Tag Archives: Jerry Judge

Why are you so much cuter than me? When I first moved to the US, industry folk would (discreetly) ask me “Why is British advertising better than ours?”. It wasn’t. It was different. And it’s worth understanding why. Post war ...

Jerry Judge is a co-founder of Fearless Group. He began his advertising career at Leo Burnett in 1971 and in 1982 became the 11th employee of Bartle Bogle Hegarty. In 1992 he became CEO of Y&R London and then CEO ...

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 ...

I watched a bit too much old fashioned TV this weekend. My new fitness drive required some heavy recovery time. Anyway, I saw a lot of Microsoft advertising. Wow, it’s so bad. Self-centered. Wordy. Complicated. Dense. No notion that it ...

Every few weeks there’s a lot of buzz about a big brand moving from one agency to another. A lot of things change when these moves happen—people get fired, favors get called in, pitches get pitched, CMOs make speeches about ...

What a swizz! But, having totted up the recommendations of our distinguished panel – Andy Law, Paul Simons, George Parker, Giles Keeble, Jerry Judge, Michael Lee and Mark Andrews (plus me, of course) our Agency of the Year contest is ...

Difficult year. But here goes… Campaign of the year. Duluth Trading. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E73Jyf2Dzb0 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KcjlYyAPw88 There are tons of ads…but this radio is a cracker…. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nfzKwtnLb9M This is clearly a very smart client brilliantly looked after by Planet Propaganda. My Agency of ...

I was in the room when New York’s Advertising Week was born. That was ten years ago now and – believe it or not – at that time advertising wasn’t a very respectable game to be in. The week was ...

P&G and Mondelez are adjusting their payment cycle. And it’s all my fault. From now on if you are a Mondelez agency you will do your work and wait four months to be paid. If you want a laugh, read ...