Here you'll find bite-size tips, tricks, rants, insights and updates from the team and a peek behind the scenes of life here at I//A.

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We Played Bingo at IMTS—with Marketing Clichés

One thing has always surprised me about the show: Exhibitors spend thousands of hours developing their products and up to millions of dollars on their exhibits, yet many seemingly take only minutes to choose an overused cliché for their corporate messaging…

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Can video be used for B2B lead generation?

Pop quiz. What’s the second biggest search engine in the world? #1 is obviously Google, but who’s the runner-up? Yahoo? Bing? AOL? Altavista? Pencils down. The answer…

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Hi, I’m Steph. This is my stuff.

Steph Behrens is an account supervisor at Ivor Andrew. Here’s her contribution to our Stuff Series—things that help explain who we are and what makes us go…

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How to Make Your Print Ad Stand Out

We make a living by helping our clients get noticed. We’ve crafted heaps of industrial print ads in our 14+ years, and we’ve accrued some valuable best practices in that time. Today, we’d like to share…

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Our Sr. Copywriter's Best Copywriting Tip

We’ve all been assigned something we have no interest in, be it an essay at school or a project at work. If you’re anything like me, these tasks cause you to go into full zombie mode…

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Our Video Shoot On The Other Side Of The World

This February, Keith (I//A president) Stu (I//A videographer) and I set out to Japan to film a video for one of our clients, Enshu USA. Their global facilities are overseas, and we were given the opportunity to tell their…

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Ivor Andrew Wins 2016 ADDY Award

The American Advertising Federation’s ADDY Awards, with over five million entries every year, is the largest advertising competition in the world. The Chicago region of the AAF received…

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