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CARROTS   |  Comment

How Carrots Became The New Junk Food

Jeff Dunn believes he can double the $1 billion baby-carrot business -- and promote healthy eating -- by marketing the vegetable like Doritos. His secret weapon? He knows every snack-marketing trick in the book.READ»

Alex Bogusky, Advertising's Elvis, Tells Fast Company Why He Quit MDC and the Ad Biz

“Miles [Nadal, CEO of MDC] started getting phone calls from some clients that didn’t like things that I had said,” Bogusky tells Fast Company exclusively.READ»

The Technology Driving Denver's B-cycle Bike Sharing System

A month after the launch of Denver's bike sharing program, we look at the integrated technology that's making it easy for Coloradans to take a ride.READ»

FAILURE   |  Comment

Stop Learning From Your Failures, It Creates a Culture of Fear

It's become a classic business mantra: you learn more from your failures than from your successes. But what if that idea is all wrong? Alex Bogusky, co-chairman of Crispin Porter + Bogusky, believes it is--and recent MIT research ...READ»

An Open Letter to MDC Chief Creative Insurgent Alex Bogusky's Mom

We've got a lot in common: We're both big fans of her son, the founder of Crispin Porter + Bogusky. And we both love to read Fast Company.READ»

HUMANA   |  Comment

Humana Takes Health to the Streets With B-cycle Bike Sharing

Grant Harrison created B-cycle--automated kiosks that let riders rent bikes at prices akin to mass transit--at Humana, in partnership with Crispin Porter + Bogusky and Trek. The national rollout will bring 50,000 bikes to a dozen U.S. cities in the next three years.READ»

Crispin Porter + Bogusky's Crowdsourcing Experiment Backfires

Designers revolt after the ad-agency solicits a crowd-sourced logo for Brammo Motorcycles.READ»

Burger King's New Web Site Becomes Hub For Advertising Favorites

The Subservient Chicken is back. Burger King has revamped its web site, creating a multimedia home for some of its best-known but long since retired advertising efforts, as well as the corporate and nutritional information that has ...READ»

Burger King's Struggling. Is Their Ad Agency to Blame?

BK continues to lose ground to McDonald's--and some are laying the blame on the creepy ads created by Crispin Porter+Bogusky. Hogwash.READ»

APPLE   |  Comment

Microsoft's "Laptop Hunters" Campaign Eating Away at Apple

It's easy to dismiss Microsoft's $300 million rebranding effort as an attempt to paint over fundamental problems with the company's products. Apple certainly has, continuing to belittle its PC counterparts as buggy and virus-ridden ...READ»

Lemon Head: A Q&A With CP+B's New Director of Design Kevin Grady

While working as a creative director at Arnold Worldwide in Boston, Kevin Grady landed a choice account as the original design director on the Truth anti-smoking campaign, propelling him to fame. His "Singing Cowboy" ...READ»

KINGONS   |  Comment

'Kingon' Invasion: Burger King and Paramount Ink Blockbuster Marketing Deal

After going three-for-three in drawing public criticism for its Whopper Virgins, Texican and Square Butts campaigns, Crispin Porter + Bogusky has scored another trifecta: a three-picture Burger King marketing tie-in with Viacom's Paramount Pictures, starting with Friday's release of Star Trek.READ»

Hyper Island Grooms the Next Generation of Digital Media

Mattias Hansson helps train 1,300 students a year in digital media, interactive art direction, and digital business management in Stockholm and on a former prison island off the coast of Sweden. Graduates are hotly recruited by such firms as Crispin Porter + Bogusky and Ideo.READ»

AKQA   |  Comment

The Most Innovative Companies in Advertising & Marketing

You have seen our Fast Company 50. But what are the companies within specific categories doing creative and ground-breaking work? Who is leading an industry into the future? Here we present the top ten firms in Advertising and Marketing.READ»

TOP JOBS   |  Comment

Career Advice from Jeff Hicks and Alex Bogusky, Crispin Porter + Bogusky

Jeff Hicks has been in advertising for over twenty years. He became CEO of Crispin Porter + Bogusky in 2004. Alex Bogusky joined Crispin Porter in 1987. He became a partner at Crispin Porter + Bogusky in 1996, and then Co-Chairman in February 2008.READ»

ADVERTISING   |  Comment

Can Alex Bogusky Help Microsoft Beat Apple?

Alex Bogusky built the country's slickest ad shop using Apple products. His next challenge: Persuade people like him to buy Microsoft's stuff.READ»