Rodgers Townsend

RT "On Hold": The Next Generation

Last year, Rodgers Townsend’s hold music taught you how to say “Make the logo bigger” in Swahili. This year, we’ve kept ad industry nonsense in our hold music (and out of our day-to-day business) with a tongue-in-cheek take on a listen-and-repeat automated attendant. Check ...

Party Planning

Melissa Hamilton, Senior Interactive Producer

I’m finishing off the party planning for my daughter’s first birthday extravaganza (T-minus 5 days) and it’s going to be quite the event, with all of the family, friends, and funny decorations that are completely ridiculous for a 1-year-old. And yes, 75 invitations have ...

Creative Volleys

Tim Rodgers, Chief Executive Officer

I was in a meeting the other day discussing client reaction to some work we had presented the day before. It was a creative concept we felt very strongly about, but the client just wasn’t biting, that day at least.That led someone to ask me an interesting follow-up question: how many times ...

The Warm-Up Act

Tim Rodgers, Chief Executive Officer

Early on, The Beatles warmed up for Little Richard and, at other times, for Roy Orbison, Brenda Lee, and Gary "U.S." Bonds.  Jimi Hendrix opened for The Monkees, which a friend of mind ruefully pointed out probably started him on the road to premature, hallucinogenic death. Stevie ...

It’s This Simple

Tom Townsend, Chief Creative Officer

We had done some pro bono work for a local circus. It's a uniquely small, personal one-ring circus, not like the extravaganzas of Ringling Brothers and the other more massive productions. Circus Flora is more traditional, more quaint, more heroic in many ways, and less commercialized than the ...