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Eat your chips, or you’ll never get big and fat when you grow up!

Unlike the UK, which has pretty strict guidelines on advertising junk food to kids, If you ever wondered why so many young Americans are spotty, overweight, and just generally a pain in the arse…...

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Lemonade… The Must-See Movie!

Here in the US, AdAge has just put out its “Annual 2010” issue, which gives all kinds of boring stats about the current pathetic state of the ad biz in America. However, the one that really stands out...

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Social Media Miasma!

As readers of my US blog, AdScam will be well aware, I tend to get even more curmudgeonly than usual when it comes to the non-stop chat about social media. Let’s be straight about it, if it’s your cup...

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How to succeed in business like Vlad the Impaler!

Regular readers of my US blog, AdScam, and if you are not, you are a douchenozzle, will be aware that I have recently been hammering Mark Hurd (known on AdScam as HurdTurd,) the recently dismissed CEO...

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Ignorance is bliss!

As I am sure you are all aware, there’s a clown down in Florida who’s threatening to burn a dumpster load of Koran’s on the anniversary of 9/11. Apart from the fact that this cretin “ministers” over a...

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Advertising Explained!

I did a post the other day on AdScam praising the creation of yet another “Agency of the future.” Then I quickly realized I should have dug into the details a little more. This led me to do a mea culpa...

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Inside a Big Dumb Agency!

As the originator of the term “BDA” on AdScam, you can imagine my surprise when my old mate Steve Hayden (He of 1984 fame, and now the Emperor of the Known Universe at Ogilvy, New York) asked me to...

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I’m back… Yes… Bet your ar*s*e… I’m back!!!

Well… Well… Here I am back again, after all this time. C’mon, be honest, you missed me, didn’t you? But, like the Terminator, lately known as the Governator… “I’ll be back!” At least, I didn’t pop out...

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Old farts rule!!!

Apropos my last post… Which, because I had been away for so long you were all absolutely desperate to read… Maybe.. I am beginning to smell one of those apocryphal swings from New Media – Social Media...

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Everything’s coming up dwarf roses!

Funny to read in today’s AdWeek that speakers representing the media community at a Chicago trade fest are saying they are increasingly convinced we’ll be seeing major cutbacks in media spending as the...

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