By Stephen Foster on May 9, 2013
My thanks to Adscammer George Parker (another man who never sleeps) for pointing me in the direction of this self-produced tribute to what seems to be the world’s most venerable agency – Goodby Silverstein & Partners. And I thought they’d just turned 30. My, they were bad boys in those days. And I wonder who [...]
Posted in Agencies, Creative, News | Tagged 150 years, 30th anniversary, adscam, George Parker, goodby silverstein & partners, self-produced tribute, Sir Derekham Robsonshire
By George Parker on April 22, 2013
When, in 1963, as a snot nosed 23 year old, I disembarked at pier 96 from the Queen Mary (the one that’s now a conference center in Long Beach), my sole objective was to get a job on Madison Avenue, drink, smoke and screw my brains out, and so become what would be known many [...]
Posted in Agencies, Analysis, Clients, Creative | Tagged adscam, compaq, confessions of a mad man, David Ogilvy, George Parker, madison avenue, ogilvy & mather, Sir Martin Sorrell, WPP
By Stephen Foster on February 26, 2013
My friend George Parker of Adscam really hates this Wieden+Kennedy campaign for Kraft’s Velveeta and George, as ever, has a point. But this latest in the series (there are a few of them) isn’t as ‘cheesy’ as the previous efforts, which tried too hard and it showed. There isn’t always a 30 Rock in a [...]
Posted in Agencies, Analysis, Clients, News | Tagged adscam, fmcg companies, George Parker, Kraft, tv campaign, velveeta, wieden+kennedy
By Stephen Foster on October 29, 2012
I have my friend George Parker of Adscam to thank for this one: a new campaign from Goodby Silverstein for Abode featuring a very handy new device, the bullshit detector. There’s not much more to say. If only buzzwords were really this painful. Where can I buy one?
Posted in Agencies, Clients, Creative | Tagged adobe, adscam, bullshit detector, George Parker, goodby silverstein
By Stephen Foster on July 2, 2012
I used to think that the biggest threat to the fantastic ‘Mad Men’ TV series about Madison Avenue types in the all-conquering, drinking and bonking 1960′s was the onset of hippiedom (or the bourgeois version thereof). Can you imagine Sterling Cooper Draper Pryce’s sharp-suited Don Draper (right) in bell-bottom jeans with a droopy Frank Zappa [...]
Posted in Agencies, Finance, Media, News | Tagged adscam, amc, BBC, bskyb, Don Draper, Dustin Hoffman, George Parker, luck, mad men, sky atlantic
By Stephen Foster on April 5, 2012
My friend George Parker of Adscam thinks it has, “Mother needs a good spanking!” avers George in response to Mother New York’s new celebrity-laden campaign for Burger King which features, inter alia, David Beckham (wearing trousers, phew!) and, in the Latino campaign, Salma Hayek, who does flash her best-known assets. Mother should be above such [...]
Posted in Agencies, Clients, Creative, News | Tagged adscam, burger king, celbrities campaign, David Beckham, George Parker, latino campaign, mother new york, Salma Hayek, selling out
By Stephen Foster on April 4, 2012
David Jones mentioned that Havas was about to buy a crowd-sourcing company when he was chatting merrily to WPP’s Sir Martin Sorrell on the radio the other day and now he’s revealed what it is: Victors & Spoils in Boulder, Colorado. Victors & Spoils was founded in 2009 by two refugees from Boulder’s Crispin Porter [...]
Posted in Agencies, Clients, Finance, News, Research | Tagged adscam, big fuel, boulder colorado, Claudia Batten, crispin porter+bogusky, crowd-sourcing agency, david jones, Evan Fry, havas, john Winsor, Jon Bond, radio programme, Sir Martin Sorrell, Tom Essler, victors & spoils, WPP
By Stephen Foster on February 16, 2012
Chicago-based Energy BBDO has poached Grey Paris creative directors Luissandro Del Gobbo and Giovanni Settesoldi (pictured) as senior VPs and creative directors. The pair spent four years at Grey Paris following time at JWT Paris and BBDO Milan. They have won Cannes Lions for SHS Teen Clothing, Febreze and Buttero boots plus a number of [...]
Posted in Agencies, Clients, Creative, News | Tagged adscam, bbdo milan, draftfcb, energy bbdo, George Parker, Giovanni Settesoldi, grey paris, gunn report, jwt paris, Luissandro Del Gobbo, ogilvy & mather, proximity, sc johnson
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