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My friend George Parker chose to highlight this piece of performance art/vagina exploration on his wonderful Adscam today. Is George becoming a feminist? ***The last refuge of a scoundrel in advertising is usually a song – or a jingle – ...

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 ...

Where would I like to work if I was still inclined to work in the ad biz! Stephen has been kind, or insane enough, to include me in the coterie of Ad Greats, Almost Greats, Wanna be Greats, and never ...

Penny for the Guy, governor… And what Guy would that be? When I first came to America, long before most of you were born, I remember popping in to my New York bank one late October day to cash a ...

They say you should never work with children or animals – and working with celebs can clearly pose problems too. The great Orson Welles used to top up his forever needy coffers with voiceovers and occasionally appearances in ads, for ...

The Agency of the Future. Part Two. As I promised you at the end of last week’s piece, this is the absolutely final, final episode of the world’s greatest book on advertising (He said modestly!) You won’t have to suffer ...

Well the campaign for the Danish fashion brand from Copenhagen agency &Co is certainly causing quite a stir. It features Christopher Walken plugging the Jack & Jones upscale line Made From Cool. The great man does everything from selecting his ...

For those of you with the moral fortitude and infinite patience (possibly with the help of a few drinks) to have stayed with me this long, we are nearly at the end of the journey. This is part one of ...

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 ...