Have you ever seen an Ad?

In June an Account Manager at the company where I am doing an internship asked me the sizes of Newspaper ads. I didn’t tell him the sizes… Why?  Because I did not know that newspaper ads have any  fixed size . I used to believe that the size of ad is according to the wish of the client/company but I was wrong, there are fixed sizes set by the Newspaper Publishing Companies. An Account Manger is an  Advertising Agency  is not the person who works in finance, it’s the person who manages different accounts. Accounts here mean Clients. So an account manager is a person who manages different clients. In Pakistan all the leading newspapers,  Jang ,  The News ,  DAWN ,  Express  etc have 8 columns in there newspaper. And the height of the page is 57 cm approx.                                            An ad that c...

We all learn at every stage of our lives, we learn in our school, we learn in our college, we learn from family and we learn from work too. One of my colleagues told me yesterday that most of the biggest advertising agencies of the world operate in Pakistan but they are not independent here, they have merged or are affiliated with the leading local agencies such as Interflow, Prestige and Orient. J. Walter Thompson, Ogilvy & Mather, Grey, Saatchi and Saatchi and few others are contributing a lot in growing the advertising industry of Asia, and particularly Pakistan. But do you know that all the agencies in the end  are One ? WPP is a   world leader in marketing communications. It s a company that own most of the advertising agencies of the world, JWT, Ogilvy and Mather, Grey, INGO, Clickworks, ADK, Yolk etc, all come under the name of WPP. WPP is a public limited company and currently its stock quote is: I reckon WPP bought some of the agenci...

Founder of Google Larry Page  Since Larry Page founded Google, the website has conducted lots of innovation and the search engine has also improved. However still there are queries that Google is not able to answer. During my internship at an advertising agency I searched on Google: In response to my query Google displayed the websites of all the companies that own billboards and hoardings. And this was obviously not the answer to my query. I think search engines can only perform amazingly when people and organizations are willing to reveal information they possess. Sometime organisations and people do not publicly reveal their data, researches and information. They have their own valid reasons, but by this they resist collaboration and progress. Search engine can only search; it cannot count, discover or analyze…