In case you missed it, Mike Cimino died on Saturday. OK, so who the fuck was Mike Cimino, you ask? Described by the LA Times as “Having an audacious, ecstatic, sensuous, deranged and ultimately staggering vision of what the movies ...
Read More »George Parker: my Top Tips for Cannes – I’m with Jeff Goodby on this…
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 ...
Read More »Mine’s a pint of Yoni please
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 ...
Read More »George Parker of Adscam: will there ever be a viable “Agency of the Future?”
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 ...
Read More »George Parker: Xerox keeps on fumbling
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 ...
Read More »George Parker: why this year’s Super Bowl ads won’t be as brave as Apple’s ‘1984’
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 ...
Read More »George Parker: Scotts headline Super Bowl build-up
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 ...
Read More »Michael Lee and Jerry Judge: the official MAA US Agency of the Year is….Wieden+Kennedy
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 ...
Read More »George Parker: my review of 2015 and US agency pick
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 ...
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