Good morning. Apologies for the recent silence of this blog. WordPress lost all my data recently, so that had to be sorted out. We got most of it back, but if you’re wondering where a few of the more recent posts have gone, they have vanished into the digishpere, never to return. A shame, as... Read More

If This Is A Blog Then What's Christmas?

ITIAPTWC Episode 69 – Paul Burke on Ageism

Anthony is many things: comedian, journalist, DJ, presenter, author, pilot, maker of excellent roast potatoes, and, of course my next-door neighbour (find out all about him/hire him here). But he is also a top-level voiceover artist, who has lent his vocal cords to such clients as Nike, Lego, Samsung, Kellog’s and Disney. Here’s his Nike... Read More

ITIAPTWC Episode 68 – Anthony Davis

So I was watching this video the other day: …and I found myself in violent agreement with everything Tim Lindsay was saying. There are lots of questions advertising has to ask itself right now. The industry is in a state of disrepair: financially straitened, endlessly splintered and trying to find its place at a time... Read More

ITIAPTWC Episode 67 – Tim Lindsay

The second part of my chat with Paul. iTunes link, Soundcloud link, direct play button:

ITIAPTWC EPISODE 66 PART 2 – PAUL ROTHWELL

Paul would be far too modes to say this, but if you watched a brilliant ad from the late 1990s to the early 2010s, there’s a decent chance he had something to do with it. As one of the founders of Gorgeous (2.0 – Chris Palmer had already been running a pre-Paul Gorgeous for a... Read More

ITIAPTWC Episode 66 Part 1 – Paul Rothwell

I used to collect movie posters. I still have a few favourites, but in the end I ran out of wall space and it seemed a shame to keep so much great stuff rolled up in a cupboard, especially if someone, somewhere might really want that foiled Kill Bill One-Sheet I tracked down, or the... Read More

ITIAPTC Episode 65 – Kenny Gravillis

This is the third and final ‘people who were heavily involved in the Blackcurrant Tango ad’ series: my chat with the client, David Atter. (Episode 1 with director Colin Gregg can be found here. Episode 2 with copywriter Chas Bayfield can be found here.) Just in case you’re popping by at some random point in... Read More

ITIAPTWC Episode 64 – Blackcurrant Tango Client, David Atter.

This is the second in my series of three posts/podcasts about Blackcurrant Tango, apparently one of the most beloved ads of the last thirty years: You could read the Colin Gregg post, or read this repeat of what I said there: I put this up on LinkedIn and it caused a massive, affectionate response. So... Read More

ITIAPTW Episode 63 – Blackcurrant Tango copywriter, Chas Bayfield.

I’ve been putting up great ads from the 90s on LinkedIn. It started as a snarky attempt at pointing out how ads used to be better, and that even ads from 20+ years ago would be better than the ‘best’ of today. One of these ads was the wonderful Blackcurrant Tango ad of 1996: It... Read More

ITIAPTWC Episode 62 – Blackcurrant Tango Director, Colin Gregg

Stephen was the 25th employee of Bartle Bogle Hegarty, which means he saw it grow from a very good agency to the best in the country in a few short years. After a stint on Audi he became the first account guy on Levi’s, so we talked all about that. If you grew up in... Read More

ITIAPTWC Episode 61 – Stephen Gash

Rich and I started in advertising at the same time in the same place. He won a Cannes Gold in his first year. I was laid off. Now we’re back together having a delightful chat about those intervening 24 years. He’s a top bloke, and still has those great creative chops, as evidenced by this,... Read More

ITIAPTWC Episode 60 – Richard Denney.

Jean-Louis is the Chief Strategy Officer of The Concept Bureau. (Slight aside: I wonder why job titles are sounding increasingly military.) I asked him on the pod because ‘strategist’ is becoming a very common word in advertising-adjacent job titles. Jean-Louis is a Brand Strategist, so what does that mean, and what is a Creative Strategist,... Read More

ITIAPTWC Episode 59 – Jean-Louis Rawlence

Rob McFaul is the founder of an organisation called Purpose Disruptors: A network of advertising insiders whose goal is to create a visible, large scale, bottom up movement within the industry, that will act in solidarity to meaningfully tackle climate change. I’m very, very interested in this subject. It’s both immensely interesting and immensely intractable.... Read More

ITIAPTWC Episode 57 – Rob McFaul of Purpose Disruptors

ITIAPTWC Episode 56c – Rory Sutherland

ITIAPTWC Episode 56b -Rory Sutherland

"Endearingly belligerent" – another blogger

hubhopper

If This Is A Blog Then What's Christmas?

hubhopper