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Ernie Mosteller is a video and film director who gets great performances from kids, adults, clowns, cinematographers, editors, animators, real people and the occasional frog.

An ex-interactive creative director and creative director, he understands traditional and new media — how they’re alike, and more importantly, how users use them differently.

He has directed hundreds of national and international commercials, and if pixels had any weight at all, a ton of web content. He has also created web and social media strategies for major brands. He writes and speaks extensively on the power of content in today’s media landscape.

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The Three Media That Matter

Written on
July 9th 2010
Author
  |   Ernie Mosteller

ADOTAS – In the South, we use the word “tizzy” to mean: simultaneously frantic, worried and confused. As in: “Mama’s in a tizzy because the cake’s burnt, and MeeMaw’s coming for dinner.” Since the widespread adoption of cable TV, Tivo and like technologies; and increasing exponentially since the emergence of the [...] More...

Advocate for the User

Written on
April 27th 2010
Author
  |   Ernie Mosteller

ADOTAS – Longer ago than I want to admit, I was sitting in a directing class at the American Film Institute while the instructor boiled down the role of the film director to its essence: “The director is the ultimate advocate for the audience.” Made perfect sense when he said it. [...] More...

Toys or Tools?

Written on
February 8th 2010
Author
  |   Ernie Mosteller

ADOTAS – I love toys. Gizmos, games, whatchamacallits, gewgaws. I spent years directing toy commercials and loved the whole process, because I loved toys before I started doing that, and continued to love them after I stopped. Creatives love toys. Take a walk around your creative department — if you don’t [...] More...

Baking the creative from scratch

Written on
November 4th 2009
Author
  |   Ernie Mosteller

ADOTAS – We live in a world of “found” creative. And the sword is double-edged. While it’s contributed, certainly, to the efficient execution of our ideas — a good thing — it’s also tended to homogenize those ideas. Not a good thing. At the very least, it warrants discussion. First let [...] More...

Video on the Web: Where to Start

Written on
September 8th 2009
Author
  |   Ernie Mosteller

ADOTAS — “How much for a web video?” I don’t know about you, but I get that question all the time. Video on the web has officially come of age for advertisers (a long-anticipated event, at least for this former spot director), and everybody wants in on it. Everybody. Of course, a [...] More...

Real time not the only time for brands

Written on
July 23rd 2009
Author
  |   Ernie Mosteller

ADOTAS — Last month I wrote about how Twitter has ushered in the cultural awareness of what’s possible in real time on the web. The real-time web, while still not searchable, is, in fact, here. And for a marketer, it’s difficult. And that’s putting it lightly. Truth is, it’s hard to [...] More...

Twitter Shift

Written on
June 17th 2009
Author
  |   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

Written on
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

Written on
April 15th 2009
Author
  |   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
Author
  |   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...

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