By Paul Simons on February 25, 2013
The influences that began to shape my thinking started in university days with TV programmes such as Monty Python. New ideas were slowly creeping out and the migration to advertising didn’t take long. It was a period when the creative juices were like the sap rising in spring across various pursuits such as music, photography, [...]
Posted in Agencies, Clients, Creative, News | Tagged bbh, bmp, bouncing balls, cadburys, desert island ads, fallon, gorilla, JWT, Paul Simons, simons palmer, smash martians, Sony
By Stephen Foster on February 20, 2013
Well that’s what they do these days – burgers bring in the punters but coffee etc is the message you want to send out. Which is what Mother New York is doing in its first campaign for Burger King since winning (yesterday) its $240m US account. Mind you, the Burger King account is not the [...]
Posted in Agencies, Clients, Creative, News | Tagged 3g capital, bbh, burger king, crispin porter, debut campaign, Heinz, mcgarrybowen, mother, New York
By Staff on February 20, 2013
Mark started at the BBC in news and current affairs then moved to the music business at Warner Bros. He joined advertising as a producer at CDP, becoming Head of TV in the late 80s, producing some of the most award-winning work of the time. He launched Propaganda Films (Polygram) in the UK and European [...]
Posted in Agencies, Analysis, Clients, Creative, News | Tagged Alan Parker, audi, bbh, bmp, CDP, desert island ads, federal express, hugh hudson, John Salmon, John Webster, Mark Andrews, Paul Wieland, rawlings, volkswagen
By Stephen Foster on February 7, 2013
BBH New York has struggled in recent times, losing Cadillac, amongst others, in a brutal review by former General Motors CMO Joel Ewanick. So a big new account win should be just what the doctor ordered. Well it’s just won PlayStation maker Sony Computer Entertainment in a shoot-out against 180LA, Anomaly and incumbent Deutsch, so [...]
Posted in Agencies, Clients, Creative, News | Tagged account switch, anomaly, bbh, cadillac, Cindy Gallop, duetsch, Guy Longworth, John Patroulis, make love not porn, oxford union, Playstation, scea, sony computer entertainment
By Paul Simons on February 3, 2013
Talking to people in the advertising world, there seems to be a feeling that start-ups face a far greater uphill struggle now than in the past. There is a conspiracy of factors that make the jump to independence a bigger gamble than say ten years ago; recession, mega-groups, fragmentation, procurement, finance, etc. The barriers are [...]
Posted in Agencies, Analysis, Clients, News | Tagged 18 feet and rising, adam & eve, bbh, Finance, hhcl, John Lewis, levis, nationwide, new agencies, nike, pink underpants, simons palmer, start-ups, wrangler
By Stephen Foster on January 31, 2013
Why do some start-up agencies make it while others fall on their noses? Is it genius, grabbiing the zeitgeist or just luck? My friend Paul Simons would say it’s about good planning and the right line-up. The success of his agency Simons Palmer Denton Clemmow & Johnson (yes, there were a lot of them) would [...]
Posted in Agencies, Clients, News | Tagged agency start-ups, bartle bogle hegarty, bbh, Carl Johnson, charles saatchi, enter, hurrell & dawson, lego, Paul Simons, Robin Wight, rutherford, scott, simons palmer, tbwa, wcrs, wight collins
By Stuart Smith on January 30, 2013
Not all fairy tales have a happy ending. One such is the marriage of convenience between Brazilian hotshop Neogama, its micro-network affiliate BBH and Publicis Groupe. Readers will recall that, a little over six months ago, Publicis chief Maurice Lévy bought out the 51 per cent of BBH PG did not already own. A useful [...]
Posted in Agencies, Clients, Finance | Tagged Alexandre Gama, bbh, bradesco, brazil, deal, Interpublic, Jean-Yves Naouri, Maurice Levy, mccann, neogama, omo, procter & gamble, publicis groupe, unilever
By Stephen Foster on January 17, 2013
Furniture and homeware giant IKEA seems to be having a good recession although its advertising arrangements seem a touch muddied. Bits of the account, like its catalogue, have found their way to McCann and its Swedish creative supremo Linus Karlsson, while its other agencies seem to be doing a pretty good job. This is a [...]
Posted in Agencies, Clients, Creative, News | Tagged akestam holst, bbh, Gwyn Jones, ikea, ikea catalogue, Linus Karlsson, make room for life campaign, mccann, mother london, mother new york, storage, sweden
By Stephen Foster on January 11, 2013
It’s a neat idea by the Guardian Media Group and agency BBH to sign up press campaigner (and actor, of course) Hugh Grant to plug its new ‘we own the weekend’ platform, the first time I can recall that the two papers have been promoted as one. And after a sober-sided Hugh, testifying to the [...]
Posted in Agencies, Clients, Creative, Finance, Media, News | Tagged bbh, guardian media group, Hugh Grant, press campaigner, the guardian, the observer, we own the weekend
By Stephen Foster on January 8, 2013
Yikes! Upmarket UK grocer Waitrose (presumably with some advice from newish agency BBH) has decided to dispense with the services of spokesperson celebrity chef (well, cook) Delia Smith, citing Delia’s busy schedule. This is akin to the Royal Family having Prince Philip put down. Waitrose, which decided not to do a proper ad at Christmas, [...]
Posted in Agencies, Clients, Creative, News | Tagged ad campaign, bbh, Delia Smith, fat duck, Heston Blumenthal, Waitrose
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