October 2010
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By Stephen Foster on October 31, 2010
Italian prime minister and media magnate Silvio Berlusconi (73) is in yet more trouble, this time over a sex game called bunga bunga which was apparently taught to him by the lively president Gaddafi of Libya. 17-year old Moroccan belly dancer Karima Keyek, stage name Ruby Rubacuori, has been regaling an Italian court with details [...]
Posted in Media, News, Politics | Tagged bunga bunga, mediaset, mondadori, Ruby Rubacuori, Rupert Murdoch, Silvio Berlusconi, sky
By Stephen Foster on October 30, 2010
They’re all at it, in the wake of Publicis Groupe, Omnicom, Havas and WPP, Interpublic, owner of McCann’s and Daft FCB has posted some astonishingly good quarterly results. Here’s what Tim Bradshaw in the Financial Times makes of them: ‘The upswing in American advertising spending has carried Interpublic back into investment-grade status, after its third-quarter [...]
Posted in Agencies, Clients, Finance, News | Tagged general motors, Interpublic, McCanns, Michael Roth
By David O'Reilly on October 29, 2010
WPP is really firing on all cylinders now, judging by its latest quarterly figures which showed a like-for-like revenues increase of 7.5 per cent, its highest growth rate since 2000 and more than twice the revenue rise for the first half of the year. Underlying revenues rose to £2.25 billion and the company, which owns [...]
Posted in Agencies, Finance, News | Tagged advertising, Agencies, Maurice Levy, publicis groupe, Sir Martin Sorrell, WPP
By Stephen Foster on October 29, 2010
Cheryl Cole is a singer who became famous with Girls Aloud (then in her maiden guise as Cheryl Tweedy), became a solo artist, a judge on the X-Factor and who married England footballer Ashley Cole (they’ve just divorced). And she seems, at 27, to be just about the most famous person on the planet. Last [...]
Posted in Media, News | Tagged Ashley Cole, Cheryl Cole, John Terry, Piers Morgan
By David O'Reilly on October 28, 2010
Marks and Spencer tops the list of the UK’s most trusted brands, just one of seven retailers in the top ten, according to a new report. The venerable clothes and food retailer is followed by John Lewis, Tesco, Boots and the Co-operative, with cool high-tech brands such as Amazon and Apple in close pursuit. Perhaps [...]
Posted in Clients, News | Tagged Amazon, apple, barclays, hsbc, John Lewis, Lloyds TSB, marketing, Marks and Spencer, NatWest, Tesco
By Stephen Foster on October 28, 2010
Richard Desmond has only been in charge of Five (or Channel 5 as it’s likely to become once again) for a month or so but he’s already picked two fights, with UK industry marketing body Thinkbox and Elizabeth Murdoch’s production company Shine. So far the score is one each, Desmond is going pull out of [...]
Posted in Media, News | Tagged elizabeth murdoch, Five, richard desmond, shine, Tess Alps, thinkbox
By Stephen Foster on October 28, 2010
Publicis Groupe is having a torrid time in China just now with the switch of the estimated $1bn L’Oreal media business from Optimedia to WPP’s Mindshare coming hard on the heels of the suspension of two leading executives at its Vivaki Exchange media outfit for their alleged involvement in a money-laundering scandal. Vivaki has recently [...]
Posted in Agencies, Media, News | Tagged L'Oreal, mindshare, optimedia, vivaki exchange, Warren Hui, WPP
By Stephen Foster on October 27, 2010
It’s good to see that Procter & Gamble, the world’s biggest advertiser, has been spending even more on marketing as it tries to rebuild its brands after the recession but that, plus higher commodity prices and a falling dollar, combined to reduce third quarter earnings by 6.8 per cent from $3.31bn to $3.08bn. Overall sales [...]
Posted in Clients, Finance, News | Tagged AG Lafley, Bob McDonald, kimberley-clark, procter & gamble
By Stephen Foster on October 27, 2010
1/ Of course you all know about Sir Martin Sorrell, CEO of WPP, who, more than anyone, defined the 1990s just as his former employers the Saatchi brothers had defined the 1980s. But just what is it about Sorrell? Why is he, still, a visionary and great global businessman to some and the devil incarnate [...]
Posted in Agencies, Creative, Finance | Tagged berlin cameron, five things you didn't know about advertising agencies 1990s (2), hhcl, red cell, Rupert Howell, Sir Martin Sorrell, Steve Henry, Tim Bell
By Angie Dean on October 27, 2010
I’m sure lots of Hewlett-Packard inventions are useful although printer companies don’t have the best reputation for always making life easier, just more expensive. But it’s produced a line of web-connected printers that allow you send a photo from any mobile to an emailed-up printer and they print out automatically (assuming you’ve got some paper [...]
Posted in Agencies, Clients, Creative, News
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