By Staff on September 7, 2012
The poster below for Spy sunglasses has been removed in Encinatas California (and perhaps in other places too, presumably it wasn’t targeted only at Encinatans) as it aggravated some of the locals. But if they’d put some visual reference on it maybe they would have got away with it. But then they wouldn’t have got [...]
Posted in News | Tagged Ad Age, adweek, banned poster, encinatas, monty python, spy sunglasses
By Stephen Foster on August 7, 2012
The Drum, which started in the UK as a mag featuring out-of-London ad doings, is turning into a lively old organ and it’s launched a Fauxlympics competition for spoof ads. One of the winners, from ‘Dan & Simon’ for Durex’s Performa condoms managed to fool Adweek who chose it as one of their ads of [...]
Posted in Clients, Creative, Media, News | Tagged adweek, durex, fauxlympics, spoof ads, the drum
By Staff on April 3, 2012
Talent directors seem to be the new flavour of the month within big marcoms companies and high-flying Maxus, the newest mainstream WPP/GroupM media agency on the block, has just named its first, Madhvi Pahwa (pictured). Pahwa is currently a managing partner at GroupM India and she will be based in India, giving a pretty clear [...]
Posted in Agencies, Clients, Media, News, Research | Tagged adweek, asia, coca-cola, groupm, India, Kelly Clark, Madhvi Pahwa, maxus, procter & gamble, relationship media, talent director, us, WPP
By Staff on January 24, 2012
US trade title Ad Age has picked Mcgarrybowen as its Agency of the Year with Droga5, which ‘appointed’ Mcgarry as its own agency for its spoof Christmas card account, as the top creative shop. Other agencies to top its polls include Omnicom’s OMD as top media agency (also chosen by rival publication Adweek) and TBWA/Hakuhodo [...]
Posted in Agencies, Creative, Media, News | Tagged Ad Age, adweek, agency of the year, bbh, crispin porter, dentsu, droga5, international agency of the year, mcgarrybowen, media agency of the year, omd, tbwa/hakuhodu, wieden+kennedy
By Stephen Foster on October 27, 2011
Well Tim Nudd at Adweek thinks it’s the most “shameless” example yet of other agencies (in this case Leo Burnett Sydney) rowing in on Wieden+Kennedy’s celebrated Isaiah Mustafa campaign. But you could also argue that, while no doubt influenced by the Old Spice front man’s overweening confidence, it’s actually quite a clever way of saying [...]
Posted in Agencies, Clients, Creative, News | Tagged adweek, bartle bogle hegarty, complete prat, isaiah mustafa, johnnie walker, keep walking, leo burnett sydney, old spice, rip-off, the important man, Tim Nudd, wieden+kennedy
By Stephen Foster on October 18, 2011
A few eyebrows shot into the stratosphere when Rupert Murdoch biographer and Vanity Fair columnist Michael Wolff took the editorial helm at Adweek a year ago and now Mike is on his way after a turbulent year. First he shifted the focus of Adweek, number two in the US market to Advertising Age, towards editorial [...]
Posted in Media, News | Tagged advertising age, adweek, editorial boss, Hephzibah Anderson, James Cooper, James Finkelstein, Michael Wolff, Murdochs, news corporation, News International, nielsen, pentagram redesign, prometheus global media, resignation, Rupert Murdoch, sex and the media, the man who owns the news
By Stephen Foster on October 11, 2011
This one snuck under the radar a bit, apart from that of eagle-eyed Adweek, but UK indie agency Mother, which now has a thriving New York outpost, has been appointed by General Motors’ Chevrolet to handle a digital project to handle Chevy’s 100th anniversary in November. New GM marketing supremo Joel Ewanick moved the big-spending [...]
Posted in Agencies, Clients, Creative, News | Tagged ad review, advertising, adweek, chevrolet, chevrolet centenary, chevy, digital project, general motors, goodby silverstein, hyundai, Joel Ewanick, mother, omnicom, publicis, uk, us
By Stephen Foster on August 5, 2011
This is from AdWeek’s latest list (traffic drivers, huh), this time of ‘sexist ads made by total pigs.’ Harsh or what? Anyway it’s for Mercedes, by BBDO presumably, and a riff on beauty and brains. Well it made me laugh.
Posted in Agencies, Clients, Creative, News | Tagged advertising, adweek, bbdo, Mercedes, sexist ads made by total pigs
By Stephen Foster on August 4, 2011
London ad agencies have already taken a hit, with both Wieden+Kennedy and DDB dumping staff (among many others no doubt) and now New York’s finest are also suffering with Adweek reporting that McCann Erickson in New York is about to wield the axe. McCann is surely feeling the pressure of owner Interpublic’s attempt to make [...]
Posted in Agencies, Clients, Finance, News | Tagged advertising, adweek, business model, ddb london, draftfcb, Interpublic, lay-offs, Linus Karlsson, mccann, mccann-erickson, Nick Brien, sc johnson, wieden+kennedy london
By Stephen Foster on July 30, 2011
Yes he did, really. Well the new editor of Adweek and authorised Rupert Murdoch biographer (‘The man who bought the news’ published in 2008) has never been a man to mince his words and, as you can see from the above, he doesn’t. Wolff’s forebodings (if such they are) are clearly nor shared by the [...]
Posted in Media, News, Politics | Tagged adweek, botany bay, Colin Myler, evidence, jail, James Murdoch, Michael Wolff, news of the world, parliamentary committee, phone hacking, Rupert Murdoch, Tom Krone
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