I was a bit gob smacked to read that Tony Blair is likely to be the next head of the European Union… A job that The Times says, no one wants him for. Which means he’ll probably get it. Over here in America, they love him. That’s why Bush gave him the Presidential Medal of Freedom, rather than JK Rowling...
Everyone over here is shocked that the International Olympic Committee had the unmitigated cheek to award the 2016 Olympics to Rio, rather than Chicago. Rubbing salt in the wound by eliminating Chicago in the very first round of voting. Wankers! But, I’ll make you a bet right now that most Chicagoans...
Coincidental with my recent BrandRepublic piece of the 22nd , talking about the tenth anniversary of David Ogilvy’s death, I have also been doing a series of posts on my US blog, AdScam, about an upcoming number of layoffs at Ogilvy’s New York Office which are expected to happen in the next week or so...
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 who can’t get enough show biz gossip, pop culture...
The amounts of money paid in the US for sports sponsorship, is pretty crazy. Until you look at the money being splashed around in the UK for the privilege of putting your logo on a football teams strip. The news that Liverpool want Carlsberg to cough up the same amount of money – Eighty million quid...
Well, I got back last night after traveling for eighteen hours and drinking my way over the North Pole. I had an excellent time, including a very nice extended lunch with our worthy editor, Gordon Macmillan. I have to confess that even though I try and stay on top of the UK news, I am always mystified...
Oh dear, I seem to have trod on a few PC toes with my post about "Scrabulous" last week. I would suggest that those of you with delicate sensibilities watch a few re-runs of Monty Python, or even some recent episodes of the "Simpsons" before busting my chops about about racism. And...
Yes... It's that time of the year again when everyone is making forecasts on where the ad biz will be in 2008. Now Leo Burnett in Britain has decided to make a few daft and not so daft predictions. You can read their full list as posted by Piers on PSFK, here . Most of them make some kind of minimal...
I've never quite figured out the attraction of "Banksy." Don't get me wrong here... ...I love what he does. And even though it involves the use of stencils, I think it's a hell of a lot more creative than dumping rotting fish and sheep in giant tanks of formaldehyde that have to...
With all the news stories about peoples confidential data being lost, stolen, or seemingly vaporized, I wasn't too surprised to read about the loss of a hard drive containing personal details of three million candidates for the UK driving theory test which has gone missing from a "secure facility"...
