By Stuart Smith on March 4, 2012
Can bad guys play a redemptive, positive role-model in advertising? I touched on this in my (seemingly popular) post on SS colonel Otto Skorzeny, who has been hailed by British adman Dave Trott as a creative thinker. Now, bizarrely, the two anti-heroes of 1987 film Wall Street have, quite separately, been recruited into public service [...]
Posted in Agencies, Clients, Creative, News | Tagged celebrities, Charlie Sheen, chrysler/fiat, Dave Trott, fbi, fiat abarth, gordon gecko, greed is good, Hollywood, junk bonds, Michael Douglas, Otto Skorzeny, ponzi schemes, role models, Stuart Smith, wall street
By Stuart Smith on November 29, 2011
Dave Trott, renowned creative director of the ‘Hello Tosh, Gotta Toshiba’ era, has lost none of his ability to surprise and shock. The other day, Stephen Foster suggested here that small quoted marketing services aggregators, such as Media Square, never amount to much because they can’t exploit scale: only the big boys, such as WPP [...]
Posted in Agencies, Clients, Creative, Politics | Tagged Adolf Hitler, battle of the bulge, chick smith trott, csttg, Dave Trott, David Stirling, Eisenhower, Franco, media square, Mussolini, odessa, Orde Wingate, Otto Skorzeny, Stuart Smith, Toshiba, waffen ss
By Stephen Foster on November 24, 2011
Dave Trott of agency CSTTG has replied to my article of earlier today about Media Square with one of his justly celebrated blog posts. I wrote that Media Square was never going to work because if you start small you tend to stay small. I also questioned the merits of ‘predatory thinking.’ Here’s Dave’s view. [...]
Posted in Agencies, Creative, News | Tagged blog post, csttg agency, Dave Trott, media square, Mussolini, Otto Skorzeny
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