By Tony Walford

Advertising is, they say, a people business: Saatchi & Saatchi; J Walter Thompson; Ogilvy & Mather; Abbot Mead Vickers; Doyle, Dane Bernbach. Historically it was all about the name(s) on the door.

Many ad agencies were built in the image of one man – back then sadly they were always men – or a couple of men. The founder or dominant partner’s DNA, his principles and idiosyncrasies, informed how the agency behaved, the kind of people it hired, the clients it went after.

Of all the great old agencies, Ogilvy (formerly Ogilvy & Mather) is perhaps most closely associated with one man, Read full story ›

Source: The Drum