Tag Archives: Jeremy Bullmore

I see that Jeremy Bullmore, one time chairman of JWT London, WPP’s in-house intellectual and celebrated agony uncle, is 90. Jeremy was the other side of JWT in its great days, the intellectual (the word is un-ignorable with Jeremy) aspect ...

David Bernstein, one of the founders of The Creative Business – either a smallish agency or a big creative consultancy but famous in its day – has died aged 88. Bernstein had been a star creative director and writer and ...

Ask Bullmore is a venerable Campaign series in which former JWT chairman and WPP director Jeremy Bullmore answers various questions from readers. This is a fearsome job, like Dave Trott’s weekly musings, even though you don’t have to write very ...

t think it was the great Jeremy Bullmore who observed that Mad Men wasn’t actually about advertising. If it was, nobody would watch it. And he’s right – mostly. But some of it is about companies, the way people in ...

For some reason this opus from Samsung – which we might as well call Jack and Amy’s Galaxy Gear romance – has taken a fearsome amount of stick over in the US. Cheesy is just one of the more polite ...

The UK IPA Effectiveness Awards, due to be announced late tonight, have value but should be handled with care. The studies make a business case for advertising. The Gunn Report sets out to establish a link between business success and ...

Celebrated UK adman and author Winston Fletcher died last week aged 75, which we missed. Even in his prime Fletcher (left) seemed like a figure from another age; although he was fascinated by advertising, writing several tomes on the subject, ...

Actually the biggest surprise about this is that Bullmore, one-time creative director and chairman of JWT and then a long-serving director of WPP, hadn’t won the Advertising Association’s Mackintosh Medal years ago. Bullmore, who’s also well-known for his brilliant agony ...

1/The 1970s were arguably advertising’s fun decade: the 1960s had uncorked the so-called creative revolution in New York and London and agencies were happy to earn eye-watering fees without the distraction of trying to build their companies on the stock ...