Tag Archives: George Parker

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 ...

Some years ago my friend George Parker of Adscam fame spoke at the US 4A’s conference in San Fancisco on, among other matters, his favoured themes of Big Dumb Agencies and, his blackest of bête noires, Big Dumb Holding Companies. ...

When I was a kid I grew up on Factory Lane, Manchester, yes, Factory fucking Lane, ‘cos at the bottom of the road was the ICI Dyestuffs Division sitting on the banks of the River Irk, which was a different ...

Required reading for Big Dumb Agencies and Big Dumb Holding Companies – Madison Avenue Manslaughter. There is no question that the advertising agency business I used to know, love, and profit from, is in a radical state of change, not ...

My friend George Parker has been musing about Sir Martin Sorrell’s many deals at WPP, prompting this response on WPP earn-outs from correspondent Jane Don’t (below pic). Jane Don’t said… It’s quite a simple 10-step programme George: 1. “Buy” a ...

Oral gratification of one sort or another plays a part in many food ads – fair enough – although there’s sometimes more of the other. Cadbury’s Flake (below) being a celebrated example from the mists of UK ad history. Carl’s ...

I shall return to playing the piano in a brothel! Yeah, so the headline is a “homage” to Jacques Seguela’s 1979 book… “Please don’t tell my mother I work in advertising, tell her I play the piano in a brothel.” ...