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The Emmy awards, run by the US National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences, has muscled in on ad awards too and it’s announced the shortlist of TV ads for the awards in September. They’re a pretty predictable line-up of ...

I love my boss. But I disagree with him. This is especially tricky when your boss is Jeff Goodby. The smart thing, of course, would be not to write publicly about it. After he arrived in Cannes last week, he ...

Goodby Silverstein’s partnership with Adobe has been a fruitful one, producing the best B2B campaign in recent years. Shouldn’t have said that, they’ll probably fall out now. Adobe is also known for Photoshop of course (a closed book to me ...

Ebay apparently reckons Christmas starts in August (lots of Christmas ads are shot in August, which may be a clue as to why they’re remarkably unconvincing) so it’s a bit late out of the blocks with what’s being hailed as ...

Many business to business campaign are dull, dreary things, seemingly designed more to flatter the client than say anything useful. When they essay humour, in a bid to sweeten the corporate pill, the results can be plain embarrassing – look ...

Michael Lee is a former ECD of Euro RSCG New York, handling Volvo worldwide. Born in England, he spent 20 years in New York agencies winning and working on integrated accounts including Intel, JP Morgan, Exxon Mobil and Jaguar. In ...

Howard Gossage invented social media before most of the juvenile retards now claiming to have done it (and suing the shit out of each other for the bragging rights) were even born. Remember, Howard is the guy who said… “An ...

***A happy man tonight will be Sir Martin Sorrell, boss of WPP. He’s seen Omnicom slashing jobs at BBDO, after Interpublic’s McCann the world’s biggest agency network, following the loss of $300m Gillette to WPP’s Grey. More than that, he’ll ...

Omnicom agencies BBDO and Goodby Silverstein have been wielding the axe according to Ad Age, with around ten per cent of BBDO’s staff – hundreds of people – being laid off in the wake of the loss of $300m Gillette ...