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My 2050 Cannes Diary
I didn’t think my eighty-year old body would be up for a week of utter debauchery and horrific abuse, but thanks to Accenture Campaign Brief, I’ve been given a pass and Hyperloop…
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The future of advertising and why outdoor is back.
Apparently we’re all fucked. Advertising is dead. Nobody can tell a brand story anymore, vast social media companies are now self-righteous media conglomerates, digital doesn’t work and consultancies buy agencies in the…
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This is your brain on scam.
“My name is Andy Flemming and I have scammed. I guess it started back in Singapore. It was the early nineties. I met this guy in a club who said he could…
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It’s hot as hell and I think the jury hates me.
I spent my first four days in Cannes utterly convinced that I was immensely disliked by my fellow Cyber jurors. I’d enter the jury room every morning to hear stories of bonding…
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Two Legs and Ahead.
Working in advertising has given me enormous opportunities to do the thing I love the most, write. I wrote a song that got into the charts and a poem for the Commonwealth…
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This is what it sounds like when brands cry.
Apparently Prince was a huge fan of the 3M range of products. From Scotch Precision Ultra Edge scissors to MagicTape dispenser rolls, it seems he simply couldn’t have written such seminal tracks…
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A series of unfortunate events. The almost inevitable second Cannes Diary.
2:30pm: Apart from a few old ladies, the odd Russian prostitute and the absolute cock who zooms around the block continuously in his probably rented matte black Lamborghini, the Croisette is strangely…
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Fake likes, clicks and followers. Everyone’s Doing the Banana Bum Junket.
Towards the end of 2015, Twitter briefly trended the phrase ‘Everyone’s doing the Banana Bum junket.’ Admittedly, it was only for a few minutes, but it happened. Why? Why would a phrase…
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More outrage in Australia.
On the day I arrived in Sydney, the chief of police gave his opinion on the new ‘Crimestoppers’ telephone line. He didn’t think it would work. When pressed, he said ‘nobody likes…
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The sheer hell of the case study video.
Subject: Cannes Entry Video. Lads, I’ve taken a look at the edit. Nice start. Remove the Coldplay ‘Clocks’ soundtrack as everyone uses it. I’ve attached a suitably depressing classical mp3. Lay that…
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