In his wisdom, Stephen has asked for my opinion on the great ads of 2016. I suspect that as he knows I have never failed to modestly represent myself as MAA’s Curmudgeon in Chief, so I would not expected to ...

A perspicacious Pot Pouri! To paraphrase my old school mate, Winston Churchill, “Generation Creation” is a riddle, wrapped in a mystery, inside an enigma. Now do not get me wrong here. It is a splendid book, but unlike many of ...

In today’s data fixated, social media obsessed and increasingly fucked up ad agency universe, in “Ugly Is Only Skin Deep,” Dominik Imseng has not only given us a superbly written and well researched history of the unique DDB, VW “Beetle” ...

George Parker concludes his tale of the world’s most expensive commercials shoot (parts one and two here and here). Our heroes find their plane at the bottom of a Caribbean bay while the agency producer frets in London and McVitie’s ...

George Parker continues his tale of the world’s most shagorifically expensive TV shoot – for British biscuit brand McVitie’s..   ..All too soon it was time to hit the road for “The Other Merida” in the north of Venezuela. The ...

Reading that McVitie’s is looking for a new global agency brought back memories of my tenure as Dorland’s “Agency Fireman” back before most of you were born. The agency’s most profitable account, McVitie’s, was about to exit, taking all those ...

With the never-ending confusion amongst the practitioners and the purchasers of what used to be called advertising as to what better way to put a handle on exactly what the fuck it is they are doing, we are being constantly ...

Just three days ago I was writing about the death of Mike Cimino, a director I worked with in the sixties who went on to direct, multi Oscar winner, The Deer Hunter, before imploding in a giant cloud of hubris. ...

In case you missed it, Mike Cimino died on Saturday. OK, so who the fuck was Mike Cimino, you ask? Described by the LA Times as “Having an audacious, ecstatic, sensuous, deranged and ultimately staggering vision of what the movies ...