The author at leisure musing on whether the title of this post is a tautology or an oxymoron A little while ago I gave a…
Indifference by Azli Jamil For those that know me personally, the idea that I have been thinking a bit about empathy may come as a…
Image courtesy of Henry Hingst. It struck me recently that, although I place great store in the quality of an insight, I really had no…
A couple of weeks ago I gave a little talk on the power of emotion in advertising. I thought I’d share a little of it…
Thank god for that, a few of you have started the ball rolling and submitted briefing formats.
We need a whole load more and from every corner of the globe.
Just got my mits on Naked, M&C and BBH’s formats. We now need briefs from places like AMV, Mother, Wiedens, Goodby, Crispin Porter, 180 you know the kind of thing. We also need briefs from some tip top digital agencies – Glue, Dare, Poke in London come to mind – it would be interesting to compare and contrast these with agencies from a stronger advertising tradition. And how about briefs from design agencies, sales promotion and PR?
Kurt Cobain’s death certificate. To my mind most creative briefing formats certify the death of the thinking. Image courtesy of Night Star Rominus. I have…
I don’t like the word edgy. Edgy is appallingly overused in our business to describe work that that is uncomfortably unconventional.
Image courtesy of Mainman.
Droga 5’s The Great Schlep idea has been doing the rounds recently as one of the smartest and most engaging political campaigns in a Presidential election that is dripping with smart and engaging political campaigns.
But I thought I’d lob my two penny worth into the fountain of adulation for this piece of work.
Image courtesy of stoopidgerl.
Only planners would have spent the summer celebrating their 40th birthday. Unless I am very much mistaken, the creative fraternity aren’t given to marking Bernbach’s marriage between art directors and copywriters or account handlers to commemorating the launch of Microsoft Excel for Windows. But the Johnny-come-lately of the advertising community has always felt the need to prove its contribution and to celebrate its survival.
Image courtesy of Kenny & B.
Ohhh look we’ve gone researchtastic.
Hot in the heels of the IPA Strategy Group’s UK strategy community research comes the forth annual Global Planners survey from Heather LeFevre. Of the 798 participants surprise surprise the place planners most want to work is Wieden & Kennedy (apart from ‘where you are’ which came top in the survey).
The default disposition of strategists. Image courtesy of Traci Bunkers
According to new research by the IPA we are overwhelmingly happy with in our jobs and optimistic about the future.
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Monday this saw the IPA Strategy Group’s fast strategy conference here in London.
All in all a rather splendid occasion.
The high point was the victory of the marvellous Richard Storey in a live head to head fast strategy challenge from the UK Government on Dog Registration. It was a good reminder, if anyone needed it, that Richard is one of the most accomplished creative strategists in adland. The Planning for Good team (Mark Earls, Jon Leech, Ian Tait and Chris Forrest) came second and were outstanding, if not quite as sharp as Richard’s M&C team (here is the wiki they built that morning to help them). CHI was rather out-classed and brought up the rear.
Anyway, the event made me think about my top tips for getting to strategy fast so I thought I’d share them with you. I’ve done 17 since it seems such an unfashionable number. Some stuff will be familiar to regular readers – but when you are creating fast strategy it doesn’t do to reinvent the wheel.
