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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 ...

You couldn’t make it up really. Is this what agency life on Mad. Ave. was like in the 1960’s? Still probably the way to a creative director’s heart…or something

Here, courtesy of Adweek, are some of the highlights of the latest Mad Men. Don has a threesome with Megan and a hippie, a mad writer slices his nipple off to impress Peggy and, still, agency and client deal with ...

Why don’t ad agencies walk the walk and advertise themselves? The (airtime) money? They don’t want to fall on their noses with no client to blame for a bad ad? It doesn’t work? Charles and Maurice’s Saatchi & Saatchi launched ...

Another year begins, and I reflect on 2013 as the year that technology brought mass disruption to our industry. At the Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity, the view across La Croisette was dominated by digital media owners – Microsoft, ...

Michael Lee is a former ECD of Euro RSCG New York handling Volvo Worldwide. Born in England, he spent 20 years working on integrated accounts including Intel, JP Morgan, ExxonMobil and Jaguar. In 2012 he set up agency search consultancy ...

It’s Cannes week and adland’s (self-appointed) finest are gathering on the Croisette to award each other, listen to seminars and speakers and consume heroic amounts of Riviera rosé. Wieden+Kennedy London new business director Alexandra Rogers sends her first despatch from ...

With a new series of Mad Men on our screens and the death of Margaret Thatcher (indelibly attached to the UK adland of the 1980s), advertising has made one of its periodic trips over the wire; entering mainstream debate as ...

In the UK Mad Men has returned to Sky Atlantic, infuriatingly for those of us who aren’t Sky subscribers. Wieden+Kennedy London managing director Neil Christie (left) analyses the advertising bits – there are still some – in the new episodes ...