By Staff on June 14, 2013
Which is that this film from Amnesty International and Cossette Montreal is actually making the case for Russian girl band Pussy Riot who had the effrontery to challenge Russian premier Vladimir Putin – and were consigned to the nick for their impudence. So not a native Canadian animal in sight. Anyway, it’s a good cause [...]
Posted in Agencies, Clients, Creative, News, Politics | Tagged amnesty international, cossette montreal, girl band, jail, pussy riot, russian premier, Vladmimir Putin
By Stephen Foster on June 13, 2013
Comings and goings at 83 per cent state-owned UK bank RBS don’t usually engage our attention but UK chancellor George Osborne’s apparent decision to get rid of RBS CEO Stephen Hester (left) should. Because RBS remains a huge bank, despite Hester’s heroic attempt to shrink it, and is therefore hugely important to the UK’s small [...]
Posted in Finance, News, Politics | Tagged George Osborne, part-nationalised bank, RBS, Sir Martin Sorrell, small businesses, Stephen Hester, uk chancellor, WPP
By Staff on June 10, 2013
AMV/BBDO in the UK has won the Total Greek Yoghurt business and it’s produced a kind of homage to Hovis in this film plugging Total’s heritage – in production since 1926. Greek yoghurt seems to be taking the world by storm, with particularly fierce competition in America. Which, we should hope, is good economic news [...]
Posted in Agencies, Clients, Creative, News, Politics | Tagged amv/bbdo, Greece, greek yoghurt, IMF, new TV campaign, total
By Staff on June 6, 2013
Former News International CEO Rebekah Brooks (left) is finally to have her day in court, over two years after proceedings began against her on various counts including phone hacking, conspiring to commit misconduct in a public office (paying policemen for information) and perverting the course of justice (disposing of evidence). Husband Charlie, a ‘racing figure’ [...]
Posted in Media, News, Politics | Tagged News International, not guilty plea, Paul Flattey, phone hacking trial, Rebekah Brooks, the sun
By Staff on May 15, 2013
New Japanese prime minister Sinzo Abe is trying to drag the country’s economy out of its decade-long slump with a policy aimed at reducing the value of the yen (which should help exports) and creating two per cent inflation, which should boost consumer spending (currently up five per cent this year). So Swiss-based bra manufacturer [...]
Posted in Clients, Creative, News, Politics, PR | Tagged abenomics, bra, branomics, breastaurants, inflation, japanese economy, japanese prime minister, Sinzi Abe
By Stephen Foster on May 14, 2013
Agencies tend to do good work for charities and (let’s be polite) less good work for businesses – while they should be capable of doing equally good work for both. But charities are big clients these days (media agencies love them). Here’s a new ad from Cossette in Montreal for Amnesty International which shows some [...]
Posted in Agencies, Clients, News, Politics, PR | Tagged amnesty international, charity, cossette, guantanamo bay, montreal, sharpen your pencils, tv ad
By Angie Dean on May 2, 2013
That’s what Michael Chertoff, former US Secretary of Homeland Security and now a consultant, told CNN anyway. Which may be overdoing it a bit; most people these days seem fairly happy to trade an invasion of privacy for the latest gadget and Google Glass, the new wired interactive specs, looks likely, from this primer, to [...]
Posted in Clients, Creative, News, Politics | Tagged drone, google glass, Michael Chertoff, pedestrians, privacy, SatNav, secretary of homeland security
By Stephen Foster on April 26, 2013
First up Huntsworth boss Lord Chadlington (Peter Gummer as was) says he wanted to buy leading Chinese PR firm Blue Focus. But now BF, led by Oscar Zhao (left), has, in effect, turned the tables by buying 19.8 per cent of Chadlington’s firm for £36.5m, valuing it at a lofty £180m. This deal has a [...]
Posted in Agencies, Clients, Finance, Politics, PR | Tagged aegis, asia, blue focus, China, deal, dentsu, hunstworth, Lord Chadlington, omnicom, PR, publicis groupe, WPP
By Stephen Foster on April 24, 2013
With a new series of Mad Men on our screens and the death of Margaret Thatcher (indelibly attached to the UK adland of the 1980s), advertising has made one of its periodic trips over the wire; entering mainstream debate as opposed to a minor role on the business pages. So do ads change the world? [...]
Posted in Agencies, Analysis, Clients, Creative, Finance, News, Politics, Research | Tagged 1950s, 1960s, 1979, charles saatchi, conservative party, Don Draper, doyle dane bernbach, general election, mad men, madison avenue, Margaret Thatcher, research, Tim Bell, vw ad
By Stephen Foster on April 22, 2013
***Grey London has just produced a new global campaign for Lucozade; ‘Powered by Glucose.’ Well it makes the point (and in just thirty seconds too). Owner GlaxoSmithKline is planning to sell its two big consumer brands Lucozade and Ribena apparently; obviously to concentrate on the disagreeable task of inventing, patenting, gaining clearance for, selling at [...]
Posted in Agencies, Clients, Creative, News, Politics | Tagged apple bite, glaxosmithkline, grey london, grey new york, guns campaign, JWT, lucozade, mother, ribena, smirnoff
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