George Parker
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George Parker: how I narrowly avoided a watery grave – making a biscuit commercial
George Parker continues his tale of the world’s most shagorifically expensive TV shoot – for British biscuit brand McVitie’s.. …
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George Parker: McVitie’s goes global, the world’s most expensive shoot and me
Reading that McVitie’s is looking for a new global agency brought back memories of my tenure as Dorland’s “Agency Fireman”…
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George Parker: why it’s time to put “best of breed” verbiage back in its box
With the never-ending confusion amongst the practitioners and the purchasers of what used to be called advertising as to what…
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George Parker: Wicker Man director Robin Hardy, McVitie’s biscuits and me
Just three days ago I was writing about the death of Mike Cimino, a director I worked with in the…
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George Parker: RIP Michael Cimino, the director who shot miles and miles of film
In case you missed it, Mike Cimino died on Saturday. OK, so who the fuck was Mike Cimino, you ask?…
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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…
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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.…
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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…
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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…
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