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By Stephen Foster on February 1, 2013
The Super Bowl ad we all want to see before Sunday’s game is Wieden+Kennedy Portland’s for Oreo – Mondelez gave the task to W+K ahead of official lead agency DraftFCB. Apart from info to the effect that it features a struggle between between people who like the crunch and those who like the cream in [...]
Posted in Agencies, Clients, Creative, Media, News | Tagged coca-cola, cokechase, competition, draftfcb, mondelez, oreo, super bowl 2013, wieden+kennedy portland
By Stephen Foster on May 28, 2012
‘Godfather of Soul’ James Brown has been chosen as the subject for this year’s Music Video Challenge from Saatchi & Saatchi, a competition inviting young directors to work on a real video project. Last year it was the latest release from Moby. ‘James Brown – A Music Video Challenge’ is a collaboration between Saatchi, Australia’s [...]
Posted in Agencies, Creative, News | Tagged 1962, Alberto Gomez, bug music videos, cannes, competition, genero.tv, James Brown, live at the apollo, Moby, music video challenge, new directors, new directors' showcase, saatchi & saatchi, sex machine, try me, universal music enterprises
By Paul Simons on September 28, 2011
I have been quite surprised at the debate sparked by the new British Airways campaign and the reaction I’ve had already to my previous comments on the work. There is a clear division of quite strong opinion; one camp is very dismissive of the BA campaign and another camp very supportive. It also becomes more [...]
Posted in Agencies, Clients, Creative, News | Tagged ad agency, BA, Bill Bernbach, british airways, Carolyn McCall, club class, competition, easyJet, fastjet, guardian media group, Paul Simons, ryanair, simons palmer, Sir Stelios, va, vccp, virgin atlantic, virgin upper class
By Stephen Foster on July 21, 2011
It really doesn’t get any better for embattled News Corporation. Fresh from what Rupert Murdoch called the most ‘humble’ day of his long life before the UK Parliamentary culture, media and sport committee (plus a shaving foam pie in the face) the company is facing the revival of allegations in the US that it hacked [...]
Posted in Media, News, Politics | Tagged $29m settlement, 2009 out of court settlement, competition, computer hacking, culture media and sport committee, democratic party, democratic politicians, floorgraphics, fox news channel, Frank Lautenberg, Gordon Taylor, James Murdoch, Max Clifford, news america marketing, news corporation, News International, phone hacking, Rupert Murdoch
By Stephen Foster on February 3, 2011
The UK Office of Fair Trading’s eagerly-awaited report into competition in the outdoor industry more or less clears the big agency buyers – WPP’s Kinetic and Aegis’ Posterscope – of distorting competition even though the two companies control over 80 per cent of the agency market. Neither does it seem too worried about the dominance [...]
Posted in Agencies, Clients, Media, News | Tagged aegis, cbs outdoor, Clear Channel, commissions, competition, JC Decaux, kinetic, office of fair trading, OFT, posterscope, Primesight, rebates, uk poster market, WPP
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