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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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Viasat Pushing of Against Ipred Towards a Better Positioning

March 31, 2009

I‘ve written quite a bit about the Pirate Bay trials and how the music industry is undermining itself and its own business. As of tomorrow we have a new law in Sweden, the IPRED-law, allowing copyright holders to go after downloading youngsters. Any such attempt is of course entirely in vain. I’ve written about it [...]

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The Labels Are Playing a Dangerous Game With Spotify

January 29, 2009

Yesterday Spotify announced that they are removing songs from their database, and imposing country restrictions on others. Again, we see the record labels showing off their power. But it’s really a dangerous game to play. As I’ve said before, both in lectures and on this blog, the only way to properly fight piracy is to [...]

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Join The Conspiracy

April 29, 2008

When we aired the first set of Join The Conspiracy WeSC commercials that we shot in Stockholm, we were harshly criticized by the advertising community. How could we make something that didn’t make sense?!?! People were angry. People were mocking us. But the films turned out to be immensely successful on MTV and delivered way [...]

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Saturday and The Mirror Conspiracy

February 9, 2008

Good morning! Let’s take it from the top.This is outfit of the day!(Hat from Marc Jacobs, scarf from a Manhattan street salesman, leather jacket from Whyred, hoodie from American Apparel, jeans from WeSC). Dressed to kill. Now off for breakfast with “queen of words” miss K. (If this girl goes into journalism it will be [...]

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Information Wants To Be Free. So Does Music.

February 7, 2008

Nina has been writing a bit about the piracy-debate on her blog. And the analysis is dead on. It has never really been about protecting artists, but protecting distributors. Music is not endangered, traditional distribution systems are. Similar Posts: Is This The New Music Industry? A Guilty Pirate Bay Verdict Will Make us Look Like [...]

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