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July 26, 2023
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93
68:33
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Selling Uncommon, the death of advertising and a British original - Nils Leonard

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Nils Leonard is returning to the Uncensored CMO podcast after selling his agency, Uncommon to Havas. We discuss what's next, why he feels it's an investment not an acquisition, what AI means for creativity, culture and more.

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Timestamps

00:00

Intro 00:

01:11

Selling Uncommon to Havas 00:

02:10

What does partnering with Havas allow them to do? 00:

08:22

How did the team react? 00:

09:50

Expanding to the US 00:

12:22

What’s changing? 00:

14:42

Part 2: What’s new with Uncommon? 00:

16:33

Keeping creativity alive 00:

19:20

Is advertising dead? 00:

21:21

Getting Chat GPT to write a new British Airways Strapline 00:

22:49

Chat GPT writes an ad for British Airways 00:

24:46

What car brand Nils would most like to work on 00:

27:01

The work Uncommon actually did for British Airways 00:

28:52

The importance of advertising internally 00:

29:59

Making 512 different productions for BA 00:

32:13

The power of simplicity 00:

34:26

Making out of home powerful 00:

35:22

What does AI mean for creativity? 00:

38:09

Do CMOs understand the value of creativity? 00:

43:58

Biggest problems we as an industry need to solve 00:

47:27

Demonstrating the value of creativity 00:

50:57

Creating culture in a growing agency 00:

55:11

Power of generosity 00:

56:26

Uncommon’s “faff tax” 00:

58:45

The world’s #1 podcast by Jon Evans 00:

59:59

2 Uncommon stories 01:

02:51

What what Nils do if he wasn’t running Uncommon?