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AdScam… The Blog… The Book… Readers of More About Advertising may or may not know that I have written a blog titled “AdScam” for the last twenty years or so. In it, I point out the occasional good thing happening ...

Here in the US, with the overthrowing of Roe V Wade by the Fascist Supreme Court, many agencies and holding companies are instituting programs for employees living in MAGA “Moran” states to provide financial help and paid leave to travel ...

We worry sometimes at MAA that we don’t write enough about diversity – at one time we thought it was a new holding company – so it’s pleasing to refer you to our friend George Parker’s take on sexist ads ...

A constant theme in the seemingly never-ending battle between advertisers and agencies is so-called “scope of work.” That is, all the extra stuff you have to do for the same money or less – often blamed for margin pressure and ...

Some years ago my friend George Parker of Adscam fame spoke at the US 4A’s conference in San Fancisco on, among other matters, his favoured themes of Big Dumb Agencies and, his blackest of bête noires, Big Dumb Holding Companies. ...

My friend George Parker has been musing about Sir Martin Sorrell’s many deals at WPP, prompting this response on WPP earn-outs from correspondent Jane Don’t (below pic). Jane Don’t said… It’s quite a simple 10-step programme George: 1. “Buy” a ...

It’s the Super Bowl on February 1 and broadcaster NBC is asking $4.4m for a 30-second spot it seems. Well it’s the highest-rating broadcast in the US, with the best part of 100m people watching some of it (it goes ...

Oh yes indeed, Mike Lee and Jerry Judge have decided, in their wisdom, over numerous bursting troughs of exotic Italian nosh, all washed down by gallons of Pinot Grigio, then unquestionably chased by numerous thimblefuls of “hold your nose and ...

My friend George Parker chose to highlight this piece of performance art/vagina exploration on his wonderful Adscam today. Is George becoming a feminist? ***The last refuge of a scoundrel in advertising is usually a song – or a jingle – ...