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Simon Collins

Simon Collins

7 July 2018

9:00 AM

7 July 2018

9:00 AM

Some years ago, as a judge on one of adland’s more obscure international awards panels, I had to assess the creative merits of a commercial which discouraged defecating on railway lines. Mercifully, the ad in question didn’t actually show anybody defecating, and the voiceover was in Hindi, so I had no idea what it was about until the Indian judge sitting next to me explained.

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