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By Staff on February 14, 2013
Cannes Lions celebrates its 60th this year (the week of June 16-22) and it has (as it boasts) produced a stellar list of jury presdents – Dan Wieden, Dave Droga, John Hegarty and Shelly Lazarus among them. Here they are (with their comments about how pleased they are to be there with a few tips [...]
Posted in Agencies, Clients, Creative, News | Tagged 60th anniversary, cannes 2013, Dan Wieden, Dave Droga, John Hegarty, jury presidents, Shelly Lazarus
By Stephen Foster on January 11, 2013
Wieden+Kennedy is replacing global ECD John Jay – who’s off to run new innovation company W+K Garage with a new top duo, agency veteran Mark Fitzloff and digital wizard Colleen DeCourcy (pictured) who joins from Socialise, the New York social media agency she founded in 2010 and which is now part-owned by Havas. The two [...]
Posted in Agencies, Clients, Creative, Finance, News | Tagged Colleen DeCourcy, Dan Wieden, Dave Luhr, digital, global, John Jay, portland, reshuffle, wieden+kennedy
By Stephen Foster on January 10, 2013
From time to time creative agencies dip their toes into other waters and Portland’s Wieden+Kennedy appears to do so rather more skilfully than some of the others. It also manages Portland business incubator Experiment and technology outfit W+K Tomorrow. Now global creative boss John Jay (left) is stepping aside to run a new innovation company [...]
Posted in Agencies, Clients, Creative, News | Tagged bloomingdale's, Dan Wieden, innovation company, japan, John Jay, w+k garage, wieden+kennedy
By Stephen Foster on December 21, 2012
It’s been an interesting year but one that, as Sherlock Holmes author Sir Arthur Conan Doyle put it, more noted for “the dog that didn’t bark.” The dog that didn’t bark, even though lots of people thought they heard its woof, was Publicis Groupe’s bid for Interpublic. This was the big story of the summer [...]
Posted in Agencies, Analysis, Clients, Creative, Finance, Media, News, Politics | Tagged BBC, christmas, Dan Wieden, David Petraeus, IPG, Jimmy Savile, Lord Patten, Michael Roth, publicis groupe, Rupert Murdoch, Sir Martin Sorrell, Tony Hall, WPP
By Staff on December 17, 2012
Adscam/The Horror! author and all-round advertising legend George Parker, author of Confessions of a Mad Man among other seminal business school tomes, chooses his agency(ies) of the year, ad/campaign (sort of) and person of the year. I must say, I was stunned when Stephen ask me to join with him and such ad luminaries and [...]
Posted in Agencies, Analysis, Clients, Creative, News | Tagged ad of the year, agency of the year, Dan Wieden, droga5, George Parker, goodby silverstein+partners, Neil Christie, person of the year, wieden+kennedy, wieden+kennedy london
By Staff on June 27, 2012
What an agency that would have been. Here are Wieden+Kennedy co-founder Dan Wieden (left) and Bartle Bogle Hegarty’s Sir John Hegarty at Cannes describing ’30 years of Creative Chaos’ at last week’s festival. The two agencies were set up three days apart in !982, Hegarty says he first became aware of W+K in 1987 with [...]
Posted in Agencies, Clients, Creative, News | Tagged 1982, 30 years of creative chaos, bartle bogle hegarty, cannes, Dan Wieden, Sir John Hegarty, wieden+kennedy
By Becky Wilkie on June 23, 2012
Cannes has been stuffed to bursting this year, with no hotel rooms free, often no space in the packed-out seminars, no room in restaurants and barely a spare inch to walk down on La Croisette at night. The veterans hark back to the glory days of the empty, unpopular Cannes Lions a few years back [...]
Posted in Agencies, Clients, Creative, News, PR | Tagged agency posing, Bill Clinton, cannes, celebritities, Dan Wieden, John Hegarty, Jon Hamm, Smokey Robinson, social media
By Staff on June 7, 2012
Arise Sir Dan, Lion of St Mark. The Dan in question is Dan Wieden, veteran co-founder and global executive creative director of Wieden & Kennedy, currently one of the world’s most outstanding creative advertising agencies. And what at first sight appears to be a Medieval chivalric order befitting the likes of Othello of Venice is, [...]
Posted in Agencies, Clients, Creative, News | Tagged 'Just Do It', Cannes International Advertising Festival, chrysler, coca-cola, Dan Wieden, Dave Droga, Delta Airlines, droga5, espn, heineken, honda, Kraft, Levi’s, lion of st mark, nike, old spice, Oregon, portland, procter & gamble, Titanium Lions, wieden & kennedy
By Stephen Foster on May 2, 2012
This is from Free TV Australia’s Think TV series, Wieden+Kennedy co-founder Dan Wieden explaining how broadcast TV and digital work best together, why clients need to listen and why he believes the best campaigns involve “creating strong, provocative relationships between good companies and their customers.” And why he hates “someone up there” (are you listening [...]
Posted in Agencies, Clients, Creative, Media | Tagged advertising, Dan Wieden, digital, free tv australia, google, the grapes of wrath, think tv, wieden+kennedy
By Staff on April 17, 2012
Google has been cosying up to ad agencies recently by reviving old commercials (and admen) via its Project:Rebrief initiative but the old fears about the scale of its ambitions are bound to resurface with the news that it has poached Wieden+Kennedy’s global digital boss (and newly-annointed partner) Iain Tait to be its new global ECD. [...]
Posted in Agencies, Clients, Creative, News | Tagged Dan Wieden, global digital boss, google creative lab, Iain Tait, old spice, poke, wieden+kennedy portland
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