By Stephen Foster on January 24, 2013
Sometimes people move from one agency to another just because they do; in other cases it might mean a bit more. Two such surfaced in Campaign this week; Brian Cooper (left) is joining Ogilvy in London as ECD to work mainly on Philips while Paul Hammersley, formerly of The Red Brick Road, is going to [...]
Posted in Agencies, Clients, Creative, Finance, News | Tagged apple, Brian Cooper, cossette, dare, mcbd, moves, ogilvy, Paul Hammersley, Tesco, the red brick road
By Stephen Foster on January 17, 2013
Former Miles Calcraft Briginshaw Duffy execs Helen Calcraft, Danny Brooke-Taylor (creatives) and planner Andy Nairn (left, in the picture) are setting up a new, as yet unnamed agency. MCBD was backed by Canadian outfit Cossette and merged with digital agency Dare (another Cossette investment) in 2010. The merger/marriage has not proved a happy one as [...]
Posted in Agencies, Clients, Creative, Finance, News | Tagged Andy Nairn, cossette, Danny Brooke-Taylor, dare, Helen Calcraft, mcbd, miles calcraft briginshaw duffy, new agency
By Staff on January 2, 2013
UK agency Dare got off to a rocky start with its new Comparethemarket.com client, enlisting blandest-of-the-bland sports presenter Sue Barker and a rather worrying big gun to try to nix ‘former’ ad presenter Gio Compario. Noisy tenor Gio remains the focus of the ads but this time Dare has signed super-scintist Stephen Hawking and his [...]
Posted in Agencies, Clients, Creative, News | Tagged Confused.com, dare, Gio Compario, gocompare.com, meerkats, moneysupermarket.com, Stephen Hawking, tv campaign
By Staff on November 23, 2012
Outdoor advertising (or out of home as we should call it these days) is a booming sector with digital this and that all over the place on top of conventional billboards. Poster giant Clear Channel and enterprising UK trade publication The Drum have launched the Creative Out of Home Awards in the UK to promote [...]
Posted in Agencies, Clients, Creative, Media, News | Tagged amv/bbdo, bacteria billboard, Clear Channel, creative out of home awards, curb media, dare, guinness, the drum, warner brothers film contagion
By Angie Dean on July 4, 2012
Price comparison website Gocompare.com has moved its account from indie creative team Chris Wilkins and Sian Vickers to Dare (which used to handle rival operation Moneysupermarket.com, now at Mother). And it’s decided to kill off its signature tenor Gio Compario (in truth some Welsh bloke), otherwise why change agencies? So this is its new ad, [...]
Posted in Agencies, Clients, Creative, News | Tagged Chris Wilkins, comparethemarket.com, dare, Gio Compario, gocompare.com, moneysupermarket.com, mother, Sian Vickers, Sue Barker, vccp, wimbledon
By Stephen Foster on May 24, 2012
It doesn’t look very pretty does it, saatchi&saatchi duke? But that’s the way they’re spelling the new name for the Paris-based combo of good old Saatchi & Saatchi and digital agency Duke, a Publicis Groupe sibling. The new agency will be managed jointly by Elie Ohayon, chairman (right) and Stéphane Guerry, general manager. The 105 [...]
Posted in Agencies, Clients, News | Tagged dare, ddb, digital agency, duke, Elie Ohayon, eployees, kevin roberts, mcbd, merger, publicis groupe, saatchi & saatchi france, saatchi&saatchi duke, Stephane Guerry, traditional advertising, tribal ddb
By Staff on April 23, 2012
London and Hamburg-based mini-network Leagas Delaney is getting a bit less mini these days and has hired former MCBD managing director and then Dare managing partner Michael Pring (pictured) as its new international partner. The agency, which has offices in London, Hamburg, Hong Kong, Milan, Prague, Shanghai and Tokyo is planning to open in Los [...]
Posted in Agencies, Clients, News | Tagged dare, James Hayhurst, leagas delaney, Margaret Johnson, mcbd, Michael Pring, new LA office, Tim Delaney
By Stephen Foster on March 19, 2012
What a difference an in-demand creative makes. Jeremy Carr (pictured), who joined JWT as a creative director last summer from Dare, has produced the goods for his new agency with the award of Premier Foods’ Hovis, Oxo and Ambrosia from Dare plus Mr Kipling, four of its eight new so-called ‘Power Brands.’ Carr-less Dare loses [...]
Posted in Agencies, Clients, Creative, Finance, News | Tagged 101, ambrosia, cadbury, cossette, dare, fallon, hovis, Iwan Williams, Jeremy Carr, jon Goldstone, JWT, Ken Hoggins, Kraft, losses, Mark Lund, mcbd, Michael Clarke, mr kipling, now, Phil Rumbol, power brands, rhm foods
By Stuart Smith on February 27, 2012
At virtually the same moment trendy digital agency Dare triumphantly announced it had won the £28m Gocompare.com price comparison account, it also had to make an embarrassing disclosure. It had just lost Danny Brooke-Taylor (pictured), the executive creative director who, probably more than anyone else at the agency, had laid the groundwork for this signature [...]
Posted in Agencies, Clients, Creative, Finance, News | Tagged adam & eve, Andy Nairn, bbh, cossette, Danny Brooke-Taylor, dare, edc, fallon, Flo Heiss, Gio Compario, gocompare.com, Helen Calcraft, john Prescott, Mark Collier, mcbd, merger, Michael Pring, moneysupermarket.com, mother, Omid Djalili
By Stephen Foster on February 23, 2012
It’s a bit of a merry-go-round in the world of price comparison websites and now Gocompare.com (and its infamous tenor Gio Compario) has appointed Dare to handle its £28m creative account. Dare handled rival Moneysupermarket.com until it lost the account to Mother last March. This means the end of the road (for now) for husband-and-wife [...]
Posted in Agencies, Clients, Creative, News | Tagged Chris Wilkins, dare, Gio Compario, gocompare.com, Graham Rose, moneysupermarket.com, mother, noisy tenor, Richard Bazley, sheila's wheels, Sian Vickers
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