Tag Archives: David Ogilvy

At the time I started to write this review, the world’s third largest holding company, Publicis, announced that they would not be entering anything in next year’s Cannes “Festival of Creativity,” nor indeed in any other awards show. The world’s ...

Between copious amounts of Fourth Reich Potato Vodka during a non-stop snow storm last week, whilst flaneuring the “tubes” of the Internet, I came across a news item about the award of the Congressional Medal of Honor to First Lt. ...

Ogilvy & Mather is on a fearsome roll at the moment, displacing BBDO as the world’s most awarded network and even helping Unilever’s Dave Lewis become the new CEO of Tesco thanks to its highly successful Dove personal care campaigns. ...

In case you missed it, today is Thanksgiving in the US, which is one of the very few days workers get the day off with pay, unless you’re in retail, but more on that in a moment. As I have ...

Back in 2011 George Parker predicted a future even more dominated by ad agency-based holding companies, a future that is coming to pass with the proposed merger of Omnicom and Publicis  Groupe. Here’s his view of Omnicom and the most ...

Anyone with enough fortitude to endure my ramblings (This is the nineteenth bloody episode of “Confessions of a Mad Man” for crying out loud) will know that I love to quote famous dead people, particularly famous dead ad people. And, ...

After arriving in New York in the booze and drug fuelled Mad Men sixties, my first task was to get a job. For two weeks I trudged the concrete canyons of Manhattan lugging my oversized portfolio of samples. I soon ...

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, ...

Jane Maas is the former Madison Avenue copywriter (and later Ogilvy & Mather creative director) whose new book Mad Women: The Other Side of Madison Avenue in the ’60s and Beyond is causing quite a stir. Here she is, aged ...