I was pleased to see that famed NY Times advertising and marketing columnist Stuart Elliott also wrote an article about Olympics advertising (even though my blog post appeared several days before his).  I feel like I’m in good company, and better yet, we both landed in about the same place on most of the ad critiques.  I really liked Elliott’s Olympic play of awarding each ad a medal:  gold for the good ones, lead for the crappy ones and tin for the ones that rang false.  Nice touch.

A couple of Elliott’s favorites

I do have to hand it to Stuart though — his stories are better read than my blog posts.  So far.