MAA blast from the past
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MAA blast from the past: the first (pre-Cannes) Lion
Back in 1954 the Screen Advertising World Association (SAWA) set up an ad festival in Venice – which is where…
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MAA blasts from the past: Euro wins and fails from Walkers and Pizza Hut
England football manager Gareth Southgate won’t need reminding of a previous Euro football tournament, 1996 when he missed a penalty…
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MAA blast from the past: one for the Euros – Nike Shox
Euros football ads are all over the place now, none quite as audacious as this effort from 2003 (I think)…
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MAA blast from the past: milk’s ‘lotta bottle’ and Birds Eye
Were ads better then than they are now? Some were no doubt, others maybe not.. It was a less woke…
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MAA blast from the past: Fink and Clarke’s ‘Face’ for BA
British Airways is back on the airwaves with a workmanlike effort from Ogilvy. Once upon a time BA was the…
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MAA blast from the past: Terry Lovelock’s Heineken
I see that legendary CDP copywriter (also commercials director and celebrated jazz drummer) Terry Lovelock has died at 84. In…
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MAA blast from the past: BMP’s surprise Cannes win
Will we be trekking down to the south of France in June for Cannes? If those silly Europeans don’t stop…
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MAA blasts from the past: Barclaycard, Carling and IKEA
Laurence Green writes today about ISBA’s new “collective trust initiative” recommending “making advertising welcome in people’s homes.” Actually this seems…
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MAA blast from the past: Rik Mayall for Bombardier
We’ve described recently the move from ambitious ads to digital-friendly content, something that has has greatly diminished the influence of…
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