Archive for January, 2009

The Huffington Post: Meanings of Media

24 Jan 2009
Who is Down? and What Is Up?

Huffington Post just picked up Raafi’s Ad Age article about YouTube, Race and the bottom line.


Desedo Does DC

21 Jan 2009
lights, cameras, everywhere

How, you may ask, did team Desedo score passes to the national media pool? Well, there are trade secrets, alas, even in our open-source hearts. Look for some motion pictures of the inauguration from us soon. But we’ve also covered the event in the industry press. Here’s an article I’ve written in AdAge on diversity, [...]


Ad Age: Meanings of Media

21 Jan 2009
If a black kid in the woods gets 20 million views, will the advertising world notice?

Raafi wrote an article for Ad Age about YouTube representation and content creation – and how this dovetails with the marketplace of race, still not understood by advertising.


Muslim Ad Network and Desedo FTW!

14 Jan 2009
vwramadanfrontMuslimMoonMilk

As Agency Spy teased last week, we’re working with LA-based Muslim Ad Network (MAN) to launch the first ever US advertising agency that will focus on the American-Muslim consumer demographic. MAN has aggregated the Muslim new media space for ad placement, providing vertical access to +10 million page views each month. BFD? Well, yes. This [...]


Sexy Time

13 Jan 2009
DLo: Colder Than Yall

We are pleased to announce that our dude Derek Lo aka The Big Asian has been dubbed 2009′s Sexiest Man in Advertising. Should you wanna grab his chain, he spins them records round and round every Friday night at Happy Endings. And he might be wearing a crown.