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A Rochester Agency Took Its Founder’s Name and Made It a Mindset
Partners + Napier is now Napier. Courtney Cotrupe and Rob Kottkamp on grit, wit, waking sleeping giants and working a little harder.
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A Horror Movie You Can Only Watch During an Oil Change (and Other Ways to Get Remembered)
Indie Spin: The one with sludge, soup in a bag, and a cranberry baseball glove.
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Panda Express in Fortnite, a Horror Film in the Oil Change Bay, and Other Notes From the Week After Advertising Week
Indie Spin: The one with a breastmilk savings account, an AR mural that pays the theater, and a search buyer…
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A Spokestrout, a Cat Named Mittens, and Ten Indies on the Inc. 5000
Indie Spin: The one with a fish who finally got the mic, 589 million hours of Canadian TV, and an…
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Sea Monkeys, Suitcase Balloons, and the Slow Death of the Click
Indie Spin: The one with a 1,392-foot cheese pull, a cannabis light beer named Herbert, and a whole industry finally…
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The World Cup Ate Everyone’s Marketing Plan (and Google Ate Their Search Traffic)
Indie Spin: The one with a barbell strategy, a fuzzy yellow insurance puppet, and 16,231 comments run through an AI.
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The Croisette Hangover, a Baguette With Strategic Weight, and a $10,755 Problem That Shrank to $3,381
Indie Spin: The one with the Cannes comedown, the return of a summer Yeti, and the metric quietly wrecking your…
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A Glacier You Can Play, a Fish You Can Mourn, and a Museum of Everything Left in Ubers
Indie Spin: The one with the ice vinyl, the Lizzo jingle, and 23 awards in China.
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Mac & Cheesecake, Subservient Ghostface, and the Death of the Keyword
Indie Spin: The one with a Grand Effie, a trip to Ibiza, and Google's first dip below 50%.
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Sky Bunk Beds, Maya Angelou’s Confession, and the 47% Loyalty Cliff
Indie Spin: The one with Air New Zealand's NYC stunt, two Webbys for an AR project, and a $420M gaming…
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Candy-Crushed Arenas, Cinematic Shopping Lists, and the 39% of Agency Contracts That Forgot About AI
Indie Spin: The one with the anti-nicotine campaign terrifying the internet, the feature-length hot sauce film, and the metric that…
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Horse-Powered Travel Planners and Other Reasons the Indie World Doesn’t Do Boring
Indie Spin: The one with predictive creator math, a Kentucky Fried three-peat, and a zombie game announcement nobody saw coming.
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Bean Bag Chairs and Eight-Week Campaign Turnarounds
Indie Spin: The one with Chipotle-branded furniture, press card rejections, and AI-generated human stories
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When Fake Cookbooks and Real Rankings Collide
Indie Spin: The one with Inc. 5000 #1s, elaborate product failures, and creator audience supremacy
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Apparently, 81% of Shoppers Just Give Up When They Can’t Get Free Shipping
Are we shocked?