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November 29, 2015

In Prague for the European Planning Conference

I just had a fantastic week attending the 2nd edition of the European Planning Conference in Prague this week. I was able to arrive…

November 5, 2015

In the Shipping Business

I read this article from Dave Trott in Campaign yesterday. He writes about content and makes excellent points about the advertising & marketing’s current obsession with…

October 7, 2015

Insect Ice Cream near Borough Market

I had organised to meet my friend James in Borough Market last month while I was in London. It used to be one of…

August 26, 2015

The McWhopper Proposal

This is a tough one. I think it’s one of the best marketing ideas I’ve seen in a while on one hand, and depressingly…

August 20, 2015

Who Does Advertising Serve?

I’m catching up on some reading and came across this article written by Tracy Follows: “Cannes Lions: will advertising ever again be about the…

July 13, 2015

Kidzania: Innocent Fun or Capitalist Dream?

I just spent some time in London for work, and a friend of mine who has a small child told me about this brand…

June 29, 2014

Saturday Streaming #2

It’s a day late but in any case here are my favourite videos from the past week. At the Cannes advertising event, or rather…

June 21, 2014

Saturday Streaming #1

Happy summer solstice everyone! I just realised I spent most of the longest day of the year working on a video edit for an…

June 15, 2014

Reverse Engineering the Gillette Manscaping Video

In my last post, I wrote about the idea of celebrating the bottom of the ad barrel with a series of posts. Yesterday I…

June 12, 2014

Scraping the Bottom of the Ad Barrel: A New Series of Posts

Image credit: midiman I haven’t wrote about advertising for a while, and given I’d like to ramp up activity around here I thought it…