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Hooked on Drugs!

For many years Madison Avenue pigged out at the trough of tobacco advertising. Back in the Mad Men days, cigarettes, booze and car accounts paid for many a Westchester mansion, country club fees and the odd boat or two. But with the ever tightening restrictions...

Posted Oct 22 2009, 04:05 AM by George Parker with | with 5 comment(s)

Filed under: Agency insanity, Branding, Bullshit, Campaigns, Product launches, TV Advertising, US Craziness, WTF!!!, AdScam, The Ubiquitous Persuaders, BDA's

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Wow… How the mighty have fallen, only to get up, then fall again.

When I first worked on the Dell account, back in San Francisco, in the early eighties, they were severely kicking everyone else's arse. Not only did they offer a superior product for a superior price… They overlaid this great sales model with the...

Posted Sep 22 2009, 12:27 AM by George Parker with | with 2 comment(s)

Filed under: Agency insanity, Branding, Bullshit, Campaigns, Clients, US Craziness, WTF!!!, OnLine, What we do., VC morons, AdScam, The Ubiquitous Persuaders, BDA's

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I am not a drug addict… How dare you Sir… But I do, however, advertise drugs!

Anyone who’s ever lived over here for any extended amount of time has to wonder why the American public is brainwashed to the extent that they actually believe they have the best healthcare system in the world… Even though a quarter of the population...

Posted Aug 01 2009, 09:55 PM by George Parker with | with 1 comment(s)

Filed under: Agency insanity, Blogging, Branding, Bullshit, TV Advertising, TV Commercials, US Craziness, WTF!!!, What we do., AdScam, The Ubiquitous Persuaders, BDA's

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Rumors, lies, and the blogosphere!

One of the things you have to accept about the Internet in general, and the blogosphere in particular, is that you should only believe about fifty percent of what you read. Traditional newspapers and magazines – Even those aimed at the brain dead people...

Posted Jul 09 2009, 01:44 PM by George Parker with | with 5 comment(s)

Filed under: British Craziness, Bullshit, Journalism, Media, On-Line, US Craziness, WTF!!!, OnLine, AdScam, The Ubiquitous Persuaders

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Enfatico, WPP’s “Agency of the Future” now has little future!

Unless you’ve been asleep or in an alcoholic haze for the last couple of days, you are no doubt aware of the flaming demise of Enfatico… The WPP agency that was created by Sir Martin to handle all of Dell’s business world wide. This crash is an event...

Posted Apr 11 2009, 03:54 AM by George Parker with | with no comments

Filed under: Agency insanity, Bullshit, WTF!!!, AdScam, The Ubiquitous Persuaders, BDA's

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"The Ubiquitous Persuaders" - The best book on advertising since "Scouting for Boys."

Yeah, I know the headline doesn't make sense, unless you've already had a few "bevies." But, it got your attention, right? So, I just finished my new book, "The Ubiquitous Persuaders" a fifty year update on the Vance Packard...

Posted Mar 04 2009, 07:17 PM by George Parker with | with 1 comment(s)

Filed under: Me, The Ubiquitous Persuaders

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Hooked on Drugs!

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Wow… How the mighty have fallen, only to get up, then fall again.

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I am not a drug addict… How dare you Sir… But I do, however, advertise drugs!

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Rumors, lies, and the blogosphere!

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Enfatico, WPP’s “Agency of the Future” now has little future!

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"The Ubiquitous Persuaders" - The best book on advertising since "Scouting for Boys."