Comments on: New Year; Old Deals https://bja.igloo1.com/blog/new-year-old-deals/ from BJ&A Thu, 28 Jul 2016 12:01:57 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.0.38 By: Khalil Ibrahimi https://bja.igloo1.com/blog/new-year-old-deals/#comment-89731 Tue, 17 Feb 2015 16:13:13 +0000 http://www.bjanda.com/blog/?p=527#comment-89731 It’s ironic Brian, that in the 50s and 60s of the last century. Big agencies were so involved with the commercial and product strategies that they were like a high end consulting firm. They walked away from that and let McKinsey st al in. Now they are being marginalized by technology, they are trying to get back into that strategic relationship only to find the vacuum they left 50 odd years ago has been fillet by companies better suited to actually having their clients needs at the front of their minds.schadenfreude sits well next to hubris.

]]> By: Janet Fitzpatrick-Wilks https://bja.igloo1.com/blog/new-year-old-deals/#comment-87282 Sat, 31 Jan 2015 23:18:25 +0000 http://www.bjanda.com/blog/?p=527#comment-87282 Love your wonderfully incisive and opinionated (in a very good way) I agree with Gerry – a journalist you should be!

As an aside, interesting to be quoting the Greeks this week, as they chuck “austerity” out the window! I feel we are indeed in austere media times.

]]> By: Gerry Miller https://bja.igloo1.com/blog/new-year-old-deals/#comment-87127 Fri, 30 Jan 2015 19:39:36 +0000 http://www.bjanda.com/blog/?p=527#comment-87127 Excellent, penetrative observations. You should have been a journalist. Is this what’s meant by “the media circus?”

]]> By: Jacques Lehodey https://bja.igloo1.com/blog/new-year-old-deals/#comment-87090 Fri, 30 Jan 2015 15:21:49 +0000 http://www.bjanda.com/blog/?p=527#comment-87090 Saying to Sir Martin that “they had better thinking than us” seems a rather daunting task for a number of reasons. This explains the reason for the focus on cost in the debrief to Sir Martin and his willingness to go to war…

]]> By: Steve Grubbs https://bja.igloo1.com/blog/new-year-old-deals/#comment-87079 Fri, 30 Jan 2015 14:07:27 +0000 http://www.bjanda.com/blog/?p=527#comment-87079 Well done. Can’t tell you how often i pitched against GroupM and others who presented obscenely low-ball media pricing to prospective clients. Unfortunately, no client was ever sufficiently media savvy to decipher the REAL numbers

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