Readers of my US blog, AdScam , where informed yesterday that I have given up on Twitter. Why? Because in the last few days, I have had dozens of emails from very pissed off people asking why I am bombarding them with shitty emails flogging everything from insurance to condoms. Obviously someone has...
One of the comments on my last post implied that people who work in advertising shouldn’t be too fussy when it comes to deciding whether or not they wanted to work on certain kinds of accounts… ‘Cos they pay your wages! This drove to write a comment in reply, which I then decided to turn into a post...
In the truth is stranger than fiction dept, French satirical investigative journalism weekly “ Le Canard Enchaîné ,“ has outed holier-than-thou French president, Nicolas Sarkozy for violating copyright laws. In a stunning display of hypocrisy, the presidential department of audiovisual services produced...
Did you happen to read the amazing interview in Monday’s Wall Street Journal with Jeff Horing, co-founder of Insight Venture Partners, a New York private-equity firm that was the lead investor in Twitter’s third and latest fund-raising round? These are the geezers who just pumped in $100 million in funding...
I know the job scene in the ad biz is pretty bad over there, over here it’s desperate. And with the news out of the holding companies of their continuing drastic losses of income and declining profits, you know it’s only going to get worse. Particularly when the magic answer to all their problems is...
In case you hadn’t realized it, I am a multi-tasking, uber-achieving prince of the blogosphere… Meaning that apart from writing this occasional blog for BrandRepublic, I also write a US blog, and manage to bore the *** out of people with various articles and books. The rest of the time I drink, smoke...
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 has zero health insurance, and the vast majority who...
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...
So, here I am in the USA on the fourth of July. And even though I’ve lived here for a great many years, for a long, long time, I saw no need to become a citizen. I finally gave in five years ago and became a US national… For two reasons. First, my wife discovered that if I kicked the bucket, my estate...
All the buzz over here amongst the digerati is about the upcoming launch of Microsoft's new/revamped search engine, “Bing,” that will be released June 3. It promises to deliver more than the customary list of results when called upon to do a search; it is " more of a decision engine ,"...
