You Sleep When You Die

Whether you have kids of your own or not, you probably already know it’s that time of the year again: Back to School!! This also means our summer internship program here at the agency has come to an end.

I have to say that once again, our interns never fail to impress me. Our internship program is unlike any other program out there today. We had more than 300 applicants compete for less than 25 spots in this year’s program. So needless to say, our interns represent the best of the best.

My daughter graduated from eighth grade last week. Aside from the fact that I can’t believe she’s already old enough to be starting high school, it got me thinking about the importance of education. You might be thinking, “Yeah, whatever. It’s easy for this guy to talk about how important education is now that he’s made it big.” But I will tell you – I had to learn the hard way.

I posted a blog last week in support of our client, Lane Bryant, and their fight against content censorship and discrimination against curvy women. While we strongly believe that this is fight that needed to be fought in the public eye, we had no idea just how big this thing would be.

Over the course of the past week, almost 2.5 million people have viewed the new spot, making it the most viewed spot on YouTube and the biggest viral video of the week, according to Ad Age. The story has been picked up by television shows and networks around the world, including The Today Show, The Early Show, CNN, The Tonight Show, The O’Reilly Factor and Saturday Night Live. It has been featured on hundreds if not thousands of blogs, not to mention one Tweet every 30 seconds at one point. That’s crazy!! Or is it?

Would it piss you off if someone else decided to define what the universal standard of beauty should be? What about if it was a powerful TV network (or two TV networks) forcing that decision on you? It pissed the hell out of us, especially because it involves one of our partners, Lane Bryant.

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