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 April 17, 2012
That’s the implication of a dispute going on in New York where the city’s $118bn public pension funds have asked the investment banks and ad agency groups they invest in to disclose information about the racial and social gender of their employees. So far financial giants Goldman Sachs and Met Life have acceded but Omnicom, [...]
Posted in Agencies, Clients, Creative, Finance, News, Politics | Tagged amb/bbdo, bbdo, bmp, CDP, Cilla Snowball, creatives, ddb, Farah Ramzan Golant, Goldman Sachs, investments, John Wren, mad men, madison avenue, may 22 agm, met life, new york public pension funds, omnicom, planners, race and gender equality, tbwa, white boys' club, wieden+kennedy, WPP
By Stephen Foster on March 23, 2012
The vodka market seems to produce a new killer brand every five minutes (at ever more eye-watering prices) and Absolut, once king of the newbie brands, is looking a bit old hat these days. So it’s blasting back with this online film from TBWA Chiat Day featuring a new single, ‘Greyhound,’ from Swedish ‘Ibiza’ band [...]
Posted in Agencies, Clients, Creative, News | Tagged absolut, benson & hedges, Carl Erik Rins, CDP, greyhound, Hoj Jomehri, hugh hudson, Jin Park, Sue anderson, swedish house mafia, tbwa chiat day
By Stephen Foster on March 9, 2012
Ads from DIY retailers equal boring in most places but Heimat in Berlin has produced a tour de force for German retailer Hornbach. “Hornbach continues to do its own thing – achieving big things with your bare hands,’ says Heimat creative chief Guido Heffels. “An indispensable part of this is understanding what goes on inside [...]
Posted in Agencies, Clients, Creative, News | Tagged b&q, bmp, CDP, crossmedia dusseldorf, german diy retailer, Guido Heffels, heimat berlin, homebase, hornbach, Martin Krejci, stink berlin
By Stephen Foster on June 2, 2011
All sorts of reasons have been offered for Japanese giant Dentsu’s inability to expand out of its home country (where it enjoys a dominant share of a huge market), the most convincing being its apparent determination to keep all the power in the hands of Japanese executives. But this began to loosen with the appointment [...]
Posted in Agencies, Clients, Finance, News | Tagged burger king, CDP, dentsu, Duncan Parry, japan, jim Kelly, John McGarry, mcgarrybowen, Oliver Bishop, rkcr/y&r, sears holdings, Sir Martin Sorrell, social thinkers, steak, Steve Biegel, Tim Andree, toyota, WPP
By Stephen Foster on June 2, 2011
There’s no doubt who’s the hottest agency on the planet at the moment (in new business terms anyway), Dentsu-owned Mcgarrybowen which has followed its win of the $360m Sears Holdings retail account with $300m Burger King. $660m in billings is enough to constitute a mid-sized agency on its own and Dentsu executives, so long decried [...]
Posted in Agencies, Clients, News | Tagged account move, burger king, CDP, clenmow hornby inge, crispin porter+bogusky, dentsu, Gordon Bowen, Interpublic, John McGarry, mccann-erickson, mcgarrybowen, saatchi & saatchi, sears, Stewart Owen, WPP
By Stephen Foster on May 19, 2011
It’s always a shame when a great campaign runs out of gas and Shredded Wheat, the venerable breakfast cereal marketed by Cereal Partners in the UK and Kraft in the US, is famous for its ‘three Shredded Wheat’ campaign which in the UK featured such macho characters as cricketer Ian Botham and football managers Brian [...]
Posted in Agencies, Clients, Creative, News | Tagged Alan Blake, Brian Clough, CDP, Ian Botham, Jack Charlton, mccann-erickson, national television directing duo, not to scale production company, shredded wheat, superfruity shredded wheat
By Angie Dean on March 9, 2011
Cigarette companies who argue that promotion just encourages smokers to switch brands (rather than encouraging new users to light up) will have another dilemma to chew over as the UK government announces later today that it plans to force fag companies to sell their wares in plain wrappers (excepting the increasingly gruesome health warnings). It’s [...]
Posted in Clients, News, Politics | Tagged ban, benson & hedges, CDP, cigarette packaging, James Villiers, Peter Sellers, Spike Milligan, tobacco companies
By Stephen Foster on February 9, 2011
Ron Collins who died on Monday aged 72 was best-known for his role as one of the founders of Wight Collins Rutherford Scott in 1979. The agency was one of the leading lights of the 1980s in the UK and, like many of its peers, made a bid for world domination, buying the Carat media [...]
Posted in Agencies, Creative, News | Tagged aegis, Alan Parker, carat, CDP, collett dickenson pearce, engine group, Hugh Grant, Liz Hurley, Peter Scott, Ron Collins, wcrs, wight collins rutherford scott
By Stephen Foster on September 6, 2010
Well that’s what seems to be happening this Thursday anyway as Charles and Maurice Saatchi team up with Saatchi & Saatchi, the agency they founded and which kicked them out back in 1994, to celebrate 40 fabulous years. It just goes to show that “nothing is impossible” says M&C Saatchi boss Maurice Saatchi, neatly finding [...]
Posted in Agencies, News | Tagged 40 years, CDP, charles saatchi, m&c saatchi, Maurice Saatchi, saatchi & saatchi, Tim Bell
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