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Posted on27/08/202327/08/2023Advertising, Provocations

We need to think more about advertising

by Richard3 Comments on We need to think more about advertising

I am no fan of intellectuals. The people that complicate, theorise, pontificate and posture. With little effect on the real world. Marketing is a simple…

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Posted on30/05/2023Advertising, Provocations

When it comes to vaping, let’s not make the mistakes of the past

by RichardLeave a comment on When it comes to vaping, let’s not make the mistakes of the past

I have always believed that advertising and regulation go hand in hand. Advertising needs regulating because of its power. We understand that better than anyone…

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Posted on27/05/2023Brands, Inspiration, Politics, Provocations, Saatchi & Saatchi, Strategy

What the fuck is going on?

by RichardLeave a comment on What the fuck is going on?

If you really want to know what’s happening in Britain right now, something that should preoccupy all but the most narcissistic UK marketers, you need…

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Posted on08/03/202308/03/2023Articles and columns, Politics, Provocations

The middle matters to marketers

by RichardLeave a comment on The middle matters to marketers

On March 31st last year, Joe Bidden made a landmark speech to a group of Trades Unionists in Pittsburgh. While little remarked upon in the UK,…

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Posted on05/01/202305/01/2023Articles and columns, Inspiration, Provocations, Saatchi & Saatchi

We can only get through this together

by RichardLeave a comment on We can only get through this together

I look forward to 2023 trends presentations crossing my desk with the same enthusiasm that I greet Tory canvassers on my doorstep, for I adore…

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Posted on23/10/202223/10/2022Provocations

When it comes to Web3 let’s not repeat the mistakes of the past

by RichardLeave a comment on When it comes to Web3 let’s not repeat the mistakes of the past

Age is not a good look in advertising. After all, we are one of the only industries in which experience is rather frowned upon, even…

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Posted on04/05/202205/11/2022Brands, Politics, Provocations

You can’t have our brands without our values

by RichardLeave a comment on You can’t have our brands without our values

At times of extreme crisis, when people’s livelihoods and lives are in constant danger and the world sits on the precipice of escalating conflict, what…

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Posted on24/12/202028/12/2020Brands, Provocations

Why agriculture needs advertising

by Richard1 Comment on Why agriculture needs advertising

Advertising and agriculture feel at opposite ends of the universe we all inhabit. Perhaps the only similarity being the way both our professions are vilified…

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Posted on02/06/201901/10/2019Provocations

Make acronyms your enemy

by RichardLeave a comment on Make acronyms your enemy

Most see the act of saying something that has absolutely no chance of ever coming to fruition or doing something that has absolutely no chance…

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Posted on29/05/201825/11/2018Advertising, Articles and columns, Provocations

We need more ‘non-working marketing spend’, not less

by Richard2 Comments on We need more ‘non-working marketing spend’, not less

There are many phrases to which I take exception. I hate dead metaphors such as “Achilles’ heel”. I hate euphemisms that are designed to disguise…

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Posted on19/05/201817/08/2018Articles and columns, Provocations

Banishing unconscious bias from your planning

by RichardLeave a comment on Banishing unconscious bias from your planning

To celebrate the 55th series of Have I Got News For You, the show’s team captains, Ian Hislop and Paul Merton gave a now infamous…

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Posted on02/12/201701/06/2018Advertising, Planning, Provocations

Orthodoxy is toxic

by Richard3 Comments on Orthodoxy is toxic

All my heroes are equal but George Orwell is more equal than others. I’m not taken to affection for old Etonian propagandists, after all there…

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