Thomas Kemeny
@tkemeny
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Award-winning blah blah blah. Author of the advertising book Junior.
Austin, TX
Joined February 2009
10 years ago I was told UGC would take my job. 5 years ago I was told Search/FB/Insta would take my job. 3 years ago I was told Influencers would take my job. This year I'm being told AI will take my job. Look, can someone take my job already? The suspense is killing me.
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Five years ago this dude reached out to me and invited me to visit his job at the NYSE. Now he sells pizza. Still one of the sharpest marketing minds out there. Thanks for slinging my book alongside your slices.
If you want to become a better marketer, read this book: Junior by @tkemeny. I first read it 5 years ago, and have yet to read a marketing book that has as much practical advice as Junior. https://t.co/ULXcDMlkTW
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My book Junior: Writing Your Way Ahead In Advertising, turns 5 today. I bet you can guess what it wants you to buy as a present? That's right, an Elsa dress. https://t.co/aQRDiNKbEn
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There are a lot of great advertising books, but none that get down in the dirt with you quite like this one. Thomas Kemeny made a career at some of the best ad agencies in America. In this book he...
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What marketing books would you suggest to someone looking to learn more? This was my list.
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Starting a brand called SomeLizards to compete with AllBirds and NoBull.
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The secret to creating good work is to care longer than anyone else.
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It's the last 24 hours to vote for my caption in the New Yorker Caption contest. Help me make all the other copywriters (and strategists) jealous. https://t.co/prSK0tIXFa
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The power of paying people on-time is grossly under-appreciated.
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I'm a New Yorker Cartoon Caption Contest finalist (again!)! Didn't win last time, but this time I'm hopeful! Please vote for me and make my copywriter dreams come true! https://t.co/hQ80gRtCq0
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This Week's New Yorker Caption Contest. Enter your submission for the latest caption-less cartoon, then rate other readers' captions, vote on finalists, and view the winner (it could be you!).
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This week #CTAPod📣 finally caught @tkemeny. Here's a taster, “Writing a sentence is easy. I think cracking a puzzle using words as a tool to solve increasingly complex problems is really the task of a copywriter. That’s the craft not everyone can do.” https://t.co/ILkLPq3oLC
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This week on #CTAPod📣, we pushed a creative fledgling out of the agency nest to lure and catch author of ad land’s how-to guide, Junior, to teach them to fly. Long overdue, it’s @tkemeny. Available on all good & bad podcast platforms https://t.co/ILkLPq3WBa
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Coming soon: Find out if the voice you heard in your head while reading Junior matches my real voice.
Catching @tkemeny on #CTAPod📣 is well overdue. One of the best copywriters in the business with a passion for pickleball, he wrote the advertising l̶i̶f̶e̶ ̶r̶a̶f̶t̶ book Junior & apparently never misses an opportunity to mention it. Lob your Listener Q into the mix below.
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It's that time of year, where the expectation of every brief is to win a Cannes Lion. Until a week from now when 95% of the industry gives up.
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This is super cool and super useful for prompts. I feel like I have a cheat sheet for an art director's brain.
Midjourney - Camera lens experiments🧵 I experimented with 30 camera lenses so you don't have to I put the lenses up against the "photo" prompt in MJ Here are the results 🤗Part 1/2 If you want the full PDF comment🔥📷🤖 & I'll send you a DM (Must be following so I can DM)
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AI that summarizes YouTube videos as text has to be the stupidest tool. The whole reason I'm watching the video is because I'm too lazy/dumb to read about the thing.
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Last night at my local pickleball court, 2 pro players (Julian Arnold and Lauren Stratman) just popped by and hit around with everyone for a few hours. Pretty cool of them. Gotta love this sport.
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Not exactly a hot take - it's nearly 40 years old. I had a vague memory of seeing this ad in awards annuals, but had never read it. Turns out it's excellent. #Advertising #Marketing #Creativity
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"Students just make ads good. Professionals make ads good, then watch them die for no reason, and then do it again as if nothing happened." – @tkemeny Join us today FREE: https://t.co/0UDpJTb07m
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