Hegarty on Advertising: Turning Intelligence into Magic - Hardcover

'Engaging, smart and enjoyably contentious' - Time Out 'A mixture of manifesto and memoir' - Evening Standard 'A compact blend of inspiration, drama and biography with some incredibly useful advice on branding and business confidence' - Master Photography 'Liberally sprinkled with much of the very best of BBH's work from the last 30 years ... a visual feast, beautifully laid out and presenting Hegarty's arguments with dynamism and artistry' - Adobo 'Charming and persuasive - just like his famous ads' - The Stylist 'Knowledgeable, opinionated, easy to read and intelligible to even people who don't think they know about "creativity"' - Campaign 'Hegarty doesn't disappoint ... The balance of personal story and business text is well measured. There's better content here than in a whole bookshelf of Dragon's Den biographies' - Director 'For the informed, dispassionate, general reader, interested in the conduct of this most ubiquitous of modern phenomena, and for the enthusiastic student of advertising, Hegarty's account proves entertaining and often illuminating' - Cassone 'Contains nuggets of brilliant insight that no one in the business can afford to be without ... the genius of John Hegarty shines throughout ... entertaining and inspirational ... This is an absolute gem. A bible, in fact' - Books Monthly 'Peppered with buzzwords that seek to underpin his thinking: irreverence, fearlessness, subversion and persuasion' - List

Here is a book that no creative professional should be without. Written by one of the world’s leading advertising men, it contains over four decades of wisdom and insight from the man who put Nick Kamen into a laundrette for Levi Strauss and gave Audi the immortal ‘Vorsprung durch Technik’, amongst many, many other highly successful campaigns for major brands. Hegarty on Advertising represents the 21st century’s answer to David Ogilvy’s bestselling Confessions of an Advertising Man and provides both John Hegarty’s advice on the elements of advertising, from pitching to the effects of new technology, and the story of his career from his early days at Saatchi and Saatchi to the global force that Bartle, Bogle, Hegarty is today.

Table of Contents

Introduction: Why Write a Book on Advertising Now? / PART 1: Ideas / Brands and Audiences / Agencies / The Creative Director / Clients, Briefs and the Power of Words / Pitching / Storytelling / Truth and Technology / PART 2: The Right Place at the Right Time / From Benton Bowles to 16 Goodge Street / Saatchi & Saatchi / TBWA / BBH: The Agency in a Suitcase / First Levi 501s, Then the World / When the World Zigs, Zag / Advertising Drove Me to Drink