Tag Archives: George Parker

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 ...

Even though business in general, is notorious for rewarding senior management with obscene pay packets, which inevitably culminate in humungous “get the fuck out of here,” golden parachutes when their never ending failures and screw ups have finally become too ...

In which our hero continues his forays around Europe – taking in Domecq sherry, fighting bulls and the glory that was the Cannes International Advertising Film Festival. Escaping from the frigid and rather smelly atmosphere of Ornskoldsvik, let’s head south ...

Thanks to George Parker for this; Bill Bernbach, legendary founder of Doyle Dane Bernbach, saying in 1977 that ideas and the clever people who produce them are much more important than media and technology. Do the big shots of today’s ...

Elections are always with us (we’re supposed to be in the early stages of the next British General Election and it doesn’t happen until May 2015). And, of course, we’ve got the forthcoming referendum on Scottish independence, which promises to ...

Picking up from where I left you in the “Swinging London” of the seventies, one of my early experiences was with the Ricard account. This was a peculiarly French type of booze classified as a Pastis. Which was the legal, ...

In this excerpt from Confessions of a Mad Man our hero returns to the UK from the US to find a rapidly-changing agency scene populated by a new breed of agency determined to change all known rules. Although the greater ...

Howard Gossage invented social media before most of the juvenile retards now claiming to have done it (and suing the shit out of each other for the bragging rights) were even born. Remember, Howard is the guy who said… “An ...

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, ...