Millennium

There’s an advertising hoarding, big as a bus, at London Bridge station showing the covers of the three Millennium Trilogy books. You know, the ‘Girl Who…’ books. Underneath the covers is the phrase, large-writ, ‘which girl do you want for Christmas?’ I’m confused by this ad. I think it must be a cry for help [...]

To the death of piggy spiv advertising.

Everything is wrong with advertising, and that will become clear over the next few years. Almost all business plans based on advertising will fail. The amount of money being spent on advertising will decrease. The number of spivs that the advertising industry can find meaningless work for will plummet. And this is a damn good [...]