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Some of the ads that made David Abbott special
David Abbott, one of the founders of Abbott Mead Vickers and a legendary copywriter and creative director, died at the…
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Cheil provides timely reminder for Samsung
The upper echelons of adland are furiously polishing their presentations to Samsung, the world’s biggest advertiser with a budget variously…
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Simon Hakim: Tourism Australia’s big idea…where the bloody hell are you?
For all the hullaballoo Tourism Australia’s ‘So where the bloody hell are you?’ campaign stirred in the mid ‘00s for…
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David Abbott – an appreciation
David Abbott, one of the founders of Abbott Mead Vickers (now AMV/BBDO) has died aged 75. A brilliant writer (in…
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Can BMW’s new i8 transform image of electric cars?
Here’s another car ad ‘running footage’ as my friend Jerry Judge of Fearless Group calls it – roaring through the…
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Sky Bets £17m ad account on Mcgarrybowen
Mcgarrybowen in the UK has made an important step forward by winning the Sky Bet account in a three-way pitch.…
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More Mad Men…the way to a creative director’s heart
You couldn’t make it up really. Is this what agency life on Mad. Ave. was like in the 1960’s? Still…
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Dixons/Carphone £3.7bn merger means changes ahead
Mergers of equals are rather out of fashion at the moment following the Omnicom/Publicis fiasco but that hasn’t stopped Dixons…
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De Groose takes new top job at Dentsu/Aegis UK
Dentsu/Aegis is on a roll (it recently won Microsoft’s $2bn media business) and the Aegis bit (bought by Dentsu for…
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