Two weeks ago Dave Dye set up London’s newest agency Hello People with former Ogilvy UK managers Hugh Baillie and Rachel Hatton. He previously worked at BMP, AMV/BBDO, Leagas Delaney, Campbell Doyle Dye and DHM winning awards for The Economist, Nike, Volkswagen and Google and Adnams. He is the only person to design two D&AD [...]
Mark started at the BBC in news and current affairs then moved to the music business at Warner Bros. He joined advertising as a producer at CDP, becoming Head of TV in the late 80s, producing some of the most award-winning work of the time. He launched Propaganda Films (Polygram) in the UK and European [...]
At BMP’s party to celebrate the work of John Webster (left) I noticed something he had once written, the gist of which was that in Rembrandt’s time very few people saw his work, whereas millions will see your ad, so “let’s make it good.” If you – as a client or an agency – don’t [...]
Sarah Carter, who I don’t know, has written a book about John Webster, the famed creative director of Boase Massimi Pollitt. Webster took over from founder creative director Gabe Massimi following his fall-out with co-founder Martin Boase. Boase won. And Webster was indeed a brilliant creative director, as this piece on his triumphs shows (you [...]
Jerry Judge is a co-founder of self-styled ‘capitalist collective’ The Fearless Group. Based in New York. Fearless is a new-style agency bringing together senior people from a number of marketing disciplines. Born in London, he has worked in senior management roles in a number of top creative agencies including TBWA, BBH and Lowe in London [...]
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 [...]
1/ The most important adman in the world in the 1970s was Marion Harper (a bloke), head, first, of McCann-Erickson and then of Interpublic, the marcoms groups that grew off the back of McCann’s. Harper, who was born in Oklahoma City in 1916 and died there in 1989 was hardly a Mad Men-type operator like [...]
They do say that consumer brands are really the advertising rather than the product and the newish owners of Sugar Puffs in the UK (Big Bear which bought it from Quaker) have gone a stage further by trading as Honey Monster Foods, after the iconic man-in-a-hairy-suit created by creative director John Webster at BMP in [...]
One Dr Daniel Mullensiefen no less, a lecturer in pyschology, music and computing at Goldsmiths college at the University of London. The doc will spend one day a week advising DDB London on neuroscientific theory and pyschological testing. This all sounds rather sinister, back to the days when subliminal advertising was a hot topic in [...]
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