By Stephen Foster on January 18, 2013
After a long and challenging week (with not that much going on) it’s nice to get a new ad from Guinness and agency AMV/BBDO. Guinness advertising has left me bemused for years; I now see that the famous Jonathan Glazer ‘Surfers’ ad is about time, pouring a Guinness takes a bit longer than a Heineken. [...]
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By Stephen Foster on July 11, 2012
Which is very nice, so thanks to them. We like Business Insider too, especially as it employs that prince among hacks Jim Edwards who’s so good at unearthing gems about the marcoms giants’ cunning wheezes. Here’s what they say. Why we like it: If excessive detail about the ins and outs of the U.K. adbiz [...]
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By Stephen Foster on May 25, 2012
OK, let’s take it from the top: Facebook’s IPO was a fiasco as there was clearly information available about the company’s struggle to reach ad revenue targets that were made available to some investors (the big boys) and not the millions of others who bought into the massively over-priced IPO. This is just Wall Street [...]
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