My Wife and Advertising

Advertising is a crazy business. It sometimes takes someone from outside the business to help us realize it. My wife has been providing this invaluable function for 30 years. Keeping me sane and grounded. Thanks Helen. Here's to the next 30.

Monday, June 8, 2015

Mad Men - Don's Still Out of Time

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SPOILER ALERT Mad Men ended with a reshowing of the Coke “I’d like to teach the world to sing” also known as “ Hilltop ” commercial...

Thursday, May 28, 2015

MAD MEN SEASON FINALE – WON’T GET FOOLED AGAIN

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SPOILER ALERT My wife and I were watching the finale of Mad Men earlier this week. When it ended I felt very depressed. I felt t...

Monday, May 26, 2014

The World's Most Succesful Tweet?

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The other day I was telling my wife about the Oreo Superbowl tweet. You remember my wife. She doesn't work in advertising, and thoug...

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Thursday, May 15, 2014

Go Canada Go!

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My wife is amazing. She doesn’t work in advertising but she is completely supportive of me – the late nights, stress, job insecurity and eve...

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Monday, May 20, 2013

Anti-Social Advertisers

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Why aren’t advertisers spending money on Social Media? They know it’s popular. People now spend an average of around 7 hours a month on ...

Wednesday, May 2, 2012

Why don't we ask more questions?

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Nowadays in advertising we are exhort to engage our target in a conversation. For example Nick Moore from Wunderman gave a great talk a...

Sunday, April 22, 2012

TV Advertising is Dead

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Seems a lot of people are saying this 1 . 2. 3. 4 . 5. But as an old school ad guy I'm been resisting the idea that TV is dead...

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