Ad of the Year. Normally when people like me say it wasn’t a vintage year for ads, it’s because we’re making a point about the decline of great ideas and great craft, when in reality it’s just the fact that ...
Read More »The big winners of 2012: Wieden+Kennedy London, Samsung/72andSunny and the Guardian/BBH
OK, here we go: after a not very scientific analysis of the ruminations of Paul Simons, Giles Keeble, Jerry Judge, George Parker, Stuart Smith and myself we come to: Agency of the Year Wieden+Kennedy London. For lots of good stuff, ...
Read More »My pick of 2012: Audi’s ‘Ahab’, Wieden+Kennedy London and Ajaz Ahmed
These are my choices for ad/campaign of the year, agency of the year and person of the year. Tomorrow (or maybe the next day) we’ll try to reach a consensus about the ultimate top dogs of 2012. So to ads: ...
Read More »My pick of 2012: Follow the Frog, Wieden+Kennedy and Jerry Buhlmann
All right, league tables of achievement are as commonplace as turkeys right now. Why burden you with another one? Well, I’ve been asked to – by the good folk at More About Advertising. So: Ad of the Year. Yes, I ...
Read More »My pick of 2012: Wieden+Kennedy London, Tesco (sort of) and Neil Christie
Adscam/The Horror! author and all-round advertising legend George Parker, author of Confessions of a Mad Man among other seminal business school tomes, chooses his agency(ies) of the year, ad/campaign (sort of) and person of the year. I must say, I ...
Read More »My pick of 2012: Dollar Shave Club, Grey New York and Michael Dubin
Fearless Group co-founder Jerry Judge gives us his choices for ad/campaign of the year, agency of the year and person of the year. Dollar Shave Club There are still good campaigns in the US, in spite of all the dramatic ...
Read More »My pick of 2012: Samsung Galaxy, 18 Feet & Rising and Johnny Hornby
These are my choices for ad/campaign of the year, agency of the year and person of the year. Samsung Galaxy S111 The launch campaign for the new Galaxy handset in the US was the work of 72 & Sunny in ...
Read More »This agency of the year stuff is a poser – Marketing chooses BBH (and PHD for media, as usual)
Marketing magazine in the UK has chosen BBH, Bartle Bogle Hegarty as was, as its creative agency of the year, among a long list of agencies doing all sorts of things, which BBH presumably doesn’t. PHD wins its media agency ...
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