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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



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...

Engaging People, not Users

Written on
February 6th 2009
Author
  |   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
Author
  |   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...

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