ADCO's done it again! This year, we won six awards at AIGA South Carolina's InShow awards in Charleston earlier this month. The awards were for our work across several different platforms and media, performed for a variety of clients from different industries, providing a cross-section of ADCO's versatility. We won... read more →
Nov
26
Nov
26
The announcement will be at 5:30 p.m. next Thursday night, Dec. 5, in the Lucy Hampton Bostick Auditorium at Richland Library downtown. We got into last year's book -- A.J. Mayhew’s novel, The Dry Grass of August -- in a big way. In the above photo, our own Brad Warthen --... read more →
Sep
13
This urgent appeal went out today from the University of South Carolina Police Department: It's Friday the 13th...someone needs to find us another follower pic.twitter.com/JfdHFPCLqV Yikes! If it wasn't for bad luck, they wouldn't have no luck at all...
Sep
12
Alexandra Petri, who writes The Washington Post's ComPost blog, offers some good advice in the wake of the firing of Business Insider's CTO over his offensive Tweets. In a nutshell, she notes that your online existence isn't some alternative to real life; it is real life, and you should treat... read more →
Sep
12
One strategy for maximizing eyes on ads has worn out its welcome. For us, anyway. One of our highly skilled professionals at ADCO was momentarily distracted this morning with a pop-up come-on that it insisted was "just for you." It led to a feature at Business Insider headlined, "13 Things... read more →
Aug
26
How many LinkedIn endorsements have you received in the past month? Brad Warthen of ADCO says he's received 41, and we believe him, partly because he has an honest face, but also because he's very close to the person writing this post. Asked to say just how valuable these endorsements... read more →
Aug
26
Suppose you've been Googling someone, for whatever reason, and you end up choosing that person's LinkedIn profile from among the search returns -- but you'd rather that person not know you were looking him or her up. That's not a problem if you had the foresight to change your LinkedIn... read more →
Aug
26
Over the weekend, The New York Times took a look at the current discussion over what to do with Columbia's homeless population. We weren't looking for it, but there it was -- a mention of the brand ADCO crafted for the Midlands Authority for Conventions, Sports and Tourism: In Columbia,... read more →
Aug
22
The Pew Research Center's Internet & American Life Project, which has been tracking online adults' social media habits since 2005, reports that 72 percent are now using some form of social media. As a microcosm of the explosive growth in such use, the study looked particularly at Twitter, finding that... read more →
Aug
20
In case anyone was looking for Lora, Brian or Brad on Monday, here's where we were... We had a meeting down at Hobcaw Barony, a fascinating client. Our meeting wasn’t that long, but we spent most of the day traveling. Before leaving, we took a long look at the unspoiled inlet... read more →
