Welcome to Our Blogsite.

Posted by truecreek on August 26, 2009 under Opinions. Everyone has them. | Comments are off for this article

Feel free to look around. And stick around.

True Creek is an advertising agency that is deep in true marketing experience and creative talent.

We offer our clients a wide range of professional creative services.  They include concepting, copywriting, artistic design, layout and production/fulfillment.

If you are a client who is looking for television and radio production we can do that, too.

If you are looking for help with marketing strategy and planning, our 30 plus years of experience will come in handy.

If you are looking for some direction in media planning, buying and reconciliation, our buyers are some of the best in the business.

Our agency is based in the Washington, D.C. area (Alexandria, Virginia), but can and do serve clients anywhere. Please take a moment to look at some of our work here.

So, let’s talk.  703-256-2913.  Or send me a note:  joseph@truecreek.com.

And enjoy the site.

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New 4/C Print for Fortress Technologies.

Posted by truecreek on February 3, 2010 under The Work | Be the First to Comment

Delivered in a small and rugged form factor with its size, weight and power specifically tailored for vehicles, the Fortress ES820 provides industry leading radio range.  It’s an amazing piece of equipment.  This is the latest in 4/C print work produced by True Creek for Fortress Technologies.

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The Allure of Cinema Advertising.

Posted by truecreek on January 29, 2010 under Opinions. Everyone has them. | Be the First to Comment

My clients know this very well by now.  I love cinema advertising and think it is a great place for them to advertise.  There are over 125 new movies scheduled for release between now and the end of  2010.  Movies from directors like Martin Scorsese, Tim Burton, Oliver Stone, Jon Favreau, Ridley Scott, M. Night Shyamalan, Tony Scott, The Coen brothers and you guessed it:  Sly Stallone.

Then, you have Marmaduke. Releases 6/4, starring Jeremy Piven, Ron Perlman and Amanda Seyfried.

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Internet, Broadband and Cell Phone Statistics. A Pew Study.

Posted by truecreek on January 26, 2010 under More Dam News | Be the First to Comment

These statistics are holding steady.

By Lee Rainie:

In a national survey between November 30 and December 27, 2009, we find:

74% of American adults (ages 18 and older) use the Internet, a slight drop from our survey in April 2009, which did not include Spanish interviews. At that time we found that 79% of English speaking adults use the Internet.

60% of American adults use broadband connections at home, a drop that is within the margin of error from 63% in April 2009.

55% of American adults connect to the Internet wirelessly, either through a WiFi or WiMax connection via their laptops or through their handheld device like a smart phone. This figure did not change in a statistically significant way during 2009.

These data come from the Pew Research Center’s Internet & American Life Project. The most recent survey was conducted from November 30 to December 27, 2009, using landline and cell phones and including interviews in Spanish. Some 2,258 adults were interviewed and the overall sample has a margin of error of ± 2 percentage points.

Download the entire Internet, broadband and cell phone statistics survey here.

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Boys vs. Girls on Cellphones.

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Very interesting research from the University of Alabama at Birmingham.   It’s a hot topic of discussion here at True Creek, for sure. The premise was also the theme for a recent episode of ‘Modern Family’ on ABC.

By Margaret Shapiro

We’ve heard about the gender divide in knowledge and use of technology. It seems the gap may start with the simplest of technologies — cellphones — and at a fairly young age — middle school.

For a study published in December in the journal New Media and Society, University of Alabama at Birmingham sociologist Shelia Cotten asked nearly 1,000 middle school students to rate the different ways they used their cellphones.

The results showed boys much more than girls used their phones to play games, share photos and videos, listen to music and send e-mails. Girls tended to use their phones primarily for talking and or text messaging.


To the researchers’ surprise, the boys used the phones for talking and texting just as much as the girls — in other words, they didn’t use the “complicated features” instead of socializing, but in addition to it. “We would’ve expected that girls would use cellphones for talking and texting because females are socialized to communicate more with others than males,” said Cotten in an online video presentation of her research, “but there were no differences.”

“By these study results, we aren’t saying that parents should buy phones with fewer features for girls,” she said. “But it does point out how much more needs to be done to teach girls” about technology. “Females traditionally have perceived themselves as less skilled in terms of technology, especially with regard to computers.”

Cotten said that 60 to 70 percent of middle school kids report owning a cellphone.

More about Boys vs. Girls on Cellphones here.

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