Tag Archives: David Ogilvy

The Wynton Marsalis Ad Jazz at Lincoln Center Should’ve Run

Posted on October 20, 2021 by Campaign Outsider

As the hardgrading staff noted yesterday, Jazz at Lincoln Center ran this totally unreadable full-page ad in the New York Times on Monday to celebrate Wynton Marsalis’s 60th birthday. (The Missus rightly noted that Wynton Marsalis deserved far better than … Continue reading →

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Hey, Jazz at Lincoln Center: Just Set Your Money on Fire

Posted on October 19, 2021 by Campaign Outsider

Yesterday was Wynton Marsalis’s 60th birthday, so the fine folks from Jazz At Lincoln Center took out this full-page ad in the New York Times to celebrate it. Yeah, that’s what we thought. Here’s a blown up section to give … Continue reading →

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Campaign Outsider Gets No Love From ThirdLove Press Room

Posted on June 30, 2017 by Campaign Outsider

Yesterday the headscratching staff wrote about some puzzling ads that have run recently in major daily newspapers, including this one from Tuesday’s Wall Street Journal.     About which we commented thusly: First of all, a bra ad in the … Continue reading →

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Very Strange Ads ‘n’ Ends From This Week’s Daily Papers

Posted on June 29, 2017 by Campaign Outsider

As the hardworking staff diligently perused its costly home-delivered newspapers the past few days, we’ve encountered a number of full-page ads that have left us, well, bemused. Start with this two-page spread in the Sunday New York Times Pride 2017 … Continue reading →

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Dead Blogging ‘The Best British TV Spots’ at the ICA

Posted on December 6, 2014 by Campaign Outsider

Well the Missus and I trundled down to Boston’s Institute of Contemporary Art last night to catch the museum’s showing of the 2014 British Arrows Awards and say, it was . . . brilliant! The Brits have long produced smart, engaging … Continue reading →

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Native Is the New Bleak

Posted on September 23, 2014 by Campaign Outsider

Marketers Flock to Ads in Sheep’s Clothing First, an introduction: For the past four years, the hardtracking staff at Sneak Adtack has chronicled the explosion of stealth marketing, which attempts to trick out advertising as entertainment or editorial content. From … Continue reading →

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Travels With The Missus On The Côte d’Azur

Posted on May 29, 2013 by Campaign Outsider

Well the Missus and I trundled over to the French Riviera for our 30th wedding anniversary (and to walk in the footsteps of Alicia Markova in advance of the Missus’ forthcoming book), and here’s how it went . . . … Continue reading →

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Blue Rondo à la Turk(ey)

Posted on April 30, 2013 by Campaign Outsider

From our Late to the Jam Session desk Sunday’s New York Times featured this full-page ad: Here’s how the body copy begins: Rumor has it that during his visit to Istanbul, the Jazz legend Dave Brubeck heard a street musician … Continue reading →

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To Tee Or Not To Tee

Posted on April 9, 2010 by Campaign Outsider

In his book Ogilvy on Advertising, Madison Avenue macher David Ogilvy wrote: “Whenever you can, make the product itself the hero of your advertising.” Nike’s advertising, though, has always been about the hero as product. Now, with its latest Tiger … Continue reading →

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