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Interview | Advertising needs to become part of pop culture again. Communication specialist and educator Carl W. Jones, in front of "Capital" Bulgaria

9/11/2025

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Carl  was interviewed earlier this year in Bulgaria at their advertising festival FARA and was asked interesting questions regarding A.I. and the popularity of advertising as a career for young people, below are some of his responses.

Do you think that with AI, the advertising industry will eventually consist of prompt writing specialists in various fields of communications?

Probably yes. You can now write a prompt for the production of a film. Writing prompts will become a talent. And even if you don't know how to write, you can write a prompt that the model can create for you. I imagine that eventually there will be technologies that can read our minds and we won't even have to write. If you have the visualization in your head, you will have a sensor that will realize it.

Is the advertising industry sexy for young people?
No, because in English-speaking countries we don't have TV productions that talk about advertising. We used to have series like Mad Men, Bewitched and Absolutely Fabulous. Now all reality shows are about fashion, at least here, and students want to be in the fashion industry. The advertising industry needs a popular TV production that will make the profession sexy again and become part of pop culture. We need young advertising icons who will be idolized by the young audience.

Don't influencers play a similar role?
Yes, but this is just one type of advertising through social networks. They are just part of the advertising campaign; they are not the advertising campaign itself.

More of the interview can be read at the link below;

#advertising #ai #racism #diversity #Mexico www.capital.bg/biznes/media_i_reklama/2025/09/06/4817197_intervju_reklamata_triabva_otnovo_da_stane_chast_ot/
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Carl Jones interviewed on Mexican radio about US  ‘white superiority’ advertising campaign.

8/8/2025

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One of Mexico’s most popular journalists Danielle Dithurbide interviewed Dr. Carl W. Jones August 7th on her radio programme on Radio Fórmula  about the controversial American Eagle campaign featuring actress Sydney Sweeney. The campaign has been criticised for promoting white superiority through the creative tagline that says  “Sydney Sweeney has great jeans (the word Jeans is crossed out and replaced with the word ‘genes’). Critics argue that it implies eugenics and white superiority.
 
Jones discussed how millions of dollars  in earned media was gained by the campaigns brand American Eagle due to the online discussion including support from President Trump . 
 
Carl also mentioned how the campaign is viewed differently in Mexico vs. the USA due to the two countries unique histories regarding race politics. 
 
Concluding Jones recommended that companies should take into consideration that advertising broadcasts two messages, one the brand wants the consumer to see (Jeans/Genes) and the secondary messaging (white superiority) that is reflected in the ads. Marketing departments and advertising agencies need to put POC People Of Colour   in decision making roles to capture these type of contreverses before they occur. 
 
However the strategy of creating controversy could have been planned all along by their  PR agency  as American Eagles stock prices have gone up along with an increase in sales. 
After all the advertising campaign was designed to sell jeans of which it is accomplishing.

​Listen https://rss.com/podcasts/gf0010/2156180/
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Bulgarian Advertising Festival and AI

7/11/2025

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camri.ac.uk/blog/2025/07/08/carl-jones-delivers-keynote-speech-on-ai-creativity-at-bulgarian-advertising-festival/?mc_cid=ffb65304df&mc_eid=76e562d009.    read more here:  
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Speaking in Mexico about 'The Other'

5/21/2025

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On February 28th i spoke to 500 private school owners on El Otro y Yo (Me and The Other) for UNOi México, one of the largest educational software companies in Latin America.
The three-day conference February 28-May 2nd united six speakers, including 1992 Nobel Peace Prize winner Dra. Rigoberta Menchú; Irish/Colombian singer Kaitie James; Shannon Lee (actor Bruce Lee’s daughter), and Sebastián Tonda among others, to talk about “The Other” as it relates to different themes such as climate and race. I talked about my recent PhD research and explained how communication can reinforce colonial thinking such as race and class, creating ‘the other’ out of people of colour.
I will be speaking as part of a panel on Thursday May 22nd, at the 50 years of Media at Westminster: Histories, Presents and Futures of Media and Communication @CAMRI conference. Held at the University of Westminster. Thank you to UNOi México for the opportunity.

hashtag#advertising hashtag#media hashtag#marketing hashtag#semitoics hashtag#education


camri.ac.uk/blog/2025/05/14/carl-jones-and-rigoberta-menchu-speak-at-educational-conference-for-unoi/
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Dr. CARL W. JONES SPEAKS AT SXSW (SOUTH BY SOUTHWEST) AUSTIN, TEXAS.

3/27/2025

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more info here: camri.ac.uk/blog/2025/03/20/carl-jones-speaks-at-sxsw-one-of-the-worlds-largest-gatherings-for-the-creative-industries/
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Advertising Association UK approves Carl Jones as juror for Cannes Young Lions

3/14/2025

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www.westminster.ac.uk/news/carl-jones-selected-as-juror-for-uk-young-lions-2025More info here: ​https://www.westminster.ac.uk/news/carl-jones-selected-as-juror-for-uk-young-lions-2025
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Carl is Judging in the Young Lions UK in 4 categories, also in the PHNX Adforum awards 2025

3/2/2025

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I am very proud to announce that I will be judging in the categories of FILM, PRINT, DIGITAL, MEDIA in the UK Young Lions competition. The Advertising Association is the UK Representative for Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity, recruited a cohort of industry professionals to find the very best young creative talent to compete on behalf of the UK against other young advertising professionals from around the world at Cannes Lions.
The winning teams will be announced w/c 17 March.
The six winning teams will be taking part in the Global Young Lions Competition in Cannes in June.
More info https://adassoc.org.uk/.../meet-the-judges-uk-young.../
i am also a jury member for the The AdForum PHNX 2025 https://www.adforum.com/talent/badges/PHNX25-JURY/0
#Advertising #Film #Publicidad

more info here : 
https://camri.ac.uk/blog/2025/03/04/carl-jones-selected-to-be-on-international-juries-for-creativity-awards/?mc_cid=4746799ec3&mc_eid=e90c2f5388
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Advertising techniques applied to St Valentines Day branded messaging

2/13/2025

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The run up to February 14 is a good time for selling certain products. And alongside the jewellery and flowers, advertisers also try to sell us something broader: a notion of what we should consider romantic.

This might involve an idyllic and perfectly filmed holiday destination, or the casting of a glamorous Hollywood star to represent a particular perfume. For research has shown that advertising can shape our expectations of what love should look like – from the perfect partner to the things we should buy for them.

It’s become a familiar tactic for all kinds of advertising. And it fits with an idea explored by the French literary theorist Roland Barthes in his 1957 collection of essays, Mythologies: that if a message is repeated enough, it becomes true.​

theconversation.com/the-romantic-advertising-tricks-that-give-you-unrealistic-expectations-of-love-249672
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Carl was interviewed by Business Insider on Timothée Chalamet's guerrilla marketing campaign for the Bob Dylan biopic 'A Complete Unknown

1/27/2025

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 "Carl Jones, a senior lecturer in digital media at the University of Westminster, UK, agreed that Chalamet's stunts are a cost-effective way of getting his name — and, by extension, the movie — out there."This type of activity is a free way to get a film talked about in the media. Usually advertising a film costs Hollywood studios millions of dollars, but doing a stunt only costs the price of the stunt," he said.
Better yet, the gambits match the theme of "A Complete Unknown," which covers a controversial period in Dylan's career in the 1960s when he switched from acoustic to electric guitar and took a gamble on a new sound; Chalamet is similarly walking an unorthadorx path as a young star."
Link to full article https://www.businessinsider.com/timothee-chalamet-snl-oscar-awards-guerrilla-marketing-campaign-lime-bike-2025-1
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BBC WORLD BUSINESS REPORT INTERVIEWS CARL JONES ON THE HISTORIC BENETTON ADVERTISING CAMPAIGN

1/16/2025

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