David Ogilvy (born 1911), an American business executive, was a leader in the post-World War II "creative revolution" in American advertising. David Mackenzie Ogilvy was born on June 23, 1911, in West Horsley, England. He attended preparatory school in...

DAVID OGILVY was an innovative giant of advertising. He was the founder of Ogilvy & Mather, which became one of the largest international advertising agencies. He invented the concept of the "brand image"; he devised advertisements which became legends in their time; and he...

On September 15th, I went to New York to attend a special eulogy for David Ogilvy, who passed away July 21st at the age of 88. It was a tremendously moving tribute, attended by over 1,000 people including some of the heads...

David Ogilvy had a simple formula for attracting new clients: Do good work for old ones. "The easiest way to get new clients is to do good advertising," Ogilvy wrote in his seminal work, "Ogilvy on Advertising." "During one period of seven years, we never...

“There aren’t enough personalities in the business anymore,” said adman Richard Kirshenbaum, who founded Kirshenbaum Bond + Partners with his former J. Walter Thompson co-worker Jonathan Bond in 1987, when he was 26. He was speaking as part of a panel on how to start...