September 2011
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By Staff on September 30, 2011
Up and coming UK agency 23red has won the creative account for Bluewater, one of the country’s biggest retail and leisure businesses. Its first job is to develop a Christmas campaign, using TV, outdoor and press, to include the opening of Bluewater’s new specialist events and exhibition venue, The Events Venue. Bluewater, in Kent, is [...]
Posted in Agencies, Clients, News | Tagged 2012 olympics, 23red, australian-owned, bluewater, christmas campaign, David Wilkinson, east london, kent, Sean Kinmont, shepherds bush, shopping centre, stratford, the events venue, west london, westfield
By Stephen Foster on September 30, 2011
As you probably expected it would, given that owners the Glazer family are planning to sell a 30 per cent stake in it to Singapore investors at a whole club valuation of between £1bn and £2bn. So UK researchers Brand Finance’s ‘brand valuation’ of Manchester United at £412m is pretty measly but it still puts [...]
Posted in Clients, Media, News | Tagged abu dhabi royal family, barcelona, brand finance, brand valuations, Champions League, football, Glazer family, machester city, manchester united, real madrid, Roman Abramovitch, Stan Kroenke
By Angie Dean on September 30, 2011
Which is the grown-ups ad watershed of course. ITV2 has banned this ad from sex toy company Lovehoney.co.uk from its pre-watershed spot in Real Housewives of New York on the grounds that it’s ‘too graphic.’ It doesn’t seem graphic at all until you notice that she’s getting her strides off before he’s out of the [...]
Posted in Agencies, Clients, Creative, Media, News | Tagged ad ban, halo media, itv2, lovehoney.co.uk, real housewives of new york, response team, sex toys, shopping channels, spokesperson Zara, watershed, we-vibe vibrator
By Stephen Foster on September 30, 2011
Surely creatives Paul Yull and Adi Birkinshaw at Bartle Bogle Hegarty haven’t been watching too many Gio Compario ads? The agency which has brought us no end of cutting edge modernista music over the years (and profited mightily from some of it through owning the rights) has turned to the delights of waltzmeister Johann Strauss [...]
Posted in Agencies, Clients, Creative, News | Tagged Adi Birkinshaw, audi a6 avant, bartle bogle hegarty, bbh, Gio Compario, hummingbird, Johan Strauss ll, music, new campaign, open road open sky, operetta, Paul Yull, the gypsy baron, tv advertising, waltzmeister
By Stephen Foster on September 30, 2011
The global out of home advertising market is carved up between two big specialist companies, WPP-owned Kinetic and Aegis-owned Posterscope. So the other big media players are used to seeing large chunks of commission disappear to these two rivals even when it’s their clients spending money on billboards and, increasingly, digital signage and all the [...]
Posted in Agencies, Clients, Media, News | Tagged aegis, digitas, domedia, kinetic, Maurice Levy, out of home planning and buying, posterscope, publicis groupe, razorfish, technology platform, vivaki, WPP
By Staff on September 30, 2011
It’s circle the wagons time at Interpublic as, fresh from losing $1bn SC Johnson to Ogilvy & Mather and Energy BBDO, it faces the loss of Initiative’s $546m Bayer media account to WPP’s Group M. Group M handles Bayer’s media outside the US. Initiative and DraftFCB were the two agencies to lose out on SC [...]
Posted in Agencies, Clients, Media, News | Tagged account review, bayer, draftfcb, energy bbdo, group m, initiative, Interpublic, kinetic, Matt Seiler, maxus, mec, mediacom, mindshare, ogilvy & mather, sc johnson, universal mccann, WPP
By Angie Dean on September 30, 2011
M&C Saatchi has joined the growing list of London agencies competing for top creative talent and has hired top creative team Matt Pam and Simon Hipwell from CHI & Partners, formerly Clenmow Hornby Inge. CHI is 49 per cent owned by WPP. Since the summer London creatives have been upping sticks in increasing numbers; the [...]
Posted in Agencies, Clients, Creative, News | Tagged CHI, China, clenmow hornby inge, creative moves, ddb, Graham Fink, lowe & partners, m&c saatchi, Matt Goodwin, Matt Pam, ogilvy & mather, Simon Hipwell, the red brick road, top london creatives, WPP
By Stephen Foster on September 29, 2011
This morning we learned that Guy Hayward was quitting as CEO of JWT London and this afternoon we learned that RKCR/Y&R CEO Richard Exon (left) and ECD Damon Collins were quitting to form their own agency. Both agencies are owned by WPP. It doesn’t seem that long since David Golding, Ben Priest and James Murphy [...]
Posted in Agencies, Clients, Creative, Finance, News | Tagged adam & eve, bbh, Ben Priest, betc, breakaway, Damon Collins, David Golding, gardening leave, Guy Hayward, havas, Jame Murphy, John Lewis, jwt london, legal action, mother, oystercatchers, Richard Exon, rkcr/y&r, Sir Martin Sorrell, wieden+kennedy, WPP
By Stephen Foster on September 29, 2011
JWT in London has had more bosses than you can shake a stick at in recent years and now the latest, Guy Hayward, who joined from 180 Amsterdam which he co-founded in 1998, is leaving after just two years to join ambitious Havas network BETC. Hayward’s departure is a particularly grievous blow as JWT London [...]
Posted in Agencies, Clients, Creative, Finance, Media, News, PR | Tagged 180 amsterdam, arnold worldwide, bbh, betc, david jones, ero rscg, ford, gsk, Guy Hayward, Hamish McLennan, havas, Hill & Knowlton, JWT, jwt london, Lee Doyle, mec, ogilvy & mather, omnicom, Paul Taaffe, public strategies, publicis groupe, saatchi & saatchi, Sir Martin Sorrell, Toby Hoare, unilever, WPP, y&r
By Stephen Foster on September 29, 2011
Blue Hive is the WPP agency specially formed to handle the advertising and marketing for Ford’s new Focus. Doug is the annoying orange-coated Kermit-style puppet who appeared as spokesthing for the brand about six months ago. Now, alas maybe, Doug is to be no more with Ford due to announce his demise this week. Here’s [...]
Posted in Agencies, Clients, Creative, News | Tagged blue hive, doug the puppet, ford, kermit, nescafe, Nestle, new ford focus, WPP
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