19 February 2010 - 4:24pm| by | 0 comments

The Drum's quotes of the week

The Drum's quotes of the weekThe Drum's quotes of the week
Frame's Gary O'Donnell
Gerry Farrell and The Leithers
Mark Jennings of d8 Digital
Mis-understood Welsh whinger, sorry, winger Craig Bellamy
An Italian chap called Mancini

Frame talks Bulmers, Farrell on bollocks and Music muses on misunderstood Bellamy. Here's some of the week's most revealing, bizarre and entertaining quotes from thedrum.co.uk...

"We are proud of the work we presented but on the day we were beaten fair and square by a better idea."
Frame's Gary O'Donnell shows refreshing honesty after his agency lost the Bulmers business to London.

"When we walk outside our front door why should we be bombarded with brand images and slogans we never choose to see, on billboards, trains, the tube, bus shelters, buses and taxis, to name just a few?"
Left-wing think tank Compass says outdoor advertising should be banned.

"To suggest that a free society requires the state to dictate when, where and how we communicate with each other contradicts the concept of liberty and free thought and speech."
The Advertising Association's chief executive Tim Lefroy fails to see Compass's point.

“Mike's actions went against the clear directions of the board here and more so could have exposed the agency to a costly and embarrassing PR situation had we not discovered events at the stage we did.”
Propaganda's Julian Kidger on the agency's fallout with director Mike Phillipson.

“I’m over the moon. This is an outstanding result. The Welcome to Yorkshire marketing campaign has paid off big time."
Welcome to Yorkshire's Gary Verity gets excited after seeing tourist numbers rise in Yorkshire.

"Very few agencies have hired someone in this role. Most use existing staff with a bit of Twitter knowledge but do they really have experience of using social media at the coalface?”
D8 Digital's managing director Mark Jennings stokes up the anonymous commenters after his firm hired its first social media specialist.

"Not for the first time, the BBC is preparing to muscle into a nascent market and trample over the aspirations of commercial news providers.

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Newspaper Publishers Association director David Newell urges the BBC to scrap its iPhone plans.

"Craig Bellamy is one of the most passionate players in the Premiership. This passion is often misconstrued, being wrongly described in the past as ‘truculent’ ‘vociferous’ and ‘a pest’. Our ad conveys Bellamy's tireless dedication and demanding hunger to play football, and to win."
Music director Dave Simpson in a press release on Monday about the agency's latest work for Man City.

"ROBERTO MANCINI has been involved in an astonishing bust-up with Craig Bellamy."
The Sun newspaper on Friday.

"Now you know when you do a pitch and they leave you alone to set up? I’ve always harboured a wee comedy fantasy for the agency team to be buck-naked when the clients come back in."
Gerry Farrell explains the story behind this revealing photo. Warning: not for the squeamish.

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