Tag: #AWEurope2017

How Not to Advertise Terror

Introducing a seminar at Advertising Week Europe entitled “If advertising is funding terror, what should we do differently?”, Hamish Nicklin, chief revenue officer for Guardian News & Media, acknowledged the difficulty of his position.

Should Adland Care About the BBC?

As my mum shouts from the lounge, “quick it’s starting,” I’m rushing from the kitchen spilling boiling tea on my hands. The gentle scolding is worth it, it’s 8 pm on Sunday evening in 2006 and Planet Earth is about to come on the telly.

Can Robots Crash the Creative Party?

Today all of our teenage dreams of AI were shattered by the creative director of MPC Pete Conolly. “AI is not a cool white fibreglass being that will make us a martini.” Consider my hopes for AI both shaken and stirred.