Lloyds Bank marketing boss Richard Warren, a founder of agency DLKW and briefly CEO of Mullenlowe, sparked an interesting fire when he told Campaign: “You can quote me on this: No-one can write in advertising agencies any more.” As with ...
Read More »IPA names its “hall of fame” as part of 100th birthday party
The IPA is celebrating its 100th birthday in London tonight at a glittering event (well I’m going) and to mark the occasion has chosen what we might call its British Hall of Fame. Judging panel was IPA president Tom Knox, ...
Read More »John Webster of BMP picks his Desert Island Ads
Alas John never had the opportunity as the justly-celebrated creative director of Boase Massimi Pollitt – a genius when it came to television – died in 2006. But years before he offered his Top Ten ads to a magazine I ...
Read More »Wieden+Kennedy London sets off in search of another great milk campaign for Cravendale
Another campaign tumbles out of hyperactive Wieden+Kennedy London, this time for Cravendale milk. Cravendale has abandoned its sinister ‘Cats With Thumbs’ series for ‘the Milk Drinker,’ a creation who could easily have emerged from W+K HQ in Portland. Can a ...
Read More »Leagas Delaney managing director James Hayhurst picks his Desert Island Ads
Leagas Delaney’s managing director James Hayhurst cut his teeth as a graduate trainee at BMP/DDB in 2000 where he spent 11 years honing his creative mind, and eye, working on award-winning campaigns for brands including Volkswagen, Channel 4 and Teacher ...
Read More »Giles Keeble: where would I work now?
Once upon a time, between agencies, I set up a consultancy I called ‘Idees sans Frontieres’. This followed on from my view, developed at Leo Burnett, that agencies should have the courage and conviction to recommend a solution that was ...
Read More »New film celebrates BMP creative genius John Webster
For my money, London’s Boase Massimi Pollitt, founded in 1968 and sold to DDB in 2004, was the best creative agency. It combined cleverness – in the shape of Martin Boase and Chris Powell (account men both but hardly second-hand ...
Read More »BETC’s Neil Dawson picks his Desert Island Ads
Neil Dawson is executive creative director and co-founder of BETC London. He has worked at BBH, DDB, TBWA and Hunt Lascaris in South Africa when that country became a democracy. He has won numerous awards at Cannes and elsewhere for ...
Read More »Hello People’s Dave Dye picks his Desert Island Ads
Two weeks ago Dave Dye set up London’s newest agency Hello People with former Ogilvy UK managers Hugh Baillie and Rachel Hatton. He previously worked at BMP, AMV/BBDO, Leagas Delaney, Campbell Doyle Dye and DHM winning awards for The Economist, ...
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