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Category: Provocations

Posted on11/06/201511/10/2015Planning, Provocations

Does every brand need a purpose?

by Richard13 Comments on Does every brand need a purpose?

Gold Blend coffee has a new campaign. You’ll know if you live in any remotely built up part of the UK because the media buy…

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Posted on27/03/201516/08/2015Brands, Provocations, Saatchi & Saatchi

Motherhood is not a job

by Richard2 Comments on Motherhood is not a job

Motherhood is many things and many of them are at the frustrating, nerve shredding and just sheer hard graft end of the spectrum. But one…

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Posted on14/02/201511/10/2015Brands, Provocations

Put an end to guano marketing

by Richard26 Comments on Put an end to guano marketing

Do you ever find that a word, a particular word suddenly starts to really irritate you? Perhaps a word that previously seemed rather innocuous, useful…

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Posted on29/05/201421/08/2015Planning, Provocations

How we slowed down the connection between consumers and creatives

by Richard11 Comments on How we slowed down the connection between consumers and creatives

Nothing, I repeat nothing connects a planner and therefore an agency to the people that its is trying to understand better than qualitative research. Instinct…

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Posted on26/04/201421/08/2015Advertising, Presentations, Provocations, Saatchi & Saatchi

Don’t call me mum

by Richard7 Comments on Don’t call me mum

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…

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Posted on15/02/201426/04/2014Advertising, Planning, Provocations

Should CSOs become CEOs?

by Richard5 Comments on Should CSOs become CEOs?

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…

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Posted on09/02/201426/04/2014Provocations

Independent London

by Richard2 Comments on Independent London

Separatism appears to be the flavour of the month in the UK. The SNP can’t bear to be British, UKIP can’t bear to be European…

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Posted on02/02/201404/04/2014Advertising, Provocations

Oxbridge is not the problem

by Richard18 Comments on Oxbridge is not the problem

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…

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Posted on25/01/201404/04/2014Advertising, Provocations

Advertising’s moral responsibility

by Richard8 Comments on Advertising’s moral responsibility

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…

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Posted on19/01/201404/04/2014Brands, Provocations

Supermarket success – it’s a question of class

by Richard5 Comments on Supermarket success – it’s a question of class

For a time of loving and giving this Christmas saw a bloodbath in British supermarket retailing. As retailer after retailer reported their fourth quarter trading…

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Posted on27/10/201316/11/2013Brands, Provocations

Trust teaser

by RichardLeave a comment on Trust teaser

I have been spending a lot of time thinking about trust over the past year. And a lot of time becoming truly frustrated at orthodox…

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Posted on29/07/201304/04/2014Advertising, Brands, Provocations

Why ‘always on’ is such a turn off

by Richard21 Comments on Why ‘always on’ is such a turn off

When you have fireworks like this who needs bonfires. Image courtesy of Fernando Castaneda. In recent years the business of marketing has been assailed by…

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