Mark started at the BBC in news and current affairs then moved to the music business at Warner Bros. He joined advertising as a producer at CDP, becoming Head of TV in the late 80s, producing some of the most ...
Read More »Deutsch LA goes for brutal simplicity in new VW ad
“Keep it simple, stupid” has always been wise advice (emanating from the US Navy no less, as a design principle in 1960) and it’s equally true of advertising as ships and planes. Deutsch LA has clearly taken this to heart ...
Read More »VW’s Super bowl ad will be the world’s most expensive at $10m – but will it do the business?
Roll up, roll up, for the most expensive ad in the world. Volkswagen is about to spend $10m on a single, minute-long airtime execution. Why so pricey? Well, it’s not production values that make it so – however meticulous the ...
Read More »Volkswagen and Deutsch LA unveil 2013 Super Bowl contender – it’s a winner mon
Alas it’s not the arrow at old Coke we anticipated, rather an equally audacious ‘Get Happy’ idea featuring a besuited executive talking in Jamaican patois. And hardly a car in sight. Volkswagen and Deutsch LA have produced two recent blockbusters ...
Read More »Car advertising: can you shift all that metal and build a brand at the same time?
Lord Leverhulme of Lever Brothers fame is credited with saying “Half of my advertising is wasted, the trouble is I don’t know which half.'” Applied to car advertising I would venture it is more like 70/30. Jerry Judge has written ...
Read More »Are VW and Deutsch planning to take aim at famous old Coke ad in 2013 Super Bowl extravaganza?
Volkswagen and agency Deutsch have a lot to live up to each time the Super Bowl comes around (February 3, if you’ve been living in a cave) following the success of ‘Young Darth Vader’ two years ago and ‘The Bark ...
Read More »Where are we as we go into the first weekend of 2013? Sorrell (as usual), fiscal cliffs, good old VW
In Europe, at least, the week following New Year is a touch half-hearted; many people taking an extended holiday and, even if they’re not, disinclined to ruminate too much on the challenges ahead. But we can usually rely on WPP ...
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