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By Angie Dean on April 11, 2012
It’s going to be a ‘Summer to Remember’ according to Marks & Spencer and agency RKCR/Y&R and clearly it is, as we’re all going to sitting around waving Union Jacks, running in egg and spoon races and finishing off the day by setting fire to the nearest woodland. Oh yes, it’s the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee [...]
Posted in Agencies, Clients, Creative, News | Tagged celebrities, Jamie Redknapp, marks & spencer, queen's diamond jubilee, rkcr/y&r, summer to remember, tv campaign, Twiggy
By Angie Dean on April 5, 2012
And quite revealing this interview is too, with lively Valley Girls TV Network host Jesse Draper. He talks about his knighthood – “The Queen asked me if I was still in the business (this was back in 2000)” -his origins, revealing that the Sorrells landed in the UK from Kiev in the Ukraine in 1907, [...]
Posted in Agencies, Media, News | Tagged Jesse Draper, kiev, knighthood, Sir Martin Sorrell, The Queen, the valley girls, tv interview, valley girls tv network, WPP
By Angie Dean on April 5, 2012
News International has made its choice from the WPP agencies involved in the closed pitch for its business and the winners are: Grey, M/SIX (formerly CHI Media), Ogilvy One (direct) and Ogilvy Change (‘behavioural science’ apparently). WPP losers are creative agency CHI, which handled The Times, and media agency Mindshare which had The Times and [...]
Posted in Agencies, Clients, Media, News | Tagged CHI, grey, Katie Vanneck-Smith, m/six, mindshare, news international ad account, news of the world, ogilvy change, ogilvy one, phone hacking, Rebekah Brooks, Rory Sutherland, Rupert Murdoch, sun on sunday, team news, the sun
By Angie Dean on April 4, 2012
Coca-Cola’s Coke Zero ‘Enjoy Everything’ campaign from Crispin Porter+Bogusky has been a strong performer and this latest commercial highlights a tie-up between Coke and forthcoming summer blockbuster movie Battleship (pictured), which stars Rihanna among others. Once again we have aliens invading earth (does Hollywood know something we don’t?) and Crispin Porter persuaded the film’s director [...]
Posted in Agencies, Clients, Creative, News | Tagged animation, battleship, coca-cola, coke zero, crispin porter+bogusky, film tie-up, humour, last request, Pepsi, Peter Berg, Rihanna
By Angie Dean on March 29, 2012
Your first campaign for a big (ish) new client is always a test, especially when you’ve been picking up business like there’s no tomorrow (and possibly scouring the bars of London’s Soho for writers and art directors to work on all of it). Then you’ve got to fit an Old English Sheepdog in there somewhere. [...]
Posted in Agencies, Clients, Creative, News | Tagged akzo nobel, bartle bogle hegarty, bbh, boudoir, debut ad, dulux, old english sheepdog, soho
By Angie Dean on March 28, 2012
Well we’re only worried about them pulling a hamstring or something. You can imagine the client briefing meeting at Pepsi: “yes, we know we’ve been doing the same thing for years and so has Adidas and so has Nike but these guys are on our payroll so you’ve got to use them.” So CLM BBDO [...]
Posted in Agencies, Clients, Creative, News | Tagged adidas, clm bbdo, David Beckham, Didier Drogba, Fernando Torres, football, Frank Lampard, jack Wilshere, Jose Aguero, kick in the mix, Lionel Messi, nike, pepsi crowd surfing ad
By Angie Dean on March 23, 2012
The current Twinings tea campaign from AMV/BBDO is garnering impressive legions of fans on YouTube, the first one ‘The Sea’ is up around a million and a half while this second one, ‘The Hill,’ has hit half a million in less than a month. Fleetwood Mac are enjoying something of a revival at the moment [...]
Posted in Agencies, Clients, Creative, News | Tagged amv/bbdo, british animation awards, Diane Leaver, fleetwood mac, go your own way, Lissie, psyop, Simon Rice, tea, the hill, twinings
By Angie Dean on March 22, 2012
Canadian telecom brand MTS (Manitoba Telecom Services) has hired Dare Vancouver to push its Amour ‘adult’ channel and Dare has come up with this ‘Make Fantasies Happen’ campaign, designed to run on mainstream TV. It uses the old ‘now you see it, now you don’t’ or perhaps ‘you think you’re going to see it but [...]
Posted in Agencies, Clients, Creative, News | Tagged adult channel, amour, Bryan Collins, dare vancouver, make fantasies happen campaign, mtc, opc toronto, porn, Rob Sweetman, Tim Godsall
Ladbroke’s takes football madman Tiziano Crudeli to Cheltenham racing festival
By Angie Dean on March 14, 2012
Mad Italian football commentator Tiziano Crudeli, who stars in football betting ads for Ladbroke’s, has been pressed into service by the UK bookmaker to plug its various offers at the Cheltenham Festival, the huge National Hunt racing betting fest. Millions are wagered at the Festival with the likes of JP McManus, Irish racehorse owner and [...]
Posted in Agencies, Clients, Creative, News | Tagged betting fest, Cheltenham Festival, Claire Baker, crossroads films, italian football commentator, John McCririck, JP McManus, Laura Fisher, national hunt racing, Russell Bates, sapientnitro, Tiziano Crudeli, £50 bets