Something has started to distress me about the future of planning and strategy in advertising agencies. And that is whether there will be any one…
I have been thinking a bit about value recently. Agency people don’t like thinking about value because they associate it with having to create tragic…
Without a doubt the finest radio programme is Today on BBC Radio 4. What it lacks in the imaginative title department, it more than makes…
“People will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel” Maya Angelou In…
The well off and wealthy may not take up much bandwidth as you dash out another digital banner on two-for-one sun cream but the plain…
If there is one defining philosophy of my approach to planning and strategic development it is the mantra that it is vital to be interesting…
Nothing, I repeat nothing connects a planner and therefore an agency to the people that its is trying to understand better than qualitative research. Instinct…
It’s been a busy week at Saatchi towers. On Wednesday I unveiled the results of a project that I have been working on with the…
Breaking Bad, a fully paid up member of Kevin Spacey’s ‘Third Golden Age of Television’ The legendary Steve Henry once told me a joke about…
Colossus was the World’s first electronic digital computer. Built from Post Office spare parts, it was operational from February 1944 at Bletchley Park, the British…
Why did Facebook acquire WhatsApp for $19bn? For the same reason dog’s lick their balls, because they can. There are few organisations on earth that…
In the 1990s Harry Enfield and Paul Whitehouse performed an appallingly misogynist sketch series called ‘women know your limits’ in which mock mid-century public information…
