Tag Archives: creatives

Radio is an interesting medium: it is more intimate than TV; it has been described as a friend; it can uplift and energise (according to a recent survey); it can inform; it can involve; it’s background. It is the second ...

Those damned Yankees have just won the America’s Cup yacht race once again (note the apostrophe) so it’s appropriate (stretching this one a bit) to essay a nautical theme – in this case a campaign for Sperry Top-Sider, a posh ...

There’s a long-running series on BBC1 called New Tricks which features a gang of old ‘tecs (played by the likes of Amanda Redman, James Bolam, Dennis Waterman and other stalwarts of the small screen) teamed up to solve old unsolved ...

At the risk of joining Paul Simons’ grumpy old men, here’s the horrible new ad for the $20m relaunch of MySpace, the social network pioneer that was bought by Rupert Murdoch for $630m and sold a few years later for ...

WPP boss Sir Martin Sorrell ‘gives good conference’ (as they don’t say very often) and he was at it again last week, providing an intriguing soundbite for a talk-fest ‘Beyond Advertising’ at his giant media agency MediaCom. This is what ...

That’s the implication of a dispute going on in New York where the city’s $118bn public pension funds have asked the investment banks and ad agency groups they invest in to disclose information about the racial and social gender of ...

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 ...

Well the Institute of Practitioners in Advertisers (IPA) thinks so, announcing an ‘International Brand Incubator’ to help Chinese companies turn their big domestic brands into big global brands, one of the very few areas where China currently lags the Western ...

And able to choose their own currency, GBPs have the edge over dollars and euros at the moment. Agency finance directors probably wish there was a football-style transfer window in operation for creatives as what WPP’s Sir Martin Sorrell recently ...