The Barbarian Group

benjamin’s latest adweek column on social media has elicited some really great comments in the past week. as did this recent piece in advertising age (featuring a quote from rick) discussing how agencies may need to think more like software companies. ...

I’m giving a master class on using web technologies to create rich user experiences for mobile devices at the Boards Summit next week. ...

rick says good digital producers aren’t (that) hard to find. Traditionally, bumping into a good interactive producer was like finding a mint copy of the Giorgio Morodor & Phil Oakey LP, a record so rare you spent five years looking for it before you found a copy. ...

Publishers and the Internet: Beyond Display Advertising p. My talk at the US HQ of The Economist last week. Skip the intro but if you work in interactive advertising, do please give it a read from slide 19 on.

We launched something really special. It’s a new joint project with TBG+BBDO for HBO. We’ve been working with BBDO for almost a year on this, and collaborated with them on everything from the initial concepts to the web, outdoor, and story experiences. It...

This Friday, September 18th, TBG New York is participating in a rather unconventional celebration of public space. It’s called Park(ing) Day, and the premise is simple: Take over a parking space which would otherwise occupied by a car and make it into a park for the day. ...

I believe I posted the trailer when it came out, but I just wanted to mention that James Othmer’s Adland comes out today. ...

THIS IS NEXT TUESDAY THE 8th , THEY ARE GOING SUPER WELL MARK YOUR CALENDAR SIR OR MA’AM ...

THIS IS NEXT TUESDAY THE 8th , THEY ARE GOING SUPER WELL MARK YOUR CALENDAR SIR OR MA’AM ...

It is with a mixture of proudness, sadness, and well-wishing that we would like to announce that Robert Hodgin, one of the founding partners of The Barbarian Group will be stepping down as a managing partner, and leaving the full-time employ of TBG at the end of this month...

SPOILER ALERT: You can always improve on something great! ...

So our dear friend and former colleague Mike Rubenstein just alerted me to the fact that in the new (awesome) Batman video game (Batman: Arkham Asylum) the website that is mentioned for the Asylum is modeled after Boston and Harvard’s very own Mclean Hospital website, which we did back in 2005. ...

We just put up a new version of Plainview. This is mostly a bug fix release, focusing on some Flash, kiosk, and bookmark bugs...

You know that Red Bull makes an energy drink. You may even know that Red Bull puts on those wild events where people drive shit off a dock into water. BUT did you know that Red Bull invented it’s own sport (Red Bull Air Race) or a helicopter that can do a back flip? Has two Formula 1 teams? ...