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UK adman/writer/guitarist & nano-influencer. 20 years in agencies & 20 representing advertisers. Personal tweets @bobowootton | business @D3construction
2/2 The project which prompted the piece involves Israel, so publication today coincides with the reports of yesterday’s abhorrent terrorist attack on the congregation of a Manchester synagogue.
Eclipsed by such terrible news, hope my piece provokes some thought nevertheless.
Eclipsed by such terrible news, hope my piece provokes some thought nevertheless.
October 3, 2025 at 7:34 AM
2/2 The project which prompted the piece involves Israel, so publication today coincides with the reports of yesterday’s abhorrent terrorist attack on the congregation of a Manchester synagogue.
Eclipsed by such terrible news, hope my piece provokes some thought nevertheless.
Eclipsed by such terrible news, hope my piece provokes some thought nevertheless.
1/2 My latest thoughts on the ad business are up today.
They ask whether subtracting between advertising holding companies is more common than previously thought, and touch on the reasons for cooperation between mortal competitors.
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They ask whether subtracting between advertising holding companies is more common than previously thought, and touch on the reasons for cooperation between mortal competitors.
shorturl.at/AyeeL
Is subcontracting a shadowy or sensible strategy?
Stagwell's ties to Israel may have prompted it to cancel a recent industry gathering, but have they also reignited a long-standing debate about subcontracting for discretion?
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October 3, 2025 at 7:34 AM
1/2 My latest thoughts on the ad business are up today.
They ask whether subtracting between advertising holding companies is more common than previously thought, and touch on the reasons for cooperation between mortal competitors.
shorturl.at/AyeeL
They ask whether subtracting between advertising holding companies is more common than previously thought, and touch on the reasons for cooperation between mortal competitors.
shorturl.at/AyeeL
An impromptu spot I did at the recent Guitar Dreams Expo on Loch Lomond with some quite capable artists in the audience
youtu.be/2EtKYG2jwAs
youtu.be/2EtKYG2jwAs
June 8, 2025 at 2:16 PM
An impromptu spot I did at the recent Guitar Dreams Expo on Loch Lomond with some quite capable artists in the audience
youtu.be/2EtKYG2jwAs
youtu.be/2EtKYG2jwAs
My latest thoughts for @themedialeader up now.
Comments/feeedback welcome - hope you enjoy.
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Comments/feeedback welcome - hope you enjoy.
lnkd.in/eSBSGkcM
June 2, 2025 at 12:51 PM
My latest thoughts for @themedialeader up now.
Comments/feeedback welcome - hope you enjoy.
lnkd.in/eSBSGkcM
Comments/feeedback welcome - hope you enjoy.
lnkd.in/eSBSGkcM
To all my BlueSky connections, especially those in North London.
It’s our first time there and further gigs will pivot on drawing a decent crowd.
Recent rehearsals have been pretty promising.
So please do try and come along to this nice bar for some good times and good music.
See you there 🙏🤞👍
It’s our first time there and further gigs will pivot on drawing a decent crowd.
Recent rehearsals have been pretty promising.
So please do try and come along to this nice bar for some good times and good music.
See you there 🙏🤞👍
May 22, 2025 at 10:26 PM
To all my BlueSky connections, especially those in North London.
It’s our first time there and further gigs will pivot on drawing a decent crowd.
Recent rehearsals have been pretty promising.
So please do try and come along to this nice bar for some good times and good music.
See you there 🙏🤞👍
It’s our first time there and further gigs will pivot on drawing a decent crowd.
Recent rehearsals have been pretty promising.
So please do try and come along to this nice bar for some good times and good music.
See you there 🙏🤞👍
A very happy holidays to all my friends here, physical or virtual 😬
Hope Santa brings you everything you wished for 🎄
Pic is from a recent gig with the Dave Stark Five (of which there are, er, six) at The Camden Club’s Christmas evening with £239 Squier Cabronita Telecaster guitar
Hope Santa brings you everything you wished for 🎄
Pic is from a recent gig with the Dave Stark Five (of which there are, er, six) at The Camden Club’s Christmas evening with £239 Squier Cabronita Telecaster guitar
December 24, 2024 at 11:30 PM
A very happy holidays to all my friends here, physical or virtual 😬
Hope Santa brings you everything you wished for 🎄
Pic is from a recent gig with the Dave Stark Five (of which there are, er, six) at The Camden Club’s Christmas evening with £239 Squier Cabronita Telecaster guitar
Hope Santa brings you everything you wished for 🎄
Pic is from a recent gig with the Dave Stark Five (of which there are, er, six) at The Camden Club’s Christmas evening with £239 Squier Cabronita Telecaster guitar
Hello all
Quick nod that our latest episode of political polemic (well, not much), cod philosophy and guitar frolicking is up now on yer YouTube
Happy holidays all 👍🎄🥂🙏🎸💙
youtu.be/d0joF-pQYGM?...
Quick nod that our latest episode of political polemic (well, not much), cod philosophy and guitar frolicking is up now on yer YouTube
Happy holidays all 👍🎄🥂🙏🎸💙
youtu.be/d0joF-pQYGM?...
Bob & Ramon Show Christmas Roundup 2024
YouTube video by The Bob & Ramon Show
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December 19, 2024 at 7:38 PM
Hello all
Quick nod that our latest episode of political polemic (well, not much), cod philosophy and guitar frolicking is up now on yer YouTube
Happy holidays all 👍🎄🥂🙏🎸💙
youtu.be/d0joF-pQYGM?...
Quick nod that our latest episode of political polemic (well, not much), cod philosophy and guitar frolicking is up now on yer YouTube
Happy holidays all 👍🎄🥂🙏🎸💙
youtu.be/d0joF-pQYGM?...
3/3 …doesn’t show any more major, distant destinations (like, er Birmingham or “The South”, for example)
Hey, it”s ‘only’ £20 if paid promptly, but it’s sort of organised fraud on the part of Halton Borough Council too.
Didn’t even want to visit the shitty place.
#haltonboroughcouncil
Hey, it”s ‘only’ £20 if paid promptly, but it’s sort of organised fraud on the part of Halton Borough Council too.
Didn’t even want to visit the shitty place.
#haltonboroughcouncil
December 18, 2024 at 12:42 PM
3/3 …doesn’t show any more major, distant destinations (like, er Birmingham or “The South”, for example)
Hey, it”s ‘only’ £20 if paid promptly, but it’s sort of organised fraud on the part of Halton Borough Council too.
Didn’t even want to visit the shitty place.
#haltonboroughcouncil
Hey, it”s ‘only’ £20 if paid promptly, but it’s sort of organised fraud on the part of Halton Borough Council too.
Didn’t even want to visit the shitty place.
#haltonboroughcouncil
2/3….we also picked up a fine crossing the Mersey Gateway bridge without paying.
We didn’t notice any signs to that effect, but were preoccupied with trying to navigate ourselves out of an unfamiliar road system whose signage is entirely local and …
We didn’t notice any signs to that effect, but were preoccupied with trying to navigate ourselves out of an unfamiliar road system whose signage is entirely local and …
December 18, 2024 at 12:40 PM
2/3….we also picked up a fine crossing the Mersey Gateway bridge without paying.
We didn’t notice any signs to that effect, but were preoccupied with trying to navigate ourselves out of an unfamiliar road system whose signage is entirely local and …
We didn’t notice any signs to that effect, but were preoccupied with trying to navigate ourselves out of an unfamiliar road system whose signage is entirely local and …
1/3. Waze decided that we should take the “Mersey Expressway” instead of the A580 / M6 home from the recent Aintree Guitar Show.
Not only did we get trapped for 20 minutes in the Runcorn Death Spiral (aka the roundabout complex by Astmoor) in the dark but….
Not only did we get trapped for 20 minutes in the Runcorn Death Spiral (aka the roundabout complex by Astmoor) in the dark but….
December 18, 2024 at 12:40 PM
1/3. Waze decided that we should take the “Mersey Expressway” instead of the A580 / M6 home from the recent Aintree Guitar Show.
Not only did we get trapped for 20 minutes in the Runcorn Death Spiral (aka the roundabout complex by Astmoor) in the dark but….
Not only did we get trapped for 20 minutes in the Runcorn Death Spiral (aka the roundabout complex by Astmoor) in the dark but….
My last piece of 2024 on the advertising media scene is up now
Hope you enjoy - feedback welcome as ever - and have a very happy and peaceful Christmas break.
Until the new year, all best 👍🎄🥂🙏
uk.themedialeader.com/2025-is-not-...
Hope you enjoy - feedback welcome as ever - and have a very happy and peaceful Christmas break.
Until the new year, all best 👍🎄🥂🙏
uk.themedialeader.com/2025-is-not-...
2025 is not one for the faint-hearted - The Media Leader
A focus on transparency, indies versus holdcos, predators circling legacy brands… 2025 will see some big wins for those who make the right bets and fight the good fight.
uk.themedialeader.com
December 18, 2024 at 11:39 AM
My last piece of 2024 on the advertising media scene is up now
Hope you enjoy - feedback welcome as ever - and have a very happy and peaceful Christmas break.
Until the new year, all best 👍🎄🥂🙏
uk.themedialeader.com/2025-is-not-...
Hope you enjoy - feedback welcome as ever - and have a very happy and peaceful Christmas break.
Until the new year, all best 👍🎄🥂🙏
uk.themedialeader.com/2025-is-not-...
Editing contacts on Mac still painfully slow / 4
…Apple have done nothing to respond to this torrent of complaints about their product’s performance.
As strange as it is disappointing for such a premium brand. Or put more bluntly, crap 🤬
@Apple
@applesuport
…Apple have done nothing to respond to this torrent of complaints about their product’s performance.
As strange as it is disappointing for such a premium brand. Or put more bluntly, crap 🤬
@Apple
@applesuport
December 3, 2024 at 9:12 AM
Editing contacts on Mac still painfully slow / 4
…Apple have done nothing to respond to this torrent of complaints about their product’s performance.
As strange as it is disappointing for such a premium brand. Or put more bluntly, crap 🤬
@Apple
@applesuport
…Apple have done nothing to respond to this torrent of complaints about their product’s performance.
As strange as it is disappointing for such a premium brand. Or put more bluntly, crap 🤬
@Apple
@applesuport
Editing contacts on Mac still painfully slow / 3
…But you can’t print from them.
The forums are full of identical experiences dating back years. Apparently it’s connected with iCloud syncing, yet it seems…
@apple
@applesupport
…But you can’t print from them.
The forums are full of identical experiences dating back years. Apparently it’s connected with iCloud syncing, yet it seems…
@apple
@applesupport
December 3, 2024 at 9:09 AM
Editing contacts on Mac still painfully slow / 3
…But you can’t print from them.
The forums are full of identical experiences dating back years. Apparently it’s connected with iCloud syncing, yet it seems…
@apple
@applesupport
…But you can’t print from them.
The forums are full of identical experiences dating back years. Apparently it’s connected with iCloud syncing, yet it seems…
@apple
@applesupport
Editing contacts on Mac still painfully slow / 2
Even the simplest editing of details takes minutes waiting for the rainbow spinning ball, contrasting with fast performance on all other programs / apps.
It’s fine on IOS devices, just awful on Macs.
@apple
@applesupport
Even the simplest editing of details takes minutes waiting for the rainbow spinning ball, contrasting with fast performance on all other programs / apps.
It’s fine on IOS devices, just awful on Macs.
@apple
@applesupport
December 3, 2024 at 9:08 AM
Editing contacts on Mac still painfully slow / 2
Even the simplest editing of details takes minutes waiting for the rainbow spinning ball, contrasting with fast performance on all other programs / apps.
It’s fine on IOS devices, just awful on Macs.
@apple
@applesupport
Even the simplest editing of details takes minutes waiting for the rainbow spinning ball, contrasting with fast performance on all other programs / apps.
It’s fine on IOS devices, just awful on Macs.
@apple
@applesupport
Editing contacts on Mac still painfully slow / 1
I only use contacts on my MacBook Pro once a year to label Christmas cards, because each time I encounter the same issue….
@apple
@applesupport
I only use contacts on my MacBook Pro once a year to label Christmas cards, because each time I encounter the same issue….
@apple
@applesupport
December 3, 2024 at 9:06 AM
Editing contacts on Mac still painfully slow / 1
I only use contacts on my MacBook Pro once a year to label Christmas cards, because each time I encounter the same issue….
@apple
@applesupport
I only use contacts on my MacBook Pro once a year to label Christmas cards, because each time I encounter the same issue….
@apple
@applesupport
Attended the funeral of master guitar fixer #Bill Puplett this week.
Lots of people, moving speeches from family and music from the great John Parricelli.
RIP a good friend, the world’s absolute best at his craft 😰
Lots of people, moving speeches from family and music from the great John Parricelli.
RIP a good friend, the world’s absolute best at his craft 😰
November 30, 2024 at 8:16 AM
Attended the funeral of master guitar fixer #Bill Puplett this week.
Lots of people, moving speeches from family and music from the great John Parricelli.
RIP a good friend, the world’s absolute best at his craft 😰
Lots of people, moving speeches from family and music from the great John Parricelli.
RIP a good friend, the world’s absolute best at his craft 😰
Anyone else finding bluesky is shit on a tablet? Screen size is all over the place, makes it really hard to view/use. Others?
November 20, 2024 at 7:49 AM
Anyone else finding bluesky is shit on a tablet? Screen size is all over the place, makes it really hard to view/use. Others?
New to this platform, hence this test post. Zzzz.
November 18, 2024 at 8:32 AM
New to this platform, hence this test post. Zzzz.