Reposted by Giles EdwardsSteve Doherty @stevedoherty.bsky.social · 08/02/2025I post this without fear or favour: The Muppet Movie (1979) is as charming and entertaining a film as almost any. Comedy, romance, pathos, comedian bears driving taxi cabs. 0192
Reposted by Giles EdwardsVic Polkinghorne @vicpolky.bsky.social · 07/02/2025Please share this far and wide, gang 024
Reposted by Giles EdwardsPatrick Freyne @patrickfreyne.bsky.social · 07/02/2025I really enjoyed talking to Giles for the Call to Action podcast about writing and also the recent piece I wrote about burnout and becoming a demotivational speaker (we kind of expanded on all that quite a bit) 1194
Giles Edwards @gilesedwards.bsky.social · 07/02/2025Imagine an aggressively-filtered Instagram photo of a gym wall mural that’s basically just the words 'Believe. Achieve. Receive' painted in some gloopy old Huel. Well, this week's CTA episode is the exact opposite of that, thanks to our guest @patrickfreyne.bsky.social 📣 gasp.agency/media/call-t...gasp.agencyPatrick Freyne is here to save us from a Productive lifeA proper marketing agency. Who practice what we preach. Not like the others. Creatively Memorable & Boringly Effective™ since 2009. 231
Reposted by Giles EdwardsCarole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social · 26/01/2025NEW: Why not calling a Nazi salute a Nazi salute puts us in a whole new place of danger. We have to call spades spades or what else is there? open.substack.com/pub/broligar...open.substack.comSeig heil TeslaYes, you did see what you think you saw. Here's an idea, let's call a Nazi salute a Nazi salute. 21975761908
Reposted by Giles EdwardsAmanda Knox @amandaknox.com · 18/01/2025At the urgent care, nurse looks at my chart: "Amanda Knox...too bad that other one ruined your name." "I am that other one," I said. 3809493512
Reposted by Giles EdwardsGillian Rightford @gillianrightford.bsky.social · 19/01/2025I may make this into a banner for my office. 041
Reposted by Giles EdwardsPaul F. Tompkins @pftompkins.bsky.social · 17/01/2025Just remembered that The Muppet Show theme song contains the line “it’s time to put on makeup” and it makes me wonder what they look like without it, maybe they look normal 12912316
Reposted by Giles EdwardsJon Blyth @disappointment.bsky.social · 12/01/2025Oooh, look at Sainsbury’s, with their fancy new Latin motto like they’re bleedin hogwarts Grow up 592634510
Giles Edwards @gilesedwards.bsky.social · 09/01/2025“Endearingly angry” is my spirit animal. Love this review. Fair in its criticism too. Ish ;) Thanks Martin. 🤡 ❤️ 031
Reposted by Giles EdwardsThe Agency Review @theagencyreview.bsky.social · 08/01/2025Ryan Wallman and Giles Edwards have somehow managed to write a book about advertising that is both serious and entertaining. No, really. Check out our review here: the-agency-review.com/how-brands-b... #advertising #marketing #business @Giles_Edwards @dr_draperthe-agency-review.comHow Brands BlowThere’s a challenge right out of the blocks when you decide to write a book about advertising: Do you make it serious or do you make it entertaining? If you choose the former – in a desperate attem… 054
Reposted by Giles EdwardsKeerti @keerti.bsky.social · 28/12/2024Gonna borrow this phrase next time “appropriate and necessary” 062
Reposted by Giles EdwardsGillian Rightford @gillianrightford.bsky.social · 28/12/2024An absolute classic from @dr-draper.bsky.social and @gilesedwards.bsky.social book How Brands Blow. There’s a gut punch and a wry chortle on every page. 2164
Reposted by Giles EdwardsMarko Kloos @markokloos.bsky.social · 25/12/2024Remember the victims of the Nakatomi Plaza attack, 36 years ago today. 953710362
Giles Edwards @gilesedwards.bsky.social · 21/12/2024This is for all those BMW drivers with BMW in their number plate. Everyone else can scroll on. #Perth 020
Reposted by Giles EdwardsJ.J. (Tottenham ‘till they kill me) @c0nvertc0ys.bsky.social · 19/12/2024Pretty much. #COYS #THFC 0184
Reposted by Giles EdwardsCraig Sanderson @craig-san.bsky.social · 19/12/2024A reminder that MF DOOM has a Christmas album. Sort of. Cookin Soul beats with a mix of old DOOM accapellas and his Adult Swim Xmas idents. One of my faves. www.youtube.com/watch?v=EwzB...youtube.comMF DOOM x Cookin Soul - DOOM XMAS (full tape)YouTube video by Cookin Soul 022
Giles Edwards @gilesedwards.bsky.social · 18/12/2024Rumours that Daniel Levy is working on 50 Cent dropping to 49 Cent are as yet unconfirmed. #THFC #COYS 030
Giles Edwards @gilesedwards.bsky.social · 18/12/2024We flew 5 hours to get from Sydney to Perth. This place is absurd. 5 hours. That’s London to Baghdad distances. And instead of being 11 hours ahead it’s now 3 hours back. And at the aquarium earlier we met a snail that can kill you. This place is ridiculous. 160
Reposted by Giles EdwardsTom Fishburne @marketoonist.bsky.social · 16/12/2024“Product/Market Fit” - new cartoon and post marketoonist.com/2024/12/prod... #marketing #cartoon #marketoon 0135
Giles Edwards @gilesedwards.bsky.social · 15/12/2024Sing 2 is the greatest sequel ever made. Fact. 110
Reposted by Giles EdwardsSebastian Groebner @sgroebner.bsky.social · 09/12/2024*Looking at Sinek* “The Farce is strong with this one.” Great article @dr-draper.bsky.social and @gilesedwards.bsky.social. 152
Reposted by Giles EdwardsVic Polkinghorne @vicpolky.bsky.social · 05/12/2024This made me chuckle for way too long 031
Reposted by Giles EdwardsIan Truscott @iantruscott.me · 03/12/2024This is jolly good - @gilesedwards.bsky.social on Gasp! Call to Action Podcast - chats with Peter Weinberg of LinkedIn's The B2B Institute fame and is now synthesizing customer research... audioboom.com/posts/861498...audioboom.comPeter Weinberg on humans, AI and a creative future for B2BThis week we strapped on a Motorola pager and stole a briefcase off our dad in order to look businessy enough to chat to the Batman of the B2B world, LinkedIn legend and co-founder of Evidenza, Peter ... 221
Giles Edwards @gilesedwards.bsky.social · 01/12/2024So ‘middle-class women of a certain age’ are the problem? It’s a specific class, gender and age issue. Wow. Gregg Wallace you’re a despicable prick and a buttery biscuit bastard. #ButteryBiscuitBastard 150
Giles Edwards @gilesedwards.bsky.social · 20/11/2024@amycharlottekean.bsky.social that was appropriately ace, Ace #OotB 231
Giles Edwards @gilesedwards.bsky.social · 20/11/2024Brands, please stop rebranding. There’s so much else to prioritise that you’re likely shit at. And the answer is rarely (if ever) to rebrand. #jaguar #brand 5203
Giles Edwards @gilesedwards.bsky.social · 18/11/2024Did a post. Didn’t go viral. Yeah, this feels like the old place used to. 1130
Giles Edwards @gilesedwards.bsky.social · 17/11/2024Petition to change the blue butterfly icon to a bird? Might as well do this properly. 010