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By Stephen Foster on August 16, 2012
Adjusting to life within a big holding company (especially if it’s called WPP) is not always easy, but British media buying types seem to take it in their stride. Rob Norman (pictured), recently the boss of North America at GroupM (WPP’s media holding company within a holding company) has now been named chief digital officer, [...]
Posted in Agencies, Finance, Media, News | Tagged Chris Ingram, Dominic Proctor, groupm, Kelly Clark, maxus, Nick Brien, Rob Norman, Sir Martin Sorrell, Vikram Sakhuja, WPP
By Stephen Foster on September 8, 2011
Well we can only take so much. Price comparison site Gocompare.com’s campaign featuring bellowing tenor Gio Compario (actually a Welshman) has no doubt done wonders for the brand awareness and profits of the Esure-backed website but Gio is surely in danger of outstaying his welcome. Now the company is reviewing its media buying arrangements with [...]
Posted in Agencies, Clients, Creative, Media, News | Tagged campaign, Chris Ingram, Chris Wilkins, cia, direct line, esure, Gio Compario, gocompare.com, insurance, mec, media review, Michael Winner, Peter Wood, price comparison website, sheila's wheels, Sian Vickers, welsh tenor, WPP
By Stephen Foster on January 20, 2011
The IPA has just produced a report on diversity in UK ad agencies and, surprise, surprise, there isn’t much. Age-wise just 5.3 per cent of those working in the ad industry are aged 50 or over and 13.5 per cent are between 41 and 49. Almost half are aged 30 or younger and 35.7 per [...]
Posted in Agencies, Clients, News | Tagged age discrimination, Chris Ingram, David Reich, ipa survey, Mark Craze, media agencies, Nicola Mendelsohn, Paul Green, Sir Frank Lowe, young white males
By Stephen Foster on November 21, 2010
In the 2000s agencies jumped through endless hoops to try to make themselves cool and trendy again; even to the point of decrying good ‘ole paid-for advertising on TV and in other above-the-line media in favour of anything digital and, well, new. Digital continued to attract client budgets, rising to 20 per cent or more [...]
Posted in Agencies, Clients, Creative, Media, News | Tagged 9/11 attacks, anomaly, Chris Ingram, dotcom bust, five things you didn't know about advertising agencies:2000s(2), naked, Sir Frank Lowe, Sir Martin Sorrell, Sir Terry Leahy, tempus, Tesco, the red brick road, WPP
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