Posts by Sacha

  • Busytown: Holiday reading lust,

    Blitzkreig, Cecelia. Gives time for opposition to build otherwise.

    Ak • Since May 2008 • 19745 posts Report

  • Cracker: Go Figure,

    The TVCs that really get up my nose are the shouting ones

    Discount f#$king Tyres. Grrr.

    Ak • Since May 2008 • 19745 posts Report

  • Hard News: Start with your conclusion,

    fisking the arse off b.s. that should never have seen print in the first place

    Oh, like WMDs in Iraq or all manner of adverts about household "germs".

    Ak • Since May 2008 • 19745 posts Report

  • Random Play: Pauly Fuemana: How . . . sad,

    getting a call at midday from the UK which put us back on a plane to the UK later that day

    Did you cancel out the jet lag?

    Ak • Since May 2008 • 19745 posts Report

  • Cracker: Go Figure,

    That thing with the counting was the best product placement that Chiquita ever did.

    And let's not get started on the lamb marketing genius who figured bedtime offered untapped opportunities.

    Ak • Since May 2008 • 19745 posts Report

  • Cracker: Go Figure,

    advertising people, where cool is king

    I still reckon you're thinking of the creatives rather than say the media buyers. Still you do spend more time than me researching their native habitats..

    Ak • Since May 2008 • 19745 posts Report

  • Radiation: Big bang theory,

    Bastards - seems like a story there. Once could even imagine a scoop in ye olde Listener..

    Ak • Since May 2008 • 19745 posts Report

  • Hard News: Do Want?,

    Just back from Kiwiburn

    How was it? - when you've caught yr breath.

    Ak • Since May 2008 • 19745 posts Report

  • Cracker: Go Figure,

    about an older guy spending his kids inheritence

    Starting to come through in Lotto adverts too. Perhaps the cool agency kids are beginning to see that boomers don't aspire to wearing hair shirts and eating gruel so they can leave a pile of bonus bonds and some brick and tile when they kick the bucket.

    Ak • Since May 2008 • 19745 posts Report

  • Cracker: Go Figure,

    They want to sell hip products to hip people, because that's cool and because they work in advertising, which is cool.

    Ah - too true. But do the audience surveyers seriously reckon they're cool as well? Bloody geeks. :)

    Ak • Since May 2008 • 19745 posts Report

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