Tag: viacom

  • Sauce Castillo & The Mondegreen

    Nik Stauskas is still coming to terms with his new nickname — and how he got it.  The NBA rookie has gone from Sacramento Kings bench-warmer to full-on marketing sensation in a week, all because of a little misunderstanding. Kings coach George Karl put Stauskas into a game last week against the lowly Philadelphia 76ers.…

  • A Brisk Morning & A Morning Risk

    If you told me when I was a graduate student in poetry that, 20 years later, I’d be addressing someone called a “Chief Risk Officer” and his executive leadership team at one of the largest financial services institutions in the world, sharing strategies and insights on innovation and risk management… I would have told you…

  • Congratulations To Viacom’s MBY Graduates

    I had a super fun time today celebrating the 151 graduates of Viacom’s “Maximizing Brand You,” a peer counseling and career development program that helps assistant- to director-level employees define and strengthen their own personal brand.  The year-long program has participants define their career goals and gives them the mentoring and skills they need to…

  • Research You Can Walk Through

    For years, Scratch has studied the compression of time and space between, say, a good idea and a better one; a thriving company and a dead one; instant success and precipitous failure and then (often in a reality show?) premeditated redemption. “Time’s moving faster than ever,” right?  Sure it is, or at least if feels…

  • The “Millennial Disruption Index” On Bloomberg TV’s Market Makers This Morning

    I was a guest this morning on Bloomberg TV’s show “Market Makers,” hosted by Stephanie Ruhle and Erik Shatzker, where I talked about THE MILLENNIAL DISRUPTION INDEX.  It continues the discussion Scratch and Viacom started about the ongoing transformation we see in financial services at the hands of the largest generation in American history, which was first covered…

  • 150 People Knitting Boobs

    It was 9am on a beautiful Friday morning in Brooklyn, four years ago, the first ever Viacommunity Day, a day of service for all employees of our company.  I was walking up to my wife’s art studio with several bags of bagels.  She was expecting about 50 people that morning. Neither of us expected our CEO to…

  • Happy Holidays

    I had some fun making a video for my team as a warm-up for our holiday party, tonight.  I’m so proud of everyone at Scratch for their incredible work this year — our biggest and best ever.  This represents the first time I’ve ever been turned into a Belgian action star from the 90’s…  

  • From My New Interview On The Viacom Blog

    I was recently interviewed by the Viacom Blog.  There I talk about the power of Viacom innovation, the origin of Scratch, and my gratitude to the friends and colleagues who’ve worked so hard and so brilliantly, side by side with me for the last ten years.  We’re a team.  Fortune Magazine noticed, and it highlights…

  • Cannes 2013: My Conversation On Creativity With OK Go Lead Singer Damian Kulash

    As part of Viacom’s trip to this year’s Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity, I sat down for a conversation with Damian Kulash, lead singer of OK Go. Last year, Damian and the band won 7 Cannes Lions, 4 of which were gold. Here’s an excerpt from our chat: Also check out OK Go’s new…

  • Scratch Launches Its Blog

    Scratch launched a blog today.  I hope you like it.  Click here for my welcome letter, then check out the buffet of awesomeness posted by Scratchers.  We’re just getting started…