January 2021 marked a year since Google announced that, due to privacy concerns, they would be blocking the use of Third-Party Cookies (3PC) on their search engine Chrome. Since this announcement, it was motioned that all search browsers would block ...
Read More »How to avoid common corporate website mistakes: a project manager’s cheat sheet
Be it redesigning or rebuilding a website; it is a new process. Creating a new website is a provocation that many organizations take to go through once in years. Whereas a project manager’s involvement in redesigning technicalities is limited, the ...
Read More »George Parker: Judy… Judy… Judy…
Judy Wald died in New York on February 12th. She was 96. O.K. I know that many of you will be thinking, “Who the hell is Judy Wald?” However, if, like me, you are extremely long in the tooth and ...
Read More »More strife for MDC but CEO Penn paints a rosier picture
As usual with MDC Partners there’s red ink all over the numbers as it lost $237 million in Q4 2020, $243m for the full year. The owner of Anomaly, CPB, 72andSunny et al blamed this chiefly on an impairment charge. ...
Read More »Giles Keeble: let’s see some real copywriting, algorithms!
It’s a strange world in which my computer now asks me to prove I am not a robot. I have written before about ads being written by AI (and the fact that they wouldn’t be worse than many of the ...
Read More »MAA blasts from the past: Barclaycard, Carling and IKEA
Laurence Green writes today about ISBA’s new “collective trust initiative” recommending “making advertising welcome in people’s homes.” Actually this seems an update of Frank Lowe’s maxim that advertising was about “not just achieving sales success, but ensuring any advertiser entering ...
Read More »Laurence Green: time to write a new creative roadmap?
This is Laurence Green’s first monthly column for MAA. Green is executive partner at MullenLowe, the agency behind the UK’s massive NHS campaign. One of global adland’s most distinguished planners, he began his career at Lowe Howard-Spink, was a co-founder ...
Read More »Sainsbury’s goes greener with ‘Helping Everyone Eat Better’
Sainsbury’s is pensioning off (or ‘retiring’ as we say these days) ‘Live Well for Less’ and replacing it with ‘Helping Everyone Eat Better,’ part of a package aimed at boosting its green credentials. It’s amazing how climate change and all ...
Read More »MAA blast from the past: Rik Mayall for Bombardier
We’ve described recently the move from ambitious ads to digital-friendly content, something that has has greatly diminished the influence of creative agencies (for better some might say.) There’ve been times though when a little editing in the cause of economy ...
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