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George Parker: here’s the key to ‘Generation Creation’
A perspicacious Pot Pouri! To paraphrase my old school mate, Winston Churchill, “Generation Creation” is a riddle, wrapped in a…
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George Parker: VW ads: the best book on advertising since “Confessions of a Mad Man!”
In today’s data fixated, social media obsessed and increasingly fucked up ad agency universe, in “Ugly Is Only Skin Deep,”…
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George Parker: concluding McVitie’s’ Caribbean quest
George Parker concludes his tale of the world’s most expensive commercials shoot (parts one and two here and here). Our…
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George Parker: how I narrowly avoided a watery grave – making a biscuit commercial
George Parker continues his tale of the world’s most shagorifically expensive TV shoot – for British biscuit brand McVitie’s.. …
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George Parker: McVitie’s goes global, the world’s most expensive shoot and me
Reading that McVitie’s is looking for a new global agency brought back memories of my tenure as Dorland’s “Agency Fireman”…
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George Parker: why it’s time to put “best of breed” verbiage back in its box
With the never-ending confusion amongst the practitioners and the purchasers of what used to be called advertising as to what…
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George Parker: Wicker Man director Robin Hardy, McVitie’s biscuits and me
Just three days ago I was writing about the death of Mike Cimino, a director I worked with in the…
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George Parker: RIP Michael Cimino, the director who shot miles and miles of film
In case you missed it, Mike Cimino died on Saturday. OK, so who the fuck was Mike Cimino, you ask?…
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George Parker: my Top Tips for Cannes – I’m with Jeff Goodby on this…
In his infinite wisdom, Stephen has asked me to forecast this year’s Cannes winners. Not all of them, I hasten…
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