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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 Staff on April 17, 2013
In the UK Mad Men has returned to Sky Atlantic, infuriatingly for those of us who aren’t Sky subscribers. Wieden+Kennedy London managing director Neil Christie (left) analyses the advertising bits – there are still some – in the new episodes of arguably the world’s best TV drama series. “Midway in our life’s journey I went [...]
Posted in Agencies, Analysis, Clients, Creative, Media, News | Tagged ad agency, dante's inferno, Don Draper, mad men, Neil Kennedy, Peggy Olson, series six, sky atlantic, sterling cooper draper pryce, tv series, wieden+kennedy london
By Staff on March 7, 2013
OK readers, who’s the dude in the middle with the tasteful mustard jacket, silk cravat and sideburns? None other than our old pal Harry Crane, head of media at Sterling Cooper Draper (we imagine the “Pryce” has been dropped after recent events, but you never know: Stanley Pollitt, of BMP, continued to perform miracles after [...]
Posted in Agencies, Creative, Media, News | Tagged Don Draper, Harry Crane, Lance Pryce, lionsgate, mad men, President Kennedy, Roger Sterling, Sterling Cooper Draper
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 March 26, 2012
The 1960s in the US was clearly the era of sexy songs at birthday parties and, even, presidential inaugurations. Here’s Mad Man Don Draper’s new wife Megan showing him she isn’t a doormat at his 40th birthday, from the new series. And the original, “Kiss, kiss’ or maybe a bit more, from 1962. By Brigitte [...]
Posted in Agencies, Media, News | Tagged Brigitte Bardot lookalike, Don Draper, Frank Sinatra, Gillian Hills, inauguration, JFK, Kennedys, mad men, Marilyn Monroe, new series, wife megan
By Stuart Smith on January 16, 2012
Creatives, sharpen your pencils. Tina Brown, editor of Newsweek and The Daily Beast, has a new challenge for you. Well, not ‘new’ perhaps; more “retro”. It’s a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to hone those copy skills which you might, if you were extremely lucky, have learned at the knee of David Abbott or, very distantly indeed, Bill [...]
Posted in Agencies, Clients, Media, News | Tagged amc, avis, beetle ads, Bill Bernbach, daily beast, David Abbott, ddb, Don Draper, lionsgate, mad men, Matthew Weiner, newsweek, Tina Brown, vw, we try harder
By Staff on December 21, 2011
Interpublic CEO Michael Roth must be a rather worried man this Christmas; the holding company has hauled itself out of the knacker’s yard but two of his big agency networks, DraftFCB and McCann Erickson are not performing while the third, Lowe & Partners, is recovering but still worryingly dependent on the good offices of Unilever. [...]
Posted in Agencies, Clients, Creative, News | Tagged bbdo, Don Draper, draftfcb, exxon, germany, Interpublic, kolle rebbe, Linus Karlsson, lowe & partners, lufthansa, madison avenue, mccann-erickson, Michael Roth, Nestle, Nick Brien, ogilvy & mather, sc johnson
By Stephen Foster on March 31, 2011
It’s never easy starting an agency of course and Sterling Cooper Draper Pryce, the fictional home of Mad Men, is facing the indignity of budget cuts, more advertising time and (yuk) product placement as producer Lionsgate tries to get the fifth series of the highly-esteemed (although not high rating) show on the road. Mad Men [...]
Posted in Agencies, Media, News | Tagged amc, Don Draper, Jon Hamm, lionsgate, mad men, product placement, sky atlantic, sterling cooper draper pryce
By Stephen Foster on December 26, 2010
Put it like that and the probably answer is no but new McCann Worldgroup CEO Nick Brien is nothing if not ambitious and newly-appointed creative director and chairman (of McCann Erickson New York and London) Linus Karlsson (left) has been brilliant in his native Sweden, at Fallon and then at Mother New York which he [...]
Posted in Agencies, Clients, News | Tagged Ann Burdus, Barry Day, coca-cola, Don Draper, Don White, faulty showers, John Cleese, Linus Karlsson, mad men, martini, mccann-erickson, Nick Brien, Nigel Grandfield, sausage factory
By Stephen Foster on December 2, 2010
The ever-magnificent Mad Men is becoming the template for ad agencies, despite being set nearly 50 years ago. Ad Age had the very bright idea of signing up Piers Morgan, about to take over Larry King’s CNN slot, to interview actor John Slattery, who plays politically incorrect Sterling Cooper Draper Pryce boss Roger Sterling, about [...]
Posted in Agencies, Media, News | Tagged Ad Age, cnn, Don Draper, John Slattery, Jon Hamm, Larry King, mad men, media evolved conference, Piers Morgan, Roger Sterling
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