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The result of Coca-Cola’s massive creative and media review (Coke spent over £3bn pre-lockdown, down from its previous levels) is reportedly imminent. We’d forgotten all about it as it began, incredibly, in January 2021 and seems to have morphed from ...

Were the wages of sin better in those days? WeWork’s head of visualisation Greg Rogers has recreated Mad Man Don Draper’s swanky Upper East Side New York apartment, which looks pretty contemporary considering Don lived there nearly 60 years ago. ...

Seems we’ve gone all PC this Christmas with timeTo warning us of the perils of mistletoe at the office party and traditional prezzies – cases of wine etc – ditched in favour of really useful things like reusable cups. Could ...

I see that Madison Avenue pioneer – and pithy commentator on its Mad Men doings – Jane Maas has died at 86. We’ve reported on her various books and observations here and the New York Times gives her the obit ...

Much chatter in adland about pitches, the time, expense and futility of much of it. Met an agency boss the other day who fulminated about the role of intermediaries – what do they contribute? Their all-encompassing involvement doesn’t seem to ...

Sexism’s been one of the themes of the year – and doubtless will be next year too – with some complaints that adland in particular hasn’t moved that far from its Mad Men roots. Here are the gals from Sterling ...

For those of you still musing over the Christmas party don’t take a cue from Sterling Cooper Draper Pryce. Like inviting a lawnmower for instance. (Warning lots of blood)

Why do agencies knacker themselves over pitches? Why does the work for them always seem to take place at weekends. Is everybody really so busy? Here’s the Sterling Cooper Draper Pryce spin on it with unappealing and flawed (even by ...

in may ways Mad Men, with its confidence and bravado, makes a refreshing change from the hand-wringing supposed humility of agencies today but what hasn’t changed are the politics of the pitch. A Mad Men theme was Sterling Cooper’s efforts ...