April 2011
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By Stephen Foster on April 29, 2011
It looks a bit unlikely given the phenomenal global interest in the marriage of Prince William and Kate Middleton (or Catherine as Buckingham Palace insists on calling her). Two billion people worldwide allegedly watched the Royal Wedding in London’s Westminster Abbey, although quite how anybody knows these things so soon is a mystery. Anyway, the [...]
Posted in Agencies, Clients, Creative, Media, News | Tagged Chris Palmer, George lll, Kate Middleton, Prince William, royal wedding, saatchi & saatchi, Sarah Burton, t-mobile, w+k, wieden+kennedy, William Blake
By Stephen Foster on April 29, 2011
Ambitious Canada-based marcoms group MDC Partners has narrowed its first quarter losses from $10.2m to $8.7m on sharply rising revenue (up from $136m to $217m) but the company, which owns Crispin Porter + Bogusky, Kirshenbaum Bond Senecal & Partners, a chunk of LA agency 72andSunny and a recently-acquired 60 per cent of Anomaly among many [...]
Posted in Agencies, Clients, Creative, Finance, News | Tagged 72andsunny, anomaly, burger king, crispin porter bogusky, kirshenbaum senecal & partners, Kraft, mdc partners, Miles Nadal
By Stephen Foster on April 29, 2011
Coca-Cola became badly unstuck over its deal with Manchester United football star Wayne Rooney when his extra-curricular activities ‘forced’ the company to drop him as the face of Coke Zero. Arch-rival Pepsico meanwhile is profiting mightily from one of his predecessors at Man U, David Beckham, now plying his trade in the US for LA [...]
Posted in Clients, Creative, Media, News | Tagged adidas, coca-cola, Coke, coke zero, David Beckham, diet coke, epsi max, food curbs, Lord Sorrell, manchester united, nike, obama administration, Pepsi, PepsiCo, Sir Martin Sorrell, Wayne Rooney, WPP
By Angie Dean on April 29, 2011
This is really weird, as you’d expect from Twin Peaks director David Lynch. Lynch has his own coffee brand – David Lynch Signature Coffee – and this is its first commercial, directed by the great man himself and voiced by him as well, presumably. ‘Damn good coffee’ was a catchphrase in Twin Peaks of course. [...]
Posted in Clients, Creative, News | Tagged barbie, David Lynch, david lynch signature coffee, director, twin peaks
By Stephen Foster on April 29, 2011
It’s all change in the tech world with Canada’s Research in Motion, maker of BlackBerry phones and PlayBook tablets, spooking the financial markets with a profit warning and an admission that its share of the smartphone market has dropped from 20 per cent to 14 per cent. BlackBerry sales have been hit by the touch [...]
Posted in Clients, Finance, News | Tagged apple, BlackBerry, Dell, google android, hewlett-packard, iPad, iPhone, Microsoft, nokia, playbook, research in motion, windows 7 phone
By Stephen Foster on April 29, 2011
WPP CEO Sir Martin Sorrell has scrapped his self-imposed £100m a year spending limit on acquisitions in the wake of reporting (mildy) better than expected growth in the first quarter of 2011 and a reduction in WPP’s debt from £3.1bn to £2.6bn. Which is just as well really as he’s already spent about £100m acquiring [...]
Posted in Agencies, Finance, News | Tagged acquisitions, chemistry, commarco, gp7, kitcatt nohr, Maurice Levy, publicis groupe, scholz and friends, Sir Martin Sorrell, tailor made, talent, WPP
By Staff on April 28, 2011
The calamitous fortunes of marcoms company Interpublic in recent years are still apparent, with the company declaring a first quarter loss of $48m (down from $71.5m) even though its revenues increased 10.3 per cent to $1.47bn. Interpublic claimed organic growth of 9.3 per cent, ahead of its rivals WPP, Omnicom, Publicis Groupe and Havas, the [...]
Posted in Agencies, Finance, News | Tagged deutsch, draftfcb, golin harris, havas, initiative, Interpublic, lowe & partners, mccann-erickson, Michael Roth, octagon, omnicom, publicis groupe, puublicis groupe, universal mccann, weber shandwick, WPP
By Stephen Foster on April 28, 2011
Actually there haven’t been as many Royal Wedding ads as I expected (top of the tree is still T-Mobile) but this is a nice film promoting Freeview HD TV sets from happening London agency 18 Feet & Rising (no, I don’t know what it means either). For our thousands of readers outside the UK (it’s [...]
Posted in Agencies, Clients, Creative, News | Tagged 18 feet & rising, freeview, hd tv sets, royal weeding, The Queen, welsh corgis
By Angie Dean on April 28, 2011
Yesterday Publicis Groupe bought GP7 to strengthen its Publicis Worldwide agency operation in Brazil, today it’s bought a minority stake in another Sao Paulo agency Tailor Made which will join with another group agency, Leo Burnett. The two agencies will be rebranded as Leo Burnett Tailor Made with Tailor Made founder Paulo Giovanni as CEO. [...]
Posted in Agencies, Finance, News | Tagged brazil, gp7, leo burnett, Paulo Giovanni, publicis groupe, sao paulo, tailor made, Tom Bernadin
By Stephen Foster on April 28, 2011
WPP has just posted revenue growth of seven per cent in the first quarter to £2.22bn (8.4 per cent in constant currency). Advertising and media agencies were the strongest performers, up 12.9 per cent at constant prices, with research lagging the field at just 3.4 per cent suggesting CEO Sir Martin Sorrell still has work [...]
Posted in Agencies, Finance, News | Tagged civets, farm street hq, havas, Interpublic, Maurice Levy, omnicom, publicis groupe, Sir Martin Sorrell, tns, WPP
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