Browse: Home / Cilla Snowball
By Stephen Foster on March 14, 2013
And why should we inquire? Well, according to the new Campaign/Nielsen list of UK agency billings AMV/BBDO remains top dog (no surprise there) but, at £458m is more than one and a half times as big as number two McCann. and the gap is widening: AMV/BBDO increased its billings by 22 per cent in 2012 [...]
Posted in Agencies, Analysis, Clients, Finance, News | Tagged adam&eve/ddb, amv/bbdo, bbdo, campaign'nielsen billings table, Cilla Snowball, David Abbott, JWT, Michael Baulk, omnicom
By Stuart Smith on July 27, 2012
The decision of Farah Ramzan Golant, executive chairman of Abbott Mead Vickers BBDO, to leave the agency and become chief executive of independent production group All3Media, brings to an end one of the most remarkable partnerships in recent UK advertising. Ramzan Golant was part of a managerial duumvirate, latterly triumvirate, that has made AMV BBDO [...]
Posted in Agencies, Clients, Creative, News | Tagged abbott mead vickers bbdo, all3media, Andrew Robertson, bbdo, boase massimi pollitt, Cilla Snowball, ddb, Farah Ramzan Golant, Ian Pearman, Michael Baulk, Ricahard Arscott
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 June 29, 2011
Amanda Mackenzie is arguably the most important woman in UK marketing, now chief marketing and communications officer of insurance giant Aviva (formerly Norwich Union). She began her career in advertising at WCRS and then DMB&B (now, alas, no more) before becoming a top client at Air Miles, British Gas, BT and, now, Aviva. Here she [...]
Posted in Agencies, Clients, Creative, News | Tagged air miles, Amanda MacKenzie, amv/bbdo, Andrew Moss, Aviva, british gas, Bruce Willis, BT, Cilla Snowball, cmo, dmb&b, Farah Ramzan Golant, Helen Alexander, Jill McDonald, John Poorta, Paul Whitehouse, Peter Davies, procter & gamble, scope, social media, Tony Brignull, wcrs
By Stephen Foster on November 5, 2010
AMV BBDO in London is like a big, stately galleon that sails on in an untroubled way. But, unlike some of its seafaring forebears, Henry V111′s Mary Rose for example, doesn’t sink. Which is quite unusual because it’s been top dog (OK, top sea dog) on the London agency scene for about 20 years now. [...]
Posted in Agencies, Clients, Creative, News | Tagged AMV BBDO, Cilla Snowball, David Abbott, Farah Ramzan Golant, Ian Pearman, omnicom
Recent Comments