2008

And the winner is...

We have a team member of the year award every year. All the staff get the chance to vote on all their colleagues and the person with the lowest score wins, easy.

Scottish Advertising Agency on the BBC

I'm not sure how many of you had the pleasure of listening to our Creative Director and agency founder Roy McCallum on BBC Radio Scotland earlier this week. Judging by the ribbing he has taken many of you did. He was invited onto Fred Macaulay's mid morning show to discuss the use of celebrities in advertising.

The ups in the downs

The IPA produced a great book a while back called Advertising in a Downturn. It is the result of several reports and seminars held to investigate just what happens to a business during a recession, it is well worth reading. If you'd like a copy of it please give me a shout and I'll forward you it.

Nothing new from Obama?

Trade paper Campaign ran the most surprising front page headline of last week; Obama Victory Could Threaten Ad Freedom. This slightly downbeat story seemed at odds with the reaction from the rest of the world. Campaign's basic story being that the next American government were likely to regulate the ad industry more than the current one. We'll see. We're in an industry that changes very rapidly and keeping up with that change, wherever it comes from, is the challenge all of us face everyday.