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 [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Advertising Planning’
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 »
The Conference Call
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Advertising, Advertising Planning, Conference Call, Meetings on July 4, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
The Client: “So: has everyone read through the presentation that I sent out last week?” Eiljert Thinks: “I wrote it. I wrote all of it.” Eiljert Says: “Yes, thank you.” Client: “So, I think what would be best is if it we ran through that.” Eiljert Thinks: “Why? Why don’t we run through the brief [...]
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 [...]
Nastying Up
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Advertising Planning, Box-TIcking Account Guy, Enthusiastic Account Guy, Good Friend in PR, Planning, Process, Routine on May 26, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Good Friend in PR was over in London recently. As ever, it was good to see him and we had a great time in a variety of river-based locations from Chiswick to the Royal Festival Hall. However, there was a bit of grit in the oyster – in terms of his assessment of THIS VERY [...]
A Slight Return
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Advertising, Advertising Planning, Fiona Shaw on May 16, 2010 | 5 Comments »
I know it doesn’t look good – taking six weeks’ holiday – but I am back and shall be blogging again in no time. There is much to be said: of Fiona Shaw in “London Assurance” and in conversation; of the UK election; of friends and family; and of the absolute lunacy at work – [...]
Waking Up Surrounded by Pringles
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Advertising, Advertising Planning, Drunk, Evenings Out in Madrid, Fiona Shaw, Madrid, Old Friend at Work, Planners, Pringles, The Gathering, The Smallest Media Planner in the World on January 30, 2010 | 1 Comment »
A couple of weeks ago, I went to Madrid with work – the first trip since the whole, sad divorce thing. I had been worried that it was going to be awful – and in some ways, it was (the reality of being away from everyone, and the fact that that will be a reality [...]
Not India. Just Not India.
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Advertising Planning, China, Family, India, Planning, Travesty of All Things Gay, Wife on July 27, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I was talking to Matey Planner, about how things were going at work. Having spent the first half hour of what was meant to be a friendly and relaxed discussion over a coffee sounding off over the terrible experiences with Travesty of All Things Gay and various other wounds, we turned to things that I [...]
I Think I Preferred Gandalf
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Advertising, Advertising Agency, Advertising Planning, Exhausted Creative Director, Gandalf, Jordan, Wife on July 17, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Fuck me, but I have seen some shit ideas in my time. In my line of work, it’s inevitable - but some that stand out were an idea for a brand of Bitter which consisted of a procession through the streets of Derby, led by a chimp with the followers of the town marching behind [...]
In Search of Mojo
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Advertising, Advertising Agency, Advertising Planning, American Diva Planning Friend, Enthusiastic Account Guy, Old Friend at Work on June 28, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I’ve written previously about the lack of appetite that everyone around me appears to have for their job at the moment. A new entrant into the fray has been Enthusiastic Account Guy, who was telling me during our day trip to China that he also felt that he’d lost his sense of purpose and enthusiasm: [...]
