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One of the things about working in an agency again is that I'm surrounded by people who read Campaign. And some of them, it seems, read this column.
Over the course of the past 12 months, I've written far too much in this column about fee squeezes, bad procurement practices, agency capitulation and all the other depressing aspects of the downturn that are helping to erode the status of the advertising industry.
Kelly Williams can be forgiven if, like Mark White before him, he breaks down in a small bout of histrionics when he finally leaves Channel 5 at the end of January.
When the weather turns cold and the afternoons darken, I read a book about the early explorers of the Arctic and Antarctic.
Q: We have a room in the agency where we allow our regional clients to work from if they are in the area. It works well but we have one particular client who has virtually decamped there and it's proving a distraction and occasionally an irritation. How do we politely discourage him from visiting so...
When the economist Milton Friedman popularised the expression "there's no such thing as a free lunch", he can't have realised that it would become so beloved and repeated by smug, knowing middle managers.
There's a Clay Shirky saying that I often quote (being a media prognosticator, quoting Shirky is part of my job description).
Last week, my wife and I installed the middle-aged, heterosexual version of Grindr on our mobile phones - it sends us a handy weekly reminder when Downton Abbey finishes.
It wouldn't be the end of the year without a dramatic agency departure.
