Starting his creative career two decades ago at Ogilvy & Mather in New Zealand, Rob moved to London in 2002, working for AIS London, Proximity London, Partners Andrews Aldridge and more. Since becoming Oliver ECD last year, he has worked ...
Read More »Paul Simons: Lee Clow taught me ‘less is more’ at TBWA
Lee Clow has decided to hang up his boots after a very long and distinguished career. I met him at the TBWA/Chiat Day building in LA, out of town on the airport road. We had only recently completed the merger ...
Read More »Gender discrimination: JWT knows when it’s been Tango’d
J Walter Thompson is facing an employment tribunal from a group of straight, white, middle-aged men who claim that they were victims of a diversity drive. According to Campaign, one of them turns out to be Chas Bayfield, who was ...
Read More »George Parker: the unvarnished (and newly bionic) solution for the ad business
So, I just spent four days in hospital being transformed into the Bionic Man. (Having a Pacemaker installed in my manly chest.) Everything went fine, although the picture in the attic is now at its final stage of magnificent putrefaction. ...
Read More »Paul Simons: the perils of in-housing and Specsavers
I was wondering what is going on at Specsavers after seeing some sponsorship idents several times and thinking how awful they were: a full 180 degrees from their often award winning standard. They have been an internal creative department hiring ...
Read More »Josko Grljevic of Talon Outdoor: transforming OOH – an “outsider’s” perspective
Talon Outdoor’s chief transformation officer Josko Grljevic explains the 2019 roadmap for technology and automation in Out of Home advertising. Since taking on the newly-created and in vogue role for developing companies – that of chief transformation officer at Talon ...
Read More »Giles Keeble: why Australia reminds you of the tyranny of distance in modern day marketing
Some years ago, I was creative director of BMW Australia – from the UK. It was the first step in the WCRS plan for global expansion that resulted in the take-over of (or merger with) The Ball Partnership. On that ...
Read More »Ryan Reynolds and Hugh Jackman show ads still work – if you’re an A-lister
One of the many benefits of being an A-lister is you and your mates can make ads for each others’ extra-acting products, as here with Hugh Jackman (Laughing Man good works coffee) and Ryan Reynolds (Aviator gin.) The two are ...
Read More »David Billing: from tea-swilling chimps to robot meerkats – why brand mascots will never die
A decade of meerkats. A century of Gio bloody Compario (well it feels like it). Monkey. That strange orange poo for EDF. In an age when even Dos Equis didn’t find the Most Interesting Man In The World all that ...
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