By Stephen Foster on May 7, 2012
Y&R global CEO David Sable (pictured) sends me this message about the controversy over the Y&R Argentina ad for the Argentine government featuring one of its Olympic athletes making an unscheduled training trip to Port Stanley, capital of the British-owned Falklands Islands or Argentina’s Malvinas, depending on your point of view. In the ad the [...]
Posted in Agencies, Clients, News, Politics | Tagged apology, argentina, argentina government ad, David Sable, falkland islands, falklands war, malvinas, Margaret Thatcher, Martin Mercado, olympics, Ronald Reagan, south atlantic, war memorial, world cup, WPP, y&r
By Stephen Foster on January 6, 2012
Yet another one-time WPP employee, Steve Simpson, formerly CEO of GroupM’s Business Sciences division and an employee of Mindshare, has fallen foul of the marcoms giant’s insistence that departing employees play things by the book. Not only that but Simpson (pictured) seems to have lost his new job at data-based consultant Marketshare EMEA Partners too. [...]
Posted in Agencies, Clients, Media, News | Tagged adam & eve, apology, data-based consultancy, Everystone, groupm business sciences ceo, John Lewis, legal action, marketshare emea partners, minshare, oystercatchers, Sir Martin Sorrell, Steve Simpson
By Stephen Foster on September 2, 2011
You don’t, as we’ve observed before, mess with WPP as Spot Runner founders Nick Grouf and David Waxman are finding out, for the second time. WPP invested $10m in US local ads digital company Spot Runner back in 2006 but the company proved much better at losing money than making it and WPP objected to [...]
Posted in Agencies, Clients, Media, News | Tagged apology, appeal, court case, Crispin Jameson, David Waxman, Everystone, Nick Grouf, oystercatchers, Sir Martin Sorrell, spot runner, the brand union, the great game, WPP
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