The multidextrous creative generation

The founder of the Dallas agency Slingshot, Owen Hannay, sees advertising's future belonging to a new breed of multidextrous, multi-channel, multi-marketing agencies - whose creative teams can turn their hand to digital and viral campaign ideas as easily as the 30 second TV commercial.

The multidextrous creative generation

Owen Hannay

Ok, It is Monday morning, you are a creative director at a well-respected US ad agency and you get the following assignments: 'Here is what I want you to do this week. First I want you to come up with an idea for a radio campaign for a client that wants to highlight the efficiency of buying and selling merchandise online. Then we'll need some bus panels for our non-profit client, the Salvation Army – good ones, you know, tug-at-the-heart kind of stuff. Next, I need you to design a racecar for one of...

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