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This was in Private Eye.
Very funny.
Although technically in our defence we don't advertise red Coke, we advertise Diet Coke, Coke Zero and Minute Maid juices. Still it made me smile. My dad wanted to write a letter into Private Eye to let them that. Luckily he has been persuaded out of that course of action.
I blame Michael Winner and Simon Cowell.
I sort of assumed that all the people who holidayed in Barbados were bling, aging, rich lotharios.
And it's fair to say that there is a large proportion of people that we met who were like that.
But we managed to find a little fishing village where the houses were more like this:
A vast expanse of empty white sand beach like this, and one little beachfront hotel:
And instead of bling yachts, these were the local boats:
It's a tiny family-run hotel called Little Good Harbour and it is without doubt my new most favourite place in the world . We are already planning a week there in December.
But shhhh, only tell nice people please.
It is truly an utterly perfect place.
The US primaries are still endlessly fascinating.
Barely Political is one site/YouTube channel that I am ever so slightly addicted to. It just makes me laugh out loud.
The latest video is about the murky Irish past of Senator O'Bama.
When we were on holiday a few weeks back the only news channel that we got was Fox. Fox News sucks you in as you vegetate in front of it. It's impossible to turn it off. The O'Bama video is a great example of modern web satire. I have seen clips just like this from the Fox team about him.
Enjoy.
Love this! For creative work that was either killed by clients, Account Directors or snotty Planners (being one I am allowed to call Planners this) Deadline is May 1st, so get hunting back for those "award-winning" ideas that never actually ran...
It's been a nutty pitch time at the agency recently - 2012 Olympics, AXA and government work on Obesity, added to that the fact that F and I went off to Barbados for a week to get some sun and agreed to turn off the blackberries, and that is the reason why I haven't blogged for what seems like an eternity. And it's odd because I have a ton of stuff that I wanted to share but it has been really hard to do that first post back.
Anyway, I am honoured to have been asked to be a judge for this years Clio Awards. I am the only Planner in a group of real leading-edge creatives:
If I had been asked to write a description of what excites me creatively about our industry at the moment and what types of creative end products inspire me, I probably would have written something like this:
"...engaging communications created by the combination of brilliant content fused with an innovative contact strategy. Executions (that) reach beyond television and print to embrace new contact points, including gaming, branded entertainment, viral and mobile marketing, blogs, consumer-generated content, and more."
Hugely exciting.
Also daunting. On one hand who am I to say that Idea X is better than Idea Y or Idea Z, but then I guess that is what part of my job is at work.
Anyway, I have never done any kind of global judging like this - so if anyone has any tips I am happy to hear them!
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