George Parker
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George Parker: the unvarnished (and newly bionic) solution for the ad business
So, I just spent four days in hospital being transformed into the Bionic Man. (Having a Pacemaker installed in my…
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George Parker: what good is a new name or logo?
I’ve been in the ad biz since Genghis Khan invented the USP. So, consequently, I’ve been around the track a…
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George Parker: how I played and lost the P&G numbers game
News in last week’s Ad Age that that Procter & Gamble is reorganizing its management structure to get greater efficiencies…
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George Parker: listen dude, Bob Hoffman’s new book on advertising is…awesome
As you would expect from my fellow curmudgeon, Bob Hoffman’s new book, “Laughing @ Advertising,” is a scathing indictment of…
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George Parker: Steve Jobs, the not-so-family man
This week sees the publication of “Small Fry,” the tell-all book by Steve Jobs’ first daughter, Lisa, and her less…
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Happy birthday to Adscam’s George Parker
Congratulations are due to the great George Parker who’s 81 today (or possibly yesterday), author of Adscam and, before that…
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George Parker: why Miles Young’s Ogilvy on Advertising in the Digital Age matters
Back in 1963 David Ogilvy wrote his first book, Confessions of an Advertising Man. He begins the final chapter by…
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George Parker remembers creative director Bill Hamilton
I was devastated to hear the news that Bill Hamilton (left) passed away last week at the age of 74.…
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George Parker: Andrew Essex on The End of Advertising
At the time I started to write this review, the world’s third largest holding company, Publicis, announced that they would…
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