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Giles Keeble: whatever happened to advertising ideas?
I hope this does not come across as an old fart’s lamentation for a supposed golden age. I’ve been thinking…
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Giles Keeble: where would I work now?
Once upon a time, between agencies, I set up a consultancy I called ‘Idees sans Frontieres’. This followed on from…
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Giles Keeble: can radio produce Modern Classic ads? Yes and here are some of them..
Radio is an interesting medium: it is more intimate than TV; it has been described as a friend; it can…
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Giles Keeble: unravelling the mystery of Guinness
Is ‘Made of More’ bollox? I may be slow but when the cloud was floating over NY I didn’t get…
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Giles Keeble: why Dove’s Campaign For Real Beauty campaign qualifies as a Modern Classic
It seems there have always been difficult categories for creative advertising: over the years that would have included detergents, oral…
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Giles Keeble: why do so few big awards winners pass the ultimate test as Modern Classics?
It’s the end of the silly season and this year’s awards have been decided months ago. The big winner was…
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Giles Keeble: in the digital age can a poster be a Modern Classic? Yes – look at (invisible) Mercedes
Steve Martin once said that humour is complete understanding in a nano second and I always thought that was the…
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P&G’s ‘Moms’ ad is a slice of life Modern Classic
I was looking again at Christopher Booker’s ‘The Seven Basic Plots’ and realised that the number of different kinds of…
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BBH Refuge online video is a viral Modern Classic
Many years ago, Howard Gossage wrote: “people read what interests them- sometimes it’s an ad”. For a ‘modern classic’ this…
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