It’s very sporting of the usually straight-laced Ad Age to put together a video on sex in the office (and in neighbouring hotels) as featured on Mad Men, with some interesting comments from survivors of the era including perky copywriter ...
Read More »Droga5 sprinkles its magic on Under Armour
I see that Nike challenger Under Armour (a pretty big challenger with $3bn sales) has won Ad Age’s Advertiser of the Year gong. Apparently UA’s first attempt to woo women was a bummer, with the first range going straight to ...
Read More »Campaign launches ‘ad community’ in New York: first we take Manhattan…
My old alma mater Campaign is planning to launch a US edition, digital only apparently, based in New York. I can’t recall if this is the venerable UK title’s first effort to crack the States, there may well have been ...
Read More »College Humor’s ‘2.30 Horror’ film for 5-Hour Energy scoops most-shared viral video award
The Viral Video Awards sponsored by Ad age took place in New York earlier this week and, among the usual suspects (Samsung, Dove’s ‘Real Beauty Sketches’, Anomaly’s winsome Budweiser puppy) was this winner, ‘2.30 Horror,’ of the ‘most-shared’ category (6.9m ...
Read More »Grey and Carat scoop Ad Age’s 2014 gongs
WPP’s Grey is Ad Age’s Agency of 2014 (by which they presumably mean 2013, they wouldn’t give a prize for the best agency in January surely?) with Mullen in second place. Carat won the media agency gong. Well Grey, under ...
Read More »The gospel according to Dan Wieden: the big marcoms companies are ”wobbling like drunkards”
Actually that was only a small part of what the Wieden+Kennedy founder said at Ad Age’s Small Agency conference in his home town of Portland earlier this month but it’s pretty irresistible; especially as his remarks pre-dated the Pubiicis Omnicom ...
Read More »Keep immigrants out – send for M&C Saatchi; new boss at Premier Foods, Ad Age picks 72andSunny
The UK government is apparently considering running an ad campaign to dissuade Bulgarians and Romanians from flooding into Britain when the rules change soon. Lots of references to warm beer, cold and wet weather and an economy run by George ...
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