Last year WPP’s Sir Martin Sorrell objected to the votes cast in the Cannes Lions media category; claiming that his company’s efforts had been conspired against by, er, conspirators – chiefly Omnicom it seems. Last year’s media jury was chaired by OMD boss Mainardo de Nardis and Manning Gottlieb OMD won the Grand Prix for [...]
China has lots of old people (and lots of people all ages of course) so it’s a reasonable if unconventional tactic to target these senior citizens or ‘senior rebels’ as this new ad from DDB Guon China for Volkswagen sets out to do. That they should all flood into the streets in excitement at the [...]
When you’re stranded just north of Antarctica even watching the London Olympics on telly can be a bit of a trial, requiring lots of nocturnal interruptions. But the nearly always excellent McDonald’s (when it comes to ads anyway) and DDB New Zealand turn it into a something of a hymn to fatherhood in this pre-Olympics [...]
We’re used to having companies depicted as animals but Brand Toys renders them as toys (as it would). And the researchers there have been applying their grey cells to ad agencies at the Cannes International Festival of Creativity. They all look pretty similar to me but apparently the size of the ears show how much [...]
One way or another the ‘C’ word defined this year’s Cannes International Festival of Creativity. Naively, I came away from the ad industry’s annual Rivièra fest thinking C stood for Chipotle and Creative Artists Agency (CAA), the duo that pulled off the film grand prix and the top lion for one of this year’s new [...]
We’re not going to list the number of Lions every agency or agency group won at Cannes (you’ll be relieved to know) but it is interesting that DDB Worldwide, the third best-performing network at the festival after Ogilvy and BBDO, harvested 79. Why? Because worldwide CCO Amir Kassaei (left) has been moaning loudly about alleged [...]
DDB creative chief Amir Kassaei (left) is not one to pull his punches: he’s already accused other holding companies (for which read WPP, the winner of the most-awarded holding company gong this year and last) of vote rigging and now he says DDB (and presumably owner Omnicon) might pull out of the festival if these [...]
Dear oh dear, the Cannes International Festival of Creativity’s decision to introduce a ‘Holding Company,’ award, for the agency group winning the most Lions, was always bound to end in tears and now it has. The award was introduced last year and won by WPP, hardly surprising as it’s the biggest such company in the [...]
Omnicom-owned DDB is moving its chief creative officer Amir Kassaei and the network’s creative headquarters to Shanghai, a pretty emphatic underlining that China and the wider Far East region is where the money is these days. DDB CEO Chuck Brymer says: “This is one of the most significant moves we have made in the history [...]
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