Ilya Vedrashko

Ilya runs the R&D / Consumer Insights group at Hill Holliday and studies the relationships people develop with different traditional and emerging media.
He went to grad school at MIT Comparative Media Studies, where he wrote a thesis on advertising in video games, helped co-found the Convergence Culture Consortium and started the Advertising Lab blog.
Before coming to Hill Holliday, he had worked as communications director at a software start-up, an account exec at an office of Grey, at an idealistic NGO in Washington, D.C., at P&G, and at Fallon.
You can find him on LinkedIn and Twitter.
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Posts by Ilya:
- Smartphones Distract People Away from TV, Mobile Ads Help Bring Them Back, 16 May 2012
- Project Beacon Partner: ShareThis, 06 Mar 2012
- The Future Of Television In 25 Tweets, 01 Feb 2011
- Experiment: One Week Without Cable, 29 Jan 2011
- Notes From CES 2011: Twenty Thoughts and Two Trends, 19 Jan 2011
- Notes from CES 2011: Tablets Everywhere, 13 Jan 2011
- Notes From CES 2011: That Fancy TV You Just Bought Is Already Outdated, 06 Jan 2011
- A Site That Went Viral and The Numbers Behind It, 21 Jul 2010
- Kthnx, ROFLcon, 03 May 2010
- Apple iAd Team Visits Hill Holliday, Shares Details, 14 Apr 2010
- We Take iPad for a Spin, 06 Apr 2010
- ƨlliʞƧ luʇɘƨU, 01 Apr 2010
- Will iPad Save Traditional Publishing?, 04 Feb 2010
- Apple The Ad Network, 22 Jan 2010
- Demand-Based Variable Pricing For Publications, 21 Jan 2010
- The Ultimate Apple Tablet Wish List, 01 Jan 2010
- Augmented Reality: Postcard From The Future, 14 Dec 2009
- Improved Advertising Brick: 10 Ad Inventions From the 19th Century, 25 Nov 2009
- Visualizing Daily Activities With Media Wheel, 19 Nov 2009
- Meet Gutenborg, Your Friendly Neighborhood Book Robot, 09 Nov 2009
- Billions, 20 Oct 2009
- Twitter + Nielsen = Twielsen, 08 Oct 2009
- Google Wave Washes Ashore New Advertising Opportunities, 05 Oct 2009
- Ad Avoidance Trivia, 16 Sep 2009
- Notes From re:Think 2009 Conference, 06 Apr 2009
- Standing In The Invisible Line, 09 Oct 2008
- President of Yankelovich on Advertising Clutter, 28 Jan 2008
- The Elusive Advertising Clutter, 14 Nov 2007
- Why Adblock Plus May Be A Good Thing, 17 Sep 2007
- Preview: Advertising on Joost, 30 Apr 2007
- Ad Club Discusses Fan Culture, 15 Mar 2007
- Brands as Landmarks, 09 Mar 2007
- Fans, Content, and Brands, 03 Mar 2007
- Notes from NATPE, Part II, 18 Jan 2007
- Notes from NATPE 2007, 15 Jan 2007
- Calculating the ROI of Second Life, 12 Dec 2006
- Chris Anderson’s Long Tail in Second Life, 13 Oct 2006
- Adidas Opens Store in Second Life, 19 Sep 2006
