Jason P. Chambers is an associate professor in the Department of Advertising at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He currently teaches courses on advertising history, classic advertising campaigns, and the foundations of advertising philosophy.
His work has been published in books and both academic and trade journals in the United States, Asia, and Europe. Dr. Chambers recently completed a biography of advertising legend Thomas J. Burrell titled, "An Advertising Revolutionary: The Life and Work of Tom Burrell", and has other published books like "Madison Avenue and the Color Line: African Americans in the Advertising Industry" and "Building the Black Metropolis: African American Entrepreneurship in Chicago".
EPISODE LINKS:
Jason Chambers' Website: http://jasonpchambers.com/
"The Courage to Write": https://us.macmillan.com/books/9780805074673/thecouragetowrite
OUTLINE:
0:00 - Introduction
0:40 - Chambers' history with "History"
4:70 - History of Race in Advertising
12:20 - The secret of Advertising
20:30 - Can 'Ethical Advertising' exist?
25:33 - "True Fans"
30:08 - Social responsibilities of a company
36:47 - Predicting human behavior
51:05 - The best way to learn
1:11:01 - Advice for young people
🚥Overrated or Underrated Section 🚥
1:15:55 - 🖥 1984 Apple Campaign
1:18:22 - 🎙 Political speeches over the years as a force of change
1:21:33 - 🦠Advertising campaigns during the Pandemic
1:24:34 - 😵 Seemingly "crazy" people
1:29:05 - 🖼 (Bonus Question!) A billboard on Green Street
1:30:04 - Thank You? There's more!
Bonus Conversation!
1:31:00 - Curiosity
1:32:12- "Where were you lucky?"
1:34:53 - Ambitions and finding the value of your work
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