19: Stories from ad land's heyday in Australia with Jane Evans

We’ve tracked a trail from London to Sydney and back again this week, to catch our latest podcast guest Jane Evans. Many are billed as being ‘brutally honest’, but Jane wrote the rule book on “not giving a f*ckery.” Jane has worked for some of the biggest agencies on the planet, including JWT and Ogilvy, before setting up her own agency Giant Leap, where clients included Revlon, Maserati and a bevy of beer breweries.



But arguably her greatest work is being done now, running Janee; a part-advertising agency, part-activist organisation that is fighting for gender equality and diversity in advertising and society, and giving a voice to a new breed of superwomen. She talks to us candidly on this, the heyday of the Ad Industry in Australia, how Martin Sorrell then f*cked it all up, what makes great ads work, why modern beer ads don’t work, being a Mum, and a whole lot more.



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Jane and Uninvisibility:

Jane on Twitter

Jane's Website

The Uninvisibility Project

Instagram @Uninvisibility

Twitter @Uninvisibility

Uninvisibility on Facebook

Jane Evans on LinkedIn

Book Recommendation: 

Business As Unusual by Anita Roddick 
 

Jane dedicates her show to the amazing Verna Wilkins, founder of Tamarind Books. Here is one of the publications that the pioneering Verna wrote herself.



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