Where have all the young adland characters gone?
20 Jun 2013 | by Danny Rogers
Although the Cannes festival has become a truly international affair, the legends of British advertising were hitting the headlines - back in Blighty.
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I m shortly giving up my career in advertising and fancy a few non-executive roles to keep my eye in. How do I go about finding them and which do you think will be the most profitable? I wonder if it s you who s giving up advertising or if it s advertising that s giving up you? I suspect the latter....
Although the Cannes festival has become a truly international affair, the legends of British advertising were hitting the headlines - back in Blighty.
The week started in Beaulieu and ended in Bangkok. There was significant abuse in-between, mainly from Kelly Clark about the picture in the WPP annual report, which he claimed looked like an extra from Siegfried & Roy. This is an improvement on the usual David Van Day, I think.
I have been in the media industry for just over one year now and, until the word "barter" came into my life, I was fairly confident that I knew how it all worked.
It's Monday morning and I wake up in New York. Nothing particularly new in the fact that I'm not in Chicago (my home base) but, this time, I'm travelling with my wife and kids, so the benefits of "nearing retirement" are becoming increasingly evident.
The nine-block grid is Jack Welch's famous method for evaluating staff. There are two criteria: potential and performance.
As I write, much of the advertising and media world is preparing to jet off to the Côte d'Azur for a few days.
I was once asked to run a training session on international planning. I got the wrong end of the stick and, instead of banging on about multinational brands, cross-cultural synergies and harmonising global toolkits, I decided to focus on techniques for mitigating jet lag and combating airport ennui.
We're shooting a new ad but our client, who is a notorious pain in the arse, wants to get involved in all aspects of the casting - even down to choosing the wardrobe. How do we politely tell him to go away before he irritates everyone, particularly the director, who is a person of some note?
Remember last summer? The country went into a kind of joyful meltdown, kicked off by Danny Boyle's brilliant Olympic opening ceremony - for many people the finest ad for Britain ever made.