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Honesty New Nordic Lead Agency For Scandic

March 3, 2011

Those of you who have followed this blog for a while know about my love for hotels like Ace and Michelberger, and hotels in general for that matter. And now, finally, I and my agency Honesty get to work with an entire chain of hotels! After a demanding pitch, the hotel chain Scandic selected Honesty [...]

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A Year of Love and Two Years of Honesty

February 14, 2011

When I founded Honesty AB on Valentine’s Day 2009, I had just started on a brand new relationship with an amazing girl. It’s somewhat telling I guess that I am now, two years later, celebrating Valentines Day on my own with tacos and a movie. I don’t want to blame it on work, but there [...]

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Honesty Part 2 – The Story of Starting an Advertising Agency

December 23, 2010

So I finally got my first day off from work in what feels like a lifetime. It also feels like a blink of an eye. So amazingly much has happened this year, and at the same time, I have never had a year pass this quickly on me before. I’m sitting here at one of [...]

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Honesty’s New Concept for Halebop. Are You a Lover or Hater?

September 29, 2010

Last week we started rolling out the new concept for the Swedish youth mobile brand Halebop. The reactions that came back to us were as expected – mixed. It’s a love hate thing and very few inbetweens. And here’s a hint: Love-Hate-tension creates discussion. And what does it look like in concrete terms? Well – [...]

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Honesty New Lead Agency for Stena Metall and Halebop!

June 1, 2010

It’s been an amazing past couple of weeks! Apart from the clients we already work with, we have now won not one, but two major long running pitches and are now the strategic lead agency for both Stena Metall and Halebop.Stena Metall is a big and extremely competent recycling company. In a world full of [...]

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3 People Who Made Me Better: Sagmeister, Mäntymaa & Lindkvist

April 13, 2010

One of the major benefits of my line of work is that I get to work with a lot of amazing people from all over the world. They are consultants, designers, copywriters, strategists, marketing managers, logistics experts, event people, translators, web developers and all kinds of other specialists. Here are three of the more impressive [...]

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Why Advertising Agencies Rule

March 24, 2010

Embrace Experience. Breath Innovation. Produce Intimately. Sure the world has changed. But I think it’s time to realize that we haven’t changed much. A couple of years ago I was one of the people running around screaming that the world was coming to an end, that the traditional advertising agency model was over and that [...]

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What Bill Clinton And Tiger Woods Could Learn From Amazing Ursula

February 12, 2010

“I did not have sex with that woman… miss Lewinsky” is not a good strategy. Why? Because it’s untrue. If you think back at the Clinton/Lewinsky-affair, the big issue wasn’t really that Bill was unfaithful, but rather that he kept lying himself into a corner. Tiger Woods did the same thing. In Sweden we have [...]

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How About Some Spice With That Fun Theory?

December 10, 2009

This isn’t brand new by any standards, but it reminds me (and perhaps you) that sometimes, bad ass is just… bad ass. The Subaru also seems to carry a bit more fun & punch than those german Volkmobiles, wouldn’t you say? Thanks to Juha for sharing.

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How To Apply for Work at Honesty

September 28, 2009

In these times of economic downturn and agencies firing people left and right, perhaps a couple of ideas for job applications could be in order: I see a lot of people applying for work with us by sending an email with a CV and a personal letter. Most of the time these are people that [...]

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Selling Sears (or Åhléns) With Porn – a Thought Experiment

September 16, 2009

With traditional tag-along advertising, we force our way into peoples homes, or rather, we sneek our way in by way of real value. This has provided us with good reach by simply paying our way in, but it also has its disadvantages – we have to behave like the uninvited guests that we are. I [...]

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Lowe Brindfors Copy the Forsman & Bodenfors SEO Mistakes

September 15, 2009

Last week I wrote about how Forsman & Bodenfors don’t understand how the internet works. In absolute terms, the description was fair, but in relative terms, they are not worse than most of the advertising business. Yesterday we got another painfull piece of evidence to that effect. I’m talking about the brand new website of [...]

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Is Spotify the Darth Vader of Music?

September 8, 2009

As Spotify launched their iPhone app, the crowd cheered. The talented SEO-expert (and comedian) Simon Sundén publishes the follwing graph of Spotify Premium sales that went viral amongst us nerds. Half us us thought is was true, and who knows, it may be. But even if this graphic joke isn’t true, it illustrates something quiet [...]

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The Hang Glider Theory – How to Survive Disgusting Domino’s Pizza Clips and More.

September 7, 2009

I love to theorize about social behavior and how it relates to our behavior on the internet. But sometimes I get the urge to be just a little more practical about things. How can we actually use all this theory? Before we dig into what I call The Hang Glider Theory, let’s gossip a little. [...]

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Q&A From The BBH Labs Post on Honesty

September 4, 2009

Yesterday, BBH Labs wrote an interesting post commenting on some of my thoughts on internet transparency and gossip. The post itself, as well as the comments, are well worth a read. Since it’s one of my favorite topics, I naturally wanted in on the discussion myself, but as I started writing a comment on their [...]

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What the World Will Look Like in 25 Years

September 1, 2009

When I went to ad-school I felt that the school was in many respects molding people into replicas of what ad-people were supposed to be. Now I feel that this is perhaps about to change. The other day I got interview questions from Hyper Island regarding digital trends, and today I got another question from [...]

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Social Web Camp vs. Bring Dialogue Conference ’09. Waking Up to a Different Reality.

August 24, 2009

Contrasts are what make life interesting. Yesterday I woke up here: …from the sound of sheep walking around outside my tent. Today I woke up and threw myself into a cab to Arlanda to fly off to Oslo and Strömstad for the Bring Dialogue Conference ’09. When I got here I realized I’d be staying [...]

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Never Ever Ever Piss Off Creative People!

July 21, 2009

If you break something, you fix it. If only United Airlines would have had this moral policy when they broke Dave Carroll’s Taylor guitar, they wouldn’t have suffered. But they did. Oh, they did. Because creative people aren’t like ordinary people. They don’t fight back with legal action that huge and rich organizations can defend [...]

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SAAB just got interesting.

June 16, 2009

It’s now official. Supercar maker Koenigsegg buys Saab and turns the sleepy techy brand into something completely different. Because even tough Saab has had a sporty aura over it, and a reputation as a fun car to drive, it has had kind of a geeky aroma as well. Koenigsegg adds flair to it, and one [...]

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Crispin Porter + Bogusky Launches in Europe. In Gothenburg to Be Precise.

June 11, 2009

When I went to ad school, CP+B was considered the coolest kid in town. Only, they weren’t in our town. They were in Miami and Colorado. Today, it was announced that CP+B has bought the Swedish agency Daddy which will be rebranded as CP+B Europe and become the hub for European operations. This means that [...]

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