George Parker
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Is this new Jack & Jones campaign from &Co the early leader in next year’s ad awards stakes?
Well the campaign for the Danish fashion brand from Copenhagen agency &Co is certainly causing quite a stir. It features…
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George Parker: why the agency of the future sucks
For those of you with the moral fortitude and infinite patience (possibly with the help of a few drinks) to…
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George Parker: the Big Dumb Holding Company mantra of Omnicom and WPP – screw up and clean up!
Back in 2011 George Parker predicted a future even more dominated by ad agency-based holding companies, a future that is…
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George Parker: how the Big Dumb Holding Companies screwed up their Big Dumb Agencies
Even though business in general, is notorious for rewarding senior management with obscene pay packets, which inevitably culminate in humungous…
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George Parker: fine sherry, fighting bulls and the days when Cannes was really about advertiisng
In which our hero continues his forays around Europe – taking in Domecq sherry, fighting bulls and the glory that…
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DDB’s Bill Bernbach on the digital revolution – a few decades before it actually happened
Thanks to George Parker for this; Bill Bernbach, legendary founder of Doyle Dane Bernbach, saying in 1977 that ideas and…
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Can Ogilvy’s ads bring European Parliament to life?
Elections are always with us (we’re supposed to be in the early stages of the next British General Election and…
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George Parker: tales of Paul Ricard and a Scandinavian paper mill – with seven foot blondes
Picking up from where I left you in the “Swinging London” of the seventies, one of my early experiences was…
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George Parker: how the unlikely combo of toffs and cockney gits created British advertising
In this excerpt from Confessions of a Mad Man our hero returns to the UK from the US to find…
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