What Happened to Halloween?

By Ryan Schaul

Halloween isn't what it use to be. Unfortunately, retailers and consumers prematurely focus their efforts on Thanksgiving and Christmas. How is it that I was able to watch National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation, before the Charlie Brown Halloween Special even aired? To eerily sound like my elders, “when I was young…”, I remember when Halloween was filled with an entire night of trick-or-treating. Houses were decorated with ghosts and ghouls, and neighbors were always around to pass out candy. Now, as I look at the houses in my neighborhood, there are no decorations, no homemade graves or ghosts hanging from trees. In an ironic fashion, Halloween is “dying” right in front of our eyes and it makes me sad.

The "King" of Creepy

By Konstance Smith

Since it's almost Halloween, we thought it would be fun, as a staff, to blog about our favorite Halloween campaigns. I started brainstorming and the truth is...I don’t really have a favorite. The truth is, there really aren't many Halloween campaigns that are very memorable for me. But in the spirit of Halloween, I have instead chosen a campaign that I have always found a little creepy, but love anyway. I’m talking about Burger King’s “The King.”

Cukjati's Rocky Mountain State Games Poster Brings Home Top Honors

At the recent the National Congress of State Games Symposium, in Oklahoma City, OK the poster Cukjati designed for the Rocky Mountain State Games was awarded Top Honors for Best Poster for a State Games. 

Social media and you

By Troy Stiles 

We've all heard about this social media stuff and there’s more to it than just narcissistic status updates and net shorthand. (Which btw: I had no idea there were this many chat acronyms – http://www.netlingo.com/acronyms.php LOL!) Facebook and Twitter are the current rulers of the social space as we know it, but there are many others like Foursquare, YouTube, and LinkedIn that are vying for a piece of the online pie, too.

Let's face it, client face time is decreasing

By Ryan Schaul, Director of Client Services


Way back in the day, during the time period of Mad Men and such, three martini lunches were the considered the norm in the area of agency account service—a lot of schmoozing and a lot of boozing day in, day out; being in front of clients as frequently as possible was norm.  Keeping agency top of mind awareness for the client was key back then.