid out their 5,000,000th dollar in awards. I was one of the first freelancers to start working with them when they started, and I also happened to be the recipient of that five millionth dollar when Olivieri Pasta purchased an animation I did this spring. Even […]
Over in Washington, D.C. at the National Cattlemen’s Beef Association, they TOTALLY see the value in using a little online video marketing to drive home their point about the overreaching regulations the Federal Government is trying to impose on the U.S.’s Agricultural and Ranching industries. And in their ultimate wisdom, they even saw fit to […]
Take a look at this spoof commercial from The Midnight Show: Commercial Community College Commercial – watch more funny videos Maybe I have a different philosophy when it comes to advertising, and professional videographers who consider every commercial they produce to be “art” may put a bounty on my head for what I’m about to […]
As a guy who spent the first 18 years of his life plopped in front of the TV, I had a LOT of time to absorb the lilting, dulcet sounds of all the commercials as they wafted through my mind. If you grew up around the New York City area in the 70s/80s, you may […]