Tag Archives: Paul Simons

My previous piece on the famous advertising lunch got me thinking about the ones that were truly about making history. When we went through the process of selling Simons Palmer to Omnicom it became clear the interest was purely for ...

I’ve just read a story written by a female journalist about the new Bridget Jones book where she reminisces about life as a scribbler back in the days when Bridget was a singleton. It got me thinking about the status ...

A while ago I reported back on the impact Waitrose appears to have on property prices based on searching around the Wiltshire area. This was based on our perception as we travelled around. I’ve just come across an article from ...

Is M&S heading towards the brand iceberg? The Titanic link is a mental vision for me of trouble ahead and I’m wondering if the folk on the bridge are looking the right way. They claimed the Titanic could never sink ...

Advertising isn’t as good as it used to be? Discuss. I’ve read a fair amount of comment in recent weeks about the lack of creative flourish in a lot of work being transmitted to the world. The argument seems to ...

25 years ago today five of us announced the start of a new advertising agency with a front page splash in Campaign magazine. We all met up for lunch that day trying to figure what would happen next. We had ...

We all get accustomed to the power certain brands can have on society, like the queues snaking around Apple stores when a new product is about to go on sale. However I have found a new and unexpected ripple effect ...

A D&AD (Design & Art Direction) member recently posted a blog about the challenges facing older people in the whacky world of advertising, in particular once 50 comes and goes. The comments have been broadly interesting, some just plain grumpy ...

Sir Martin Sorrell stirred up some controversy in adland recently by suggesting media has become the lead discipline over creativity (and by implication account management). It seems to me a number of arguments on both sides of the debate are ...