Robert Jenkins is a New Zealander who has worked in Australasia, Europe, the US and Asia – mostly for big international advertising agencies including Ogilvy, Grey and BBDO. He opened his own agency in London and eventually sold it to ...
Read More »Paul Simons: where would I work now?
In the first of a new series in which we invite adland luminaries to tell us where they would work now if they had the choice, Paul Simons, one of the founders of leading UK creative agency of the 1990s ...
Read More »George Parker: the Big Dumb Holding Company mantra of Omnicom and WPP – screw up and clean up!
Back in 2011 George Parker predicted a future even more dominated by ad agency-based holding companies, a future that is coming to pass with the proposed merger of Omnicom and Publicis Groupe. Here’s his view of Omnicom and the most ...
Read More »CLIO Awards top gongs go to Ogilvy & Mather, Marcel Worldwide and Google
The US CLIO Awards have announced their top gongs and the winners are: Network of the year: Ogilvy & Mather; and Grand Clios to BBH London, Cheil Worldwide, Digital Domain, JWT San Juan and Marcel Worldwide (in Paris). Google was ...
Read More »George Parker: how I met David Ogilvy – twice
When, in 1963, as a snot nosed 23 year old, I disembarked at pier 96 from the Queen Mary (the one that’s now a conference center in Long Beach), my sole objective was to get a job on Madison Avenue, ...
Read More »George Patterson Y&R takes a tumble for Schweppes
There’s been a lot of famous advertising for fizzy mixer Schweppes (once owned by Britain’s Cadbury but now with different owners all over the world) and the Aussies have revived the old theme ‘Schweppervescence’ for this interesting take on (eventually) ...
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