Credit score: Oversize egos, greed must make way for collaboration.(Viewpoint)

Advertising Age, November, 2005

Byline: Jonah Bloom

Three different people have told me that they, or their office, were the force behind the Dove "Real Beauty'' campaign. Still, it will need at least another three ownership claimants before it can even begin to compete with BMW Films, which had about seven proud fathers at the last count.

Also doing well in the "I did that'' stakes: Sega's "Beta-7,'' Audi's "Art of the Heist'' and Burger King's "Subservient Chicken,'' all of which have spawned a small business (literally in the first two cases) of execs who say they had a hand in their creation.

Am I exaggerating? A little, but I've spoken to several ad execs who have been bemused by the number of people attaching themselves to some of these campaigns.

"Maybe...

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