Tag Archives: George Parker

Throughout my long and somewhat checkered career in the ad biz, I have won my share of awards (he said modestly.) Perhaps the most memorable one being the David Ogilvy Global Award, which came with a $10,000 prize, which I ...

News this week that Ted Bell, famed Ad Man who turned into an even more famous author, died in January at the age of 76. I worked with Ted for three years when I perma-lanced on Xerox and other accounts ...

Yesterday was so-called Blue Monday, the most misery-inducing day of the year according to some, and in the inbox was a rather distressing message from Ad Contrarian Bob Hoffman, who’s been fighting the good fight on a regular basis for ...

Fay Weldon has just died at 91. Even though known as a famous and prolific author who wrote 34 novels, numerous TV dramas, several radio plays, five full-length stage plays, quite a few short ones and five collections of short ...

George Lois passed away on Friday at the age of 91. One of the all-time greats of the ad biz, he created truly memorable work at DDB in the late fifties before becoming one of the founders of Papert Koenig ...

Just the other day I did a post on AdScam, my supremely popular blog… He said modestly, in the category of “I already knew that shit,” that a new Trust Index reports that doctors, scientists and teachers occupy the top ...

Here in the US, with the overthrowing of Roe V Wade by the Fascist Supreme Court, many agencies and holding companies are instituting programs for employees living in MAGA “Moran” states to provide financial help and paid leave to travel ...

I must say, I nearly choked on my breakfast beer when I read that Dell is putting Yara Shahidi, the actress and model from the ABC sitcom Black-ish in ads and other promotions to tout Dell’s new slogan, “Expand Your ...

So, Procter & Gamble has regained the lead over Amazon as the world’s biggest advertiser, spending $11.5 billion on global marketing in the fiscal year ending June 2021. No surprise when you consider they’ve been number one with the big ...