If you need change, who do you call? As ad land begins to embrace sustainability, purpose and goodvertising like a kid in a candy store, I witness marketing agencies slide down the client’s calling list as fast as that ex who just won’t let go. The marketing industry...
Hosting the recent Open House at JCDecaux in Paris, Thomas Kolster spoke on the need to rethink purpose and profit and the opportunity for goodvertising to play its part in tackling the issues we colossal issues we currently face globally. In this interview he talks...
By Thomas Kolster for The Drum, June 28, 2017. Image credits: Leaving Cannes, I feel even more schizophrenic than I did during my hard-working years in ad land. On the one hand it’s been the best year ever in the festival’s history for advertising that does...
Image credits: Adbusters By Thomas Kolster for The Drum, February 3, 2017 “We try harder”, “We sell, or else”, “Gives you wings”. Sorry, I can’t help but paraphrase advertising slogans, because the fact is, working in advertising is a killer. 2016 was in many ways a...
