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Expedia and 180LA take the gay marriage route

Expedia and 180LA take the gay marriage route

By Stephen Foster on October 3, 2012

I get a bit uneasy when advertisers dip a toe into social/personal engineering. Would they have done the same thing if Dr Goebbels had been the client? Ultimately ads are there to sell (increasing awareness is ultimately about making a sale). 180LA, which is on a roll at the moment, has come up with this [...]

Posted in Agencies, Clients, Creative, News | Tagged 180la, california, expedia, Goebbels

UK ad industry waves Cameron thinker Steve Hilton a not very fond goodbye

UK ad industry waves Cameron thinker Steve Hilton a not very fond goodbye

By Stuart Smith on March 7, 2012

Few in the ad industry will lament the departure of Steve ‘Yoda’ Hilton, David Cameron’s director of strategy. Indeed, such is the relief that he is going, some would willingly pack the diminutive ‘blue sky’ thinker’s bags, as he contemplates a year’s ‘sabbatical’ with his family in California. Politically speaking, California is the sunny side [...]

Posted in Agencies, Media, News, Politics | Tagged bailey report, blue sky thinking, california, children, coalition government, coi, David Cameron, demon eyes poster, Francis Maude, m&c saatchi, Maurice Saatchi, saatchi & saatchi, Steve Hilton, Tony Blair, Tory Party, us-style ad council

Ex 'governator' Arnold Schwarzenegger can always fall back on making ads in Japan if he has to

Ex ‘governator’ Arnold Schwarzenegger can always fall back on making ads in Japan if he has to

By Angie Dean on May 18, 2011

Former California governor and muscle man film star Arnold Schwarzenegger is in the soup at the moment, needing not just a new job but a new wife as Kennedy clan spouse Maria Shriver has walked out on him following the revelation that he fathered a child with a long-serving member of the couple’s household staff. [...]

Posted in Clients, Creative, News, Politics | Tagged adweek, Arnold Schwarzenegger, california, child, governator, japanese commercials, Kennedys, Maria Shriver, terminator, Youtube

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