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 ...
Read More »Keira Knightley smoulders in vain for Chanel
This one might change Keira Knightley’s image: the actress best-known for playing Jane Austen heroines has had her new ad for Coco Chanel Mademoiselle banned in the UK because it’s too sexy. Actually it’s only been banned in daytime programmes ...
Read More »Come on Clearcast, you’re wrong to ban Sodastream ad – how can you denigrate a glass bottle?
Whatever are the people at Sodastream complaining about? Having their ad pulled from television – in this case by the donkeys at the TV advertising clearing house Clearcast – is a gift. It’s the sort of thing Rupert Howell and ...
Read More »UK ad copy body Clearcast sticks by baffling decision to ban Bogusky SodaStream ad
Silly old Clearcast, the media owner-owned body that clears and prepares commercials for transmission in the UK, is sticking by its highly controversial decision to ban SodaStream’s ad knocking the (alleged) excesses of the soft drinks industry. SodaStream’s appeal against ...
Read More »WPP’s Hogarth pre-media company is dragged into row between SodaStream and Clearcast
Much muttering in UK adland about TV copy clearance gatekeeper Clearcast’s decision to ban SodaStream’s Alex Bogusky ad knocking plastic bottle consumption. Not only do they suspect the board of Clearcast – made up of representatives of the main UK ...
Read More »UK TV ad body Clearcast bans SodaStream ad knocking bottled fizzies – to protect who from what?
Clearcast is the (privatised) body that clears (or not) TV ads for transmission in the UK. Usually it lets any old rubbish through. But it’s it’s banned this Alex Bogusky-inspired ad from UK transmission despite it running all over the ...
Read More »SodaStream enlists Alex Bogusky as it steps up anti-waste war with Coke
Star creative Alex Bogusky, the former ‘chief insurgent officer’ at MDC Partners which bought his agency Crispin Porter+Bogusky, has returned to the advertising fold (temporarily at least) with this campaign for bubble-maker SodaStream. Bogusky and SodaStream have been doing their ...
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