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Some guys get all the luck… My friend George Parker of Adscam fame is a world-renowned authority on advertising and some of the bits that go with it (like the occasionally illegal things that help you pass the time on ...

My thanks to Adscammer George Parker (another man who never sleeps) for pointing me in the direction of this self-produced tribute to what seems to be the world’s most venerable agency – Goodby Silverstein & Partners. And I thought they’d ...

When, in 1963, as a snot nosed 23 year old, I disembarked at pier 96 from the Queen Mary (the one that’s now a conference center in Long Beach), my sole objective was to get a job on Madison Avenue, ...

My friend George Parker of Adscam really hates this Wieden+Kennedy campaign for Kraft’s Velveeta and George, as ever, has a point. But this latest in the series (there are a few of them) isn’t as ‘cheesy’ as the previous efforts, ...

I have my friend George Parker of Adscam to thank for this one: a new campaign from Goodby Silverstein for Abode featuring a very handy new device, the bullshit detector. There’s not much more to say. If only buzzwords were ...

I used to think that the biggest threat to the fantastic ‘Mad Men’ TV series about Madison Avenue types in the all-conquering, drinking and bonking 1960’s was the onset of hippiedom (or the bourgeois version thereof). Can you imagine Sterling ...

If only the maximum character count were 200, 90 million Germans could finish a sentence on Twitter… already, 150 children have been given a name starting with @…. 27 per cent of Facebook server capacity is taken up storing ‘LOL’… ...

My friend George Parker of Adscam thinks it has, “Mother needs a good spanking!” avers George in response to Mother New York’s new celebrity-laden campaign for Burger King which features, inter alia, David Beckham (wearing trousers, phew!) and, in the ...

David Jones mentioned that Havas was about to buy a crowd-sourcing company when he was chatting merrily to WPP’s Sir Martin Sorrell on the radio the other day and now he’s revealed what it is: Victors & Spoils in Boulder, ...