Tag Archives: Ad Age

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The poster below for Spy sunglasses has been removed in Encinatas California (and perhaps in other places too, presumably it wasn’t targeted only at Encinatans) as it aggravated some of the locals. But if they’d put some visual reference on ...

The Independent’s i budget-priced 20p UK newspaper is both good (voted newspaper of the year by its peers) and, it seems, commercially successful. Well it’s still here. It’s edited by former Campaign and Ad Age editor Stefano Hatfield (left), previously ...