Oliver Payne

Secret Weapon™

Art Direction, Concepting, or Creative Direction: I'm the digital industry's Secret Weapon™ I've been taking brands and businesses digital for 15 years in pure-plays, in some of the biggest and most famous advertising agencies on the planet... won lots of awards... blah, blah, blah.

I often found I'd want one of two quite different ways of creating creative work - the whole brief solved over days or weeks right under my nose, or outsourced completely. That might be outsourcing a brief, part of a brief, a presentation (sometimes simply a point of view) to a senior creative who would just take the pain away.

So that's what I do now: The whole brief under your nose, or I take the work, and the pain, away. And I love it. Message me for a no obligation chat.

A special report on social networking: A world of connections | The Economist http://ow.ly/129VI #
Why Groups Fail to Share Information Effectively | PsyBlog http://ow.ly/12g8z #
“I was promised donuts” and other answers to Westboro Baptist Church http://ow.ly/12xS5 #
\\ Bit rant-y \\ #Subscriptions are the New BLACK. ( why #Facebook, #Google, & #Apple will own your [...]

A special report on social networking: A world of connections | The Economist http://ow.ly/129VI #
Why Groups Fail to Share Information Effectively | PsyBlog http://ow.ly/12g8z #
“I was promised donuts” and other answers to Westboro Baptist Church http://ow.ly/12xS5 #
\\ Bit rant-y \\ #Subscriptions are the New BLACK. ( why #Facebook, #Google, & #Apple will own your [...]

Ad Agency Carat steals Man’s Facebook ID for client http://ow.ly/106BI #
Exxon Locks-In Iraq Deal To Produce 20% Of Saudi Arabia Out Of A Single Reserve http://ow.ly/10e1O #
@deborahdunnett OMG! I had no idea what xhamster was. I do now - not quite Harry Potter is it? lol #
Urinals part 5, by nudgeblog | http://ow.ly/10SGp #
The nether [...]

How Conceptual Metaphors are Stunting Web Innovation http://ow.ly/XBcy #
@sarahlmorgan Yes Peru. I ate guinea pig there - Cuzco. Speciality. Has to be ordered 24 hours in advance (why, I don’t know). Tastes game-y in reply to sarahlmorgan #
@Yellif Ahh, not sure what bike, but just left you voicemail - was confirming tomorrow’s arrangement - look [...]

Sleep Talkin’ Man: Wife records husband’s night-time mutterings and post them on blog - prolific, profane, and per-illiant http://ow.ly/V2Sq #
RT @SleepTalkinMan: “Legs time! Everybody get your legs!” http://www.SleepTalkinMan.blogspot.com #
@CollingsA I’m looking forward to The Persuasionists - the sitcom you script-edited - for obvious reasons (I’m an ad boy) in reply to CollingsA #
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The rise of machine-written journalism http://ow.ly/SvEy (Baseball about halfway down interesting) #tech #journalism #
The poignant photography of Google Street View | Wired http://ow.ly/SvG5 #google #wired #
A Nudge to Make Meetings More Effective: “…whoever called the meeting had to pay me a dollar…” http://ow.ly/Sxg4 #business #
The 50 most memorable gigs of the decade : Features 2010 [...]