Five Minute Creative Podcast: Recent Episodes

Patrick Smith

The Five Minute Creative Podcast is for anyone interested in the creative industry. It touches on creative best practices, marketing trends, industry news, an occasional guest, and personal experiences running a boutique branding agency. Hosted by Patrick Smith, President and Founder of C2 Creative.

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In this episode I talk about 2 recent brand experiences.

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In this episode I talk about an unfortunate road kill incident along with some top level thoughts on AI and graphic design.

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In this episode I talk about my experience using Adobe Firefly, it's quality, and I touch on the impact it will have on photo shoots.

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In this episode I talk about my opportunity to contribute to the Chicago Graphic Design Club workshop this summer.

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In this episode I share a design resource I found and comment on Milton Glaser’s 10 Things I Have Learned. https://www.readingdesign.org/

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In this episode I spotlight the excellent Progressive Insurance Primetime spot.

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In this episode I have a take away learning from each agency experience I’ve had.

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In this episode I have a couple of takeaways from working remote in California and now I’m in Manhattan for a couple of weeks.

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In this episode I talk about our elevator pitch. I’m not sure if we’re clear about what it is we do when we talk to potential partner agencies and I’m looking for feedback.

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In this episode I talk about a website project gone wrong when the client decided to write the copy.

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In this episode I talk about Clubhouse

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In this episode I talk about a few Super Bowl commercials from 2020 and 2021.

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In this episode I talk about three high visibility brand updates.

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In this episode I talk about what happened on Jan 6th in Washington, D.C.

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In this episode I give a year end review of the most creative projects we’ve worked on.

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In this episode I give my opinion on the Apple Car and highlight a great social media post by Burger King UK.

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In this episode we highlight the new Walgreens Advertising Group, Miller Lite’s Farewell to Work Holiday Parties spot, and an excellent Norwegian Post Office spot.

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In this episode we try to tie together the latest Covid-19 statistics, the general business environment, and the challenges many niche businesses have trying to break through to customers in digital channels.

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In this episode we highlight the number of hours of lost sleep on election night and the new Apple spot.

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In this episode we talk about the Shopify and TikTok partnership.

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In this episode we talk about the shift in the economy, the need for small business to quickly pivot to digital, and AirBnB.

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In this episode I talk about Eddie Van Halen’s influence on my creative process.

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In this episode I talk about the dreaded "S" word. SEO. Content is still king.

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In this episode we highlight the news story of President Trump testing positive COVID-19, how gaming is becoming the latest big charity revenue stream, and a couple of anecdotes from John Sculley.

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In this episode we highlight Google’s decision to block political ads after election polls close and the latest Uber Eats broadcast spot.

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In this episode I highlight Quantas’ flight to nowhere, Taco Bell’s wine, and the worlds largest speed bump spot from Land Rover.

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In this episode I compare the TV and radio media spends of the 2020 presidential campaigns in contrast to the insurance category spends.

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In this episode I highlight Wix’s goal to be a top 100 global brand.

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In this episode I talk about our new tagline.

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In this episode I talk about the rise of Zoom.

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In this episode I give an update on working virtually, a Miller High Life Dive Bar promotion, and Oscar Mayer’s Wienermobile social effort.

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In this episode I highlight Trump’s media buy, Omnicom’s revenue decline, Google’s extending it’s work-from-home policy, and Walmart’s e-commerce growth.

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In this episode I highlight the Burger King, Christmas in July spot, the NBA Virtual court-side and Panera's 700,000 coffee subscriptions.

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In this (Saturday night) episode I talk about activity picking up and quickly touch on 3 campaign spots that went beyond advertising.

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In this episode I talk about Popeye's Chicken Pizza Intercept and Google Swirl.

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In this episode I talk about the lack of agencies content around managing through the Covid crisis, the Lush soap education spot, and the Getty Images search data.

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In this episode I talk about the Aunt Jemima brand and what I would I do to evolve the brand if we only had a few minutes to come up with an answer.

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In Episode 9 I talk about industry layoffs and a few One Club Award winners.

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In Episode 8 I talk about marketing predictions post economic shutdown.

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I talk about my photography trip to Minneapolis.

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I talk about the riots in Minneapolis, the President threatening to shutdown social media companies, and ecommerce trends during the economic shutdown.

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I talk about the fallout in the restaurant business due to the pandemic.

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I talk about the end of Brandless.

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A quick conversation about Spotify and US Ad Revenue

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The Five Minute Creative Podcast brings is for creatives looking for quick bits of best practices, observations, and the occasional interview.

In this Episode we talk about my phone call with Tom Green, checking in on coworkers during quarantine, and Chucky Cheese.

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Some creative podcasts are slow, and you don’t know how long they last. That’s why you’re listening to the Five Minute Creative Podcast.