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Ernie Mosteller, who describes himself as a “Southern farm boy with an education,” embraces and embodies advertising’s transition from traditional to new media.

His award-winning work as a creative director jump-started a successful 15-year run as a nationally-known commercial director. Energized by the endless possibilities of a changing media landscape, he combined his strategic, creative, narrative and digital skills to found a hybrid digital/traditional boutique, release an early eBook on the changes agencies face today, and cultivate a loyal following of weekly blog readers.

His current position as VP, Interactive Creative Director at Brunner Digital, and VP, Creative Director for the DC office of Brunner, complete the circle – finding him back on the agency side, helping clients, creatives, and agency management understand the possibilities of digital, and create compelling messages across all media.

His personal blog is erniemosteller.com.

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Ernie Mosteller



Twitter Shift

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June 17th 2009
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  |   Ernie Mosteller

ADOTAS — You can’t write a social media story right now unless it’s heavily Twitterized. You can’t read a social media story right now that isn’t Twitterfied. Heck, one of my tweeple, a well-read blogger and Twitterer, just yesterday, tweeted that he sat down to write a story about Twitter, but [...] More...

Time is not on our side, but social media is

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May 19th 2009
Author
  |   Ernie Mosteller

ADOTAS — Like most creatives, the thing I used to want more than anything was: Time. More time to think, more time to tweak, more time to make it perfect before it hit the press or the air. There was a time when our fight against time was either a fight [...] More...

Vaudeville to Lost - On the Web

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April 15th 2009
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  |   Ernie Mosteller

ADOTAS — I’m going to talk about the web by talking about television. Not because of the similarities and differences that have been chronicled, debated, fought over and bloodied ad nauseam. But because I subscribe to the notion that history repeats itself. And I believe we’re seeing it repeat itself in [...] More...

Niches win for online creatives

Written on
March 9th 2009
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  |   Ernie Mosteller

ADOTAS — Usually in this column I offer opinions, or report observations. This time, though, I want to put forth a theory, and discuss a little of how I think it impacts creative. Here’s the theory: Mass is gone. Niche is all that exists anymore. We know that traditional advertising was built [...] More...

Engaging People, not Users

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February 6th 2009
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  |   Ernie Mosteller

ADOTAS EXCLUSIVE — I frequently find myself in conversations with clients and other agency folks about how to reach and persuade people who are on the web. I don’t know about you, but I find these conversations increasingly difficult, because as far as practical reality for most of the products most [...] More...

Dial Up Creative

Written on
January 9th 2009
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  |   Ernie Mosteller

ADOTAS EXCLUSIVE — Not long ago I was a panelist in a discussion about the economy, and how it’s affecting online advertising. We’ve all seen, for some time now, a shift in spending away from traditional media, and toward the web. But the group that was gathered at this particular [...] More...

Quality Video: DIY (Cheap) or Else

Written on
December 1st 2008
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  |   Ernie Mosteller

ADOTAS EXCLUSIVE — So I bought a .44 magnum it was solid steel cast And in the blessed name of Elvis well I just let it blast ‘Til my TV lay in pieces there at my feet And they busted me for disturbin’ the almighty peace Judge said “What you got in your defense [...] More...

Out With the Old, in With the NEW

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October 8th 2008
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  |   Ernie Mosteller

ADOTAS EXCLUSIVE — Agencies love standards. Standard units, standard costs, standard benchmarks. It’s easy to understand why. With standardization comes a measurable way to determine success, and with that comes a way to determine value. Without realizing it, even agency creatives have thrived on standardization for at least 50 years. Despite [...] More...

Keeping Brands Secure in Insecure Times

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September 3rd 2008
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  |   Ernie Mosteller

ADOTAS EXCLUSIVE — I grew up on a farm. When I was little, my dad got a new Massey Ferguson tractor, and I got a new Massey Ferguson hat from the dealer. My dad used to joke that it was a very expensive hat that happened to come with a [...] More...

The Architecture of Creativity

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July 23rd 2008
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  |   Ernie Mosteller

ADOTAS EXCLUSIVE — I just got back from Mexico City, where I stayed in the Hotel Camino Real, which is a wonderful example of modern Latin American architecture. One evening, a friend drove me around Plaza de la Constitución — El Zócalo — where I got to see Catedral Metropolitana, [...] More...


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