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Dec 14, 2011

Community Post: Anticipating the Occupy Movement

Glynn Young

I am reading Sam Van Eman’s On Earth as It Is in Advertising: Moving from Commercial Hype to Gospel Hope. And I am thinking that I’m holding an incendiary, revolutionary document in my...

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Sep 30, 2011

No Touchy.

Sam Van Eman

"No touchy." This phrase from Kuzco, the high-maintenance ruler-turned-llama from Emperor's New Groove, resonates with me. I can't help it. I am a fringe germaphobe, dabbling in the art of...

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Oct 14, 2009

When an advertisement sells more than cars

by Anonymous
The High Calling

Volkswagen is encouraging us to incentivize goodness. Give people a reason to do the right thing.

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Jan 7, 2009

New Year's resolution: Hug an advertiser

Sam Van Eman

Advertisers have it rough. They promote products, so we naturally blame them for the month we just spent dodging (and being hit by) commercial shrapnel. They used the television to shoot at us,...

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Aug 28, 2008

You, Happier

Gordon Atkinson

Sam Van Eman from "New Breed of Advertisers" has noticed a new Best Buy advertising campaign called "You, Happier." The idea is, of course, that you will be much happier after you've picked up a...

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Aug 12, 2008

Do You Have Cause Fatigue?

by Anonymous
The High Calling

Marcus here. Over at New Breed of Advertisers, Sam Van Eman has confessed "I think I can't, I think I can't." Ouch, Sam. That's bleak, man. That's Cormac McCarthy bleak. I know what Sam means,...

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