People in our industry love big data. Or at least they love the idea of big data. It’s one of those hot topics that fills…
Adam Lury, the co-founder of HHCL, believed that advertising was too powerful simply to be left to people that didn’t care about it. In other…
There is one subject that people like me on blogs like this rarely address. While we devote acres of prose and polemic to everything from…
Without a doubt the finest radio programme is Today on BBC Radio 4. What it lacks in the imaginative title department, it more than makes…
The well off and wealthy may not take up much bandwidth as you dash out another digital banner on two-for-one sun cream but the plain…
If there is one defining philosophy of my approach to planning and strategic development it is the mantra that it is vital to be interesting…
It’s been a busy week at Saatchi towers. On Wednesday I unveiled the results of a project that I have been working on with the…
Breaking Bad, a fully paid up member of Kevin Spacey’s ‘Third Golden Age of Television’ The legendary Steve Henry once told me a joke about…
In the 1990s Harry Enfield and Paul Whitehouse performed an appallingly misogynist sketch series called ‘women know your limits’ in which mock mid-century public information…
I went to a very nice industry do recently full of some really smart people taking about youth, including the wonderful Shaun Bailey. For some…
Advertising and ethics have never been close bedfellows in the popular imagination. When I entered the industry it was characterised by a culture derived from…