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By Stephen Foster on April 24, 2013
With a new series of Mad Men on our screens and the death of Margaret Thatcher (indelibly attached to the UK adland of the 1980s), advertising has made one of its periodic trips over the wire; entering mainstream debate as opposed to a minor role on the business pages. So do ads change the world? [...]
Posted in Agencies, Analysis, Clients, Creative, Finance, News, Politics, Research | Tagged 1950s, 1960s, 1979, charles saatchi, conservative party, Don Draper, doyle dane bernbach, general election, mad men, madison avenue, Margaret Thatcher, research, Tim Bell, vw ad
By Stephen Foster on April 8, 2013
One doesn’t want to be parochial about these events – we’re reminded of issues of far more moment than the fortunes of adland by the death this morning of former UK prime minister Margaret Thatcher – but the one-time celebrated iron lady did have more impact on the fortunes of UK advertising and some of [...]
Posted in Agencies, Analysis, Clients, Media, News, Politics | Tagged charles saatchi, death, john Banks, labour isn't working, Margaret Thatcher, Maurice Saatchi, political ads, privatisations, saatchi & saatchi, Tim Bell, Tory Party, uk prime minister
By Stephen Foster on January 31, 2013
Why do some start-up agencies make it while others fall on their noses? Is it genius, grabbiing the zeitgeist or just luck? My friend Paul Simons would say it’s about good planning and the right line-up. The success of his agency Simons Palmer Denton Clemmow & Johnson (yes, there were a lot of them) would [...]
Posted in Agencies, Clients, News | Tagged agency start-ups, bartle bogle hegarty, bbh, Carl Johnson, charles saatchi, enter, hurrell & dawson, lego, Paul Simons, Robin Wight, rutherford, scott, simons palmer, tbwa, wcrs, wight collins
By Stephen Foster on January 28, 2013
The UK government is apparently considering running an ad campaign to dissuade Bulgarians and Romanians from flooding into Britain when the rules change soon. Lots of references to warm beer, cold and wet weather and an economy run by George Osborne will doubtless be considered for the brief. So which agency should get the job? [...]
Posted in Agencies, Clients, Creative, Finance, News, Politics | Tagged 72andsunny, Ad Age, ad campaign, agency of the year, baghdad, bulgarian and romanian immigrants, charles saatchi, m&c saatchi, Maurice Saatchi, sansung, Tory Party, uk government
By Angie Dean on October 1, 2012
Some drivers still go weak at the knees at the thought of Jaguar’s famous E-Type sports car from the early 1960s, arguably the prettiest sports car of them all and a capable performer too, at a price that was a bit more affordable than Ferraris, Maseratis and Mercedes. I believe one Charles Saatchi snapped up [...]
Posted in Agencies, Clients, Creative, News | Tagged charles saatchi, Damian Lewis, e-type, f-type, Jaguar, Lana Del Rey, ridley scott, sports cars, xk grand tourer
By Stephen Foster on April 11, 2012
Wit, man about town, art collector, husband to Nigella Lawson and former adman Charles Saatchi (pictured here with Nigella) has produced a book, Be The Worst You Can Be, that shares his views on life, art and his former wives with us. As ever with Charles it’s his ball so he asks (or rather selects) [...]
Posted in Agencies, Creative | Tagged advertising, aphorisms, art gallery, be the worst you can be, book, charles saatchi, Damien Hirst, Nigel Lawson, Nigella Lawson, saatchi & saatchi, the guardian
By Stephen Foster on February 7, 2012
Well there’s a lost cause for a start – and I thought the coalition government had decided not to ‘waste’ any more money on advertising. By and large the Brits hate being told what to do by bossy government although agencies seize on the opportunity gleefully of course. Actually this is a pretty good effort [...]
Posted in Agencies, Clients, Creative, News, Politics | Tagged anti-smoking ads, benson & hedges, change4life, charles saatchi, drink less, health education council, m&c saatchi
By Stephen Foster on November 14, 2011
And when the opportunity arises you’ve got to make the best of it. Which both Nicola Mendelsohn, boss of Karmarama and president of UK agency trade body the IPA, and the sainted Sir John Hegarty (pictured) both did this morning on the BBC’s Today Programme. The opportunity arose because David Ogilvy’s seminal ‘Confessions of an [...]
Posted in Agencies, Clients, Creative, Media, News | Tagged Alan Waldie, charles saatchi, confessions of an advertising man, David Ogilvy, ipa, John Webster, Justin Webb, karmarama, Nicola Mendelsohn, ogilvy & mather, Paul Weiland, research, Sir John Hegarty, Sir Martin Sorrell, ten rulesm direct marketer, today programme, uk agency trade body, WPP
By Stephen Foster on October 20, 2011
Well this is an ambitious move by Saatchi London (and Fallon) boss Robert Senior; can radio programme guy Andy Parfitt (pictured), former head of the UK’s biggest pop music radio station Radio 1, recruit the kind of people Saatchi London (and Fallon, what’s the difference?) needs to put it back on top of the creative [...]
Posted in Agencies, Clients, Creative, News | Tagged Andy Parfitt, audi, cadbury's gorilla, carling, charles saatchi, fallon, golden square, John Lewis, kevin roberts, Laurence Green, lovemarks, m&c saatchi, Maurice Saatchi, music, Phil Collins, Phil Rumbol, publicis groupe, radio 1 boss, Richard Flintham, robert senior, saatchi & saatchi london
By Stephen Foster on September 21, 2011
The Saatchi brothers Charles and Maurice have been famous for their aphoristic pizazz through the ages – ‘nothing is impossible’ etc – and now their latest manifestation M&C Saatchi (which today reported a 46 per cent jump in half-year profits to £7.1m) has produced a book, Brutal Simplicity of Thought, that lays bare Saatchi-ish wisdom. [...]
Posted in Agencies, Clients, Creative | Tagged brutal simplicity of thought, charles saatchi, Lord Saatchi, m&c saatchi, Maurice Saatchi, saatchi wisdon, v&a museum
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