Creative
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Paul Simons: is the new marketing model upstream consultants and downstream ad agencies?
Here’s another piece (topical still, from earlier this year) by MAA’s Paul Simons who sadly died earlier this week. Paul…
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Ogilvy’s Andy Main lures Devika Bulchandani from McCann in first big move
New Ogilvy CEO Andy Main, hired from Deloitte Digital, has made his first big move, bringing in Devika Bulchandani from…
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Is resigning a client ever the right thing to do? It can be when I think about Wrangler and Virgin
As a tribute to long-time MAA business partner Paul Simons who died earlier this week we’ll be publishing a selection…
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MacLennan in charge as M&C’s remaining founders quit scandal-hit agency
M&C Saatchi has cleared the management decks as it tries to emerge in one piece from last year’s accounting scandal…
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New UK Out of Home study shows strong results for advertisers through lockdown restrictions
A UK Out of Home industry collaboration pooling the results from 65 campaigns between March and September 2020, reveals that…
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‘Bah Humbug.’ Harvey Nichols sums up Christmas 2020
Harvey Nichols was once known for its brilliant Christmas ad campaigns through adam&eveDDB, but the upmarket retailer has not done…
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MAA’s Paul Simons 1948-2020
Paul Simons, my business partner and a shareholder in MAA, has died at 72 after a long illness. Paul was…
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Fred & Farid craft ‘Très Paris’ hymn to Paris for Longchamp
Is Emily in Paris reminding us of French glamour and glitz (arguably somewhat reduced in recent yeqrs?) It can’t have…
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Brewdog’s ‘F**k You CO2’ ad labelled ‘offensive’ and ‘inappropriate’ by the Advertising Standards Authority
BrewDog beer claims to take twice as much carbon out of the air as it emits, making it carbon negative.…
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