August 2010
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By Stephen Foster on August 31, 2010
This is a Nike ad for Euro 2000, featuring lots of blasts from the past like Edgar Davids, Dwight Yorke (not eligible for a European competition, why don’t agencies check these things out) and Andy Cole (not chosen). Anyway it seems to be a Jeff Kling product, presumably in his guise at Wieden & Kennedy [...]
Posted in Agencies, Clients, Creative | Tagged Edgar Davids, Jeff Kling, nike, wieden & kennedy
By Angie Dean on August 31, 2010
Star creative directors have always wanted to try their hands outside the comfort zone of ad agencies so Jeff Kling’s departure as european creative director at W+K Amsterdam (Wieden & Kennedy to most of us) should be no surprise. In a way it echoes the departure of Alex Bogusky from Crispin Porter + Bogusky earlier [...]
Posted in Agencies, Creative, News | Tagged Alex Bogusky, Jeff Kling, nike, w+k amsterdam
By Stephen Foster on August 30, 2010
He hasn’t officially got the job yet of course but he’s acknowledged that negotiations are reaching a conclusion so expect Britain’s Piers Morgan, currently a judge on America’s Got Talent and host of Piers Morgan’s Life Stories on ITV in the UK, to confirm his entry into the broadcasting stratosphere as the replacement for Larry [...]
Posted in Media, News | Tagged america's got talent, cnn, itv, Larry King, Piers Morgan, Simon Cowell
By Stephen Foster on August 29, 2010
Italian ice cream firm Antonio Federici has had a lot of fun with the age-old theme of naughty nuns and priests, running ads with a pregnant nun, ‘immaculate conception,’ and two friendly priests, ‘we believe in salivation.’ Now, according to the Mail on Sunday, these ads are about to be banned by the UK’s Advertising [...]
Posted in Clients, News | Tagged antonio fedirici, asa, cardinal Newman, Matt O'Connor, nuns, pope Benedict, priests
By Angie Dean on August 29, 2010
Google has obviously decided that Facebook is where the future lies and is dashing the cash all over the place to acquire anything that might help it close on Mark Zuckerman’s social networking giant (recently valued at $33.7bn). It’s just bought Rohit Khare’s Angstro, a mini-network which has a lot in common with Linked-In, the [...]
Posted in Media, News | Tagged angstro, google, linked-in, Rohit Khare
By Stephen Foster on August 28, 2010
BBC director-general Mark Thompson took our advice and loosed off all available barrels at former Sky boss James Murdoch, his forerunner as MacTaggart lecturer at the Edinburgh International TV Festival. Murdoch junior had accused the BBC of being too big and powerful and having a “chilling” effect on commercial competition in the UK TV and [...]
Posted in Media, News
By Staff on August 28, 2010
Fiat and UK agency Krow have enlisted dance band Faithless to make an ad cum sponsorship cum product placement film for Fiat’s Punto Evo, a smart-looking small car which will appeal to youngsters (who don’t pour over the reliability figures in What Car). But it’s a nice effort in the burgeoning sector for films which [...]
Posted in Agencies, Clients, Creative | Tagged faithless, fiat punto evo, krow
By David O'Reilly on August 27, 2010
Whoops! After thinking it had put all the alarms of last year behind it with the whizzy new “Your Toyota, My Toyota,” campaign, the embattled carmaker has now announced another recall involving a million cars in the US. The models affected are the Corolla and Matrix, which apparently could have faulty engine control systems leading [...]
Posted in Clients, Creative, Media, News | Tagged advertising, marketing, toyota
By Angie Dean on August 27, 2010
Aegis shareholder Vincent Bollore, whose Havas empire owns 29.9 per cent of the media buying and research firm, is no doubt pleased to see Aegis revenues (up 4.4 per cent in the half year to June) and post tax profits (up from £6.6m to £25.3m) bounce back but these numbers make his long-mooted takeover bid [...]
Posted in Agencies, Finance, News | Tagged aegis, Harold Mitchell, havas, Jerry Buhlmann, synovate, Vincent Bollore
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