By Stephen Foster on May 25, 2012
OK, let’s take it from the top: Facebook’s IPO was a fiasco as there was clearly information available about the company’s struggle to reach ad revenue targets that were made available to some investors (the big boys) and not the millions of others who bought into the massively over-priced IPO. This is just Wall Street [...]
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By Angie Dean on May 24, 2012
DDB London has just been taken over (in management terms) by hot London indie Adam & Eve in a £60m deal. It’s to be hoped the new managers manage to hang on to at least some of DDB’s creatives (they claim it will be a £270m agency with £50m of income so paying them shouldn’t [...]
Posted in Agencies, Clients, Creative, Finance, News | Tagged adam & eve, are you talking to me, Daniel Seager, ddb london, Ivan Zacharias, jaws, Matt Lee, Pete Heyes, Robert De Niro, see film differently, silence of the lambs, Steve Hall, stink, taxi driver, volkswagen, £60m deal
By Stuart Smith on May 24, 2012
Should we feel sad or glad for them? Viewed one way, Adam & Eve has just paid itself an awful lot of money to acquire a decent car account, Volkswagen. Looked at in another, what is arguably the UK’s most creative independent hotshot has sold itself short by doing a deal with an American multinational [...]
Posted in Agencies, Clients, Creative, Finance, News | Tagged adam & eve, amv/bbdo, Ben Priest, David Golding, ddb london, halifax, harvey nichols, James Murphy, John Lewis, John Wren, omnicom, rkcr/y&r, Stephen Woodford, Tom Roberts, tribal ddb, virgin media, volkswagen, £60m deal
By Stephen Foster on May 23, 2012
It’s all rather depressing really, a new agency comes on the scene, scores highly (in this case with one account) and then sells out at the top of what might be a very short market. But that’s what seems to have happened with John Lewis agency Adam & Eve (itself a breakaway from RKCR/Y&R whose [...]
Posted in Agencies, Clients, Finance, News | Tagged a&e, adam & eve, Ben Priest, David Golding, ddb london, integrated platform, James Murphy, mother, omnicom, rkcr/y&r, sale, tribal ddb, virgin media, volkswagen, WPP, £60m deal
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