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Indie Spin: The one with a 22x traffic spike, a pickle-green KFC, and a bourbon named after a parking lot.
Uncharted's new platform for TopCashback demonstrates the product exactly zero times, and the mirrored creatures carry the entire message
The new campaign from Quirk Creative is less about learning to read than about what reading eventually turns into
Cricket and ARGONAUT handed WWE superstars 60 seconds and one very long text message, then put the results on a live leaderboard
Inside VIA, the 33-year-old employee-owned shop in an 1888 Portland library that maps the consequence first and engineers its way there.
Rob Baiocco and Maureen Maldari left Grey to build a DUMBO shop where simplicity liberates creativity — and a trademarked process keeps the work sharp
Simon Lewis built a four-person, fully remote Vancouver shop to put the marketing back into digital marketing — and found that flexibility beats bells and whistles
How a five-person St. Louis creative shop turned "grown-ass adults" into a business model — and why it's still an underdog on purpose
The BrandAPI is a concept, not a thing you build.
AI-generated search answers have ended the paid placement journey before the first impression and killed publisher revenue. It's time to be more strategic. By Jeremy Cobb, VP of Digital Platforms at H/L
The new algorithm is a foreclosure on the imitation-first model.
After six years he is taking his time on what comes next — and making the case for feeling, nuance and a braver industry
Uncharted's new platform for TopCashback demonstrates the product exactly zero times, and the mirrored creatures carry the entire message
The new campaign from Quirk Creative is less about learning to read than about what reading eventually turns into
Cricket and ARGONAUT handed WWE superstars 60 seconds and one very long text message, then put the results on a live leaderboard
The People's Theatre opens its first permanent home with a campaign built on the people who were already there
The BrandAPI is a concept, not a thing you build.
AI-generated search answers have ended the paid placement journey before the first impression and killed publisher revenue. It's time to be more strategic. By Jeremy Cobb, VP of Digital Platforms at H/L
The new algorithm is a foreclosure on the imitation-first model.
Andrew Graff argues that hourly billing quietly drains agency energy — and that indies, not holding companies, have the leverage to end it