By Stephen Foster on January 11, 2012
General Motors global CMO Joel Ewanick has been chatting to Ad Age at the important North America International Auto Show in Detroit and he says he still hasn’t made up his mind about the lucky winner of the company’s $3bn global media account (there’ll probably be more than one, if only to save the face [...]
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By Stephen Foster on December 30, 2011
Here we have singer Rihanna getting ‘em off (or possibly on, it’s hard to tell) on behalf of Armani Jeans. And the UK’s Daily Mail says this has been designated 2011′s sexiest commercial by Ad Age. But Ad Age says it never did. Sounds like another case of the British tabloid press never letting the [...]
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By Stephen Foster on November 25, 2011
And to those of you who the only thing you’re likely to get out of an ad agency in 48 hours is an invoice – you’re right. But according to Ad Age pop and soul diva Beyonce Knowles is talking (maybe even in person) to Madison Avenue ad agencies about revamping her website, which she [...]
Posted in Agencies, Clients, Creative, News | Tagged 48 hours, Ad Age, Beyonce Knowles, grammy awards, Jay-Z, madison avenue pitch, Prince, super bowl, website
By Stephen Foster on September 7, 2011
It seems a long time ago when London’s adland got all excited about the formation of new ad agency 101, the result of a breakaway from Fallon UK led by Laurence Green and Richard Flintham (pictured). It got even more interesting when Phil Rumbol, the highly-regarded Cadbury marketing director and the client behind Fallon’s famous [...]
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By Stephen Foster on July 6, 2011
And that’s just one of them, he seems to have been enduring an ongoing crisis with McCann Worldgroup boss Nick Brien too (one of the recipients of McCann strategy boss Lee Daley’s letter). Here are two excerpts, taken from Ad Age. “This period at McCann has certainly been a very interesting time and the momentous [...]
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By Stephen Foster on July 1, 2011
WPP won the first Cannes lion for holding company company of the year this year, a vindication of former BBH creative director John O’Keeffe’s input as WPP’s global CCO since he joined in 2008. Among others in what he calls the ‘commentariat’ we have rather mocked this achievement, saying WPP should bloody well win, given [...]
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By Angie Dean on June 15, 2011
Crispin Porter+Bogusky may have been voted Ad Age’s Agency of the Decade just 18 months ago but since then the MDC-owned creative hotshop has not had the best of times. It recently lost $300m Burger King to Dentsu’s Mcgarrybowen and now it’s split with Diageo’s market-leading Jose Cuervo tequila brand. Jose Cuervo is a mere [...]
Posted in Agencies, Clients, Creative, News | Tagged Ad Age, agency of the decade, Alex Bogusky, anomaly, backmann family, burger king, captain morgan, crispin porter+bogusky, diageo, jose cuervo tequila, mdc partners, tanqueray gin, wieden+kennedy
By Stephen Foster on May 27, 2011
Does that seem strange? Well the biggest consumer products company in the world is delaying the launch of its biggest product for decades because the demand is such that it can’t make enough. Or that’s the official story anyway. This is from Ad Age. Procter & Gamble Co. is putting its high-profile launch of Tide [...]
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By Staff on May 18, 2011
It’s early days yet of course but Stephen Colvin, president of the Newsweek Daily Beast company, says the merger between the venerable weekly news magazine and Tina Brown’s Daily Beast website is paying off, in terms of ad pages as well as readers. This is from Business Insider. Could Newsweek be past its problems? Stephen [...]
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By Stephen Foster on May 16, 2011
Adweek has come out fighting since it hired Vanity Fair columnist and Rupert Murdoch biographer Michael Wolff as editor and it’s clearly cooked up a deal with the Clio Awards to give readers a taster of the winners three days early. This won’t go down very well with lots of other interested media, especially big [...]
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