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By George Parker on April 29, 2013
After arriving in New York in the booze and drug fuelled Mad Men sixties, my first task was to get a job. For two weeks I trudged the concrete canyons of Manhattan lugging my oversized portfolio of samples. I soon realized the best way to achieve temporary relief from the suffocating heat and humidity of [...]
Posted in Agencies, Analysis, Clients, Creative | Tagged cbs studios, confessions of a mad man, David Ogilvy, George Parker, gotham city, Lou Dorfsman, madison avenue, New York
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 March 23, 2012
Jane Maas is the former Madison Avenue copywriter (and later Ogilvy & Mather creative director) whose new book Mad Women: The Other Side of Madison Avenue in the ’60s and Beyond is causing quite a stir. Here she is, aged 80 now, in an Ad Age video with Rupal Parekh, describing the various dirty doings [...]
Posted in Agencies, Clients, Creative, News | Tagged Ad Age, book, creative director, David Ogilvy, Jane Maas, mad women, madison avenue, noxzema, ogilvy & mather, Rupal Parekh
By Stephen Foster on March 9, 2012
It’s Mad Men time again with the much-delayed fifth series about to start and former Ogilvy & Mather copywriter Jan Maas (pictured) has come out with an aptly-timed memoir detailing the drink-fuelled sexual exploits in Madison Avenue in the 1960s. Apparently her own agency Ogilvy, then run by David Ogilvy but now part of WPP, [...]
Posted in Agencies, Creative, News | Tagged 1960s, David Ogilvy, drink, Jane Maas, JWT, mad men, mad women, madison avenue, ministry of advertising, ogilvy & mather, sexism, the other side of advertising, WPP
By Stephen Foster on December 12, 2011
Called David, strangely enough. It’s a nice idea to celebrate the centenary of legendary adman and Ogilvy & Mather founder David Ogilvy with the launch of a new creative agency although one suspects the ambitions of three top Ogilvy execs (and the forthcoming World Cup and Olympics in Brazil) had at least as much to [...]
Posted in Agencies, Clients, Creative | Tagged agency start-up, Anselmo Ramos, argentina, brazil, cannes, david agency, David Ogilvy, del campo nazca saatchi & saatchi, Fernando Musa, Gaston Bigio, ogilvy & mather, olympics, world cup
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 12, 2011
Rolls-Royce was the campaign that made legendary adman David Ogilvy ultra famous (‘At 60 miles an hour the loudest noise in this new Rolls-Royce comes from the electric clock’) and now US agency Kirshenbaum Bond Senecal & Partners (KBS) has been handed the tricky task of carrying on the great man’s work. Ogilvy produced his [...]
Posted in Agencies, Clients, Creative, News | Tagged bmw, David Ogilvy, electric clock, goodie bags, gsd&m idea city, kbs, kirshenbaum bond senecal & partners, legendary adman, ogilvy & mather, print ads, relationship marketing, Rolls Royce, Steve Thibodeau, us sales
By Stephen Foster on June 22, 2011
Ogilvy & Mather CEO Miles Young is one of those urbane Englishmen running big chunks of the ad world (Andrew Robertson at BBDO, David Jones at Havas, Sir Martin of course but is he urbane?) and here he is, courtesy of the enterprising Adweek, telling us why Cannes is important to head honchos like him. [...]
Posted in Agencies, Clients, Creative, News | Tagged Abdrew Robertson bbdo, adweek, cannes, cannes lions, DAvid jones havas, David Ogilvy, Miles Young, ogilvy & mather, Sir Martin Sorrell, WPP
By Stephen Foster on June 14, 2011
David Ogilvy, founder of Ogilvy & Mather, was born in 1911 and died in 1999. In his time he was the one and only Brit who made it big-time on Madison Avenue (before his nemesis Martin Sorrell arrived) and the founder of what is still one of the biggest agency brands. Ogilvy started off as [...]
Posted in Agencies, Clients, Creative, News | Tagged advertising, blood brains and beer, commander whitehead, confessions of an advertising man, David Ogilvy, Francis Ogilvy, French chateau, madison avenue, man in the hathaway shirt, mather & crowther, Michael Baulk, New York, Norman Berry, ogilvy & mather, Peter Warren, Richard Venables, Rolls Royce, schweppes, Sir Martin Sorrell, WPP
By Stephen Foster on October 19, 2010
1/ In the early 1980s Interpublic was the only game in town as far as big networks and big clients were concerned. As the name suggests it was an attempt to put a corporate face on the whole business of advertising, being the self-styled intermediary between companies and the big wide world of consumers. But [...]
Posted in Agencies, Clients, Creative | Tagged cannes awards, carling, dambusters, David Ogilvy, five things you didn't know about advertisng agencies: 1980s (2), Interpublic, venice, WPP
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