![A Lightning Tour With Incredible Success](https://pasadenaadv.com/wp-content/uploads/audience_LSdown-300x223.png)
What a difference a decade makes. In 2007, Lauren Marks suffered a hemorrhagic stroke that destroyed her Brocca’s area and […]
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![How to Promote a Daughter’s Survival Story](https://pasadenaadv.com/wp-content/uploads/LinkedIn_Main-300x211.png)
My assignment was simple: Market a story I hope no one else has to ever live through… but how. First: Focus […]
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![The Golden Age of Advertising Yet to Come](https://pasadenaadv.com/wp-content/uploads/Social-layers-300x77.png)
First of all, I don’t mean to diminish Advertising’s classic Golden Age of the 60’s. The creative of that time […]
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![Get To The Greatest Generation’s Heart Through Their Boomers](https://pasadenaadv.com/wp-content/uploads/Ethnic-Mother-Son-300x157.png)
We’ve all heard it. The Greatest Generation is too old. Too set in their ways. And they’re cheap to boot. Can it […]
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![Mobile Keeps Downtown Santa Barbara Rolling 24/7](https://pasadenaadv.com/wp-content/uploads/ShopStroll-300x198.png)
Santa Barbara is known far and wide for it’s seaside air and cosmopolitan charm. But in today’s international marketplace, there […]
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![PADV Makes Bob Hope Burbank Airport Mobile](https://pasadenaadv.com/wp-content/uploads/Non-Stop-Dallas-300x256.png)
Over the years, Burbank Bob Hope Airport had earned an enviable reputation for comfort, convenience, and customer care. People had always […]
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![Accidental Successes Are Mistakes You Can Profit From](https://pasadenaadv.com/wp-content/uploads/Banner_down-300x172.png)
Everyone knows you can learn from your mistakes, and what are accidental successes but mistakes gone right. The success of this […]
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![Custom Schedules Make Make Music Pasadena Your Own](https://pasadenaadv.com/wp-content/uploads/Screen-Shot-2015-06-03-at-9.27.22-AM-273x300.png)
Yep, yep. Gotta do it. Saturday, June 6th is just days away, and you are in for a full day […]
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![Put The Fun In Fundraising](https://pasadenaadv.com/wp-content/uploads/Al_interview-300x175.png)
In every job that must be done there is an element of fun – “Mary Poppins,” the Sherman Brothers On […]
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![MAKE MUSIC PASADENA ROCKS IT AGAIN](https://pasadenaadv.com/wp-content/uploads/Make-Music-Bid-shot-300x175.png)
It’s back. On June 6th, Make Music Pasadena 2015 rocks out on the main stage right outside our front Door, at the […]
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![Make Your Website Mobile Friendly NOW! Or Not…](https://pasadenaadv.com/wp-content/uploads/foothillgl-e1430249896100.png)
Did you feel it? Last week, according to tech reports worldwide, the ground trembled before the mighty strides of Google […]
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![Evolution Of An Identity](https://pasadenaadv.com/wp-content/uploads/Color_PH_logo1-300x74.png)
In January of 2013, Pasadena Heritage found themselves with a minor identity crisis. They had a history of remarkable successes, […]
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![PADV On Board with Burbank Bob Hope Airport](https://pasadenaadv.com/wp-content/uploads/laxjammedS-300x180.png)
PADV Pasadena Advertising is honored to have been selected by Burbank Bob Hope Airport to make the renowned ease and […]
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![AN 85% VICTORY – BY THE NUMBERS!](https://pasadenaadv.com/wp-content/uploads/Lastest-Yes-on-A-300x271.png)
Who wins an election by 85%? For higher taxes? For libraries? In an economy still reeling from the recession? […]
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![Content Sequencing By Any Other Name Sells As Sweet](https://pasadenaadv.com/wp-content/uploads/Rally-Shot-2014-300x201.png)
Advertising is the art of convincing people that they really want something… a lot… and preferably, right now. Of course, […]
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![Various Significant Client projects](https://pasadenaadv.com/wp-content/uploads/BH_Centennial_R4.12-300x186.png)
Beverly Hills Centennial banners Merchant Factors and Merchant Financial Magazine ad Colorado Street Party on the Bridge poster, Pasadena […]
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![The Law of Unintended Consequences SCORES!](https://pasadenaadv.com/wp-content/uploads/Giferator-One-300x236.png)
Facebook has long been the king of social media, because of how easy it is to project the element […]
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![Concert to Save Our Altadena Libraries, Sunday @ 2:00](https://pasadenaadv.com/wp-content/uploads/Sunday-Sunday-Sing-300x288.png)
Thanks to Bill Burnett, this post speaks for itself… and of course for the Alliance to Save Our Altadena Libraries. The […]
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![Paying More In Taxes Makes Sense!](https://pasadenaadv.com/wp-content/uploads/Wait-what-meme-rage-face-300x261.jpg)
There must be something in the air in the San Gabriel Valley of California, because so many people there have […]
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![Out with the old; in with the ZOOM.](https://pasadenaadv.com/wp-content/uploads/zoom-text-energetic-1-300x103.png)
As timeworn cliché headlines go, this one needed a timely update. In the past four weeks, PADV has revolutionized our concept of […]
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![A Pure And Simple Story of Success](https://pasadenaadv.com/wp-content/uploads/LAEP-logo-300x200.png)
For over 30 years the Los Angeles Education Partnership, LAEP, has been revolutionizing secondary education. They have worked tirelessly to […]
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![“Make Music Pasadena” – How A Free Festival Payed Off](https://pasadenaadv.com/wp-content/uploads/music-in-the-park-4-300x225.jpg)
Suzanne Marks, Tony Nino We have been a part of the Old Pasadena Management District from its inception, so we were […]
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![Make Music Pasadena, June 7 – Dancin’ In The Streets!](https://pasadenaadv.com/wp-content/uploads/2014-Image-300x223.png)
This Saturday, there will be music for All-Ages, all over Pasadena, at the 7th annual Make Music Pasadena from 11 […]
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![SEVEN WAYS TO MAKE FACEBOOK PAGES WORK](https://pasadenaadv.com/wp-content/uploads/man-at-work_FB-300x217.png)
Make no mistake: Facebook Pages work. They were designed with business in mind. But. Making Facebook work takes work. […]
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![Is Your Website Being Attacked? Wanna Bet?](https://pasadenaadv.com/wp-content/uploads/UNjollyRoger-300x171.png)
Oh, if only the notice were so romantic, it might ease the pain. Almost every site we know of is […]
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![Dear Bureaucrats, Ur Doing It Rong!](https://pasadenaadv.com/wp-content/uploads/360_cover_0310_Time-224x300.jpg)
–Tony Nino Time’s March 10th lead story, CODE RED_, about the high tech wizards who saved the healthcare.gov website, was […]
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![The Name Of The Game Is To Pick The Right Name](https://pasadenaadv.com/wp-content/uploads/Lose_weight_forever_ayds-300x224.png)
In the advertising business, we name things. It’s just the nature of the beast. However, after years of naming companies, […]
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![After Effects Adds New Life To The Renaissance](https://pasadenaadv.com/wp-content/uploads/fd2d2a54-9f05-449a-ba5a-ec0b15032a46_Pierre-Auguste-Cot-Portrait-Of-Young-Woman-300x168.gif)
Applying the compelling allure of computer animation to our client’s products and services has always been an essential part of […]
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![A Brand New Look At Some Good Old Award Winners And More](https://pasadenaadv.com/wp-content/uploads/video-audio.gif)
COME PLAY (or PAUSE • STOP • FAST FORWARD & REVERSE) These six brand new buttons on our “Work” page […]
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![FLYING MONKEYS, SOCKPUPPETS, AND TROLLS, OH, MY!](https://pasadenaadv.com/wp-content/uploads/Sock_puppet1_by_AaronDesign-300x294.jpg)
Tony Nino, December 2, 2013 “Do Not feed the trolls!” It’s a saying as old as the Internet. It means “don’t […]
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![A New Kiss for Old Pasadena – Keep it Simple and Sentimental](https://pasadenaadv.com/wp-content/uploads/OPMD_schoolhouse_sml-300x225.png)
it’s a new take on the old KISS principle: a simple message that conveys the sentiment most associated with Old Pasadena […]
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![Is Thanksgivukkah Too Rare To Become Commercialized?](https://pasadenaadv.com/wp-content/uploads/Oils_Thanksgivukkah-300x169.png)
This Thursday is Thanksgivukkah, the ultimate meshugenah holiday mashup of Thanksgiving and Hanukkah. The two holidays that most famously celebrate […]
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![A SNOW JOB IN OLD PAS? BETTER BUTTON UP YOUR… TANK TOP.](https://pasadenaadv.com/wp-content/uploads/mom_baby_snowman-300x199.jpg)
After working so hard to make Old Pasadena a town center for our community, now we work even harder to […]
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![Nothing proves The power of Photography like Nothing](https://pasadenaadv.com/wp-content/uploads/liberation-04-300x219.jpg)
Joni Mitchel sang, “You don’t know what you’ve got till it’s gone.” It appears writer Amar Toor absolutely agrees as […]
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![IT’S OFFICIAL: ADVERTISING IS DEAD! AGAIN!](https://pasadenaadv.com/wp-content/uploads/Killer-AdBlock1-300x260.png)
OMG, We’re all going to die! Adblock plus has killed advertising on the Internet! The whole economy has fallen down […]
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![He-Man Women Haters Clubs Better Watch Their Step](https://pasadenaadv.com/wp-content/uploads/He-Man-Woman-Haters-Club-Report-300x282.jpg)
We were just reminded by Maddie Grandbois, Creative Director at Zambezi, just how important women are in creative direction. Her MediaPost article, […]
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![Photographing Strangers’ Touch](https://pasadenaadv.com/wp-content/uploads/Screen-Shot-2013-10-24-at-10.09.53-AM-240x300.png)
Richard Renaldi asked subjects who had never met before to look like they are showing a brief amount of affection. The […]
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![Apple iOS 7 Killed Skeuomorphism!!!!](https://pasadenaadv.com/wp-content/uploads/The-Ford-Ad-300x271.png)
“So let us remember that on June 10, 2013, skeuomorphism began to die. That the breaths it took first in […]
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![The Unreality of Reality TV Revealed… a bit.](https://pasadenaadv.com/wp-content/uploads/fastframe_transitional_home-300x191.png)
At PADV, we learned two main things from our appearance on AMC’s The Pitch. One is that Reality TV is […]
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![OLD PASADENA CELEBRATES HALLOWEEN FOR THE WHOLE FAMILY](https://pasadenaadv.com/wp-content/uploads/LulaMaeScene-300x300.png)
Rosie from Lulu Brandt drops by Lula Mae for the Scary and Sweet Halloween Scene Saturday October 26 and Thursday, […]
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![PANTONE Fashion Color Report Spring 2014](https://pasadenaadv.com/wp-content/uploads/Screen-Shot-2013-09-16-at-1.32.39-PM-300x104.png)
PANTONE Fashion Color Report Spring 2014 Designers take a modern twist on the traditional for spring 2014 by pairing soft […]
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![A CARTOON THAT’S MORE REAL THAN “THE PITCH”](https://pasadenaadv.com/wp-content/uploads/1003271_545772495483248_1448765072_n-300x216.jpg)
Kat Gordon, founder of the 3% Conference shared this cartoon with us after she saw PADV’s appearance on AMC’s […]
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![Blast. Apparently it actually PAYS to listen to women.](https://pasadenaadv.com/wp-content/uploads/eileen-fisher-273x300.jpg)
With 3% of men’s rightful place in advertising being hogged by women, it’s no wonder they are becoming so arrogant […]
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![For Anyone considering eblast Designs for 27″ Screens: STOP IT!](https://pasadenaadv.com/wp-content/uploads/ID-10089036-300x199.jpg)
MediaPost’s Jack Loechner reports that what almost everyone has seen coming – is already here. If you’re designing emails for […]
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![The Hard Truth: Friends Have More Influence Than Advertising](https://pasadenaadv.com/wp-content/uploads/ID-100100215-252x300.jpg)
Deal with it. It’s something everybody knows, but no one talks about, and I quote, “in survey after survey … […]
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![So, Two Advertising Elephants Got Joined At The Trunk…](https://pasadenaadv.com/wp-content/uploads/Screen-Shot-2013-08-27-at-5.03.40-PM-300x199.png)
If you are a fan of big bloated agencies, you might not want to read this. First of all, I […]
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![Alright, Sure, The History of Advertising is Checkered…](https://pasadenaadv.com/wp-content/uploads/The-Auto-Beer-Bar-201x300.jpg)
Let’s file this under “past imperfect.” But in defense of the indefensible, it wasn’t that long after the horse and […]
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![Respect Women? Even Marketing to Men? NEVAHHHH!](https://pasadenaadv.com/wp-content/uploads/Dove-Sketches.jpg)
Wow. Respecting women, what a concept. But you even have to do it when marketing to men? Now, that’s gotta […]
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![Are Fonts Emotional?](https://pasadenaadv.com/wp-content/uploads/Screen-Shot-2013-08-30-at-10.13.44-AM-300x103.png)
Well, they don’t actually cry at sad movies, however, when designers choose fonts for your logo, they look for a […]
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![Just When You Thought You Knew Coding.](https://pasadenaadv.com/wp-content/uploads/Screen-Shot-2013-08-27-at-5.22.31-PM-300x176.png)
Plus ça change, le plus vite ils changent. Wait. That can’t be right. Oh, yes it can! “The more things […]
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![A Stitch Of Time Author, Lauren Marks, at Cal State Northridge](https://pasadenaadv.com/wp-content/uploads/Lauren-talks-300x215.png)
Lauren Marks speaks about her battle with Brocca’s aphasia after an aneurysm ruptured in her brain in 2007. Robbed of […]
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![Interactive Ring App](https://pasadenaadv.com/wp-content/uploads/Screen-Shot-2013-08-27-at-5.39.56-PM-300x181.png)
Fun app concept. Interactive Ring App! BC Clark Jewelers has married the traditional print ad with a modern mobile web app! […]
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![San Gabriel Valley Gold Line is On Track](https://pasadenaadv.com/wp-content/uploads/mgl_interactive-300x187.png)
Lookie, lookie. Our interactive maps for the Foothill Extension Authority just went live. On November 29, the Metro Gold Line Foothill […]
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![Scouting Got Game – and We Helped](https://pasadenaadv.com/wp-content/uploads/BudMEDlongS-300x225.png)
When you invite the commissioner of Baseball, Bud Selig, to be the main speaker at your fundraiser, you’ve got to […]
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![Pasadena Heritage Honors Us](https://pasadenaadv.com/wp-content/uploads/guardians-1-300x202.jpg)
After 40 years of friendly enmity, the Pasadena Heritage Society held a gala evening at the Green Hotel in Pasadena to honor […]
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![Koleston natural hair ad](https://pasadenaadv.com/wp-content/uploads/ad-Koleston-hair-creative-131x300.jpg)
Gorgeous concept for billboards. http://themetapicture.com/koleston-natural-hair-ad/
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