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Posted on01/06/201825/11/2018Advertising, Planning

In praise of passive planning

by Richard5 Comments on In praise of passive planning

One of my favourite ads of all time is Honda Grrr. A Wieden & Kennedy classic, it’s still fresh and powerful a decade on, albeit…

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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 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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Posted on02/11/201719/05/2018Advertising, Articles and columns, Planning

The real genuis of ‘and’

by Richard2 Comments on The real genuis of ‘and’

There is one word the advertising industry really hates. In this word lies the root of all perceived evil. It’s only a little word but…

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Posted on26/10/201701/10/2019Advertising, Provocations

We need to think more about advertising

by Richard3 Comments on We need to think more about advertising

Adam Lury, one of the founders of the late, great and greatly missed HHCL, is perhaps one of our least recognised planning legends. The exponent…

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Posted on25/07/201702/12/2017Advertising, Planning

No more ‘millennial’ twaddle please

by Richard7 Comments on No more ‘millennial’ twaddle please

Peter Mead, the co-founder of Abbott Mead Vickers, had a profound dislike for one particular word. An old school ad man from a modest background,…

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Posted on28/06/201702/11/2017Advertising

Why hire an advertising agency?

by Richard3 Comments on Why hire an advertising agency?

David Ogilvy famously asked clients of his agency wanting to write their own work, “why keep a dog and bark yourself?” Half a century later…

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Posted on19/03/201726/10/2017Advertising, Planning

The year ahead in planning

by Richard

Ok so its March and this is rather late off the rank. But better late than never. It just means we have 9 months not…

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Posted on11/12/201603/03/2017Advertising, Politics

2016

by Richard2 Comments on 2016

One of my all time favourite ads is Asshole for Holstein Pils. It was written by Robert Saville and Jay Pond Jones at GGT and…

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Posted on20/11/201613/03/2017Advertising, Planning

Anxiety maketh the planner

by Richard1 Comment on Anxiety maketh the planner

“Let’s face facts, Perce”, as Edmund Blackadder was constantly saying to his hapless companion, the division of labour in advertising agencies borders on the bizarre.…

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Posted on26/09/201611/12/2016Advertising, Planning

Stand up for strategy

by Richard1 Comment on Stand up for strategy

The work, the work, the work. That’s the mantra by which we live and die in advertising. Good agencies are measured by the work they…

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Posted on26/07/201622/08/2016Advertising, Saatchi & Saatchi

Remain was advertising’s lowest moment

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This is an article I wrote for the second edition of the New European. The New European is a fascinating publication, it was set up…

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