Visuals: https://getbehindthebillboard.com/episode-75-phil-and-graham Episode #75 features Phil Cockrell & Graham Storey. Humble, funny, gracious and massively talented, Phil & Graham have quietly created some of the most iconic billboards of the past 30 years. In that time they have won most major awards including 4 Cannes Golds, 5 BTA arrows, 7 Campaign Poster awards and 26 D&AD in book entries. It seems a bit of a crime that we haven’t had them on the show before. But due to various circumstances / holidays / other guests taking their slot, we’ve only just got them on. It’s wort ..read more

Visuals: https://getbehindthebillboard.com/episode-74-kate-congreve We love firsts on the podcast. So episode #74 is a treat for Dan and Huge who hosted Kate Congreve our first ever producer. And not just any producer, but a producer at Mother, Campaign’s current agency of the year. Kate shared many brilliant stories from her career to date, having worked both agency and production side. We talked Snickers and skateboarding and how she helped put together the shoot for Paul Belford while at AMV. Shot by James Dimmock it’s a beautiful campaign with some eye-opening stories about casting. Next w ..read more

Visuals: https://getbehindthebillboard.com/episode-73-nicola-wood Podcast episode #73 features Nicola Wood, Executive Creative Director at Ogilvy London, winner of many shiny prizes and someone with a liking for a farty Valentine’s Day card. Strap in folks. This is an absolute belter of an episode. The farty card was a good start. But the story behind the Relate campaign shot by Rankin is something we’d never heard before. And we’ve heard quite a bit in the past five years. We don’t want to reveal too much but let’s just say Nicola’s Nan features quite prominently. And some of the conversation ..read more

Visuals: https://getbehindthebillboard.com/episode-72-rachel-miles Episode #72 features Rachel Miles, BAFTA award-winning creative and Creative Director at Meanwhile Campaign Start-up Agency of the Year 2024. Rachel not only brought stories from behind her billboards but also some sensational pies from Great North Pie which usurped Hugh’s ‘tiny flapjacks’ as Dan calls them. Dan and Hugh discussed many things with Rachel. We covered her six year tenure at BBC Creative where, along with creative partner Michael Tsim she created many iconic campaigns, including setting a billboard on fire for th ..read more

Visuals: https://getbehindthebillboard.com/episode-71-steve-hudson Podcast episode #71 features the super talented Steve Hudson. Not only is Steve one of the industry’s most awarded creatives, he’s a brilliant director and also the founder of The Power of Advertising (TPOA) platform. We covered a great deal in the hour or so together, in particular Steve’s prolific time at BBH where together with creative partner Victoria Fallon, he created iconic work for Audi, Levi’s, Polaroid, one2one, Electrolux and more. Obv we focused on the billboards and two campaigns in particular. For Levi’s the Orig ..read more

Visuals: https://getbehindthebillboard.com/episode-70-paul-banham Can you project the two moons from Mars into the night sky? Can you sell over 1,000,000 lights in the world’s tallest building? Can you build an underwater mobile phone store to sell a waterproof phone? These are just some of the questions, answered by MullenLowe MENA CCO Paul Banham on episode #70, where we take a deep dive into life as a creative in Dubai. It’s an absolute fascinating chat and one we’ve been wanting to have for ages. We caught up Paul on a flying visit to London. So we sat down with tea and flapjacks and a mic ..read more

Visuals: https://getbehindthebillboard.com/episode-68-dan-and-hugh Episode #68 features two titans of the industry, huge characters with oodles of charm, awards and humility. Yep, we’re talking to ourselves, finding out what’s going on in each of our worlds.   We covered the following:   Watch advertising in Geneva Airport Three dimensional screen mapping in Barcelona and New York The delayed launch of Hugh’s novel The billboards at the end of our streets News of upcoming guests including Rachel Miles and the billboards hidden within her brilliant BBC Olympics promo Digital ads on th ..read more

Visuals: https://getbehindthebillboard.com/episode-67-matt-lever We’re back folks. Dry BtB Jan is over. And we’re starting the year with a belter in Matt Lever. Multi talented. Multi awarded. Funny. Charming. Loves a big idea. Loves a gag. And loves the in-house BtB flapjacks. We spent a leisurely hour with Matt chatting billboards, from his very first one for Macallan that he bizarrely spotted while on holiday in New York…to DOH anti-smoking, Tfl, Trident Gum, Gym Box and closing on Breast Cancer Now and the perfectly pitched topical work that ran during the Women’s World Cup. Listen out too ..read more

Visuals: https://getbehindthebillboard.com/episode-65-dan-fisher Podcast episode #65 features Dan Fisher, Global ECD at Ogilvy and WPP, the man behind a vast portfolio of award-winning billboards and the owner of a classy beard. With Christmas nearly upon us, it was most apt we discussed the brilliant “I spent it on myself” Harvey Nichols campaign which on its own could’ve filled an entire episode. Listen out for how Dan had to haggle on the price of gravel to get the campaign through. A real lesson in the lengths you have to go to for great work. We also covered The Sunday Times Rich List and ..read more

Visuals: https://getbehindthebillboard.com/episode-64-neil-dawson Episode #64 features Neil A Dawson. We spent a lovely couple of hours discussing his career which has featured many iconic billboards, notably the VW surprisingly ordinary prices campaign. Classic VW. Classic DDB. Every one of them a cracker with Weddings still the most awarded print ad of all time. Neil drew us a billboard live in the studio, recreating his first ever billboard for Sanyo. We also discovered what the ‘A’ stands for, if he is related to our Dan Dawson and of course Clive Pickering, Neil’s partner for many years o ..read more