The 1980’s signified too, a change in the general financial business attitude too, just as the advertising power base was shifting from Madison Avenue New York, to London’s Soho as we said in the last episode. And of course, the Saatchis showing that Ad Agencies could be financial business too for the first time.

This is the significant moment in the downfall of advertising standards because money now overtook creative advertising. It was no longer about the Ads, but rather the money in it..

Stuart Fogarty is a graduate of St. Columba’s College and UCD Dublin Ireland. He is a second-generation Adman, son of an Agency CEO.

A Former President and a Fellow of The Advertising Institute (IAPI); Board Member and a Fellow of The Marketing Institute; former advisory board member of The European Association of Advertising Agencies (EAAA): Chairman of The Advertising Press Club; Board member of The Publicity Club; former Ad Agency CEO and once Owner of Ireland’s largest Ad Agency McConnell’s and AFAO’Meara Advertising; Co-Founder of Core Media, currently Ireland’s largest Media Agency: Founder of Digital Agency ICAN; Founder of Club Internet (floated Nasdaq March 2000 as Via Net Works); regular media contributor on advertising matters; Sailing World record holder; Leinster rugby branch member

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