Indie Bombshells, Empty Auctions, and a Stanchion Pad With Opinions
Indie Spin: The one with the Cannes villa takeover, ChatGPT’s wide-open ad auction, and a butter sommelier on the payroll.
Fifty Submarine Spots, One Yellow Pencil, and a Camcorder Full of BuzzBallz
Indie Spin: The one with humor pencils, human taxidermy, and Tim and Eric in a basement.
One Show Pencils, a Whisky With No Tasting Notes, and a Coalition Heading to Cannes
Indie Spin: The one with Rethink’s 29 Pencils, Willem Dafoe picking whisky on feeling alone, and Indie at Large launching with a stacked roster.
Sky Bunk Beds, Maya Angelou’s Confession, and the 47% Loyalty Cliff
Indie Spin: The one with Air New Zealand’s NYC stunt, two Webbys for an AR project, and a $420M gaming verdict.
Step-Counting Chickens, Rethink at the Top of the A-List, and an Honest Earth Day
Indie Spin: The one with Webby sweeps, 21,000 chicken steps, and a 25-year exit interview.
Privacy Premiums, Emmy Nods, and the Agency That Opened a Flower Shop
Indie Spin: The one with Response Media’s HBR data, Colossus’s Jon Stewart moment, and SuperBloom’s retail experiment.
Candy-Crushed Arenas, Cinematic Shopping Lists, and the 39% of Agency Contracts That Forgot About AI
Indie Spin: The one with the anti-nicotine campaign terrifying the internet, the feature-length hot sauce film, and the metric that isn’t the flex you think it is.
Horse-Powered Travel Planners and Other Reasons the Indie World Doesn’t Do Boring
Indie Spin: The one with predictive creator math, a Kentucky Fried three-peat, and a zombie game announcement nobody saw coming.
Record Players, Mob Bosses, and AI’s Privilege Problem
Indie Spin: The one with nuclear submarine vodka, a fake construction site in Soho, and 83.6% of shoppers who can’t tell your brand apart.
An Oscar Nomination, a Dublin Pub in Dubai and the Slow Funeral of the Follower Count
Indie Spin: The one with awards season reverb, extraction debt and the hard questions indie agencies are quietly answering right now.
Indie Spin: The One Where Everyone Had Opinions About The Big Game
Indie Spin: The one with Super Bowl autopsies, AI efficiency traps, and frozen pizza opera rock
You Already Have What You Need: The Honest Truth About Starting Your Own Agency
15 agency founders sat exactly where you’re sitting right now—burnt out, pushed aside, watching their jobs disappear into holding company spreadsheets. Here’s what they learned in year one
CMOs, Crisis Plans, and the Never-Normal Business of Staying Relevant
Indie Spin: The one with AI reshaping buying behavior, crisis readiness data, and why the CMO isn’t dead after all.
When TikTok Comments Become National Campaigns, and Other Signs Indies are Moving Faster Than Ever
Speed wins. That’s the pattern emerging from Indie Agency News members this week—not just moving fast, but moving decisively when cultural moments demand it. Joybyte turned a TikTok comment into a viral campaign for Idahoan Foods in the time it takes most brands to schedule a first alignment meeting. BarkleyOKRP distilled Red Lobster’s entire comeback […]
Had No Idea How to Start an Agency. Did it Anyway
Will Trowbridge left Netflix in 2021 without a playbook, co-founder, or traditional agency background. Sometimes that’s exactly what you need
When Fry Boxes Reveal Brand Logic and Other Signs Indies Have Momentum
Indie Spin: The one with recognition rounds, strategic hires, and why fry boxes aren’t accidental