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Michael Farmer: will there be a (much-needed) new Madison Avenue Makeover?
Consultant and author Michael Farmer is one of the most incisive and knowledgeable commentators on advertising and the wider business…
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George Parker: Ted Bell – Y&R adman turned writer
News this week that Ted Bell, famed Ad Man who turned into an even more famous author, died in January…
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George Parker: more Madison Avenue madness!
A couple of years ago, I did a review of Michael Farmer’s wonderful book… Madison Avenue Manslaughter. At the end…
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More Mad Men…the way to a creative director’s heart
You couldn’t make it up really. Is this what agency life on Mad. Ave. was like in the 1960’s? Still…
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George Parker: the truth about advertising – actually Howard Gossage got there already
Anyone with enough fortitude to endure my ramblings (This is the nineteenth bloody episode of “Confessions of a Mad Man”…
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George Parker: why social pimping is all the rage in advertising – but not with me!
If you remember, in last week’s episode, I explained the balls out, diamond hard, number one tactic to be unfailingly…
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George Parker: how even I failed to keep a giant computer account for a Big Dumb Agency
In which our hero continues his odyssey among the once-mighty tech companies of Silicon Valley and Houston. Unlike the New…
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George Parker: my triumphant return to London as the Dorlands agency fireman
I arrived back in England in 1972 after ten years in New York. In those days, anyone with that amount…
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George Parker: you have to make the bastards pay!
There’s always been a perception in the business world that advertising agencies have an unlimited license to print money. Back…
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