Fay Weldon has just died at 91. Even though known as a famous and prolific author who wrote 34 novels, numerous TV dramas, several radio plays, five full-length stage plays, quite a few short ones and five collections of short ...
Read More »George Parker: the best and worst of 2022
In his unequaled wisdom, Stephen has asked me to rattle on about what I consider to the best and the worst ads of 2022. So, here goes… The best is without question the wonderful spot for “Posten,” the Norwegian postal ...
Read More »Geoge Parker on art director legend George Lois
George Lois passed away on Friday at the age of 91. One of the all-time greats of the ad biz, he created truly memorable work at DDB in the late fifties before becoming one of the founders of Papert Koenig ...
Read More »George Parker: let’s hear it for Bob Hoffman’s Adscam
AdScam… The Blog… The Book… Readers of More About Advertising may or may not know that I have written a blog titled “AdScam” for the last twenty years or so. In it, I point out the occasional good thing happening ...
Read More »George Parker: what do you know about Howard Gossage?
Just the other day I did a post on AdScam, my supremely popular blog… He said modestly, in the category of “I already knew that shit,” that a new Trust Index reports that doctors, scientists and teachers occupy the top ...
Read More »George Parker: everything is screwed… yes, everything.
Here in the US, with the overthrowing of Roe V Wade by the Fascist Supreme Court, many agencies and holding companies are instituting programs for employees living in MAGA “Moran” states to provide financial help and paid leave to travel ...
Read More »George Parker: welcome to the metaverse… now, go home
Metaverse mania continues to take over the ad biz. Every one of the ad trades (I do not include MAA in this) is banging the drum about how it is the next big thing. As I write this, I just ...
Read More »Adscam’s George Parker: for whom the Dell tolls
I must say, I nearly choked on my breakfast beer when I read that Dell is putting Yara Shahidi, the actress and model from the ABC sitcom Black-ish in ads and other promotions to tout Dell’s new slogan, “Expand Your ...
Read More »George Parker: playing by the bizarre rules of the world’s biggest advertiser
So, Procter & Gamble has regained the lead over Amazon as the world’s biggest advertiser, spending $11.5 billion on global marketing in the fiscal year ending June 2021. No surprise when you consider they’ve been number one with the big ...
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