July 2011
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By Stephen Foster on July 30, 2011
Yes he did, really. Well the new editor of Adweek and authorised Rupert Murdoch biographer (‘The man who bought the news’ published in 2008) has never been a man to mince his words and, as you can see from the above, he doesn’t. Wolff’s forebodings (if such they are) are clearly nor shared by the [...]
Posted in Media, News, Politics | Tagged adweek, botany bay, Colin Myler, evidence, jail, James Murdoch, Michael Wolff, news of the world, parliamentary committee, phone hacking, Rupert Murdoch, Tom Krone
By Stephen Foster on July 29, 2011
Once all-conquering companies come and go and they do so quicker these days. One-time world mobile leader Nokia looks set to be the latest. Nokia failed to notice, or respond to, the smartphone phenomenon and has been skewered by Apple and Google’s Android. The fallout recently included Wieden+Kennedy’s London operation losing its ad account to [...]
Posted in Agencies, Clients, Creative, News | Tagged amsterdam, android, apple, cravendale, honda, inferno, iPhone, Microsoft, Neil Christie, nike, nokia, old spice, Stephen Elop, symbian, wieden+kennedy london, windows 7 phone
By Stephen Foster on July 29, 2011
Upmarket grocer Waitrose may be arguably Britain’s most successful retailer at the moment but it’s made a right hash of its advertising arrangements recently, first departing MCBD/Dare to follow creatives Ken Hoggins and Jeremy Carr to Mark Lund’s new start-up Now and then shipping out rapidly for Bartle Bogle Hegarty when Carr chose to join [...]
Posted in Agencies, Clients, Creative, News | Tagged bartle bogle hegarty, bbh, Delia Smith, Heston Blumenthal, Jeremy Carr, JWT, Ken Hoggins, Mark Lund, mcbd/dare, Nick Gill, now, Rupert Thomas, Waitrose
By Stephen Foster on July 29, 2011
Household products giant SC Johnson has concluded its marathon agency review by splitting its $400m US and global $1bn account between WPP’s Ogilvy & Mather and Omnicom’s Chicago outpost Energy BBDO. This brings to an end a 50-year relationship with FCB, now part of Interpublic’s Chicago-based agency DraftFCB. So there’s some consolation for Chicago, which [...]
Posted in Agencies, Clients, Creative, News | Tagged account switch, draftfcb, energy bbdo, group m, Interpublic, Mark Modesto, Mark Pacchini, maxus, Michael Fassnacht, ogilvy & mather, omd, omnicom, pledge, sc johnson, Todd Tilford, WPP
By Angie Dean on July 28, 2011
Included in Saatchi & Saatchi’s Cannes New Directors’ Showcase in 2009, husband and wife team Merav and Yuval Nathan have been scooping up awards in Europe and Australia (most recently the Euganea Festival in Italy) for this music video for Lose That Child by Eatliz. Now represented by Independent, their past work includes another big-hitting [...]
Posted in Agencies, Creative, News | Tagged Australia, eatliz, euganea festival, Independent, italy, losr that child, Merav Nathan, music videos, my morning elegance, Oren Lavie, saatchi & Saatchi new directors showcase 2009, the nathans, Youtube, Yuval Nathan
By Staff on July 27, 2011
You could hardly get more unfashionable than this, an ad for Aldi by McCann Erickson Manchester. Even though it’s not the greatest film (budget about £10,000 possibly) it’s likeable and true in a way so few UK ads are these days. But at least someone had an idea, went with it and managed to persuade [...]
Posted in Agencies, Clients, Creative, News | Tagged aldi, cannes, gin, mccann erickson manchester, small budget, tea
By Staff on July 26, 2011
This is an extract from Bartle Bogle Hegarty co-founder Sir John Hegarty’s much-praised recent book Hegarty on Advertising. Thanks to John and Bartle Bogle Hegarty for their permission. So how does one create that ‘great idea’ that turns the raw information into advertising that will engage and entertain as well as inform? There is a [...]
Posted in Agencies, Clients, Creative, News | Tagged aids ad, bartle bogle hegarty, bauhaus, bbh, benetton, boddingtons, Caravaggio, charles saatchi, cramer saatchi, cream of manchester, Creativity, dadaist, ddb, design, Elvis Presley, hegarty on advertising, John Hegarty, last judgement, Leonardo da vinci, Michelangelo, mona lisa, pregnant man, process, roman catholic church, saatchi & saatchi, Sir John Hegarty, sistine chapel, the supper at emmaus, tissue meetings, vw
By Stephen Foster on July 25, 2011
Part of the Murdochs’ ‘defence’ to the UK Parliament’s culture, media and sport committee last week in the midst of the phone hacking scandal was that they were too busy to spend much time on a business – News International newspapers – that only produced one per cent of News Corporation’s vast profits. This, of [...]
Posted in Media, News, Politics | Tagged associated newspapers, bskyb, daily mail, fox, Gordon Brown, James Murdoch, mail on sunday, News International, parliamentary committee, Paul Dacre, phone hacking, political influence, royal family, Rupert Murdoch, sky, the guardian, the news of the world, the sun, the sunday times, the times, Tony Blair
By Stephen Foster on July 22, 2011
WPP CEO, head of the world’s biggest marcoms group, has given a fascinating interview to Brand Republic’s Arif Durrani in which he outlines the group’s strategy and what he thinks of his competitors (apparently Interpublic’s HR director, whoever that may be, devotes his life to nicking WPP staff). And all very logical it is too. [...]
Posted in Agencies, Clients, Creative, News | Tagged Andrew Robertson, Arif durrani, bbh, brand republic, charles saatchi, hegarty on advertising, Interpublic, John Wren, kevin roberts, Maurice Levy, Maurice Saatchi, nicking staff, omnicom, publicis groupe, saatchi & saatchi, Sir John Hegarty, Sir Martin Sorrell, WPP
By Stephen Foster on July 21, 2011
James Murdoch did pretty well in his appearance before the Parliamentary culture, media and sport committee this week – but only if he was telling the truth. Former employees Colin Myler, editor of the now defunct News of the World and NoW legal manager Tom Crone are challenging his version of events. Here’s what the [...]
Posted in Media, News, Politics | Tagged BBC, Colin Myler, James Murdoch, Matt Nixson, news corporation, news of the world, parliamentary committee, Tom Krone
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