Tag Archives: Chris Palmer

25 years ago today five of us announced the start of a new advertising agency with a front page splash in Campaign magazine. We all met up for lunch that day trying to figure what would happen next. We had ...

This is the second extract adapted from Paul Simons’ book Day 1 to Day 2555 (or 7 years in the life of an advertising agency). Here Paul explains how he went about choosing the right team to start successful London ...

During my teenage years my Mum had hung a piece of homespun philosophy in our hallway. It said “I complained because I had no shoes until I saw a man who had no feet” Anon. I saw it every time ...

This is the first of a number of excerpts adapted from Paul Simons’ book Day 1 to Day 2555 (or 7 years in the life of an advertising agency) which explains that, although starting an agency is as much an ...

It’s about time the UK produced a decent mobile network campaign, too often the answer has been chucking loadsamoney at an idea that’s stale before it’s time (yes, Vodafone). T-Mobile (now part of Everything Everywhere with Orange) has produced some ...

Volkswagen, aka VW, is launching a new VW Beetle, yet another attempt to renew the eponymous car that made the company’s fortunes in the 1930’s and the next few decades afterwards (there was a war in the middle, obviously) but ...

It looks a bit unlikely given the phenomenal global interest in the marriage of Prince William and Kate Middleton (or Catherine as Buckingham Palace insists on calling her). Two billion people worldwide allegedly watched the Royal Wedding in London’s Westminster ...

Lots of people, in the US particularly it seems, are getting terribly excited about the Royal Wedding of Prince William and Kate Middleton but the Brits seem happy just to take the piss. Saatchi & Saatchi’s latest opus for T-Mobile’s ...