Archive for the 'advertising' Tag

Desedo Does DC

21 Jan 2009

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, […]


Muslim Ad Network and Desedo FTW!

14 Jan 2009

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 […]


Agency Spy: Muslim Consumers

01 Nov 2008

Agency Spy just published an interview with MHB about the Muslim Market and brands’ engagement efforts with minority markets.


American-Muslim Identity: Advertising, Mass Media + New Media

29 Oct 2008

UPDATE: Below is the white paper I wrote for the Contemporary Muslim Consumer Cultures conference at Freie Universitat in Berlin. In Fall 09, Cambridge Scholars Publishing will include it in their book Muslim Societies in the Age of Mass Consumption and it will be available as as PDF. Excerpts from this paper and interviews relating […]


So Lonely

10 Sep 2008

Our friends Michael and Johanna recently wrote great posts about the current upswing in collective loneliness. It may seem at odds with our web of connections, but with each wave of tech comes new feelings of alienation. Wondering if that’s what put the walkies in this Police video.