2013 – Quotes of the year

1. “Do I care what adland thinks? Not a bit. Not one bit.” 

Simon McDowell, CMO of Coles supermarkets, explained at this year’s Mumbrella360 conference that the brand’s much talked about Status Quo ads are not made to appeal to the advertising industry but rather to get the attention of consumers.

2. “For the record everyone is welcome at North Bondi Italian not just agency people ok?” 

Restauranter Robert Marchetti responded to industry research that more people in adland have been to his restaurant North Bondi Italian than have visited Paramatta.

3. “Kim feels now is the right moment to leave the company, which he has served for two decades.” 

Global CEO of News Corp Robert Thomson on the sacking on Kim Williams as CEO of the Australian arm of News.

4. “Carson should be escorted from the stadium for absurdity and a lack of understanding of the modern game.”

Fairfax boss Garry Linnell took academic Andrea Carson to task over her critique that Fairfax was cutting back on investigative journalism. Linnell noted Carson had made the comments the same week they broke a major story involving Leighton Holdings.

5. “Let’s roll this guy, (Palmer) into power and change some laws. The first thing to go: ACMA – gone. That’s the authority that runs the radio codes.” 

Controversial shock-jock Kyle Sandilands advocated support for billionaire Clive Palmer who he hoped would help him with the industry watchdog, the Australian Communications and Media Authority.

6. “Out of my fucking way. Genius coming through.” 

The Twitter bio of Brian Dargan 303Lowe’s head of digital.

7. “Buy a copy of the magazine. Please. We’re so hungry.” 

Trade title AdNews makes a plea for sales.

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