confessions of a mad man
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George Parker: what the demise of WPP’s Enfatico tells us about ‘the agency of the future’
The Agency of the Future. Part Two. As I promised you at the end of last week’s piece, this is…
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George Parker: why the agency of the future sucks
For those of you with the moral fortitude and infinite patience (possibly with the help of a few drinks) to…
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George Parker: how the Big Dumb Holding Companies screwed up their Big Dumb Agencies
Even though business in general, is notorious for rewarding senior management with obscene pay packets, which inevitably culminate in humungous…
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George Parker: fine sherry, fighting bulls and the days when Cannes was really about advertiisng
In which our hero continues his forays around Europe – taking in Domecq sherry, fighting bulls and the glory that…
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George Parker: tales of Paul Ricard and a Scandinavian paper mill – with seven foot blondes
Picking up from where I left you in the “Swinging London” of the seventies, one of my early experiences was…
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George Parker: how the unlikely combo of toffs and cockney gits created British advertising
In this excerpt from Confessions of a Mad Man our hero returns to the UK from the US to find…
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George Parker: the truth about advertising – actually Howard Gossage got there already
Anyone with enough fortitude to endure my ramblings (This is the nineteenth bloody episode of “Confessions of a Mad Man”…
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George Parker: why social pimping is all the rage in advertising – but not with me!
If you remember, in last week’s episode, I explained the balls out, diamond hard, number one tactic to be unfailingly…
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George Parker: of Leonardo Da Vinci, Philippe Kahn and various other Silicon Valley types
Two Parkers for the price of one this week (holidays and all that, normal schedule returns w/c August 5). George…
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