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By Stephen Foster on June 21, 2011
It’s early days of course but three Grand Prix have been awarded at Cannes so far – one to Australia, two to Romania – and the UK has barely troubled the scorers in any category. So far DDB London has picked up a bronze lion for Budweiser in promo/activation (won by BV McCann for Romania’s [...]
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By Stephen Foster on April 20, 2011
Marcoms giant Omnicom’s strategy remains firmly focused on its three big ad agency brands – BBDO, DDB and TBWA – and their appeal seems to be growing in the world outside the US. In the first quarter of 2011 Omnicom’s profits leapt 23.6 per cent to $201.9m on a 7.9 per cent increase in revenue [...]
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By Stephen Foster on March 3, 2011
The mighty engine that is AMV/BBDO has once again topped Campaign’s Nielsen-supplied billings figures (can’t give you the full list, you’ll have to buy a copy), on £388m way ahead of McCanns at number two on £275m and RKCR/Y&R a few hundred thousand behind. So what’s AMV’s secret? One it has a good owner in [...]
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By Stephen Foster on February 7, 2011
Yellow Pages is now Yell (gone digital naturally) and it’s taken the brave step of remaking one its classic old commercials, from Abbott Mead Vickers in 1983. Remakes are always a danger of course, although they happen more in films or telly series than commercials. The new ad is by Rapier, which was brave to [...]
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By Stephen Foster on January 4, 2011
The ever-restless PR maven Matthew Freud, Rupert Murdoch’s son in law through his marriage to production company owner Elizabeth Murdoch, has bought back the 50.1 per cent of his company he sold to Publicis Groupe in 2005 in a deal that valued the whole of Freud Communications at £45m. This is the second time Freud [...]
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