The PR/Comm/Advertising/Whatever wars are waging on here in the big city of Louisville. And famed photographer Dan Dry is joining Power Creative as the company’s Chief Visual Officer. Dry, who has won more than 400 national and international photograph and design awards, is likely most well-known locally for his Pulitzer Prize-winning work in the Courier-Journal/A [...]

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Maybe my reaction is a bet extreme, but when I saw this subject line in an email from Kroger, my eyes got a little big: I just knew some crazy stuff was about to explode onto my MacBook Pro’s screen, causing my eyes to roll back into my head. And bam! I saw this: T-bones, [...]

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You know that feeling you get when one of your sales people decides to move 700 miles away because her husband got a job? I (Jake) have that feeling right now. As you probably are already aware, I don’t really have time to do ad sales myself. So I’m hiring additional advertising salespeople. You have [...]

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Yesterday was awesome. If any of you readers saw me puking into a trash can at the airport, please accept this as my apology. And if anyone caught it on tape, I will pay you hush money. [Deep Airport Thoughts] Can you believe it? Aaron Ramey, the oft-detested former news director at WHAS11 has found [...]

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Anyone else notice that Greg Fischer has altered his response ad and is running it like crazy? Changed from “the A Kentucky Newspaper shoes Fischer refused to make any deals at all” to “the A Kentucky Newspaper says Fischer behaved appropriately”? Since the paper ran its ad watch bit that said Greg did make a [...]

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Hal Heiner’s mayoral campaign is unleashing two new ads in the race, both focusing on wasteful spending, primarily on Cordish Cos: And here’s one featuring Rebecca Jackson, essentially saying the same thing:

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Really, Advertising Federation? Naming Jim Ramsey “Louisvillian of the Year” ??? REALLY? Hahaha. Here’s the story on UofL’s website. And here’s the video of Ramsey: I’m sure all you advertising gays are going to come scream at me after I allege he got this “award” because of all the ad dollars he doles out to [...]

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Jack Conway’s U.S. Senate campaign has hit Daniel Mongiardo pretty hard with the latest ad about waste, fraud and abuse. [Page One] Which Republican will have the opportunity to lose to John Yarmuth in November? We know they’re all slightly homophobic and think women are inferior, some are global warming deniers and some are just [...]

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University of Louisville President Jim “Anonymous Crap” Ramsey is on a rampage to revise history. Namely that of the UofL Foundation and its lack of transparency. The latest? Massive ad buys in the print version of the Courier-Journal, which only meemaws and poppops read, and this gigantor ad on the C-J’s website (screenshot taken Derby [...]

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Greg Fischer made another media buy on Monday. He’s now up to $140,000 for two weeks of broadcast and cable. [Media Buys] Interesting that David Tandy secured the UFCW endorsement yesterday, isn’t it? But we saw that one coming a mile away when he flip-flopped on the JBS Swift fiasco, abruptly adopting the UFCW position. [...]

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