Tag Archives: George Parker

In his infinite wisdom, Stephen has asked me to forecast this year’s Cannes winners. Not all of them, I hasten to add, as there are now more categories than there are fleas on my dog. So I shall concentrate on ...

Eagle-eyed George Parker spotted this one (it had to be George), a crowd-funding exercise for The Order of Yoni beer. Yoni is Sanskrit for vagina. George calls it “pussy porter.” The core product use swabs from a lubricious model but ...

If I had a dollar for every time I have heard someone exclaim that they have just created the “Agency of the Future” I would be a very rich man. Unfortunately, many of these promised wonders have ended up being ...

With the recent news that Xerox is about to split itself into two units, in common with other once great companies such as HP, Yahoo and EBay that have fallen on increasingly hard times, I am reminded of the years ...

In just under two weeks, once again, America’s Adverati will blow billions on 30-second spots costing upwards of $5 million each to reach an audience of churls who will most probably be taking a pee just when your $5 million ...

Over at AdScam, because of my huge global audience (It’s my blog, so I can make shit up, OK?) I get many inquiries from wankers who want me to run ads, or host sponsored posts. I turn most of them ...

Last week George Parker, in his review of 2015, chose Goodby Silverstein+Partners as his US Agency of the Year, partly because of its long-term record combination of good advertising allied to good behaviour. Here Michael Lee of Madam and Jerry ...

Christmas seems to have come (and almost gone) in November this year so we’re kicking off our reviews of the year and choice of agencies and others early too. Who better than George Parker, founder and editor of the famed ...

I never met Pat Fallon, who’s died aged 70, or knew that much about his famed Minneapolis agency Fallon McElligott. Fallon, in the UK, was a notable shooting star of course: giving us Sony’s ‘Balls’ and Cadbury’s ‘Gorilla’ before disappearing ...