Beard Clippings
Video Client Vexed by Production-Company Lollygagging
Many ad agencies and production companies measure time with a sundial and calculate your invoice using a supercomputer. Today’s marketers like to work with resources that know how to [...]
Strange Moments in Video #226: A Number Two on Air Force One
These days, it’s hard for marketers like you to get a leg up on the competition -- especially when there’s double-ply Charmin stuck to your shoe. We'd like [...]
Strange Moments in Video #153: The Edge Goes Over the Edge
U2’s The Edge still hasn’t found what he’s looking for -- but I’m pretty sure he won’t find it face down in the arena’s mosh pit. (See this strange [...]
MedMen’s Animated Kidney-Stone-Zapping Videos Take Centerstage at Urology Convention
A pair of musical, animated videos created by our MedMen service—showcasing a revolutionary new technology in the treatment of kidney stones—earned impressive reviews at the 2024 American Urological Association [...]
We’re Helping the NIH Standardize and Simplify COVID Home Testing
The National Institute of Health has contracted our MedMen service to create a series of videos standardizing COVID-home-kit testing procedures for consumers nationwide -- while simplifying those procedures for [...]
12 Hazards to Avoid on the Road to Video Production #8
Hazard 8: Blocking the Main Avenue to Your Brand A recent survey revealed that 86 percent of Americans prefer to get their information and entertainment via video. So, if [...]
Strange Moments in Video #82: Mr. Dentist Cleans Your Canines — and Your Canine’s Canines
You might call it Ronco’s pet project of the 1970s: New oral hygiene technology that cleans mom’s, dad’s, junior’s and Rover’s teeth -- all at the same time. (Anti-rabies [...]
How “Beardonomics” Tops “Swiftonomics” for Your Company
Sure, her two recent performances this summer in Colorado boosted the state’s GDP by $140 million. And yes, Chicago set a record for hotel business in June thanks to [...]
12 Hazards to Avoid on the Road to Video Production #7
Hazard 7: Sticking with Old-World Corporate News Outlets These days, company newsletters have gone of way of beepers and fax machines. Smart marketing communicators are creating their very own [...]
Client Confronts the Ravenous Video Beast
The video beast is hungry. It craves new video content about your company's positioning, products, programs and people. Constantly. Increasingly. Relentlessly. Which is why Beard Boy offers multi-video packages [...]
Client Incensed at The Scarcity of Radio Production Options
“Radio advertising is dead.” Well, that statement would be a surprise to U.S. marketers who’ve placed over $16 billion worth of spots on this “dead” medium in 2023. So, [...]
Argh! Affordable 3D animation seems out of reach.
Creating 3D Animation: A Client Desperately Reaches for Solutions Worried that photoreal 3D animation is beyond your budgetary grasp? Take a moment and each out to Beard Boy. Our [...]