Much has been written about agencies’ capacity to make digital things. I have written about how I find it strange that—while it has never been cheaper or easier to make things as an industry—we seem to be making less and researching more. There has been recent discussion as to whether agencies could ever make the …

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Remember Terry Tate – Office Linebacker? When I was a writer in London it was one of the first things I remember going back to again and again online. It was pre-YouTube so I don’t even know where I watched it. I just know it was fucking funny. And still is. …

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Read the press these days or business books and a lot of people will say you have to embrace failure. You can’t succeed without failing, blah, blah, blah. We hear it every day. It’s a popular mantra. But do we really believe it? I read a while ago that Google Health is …

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I went to a few of the award shows last week. What struck me was that there seems to be a new type of creative. There used to be an accepted hierarchy for advertising creatives. If you were in an above-the-line agency it was Cinema, TV, Posters, Print, Radio. Then below it …

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It has never been so easy in our industry to be a smart ass. With one click of a button you can read what all the foremost thinkers in modern communication believe about certain ads, agencies, the landscape—anything really. We are all too willing to air our views on Twitter, blogs, …

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“Last year, for my friend’s birthday, my gift to her was to stay off my phone at her dinner party’, so says one of the people interviewed in a New York Times piece about how people can no longer give other people their full attention. Am I guilty of this? Probably. …

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