By Stephen Foster on July 9, 2012
It’s not that long ago that we recounted the experiences of former adwoman Jane Maas on Madison Avenue where, among other experiences, she recounted tales of orgies on board agency parties and referred to the great David Ogilvy as a ‘swordsman.’ That sort of thing doesn’t go on these days, thank goodness, although even one’s [...]
Posted in Agencies, Clients, Creative, News | Tagged 50 shades of grey, Jane Maas, Kate Cronin, ogilvy pr, standard innovation corporation, team wpp, vibrators, we-vibe
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 Staff on March 14, 2012
Our extract from Jane Maas’s enlightening tale Mad Women:The Other Side of Madison Avenue in the ’60s and Beyond seems to be proving popular (is it the advertising or the sex, or the combination of the two?) so we thought we’d follow it with some George Parker. George is a British creative who hit New [...]
Posted in Agencies, Clients, Creative, Finance | Tagged adscam/the horror!, benton & bowles, charmin, confessions of a mad man, Dick Wilson, George Parker, Jack Welch, Jane Maas, Joe Arleo, madison avenue and money, Michael Furlong, mr whipple, procter & gamble, publicis, the other side of madison avenue
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
Recent Comments