George Parker
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George Parker: my triumphant return to London as the Dorlands agency fireman
I arrived back in England in 1972 after ten years in New York. In those days, anyone with that amount…
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George Parker: the tools of my old ad trade – for cheap booze try expensive women!
My favorite Benton & Bowles client was Heublein, which was one of the biggest distillers in the US. Their best-known…
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George Parker: on the Maxwell House set with maverick film director Michael Cimino
Besides my never to be forgotten adventures with Mr. Whipple, another account I worked on at B&B was Maxwell House…
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George Parker: how P&G and Charmin toilet tissue introduced me to adland’s La Dolce Vita
My first real agency job in the US after escaping England for the second time was with Benton & Bowles,…
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Goodby and Silverstein celebrate…150 years?
My thanks to Adscammer George Parker (another man who never sleeps) for pointing me in the direction of this self-produced…
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George Parker: you have to make the bastards pay!
There’s always been a perception in the business world that advertising agencies have an unlimited license to print money. Back…
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PepsiCo lands in big trouble with ‘racist’ online ad for Mountain Dew from rapper Tyler The Creator
If you unleash a rapper on your advertising you’d better have a minder or three to hand and Pepsi obviously…
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George Parker: how I invaded Madison Avenue
After arriving in New York in the booze and drug fuelled Mad Men sixties, my first task was to get…
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Will 2013 go down as the most boring year in the history of advertising – ever?
Do you remember those cheesy old compilation records? “The best tracks from a boy band you’ll never hear from again…
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