Please read: A personal appeal from Chris Riebschlager

As most folks know, I’m pretty active with our local Kansas City chapter of the American Advertising Federation. Not only is it a great organization when it comes to professional development, both in terms of ongoing education and networking, it also doubles as group therapy any time we get together. Client issues? Internal agency turmoil? [...]

So yesterday I posted two solid (and brief) videos of Chuck Porter of CP+B fame talking about “How to Build an Agency from Scratch.” Today I’m moving on to his former partner in crime, Alex Bogusky. As the decade-long darling and devil of the American ad scene, Bogusky is the embodiment of the modern “man [...]

Crispin Porter + Bogusky is the shop everyone desperately loves to hate. And for a while there you could count me in that pitchfork and torch bearing mob. But you know what? They’re just too damn good at what they do. I couldn’t maintain my animosity. With Alex Bogusky’s announced exit from MDC (CP+B’s parent [...]

As you can tell from our previous blog post (and this picture of dinner from Friday night), Adam Seitz (@adamseitz), Arlo Oviatt (@onwardcreative) and myself had a lot to digest. The first day had been a real headspinner in terms of great speakers, great content and great ideas. But they don’t call it Big Omaha [...]