Barry Hill Copywriting, All Media - Toronto, Hong Kong, London UK

11/23/2024

During the summer I wrote a 90-second video voiceover-script, themed ‘The Art of Preserving Wealth’, for TD Wealth Family Office and Private Banking. It's now been produced and just released on some social media, with a commercial to air soon on Bloomberg TV. Hope you enjoy: https://www.td.com/ca/en/investing/wealth/family-office

12/21/2023

Hard to find a more upbeat Christmas song than this...always feel uplifted. And so well performed:

12/08/2023

On the ninth day of Christmas my true love gave to me, a quote from Downton’s Mrs P…

12/06/2023

Thanks Graham Roberston of Beloved Brands Leadership Learning Center:

Christmas ads are a great opportunity for brands to express themselves and connect with consumers highly emotionally. Fav Xmas Ads.

08/18/2021

An old Creative Director used to grumble at my early ads, “Where’s my fun?” Here it is:

Watch Emirates cabin crew ‘steal’ the show with their baseball skills at a Los Angeles Dodgers game

08/17/2020

Learn and laugh -- what’s not to like?

The best advertising must balance being creatively different and strategically smart. The use of humor in advertising can help stand out from the

03/19/2020

Although staged, it looks harsh...and it doesn't seem the crowd was in on it.
"An average 5 women suffer from domestic violence everyday in Thailand."

Film advertisement created by Dentsu, Thailand for WMP, within the category: Public Interest, NGO.

09/11/2019

Here you go -- enjoy some ads and learn at the same time. You're welcome.

When brands say they want emotional ads, I usually say “I can’t wait to see this emotional creative brief you wrote.” Without digging deep to understand

07/31/2019

"I'm a grammar vigilante." Putting a (full) stop to bad punctuation. One man's (mans'? mans?) campaign in Bristol, U.K. -- a short, intriguing video. https://lnkd.in/eEDVTfr

04/12/2019

"I before E, except after C...
or when sounding like A, as in neighbour and weigh.
And then there's heir, height and seize, and weird heifer, so please,
be very careful of words like these!"
-- The late great grammarian, Dr M Cherniavsky

12/06/2018

I can relate to his amusing obsession....
(Yes, that is an ellipses plus a period, the way it should be!)

Video source BBC News Music By Bigot https://www.reverbnation.com/bigot/song/27785745-death-to-the-bear For years, it has been rumoured that somebody has bee...