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What’s in a name? Driving to work the other day, I found myself behind a Skoda. Not knowing a whole lot about the new...

Posted by McCann on 25 Oct 2011

McCann Sydney MasterCard RWC Campaign Scores Four at Spikes McCann Sydney’s ‘Witnessing History’ Rugby World Cup campaign for...

Posted by McCann on 24 Oct 2011

Greetings from McCann As some of you may know, our agency SMART recently took the plunge and walked down the aisle with McCann....

Posted by McCann on 17 Oct 2011

Eat Pray Love Shop Die Is the culture of consumerism officially dead, or is it just taking a well-earned nap? In the red corner you...

Posted by McCann on 27 Sep 2011

Lie to me. Really, it’s fine. It’s probably because I’m a little slow on the uptake, but I’ve finally figured out something that’s been bugging me...

Posted by McCann on 26 Aug 2011

MCCANN SYDNEY ROCKS After a decade in Darlinghurst, McCann Sydney has moved to a new part of town. You can now find us...

Posted by McCann on 29 Jul 2011

Michael Raso Selected For Spike Awards Jury McCann executive creative director Michael Raso has been chosen as one of the jurors for the 25th annual Spikes Asia...

Posted by McCann on 29 Jul 2011

Lessons from the locker room There are numerous similarities between what you learn from the sporting field – and what you use in the advertising...

Posted by McCann on 29 Jun 2011

Surprise me! You know – after so many years in this business – it is a little harder to surprise me...

Posted by McCann on 29 Jun 2011

Five interesting answers from ten years of interviews Every journalist has fall-back questions should their mind go blank mid-interview. Whenever the tumble weed of anxiety swept across my...

Posted by McCann on 29 Jun 2011

That Fine Line “I’ve always thought that working in a creative based business was very special – because like most supplier businesses –...

Posted by McCann on 29 Jun 2011

Gamification: Who Owns Play? I have only very recently joined the advertising industry with most of my professional life spent working in computer games...

Posted by McCann on 29 Jun 2011

Plain packaging of cigarettes: there’s no sympathy for the devil here. The committed trawler of industry websites and the marketing pages of our daily newspapers usually isn’t hugely rewarded for their...

Posted by McCann on 10 Jun 2011

Fame (no, you’re not gonna live forever) Salt, pigs, oil, land, gold, fame. All have been used, at one time or other, to measure a person’s status....

Posted by McCann on 17 May 2011

If advertising doesn’t work out, you could always try being a preacher. The first intake of a new Award School class is about to rock up to the agency. And every time...

Posted by McCann on 3 May 2011

Is there anything more polite than advertising? I’m just putting it out there, but is anyone else surprised that we’re still not allowed to say fuck in...

Posted by McCann on 1 Apr 2011

Where’d that fucking paradigm go? I really like this. Living in Melbourne, Australia, I've borne witness to one of the world's most effective road-safety campaigns from...

Posted by McCann on 22 Mar 2011

How ’bout that glamour then? I was grabbing a coffee from the place around the corner, when I bumped into a certain ECD from a...

Posted by McCann on 18 Mar 2011

Whatever you can do, Walt Disney could do better. When I went through the Disney exhibition at ACMI a little while ago, I thought it’d be all mermaids and...

Posted by McCann on 1 Mar 2011

We’re not called consumers for nothing. What’s the oldest thing you own and regularly use? I don’t mean your house or your Grandma’s old mixing bowl...

Posted by McCann on 31 Jan 2011

What I like about advertising Advertising is harder work than it used to be. Margins are tighter, clients more demanding, pitch shortlists are as long...

Posted by McCann on 24 Oct 2010

Why it’s best not to confuse reinvigoration with reinvention The Melbourne Marathon was on yesterday. But I don’t want to talk about the run. Or the fact that I...

Posted by McCann on 11 Oct 2010

Risktakers are rare for a reason. People say they like adventure. But I suspect they like their adventure in carefully meted doses, totally controlled. Like bungee...

Posted by McCann on 27 Sep 2010

The secret to creating a standout ad is simple. Just go against the grain. Why does beer advertising always try to be funny, yet wine and spirits advertising usually tries to be serious or...

Posted by McCann on 27 Aug 2010

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