PERSPECTIVE: David Ogilvy’s death robs the industry of a true phenomenon

Stefano Hatfield, Campaign, 23 July 1999, 12:00AM

I never met David Ogilvy, and feel the poorer for it. But although I'm too young to have experienced his ads contemporaneously, I feel confident I know what he stood for. In part, this is down to his writing - including two of the most famous of advertising books: Confessions of an Advertising Man (1963) and Ogilvy on Advertising (1983). But, in truth, it's more to do with the company he kept: the people he employed at Ogilvy & Mather, and the overwhelmingly strong culture he fostered.

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