Staff Reporters
Jun 22, 2011

VIDEO: Ogilvy at 100

GLOBAL - To celebrate 100 years of David Ogilvy, Campaign presents two vintage videos of the advertising legend.

One of greats of 20th Century advertising, David Ogilvy was born 100 years ago today. Unlike many of his contemporaries whose legacies have been submerged in a tangle of mergers and acronyms, Ogilvy’s name lives on in the agency he founded in New York in 1948 as Hewitt, Ogilvy, Benson, & Mather.

The first video is a compilation of interviews with Ogilvy, where he shares many of his most famous thoughts on advertising. "My new crusade is in favour of advertising that sells. My battlecry is: we sell or else...I hope you jump on my bandwagon."

 

The second video is a longer piece that captures Ogilvy in a reflective mood at his estate in Touffou, France, where he settled into retirement in 1973. Here, Ogilvy looks back on his life inside and outside of advertising.

 

 

Source:
Campaign Asia

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