Well, after six years of ambling along here, punctuated only by four job offers from the same agency (who obviously thrive on rejection), it has been announced that I am to have my review. On Friday. Now: I don’t WANT to have my review on Friday – and the reason for this is simple. I see-saw [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Advertising Agency’
And That’s How I Resigned In A Fit of Pique
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Advertising, Advertising Agency, Appraisal, Fearless Leader on March 20, 2012 | 1 Comment »
American Diva Planner
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Advertising Agency, Advertising Planning, American Diva Planner, Old Friend at Work on August 3, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
American Diva Planner has left the agency – in fact, she was asked to leave… Hers is a particularly sad story: not because she didn’t see her demise coming (I think she did), but because she saw it coming and simply couldn’t alter her behaviour in such a way as to prevent it – like being [...]
The House Beautiful
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Advertising Agency, Decoration, Farrow and Ball, Unfeasibly Attractive Girlfriend on July 21, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
I don’t really care massively about how houses are decorated. Like everyone else, I have preferences and things that I will not tolerate (wet look tiles, chintz, deep pile carpets – nothing too contentious), but I can’t get too excited about looking at the subtle differences between fourteen shades of “White” from Farrow and Ball [...]
The Forces Gather
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Advertising, Advertising Agency, Box-TIcking Account Guy, Enthusiastic Account Guy, Planner in My Own Image, Swearing Account Director on July 13, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Exciting news: it’s all going wrong for Box-Ticking Account Guy. My process-happy Nemesis appears to be losing his grip on the shiny spreadsheet of process, and instead a joyful Bacchanalia of “seeing how we go”, “let’s just think of the story we want to tell” and “creativity”, with me dancing cloven-footed at the front of [...]
Touching Cool
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Advertising Agency, Advertising Agency Interviews, Advertising Planning, David Lynch, Dick van Dyke, Jennifer Lopez, Lady Gaga, The Standard Hotel on June 14, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Having just returned from there, I can confirm that The Standard Hotel in New York is the coolest place in the world. Not only were Lady Gaga (like all celebrities: “smaller than you’d think”), Jennifer Lopez and David Lynch there, but (as dedicated readers will know): my presence there ensured that it was the epicentre [...]
Teaching and Interviewing
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Advertising Agency, Advertising Planning, New York, Old Friend at Work on May 30, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
I’m going to New York the week after next where I’m going to combine some lecturing on Advertising Planning (something which is filling me with so much dread it is only really now that I am confronting the fact that I am doing it – SHITTING HELL!) with an interview at another agency. It’s a [...]
It’s Just Got Worse
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Advertising Agency on May 26, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Latest Client comment. “Could we be accused of encouraging the exploitation of dwarves?” By suggesting IN A COMMERCIAL that THE IMAGINARY Snow White bought herself a new dress? No, no I don’t think we could.
The Digital Revolution
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Advertising, Advertising Agency, The Digital Revoltion on March 8, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Currently, my agency is desperately trying to prove its digital credentials. To itself. The means by which we are doing this is to subject everyone to a relentless stream of messages, trending topics, hash tags, data onto a number of television screens that have been wall-mounted around the place. Am I being cynical, or am [...]
Client Bi-Polar Disorders
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged AC Milan Hotel, Advertising Agency, Clients, Milan, Planning on December 2, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
It’s “the run-up to Christmas”, which means that the stupid requests from Clients are coming thick (sometimes, so staggeringly thick that “dumb” might be a better descriptor) and fast. There is something about “getting it done before Christmas” that makes Clients feel reassured and in control – the fact that they won’t review the work [...]
When Planners Get Together – “I Don’t Know…”
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Advertising Agency, American Diva Planning Friend, Design, Mitchell and Webb, Open Plan, Planners on August 25, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
There’s a great Mitchell and Webb sketch, wherein they play an author and an editor, with the latter giving endless recommendations to the former, and then withdrawing them with the coda of “…not that, obviously. YOU’RE the creative one.” After minutes of this, the author is left aware that he is being asked to do [...]
