Tag Archives: CDP

Alan Parker, who began as a copywriter at CDP in the 1960s and taught himself how to direct in the agency’s basement before commencing a distinguished career in feature films, has died aged 76. Among his films were Bugsy Malone ...

Two survivors of the golden age of British advertising are launching a new creative agency. Copywriter Adrian Holmes, former CCO of Lowe Worldwide, and art director John O’Driscoll, an alumnus of the great CDP and then an award-winning commercials director, ...

Christmas brings a lot of big budget ads but the end of the year always brings lay-offs in adland, including senior management whose departure agencies think they can smuggle out because no-one’s looking. Omnicom’s TBWA has started the trend early ...

Here’s the digitally remastered Hovis ‘Boy on the Bike’ ad which made its first appearance in 1973 (or was it 4?) Anyway it’s been voted Britain’s most iconic ad and still looks nice. It was one of the ads that ...

Hovis is bringing back Ridley Scott’s famous ‘Boy on the Bike’ ad, 46 years later. It was recently voted the most iconic British ad, even by people who, presumably, can’t remember it first time round. It’s been digitally remastered with ...

Ridley Scott’s ‘Boy on the bike’ ad for Hovis and agency Collett Dickenson Pearce has been voted both the UK’s most iconic and heart-warming TV ad in a Kantatr poll of 1200 consumers. The Hovis ad dates back to 1974 ...

We observed the other day that Wieden+Kennedy HQ in Portland was becoming quite the comedy factory, latterly for Orange Vanilla Coke. Another venerable US agency Goodby Silverstein & Partners is giving it a run for its money in the comedy ...

Campaign has just produced its list of the best 20 British agencies (to mark the mag’s 50th birthday) and it’s hard to argue with its choices although one might question to decision to include media agencies. Not that they haven’t ...

The UK’s ASA seems to have put the cat among the pigeons with its somewhat prescriptive plan to ban “gender stereotyping” ads, with lots of people saying its too bossy boots/Big Brother (the book that is). Here’s a compilation of ...