By Stephen Foster on March 28, 2013
***The JWT India storm about Ford ads that’s resulted in the departure of top creative Bobby Pawar just shows how corrupt the whole awards thing is (and much else, of course). There’s clearly a huge scam going on with faux awards entries, cheerfully paid for by the client (in most instances). Essentially, it’s run an [...]
Posted in Agencies, Clients, Creative, Media, News, Politics | Tagged ads, arrests, Bobby Parar, commercial rabbit, ford, google, journalists, jwt india, Kate Middleton, leveson inquiry, moreabout advertising, pc plod, WPP
By Stuart Smith on March 28, 2013
For years, you’ve run your own brand consultancy. After successfully selling it, you step into the limelight as chairman of the Central Office of Information, only to find that mad axeman and part-time cabinet minister Francis Maude is cutting off at the knees the very organisation you’ve just been invited to head. What next? I [...]
Posted in Agencies, Clients, Creative, News, Politics | Tagged Chris Wood, coi, dom reilly, Dominic Reilly, fashion brand, Francis Maude, Government, marketing, Stuart Smith, williams f1 team
By Stephen Foster on March 27, 2013
This one goes from bad to worse for JWT India, Ford agency Blue Hive or Team WPP (take your pick) and owner WPP. The ads, for Ford’s Figo it appears, that we thought were the result of a ‘rogue’ (although quite clever creative or creatives) were actually entered for the Goafest ad awards by JWT [...]
Posted in Agencies, Clients, Creative, News, Politics, PR | Tagged awards entry, blue hive, Bobby Pawar, firings, ford figo, goafest, jwt india, Martin Mercado, rape, Sir Martin Sorrell, Vijay Sinha, WPP, y&r argentina
By Stuart Smith on March 26, 2013
What could be more timely than demonstrating the little car’s exceptional cargo-carrying capacity than three nubile women, one scantily clad, all three bound and gagged, occupying the boot space? Closer inspection of the ad reveals that the caricatures are supposed to represent actual celebrities. In the front seat is Paris Hilton, looking over her shoulder [...]
Posted in Agencies, Clients, Creative, News, Politics, PR | Tagged ford, in-house ad, jwt india, Michael Schumacher, Paris Hilton, row, Stuart Smith
By Staff on March 25, 2013
Enthusiasm is a dangerous thing and someone at JWT India has put their (and the company’s) foot in it by sending some some apparently unauthorised ads for Ford, featuring bound and gagged people in the boot of a car, off to Ads of the World. This has caused a predictable storm in India, where the [...]
Posted in Agencies, Clients, Creative, News, Politics, PR | Tagged ads of the world, ford, jwt india, rape ad storm, Silvio Berlusconi, WPP
By Stuart Smith on March 19, 2013
Oh Frabjous Day! Callooh! Callay! they chortled in their joy! The political class seems intoxicated with having finally, excruciatingly, achieved cross-party consensus on regulating the press. Everyone, it seems, is a winner. Dave has gambled – with losing a vote in the House of Commons, and implicit in it a momentous amount of face – [...]
Posted in Finance, Media, News, Politics, PR | Tagged Barclay brothers, David Cameron, Ed Milliband, Leveson, Nick Clegg, parliament, Rupert Murdoch, Tina Weaver, uk press regulation, Viscount Rotheremere
By Stephen Foster on March 15, 2013
A rich mixture then. ***RKCR/Y&R (please call it Y&R, RKC and R have cleared off) has produced this nice film to celebrate the BBC’s 90th birthday, featuring some of its greatest hits. Oddly, there’s no Jimmy Savile. But I can’t really see why someone at the Beeb couldn’t have done this. The corporation is full [...]
Posted in Agencies, Clients, Creative, News, Politics | Tagged bbc 90th birthday, coke zero, David Cameron, droga5, government procurement service, ipa, karmarama, leveson inquiry, Nicola Medelsohn, rkcr/y&r
By Staff on March 13, 2013
They do it differently in China, especially in the luxury car business. Chinese buyers like sitting in the back – so Porsche invented the 4-seat Panamera coupe. Hin-Yan Wong, head of research & strategy at automotive specialists Connect Advertising, which launched Bentley’s recent ‘Year of the Snake’ campaign in China, explains how Western brands can [...]
Posted in Agencies, Clients, Creative, Finance, Media, News, Politics | Tagged bentley, cars, China, connect advertising, Hin-Yang Wong, luxury brands, social media, year of the snake campaign
Recent Comments