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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 Staff on October 15, 2012
Giles Keeble started as a rep (account man) at JWT before moving to BMP. There Stanley Pollitt told him that JWT’s Stephen King (the co-founder of account planning with Pollitt) had wanted him to become a planner. John Webster encouraged him to become a writer but after a number of years Giles moved to French [...]
Posted in Agencies, Analysis, Clients, Creative | Tagged amv, bmp, cadbury's gorilla, David Abbott, desert island ads, Giles Keeble, honda, leo burnett, Sony, union carbide
By Paul Simons on September 17, 2012
The new John Lewis TV spot has managed to get a great deal of coverage over the last few days; this advertising is beginning to become an ‘event’ and no doubt the Christmas spot will be eagerly anticipated. It’s a tough path to tread for any agency as the inevitable comparisons are made, a bit [...]
Posted in Agencies, Analysis, Clients, Creative | Tagged adam & eve/ddb, David Abbott, inxs, John Lewis, levis, m&S, nostalgia, virgin atlantic
By Stuart Smith on January 16, 2012
Creatives, sharpen your pencils. Tina Brown, editor of Newsweek and The Daily Beast, has a new challenge for you. Well, not ‘new’ perhaps; more “retro”. It’s a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to hone those copy skills which you might, if you were extremely lucky, have learned at the knee of David Abbott or, very distantly indeed, Bill [...]
Posted in Agencies, Clients, Media, News | Tagged amc, avis, beetle ads, Bill Bernbach, daily beast, David Abbott, ddb, Don Draper, lionsgate, mad men, Matthew Weiner, newsweek, Tina Brown, vw, we try harder
By Staff on December 13, 2011
Adam Kerj and Henrik Tvilling are the creative directors of Saatchi & Saatchi in Sweden and Denmark respectively. Here they discuss the reasons why the Nordic region is rising to the top of the creative pile, their favourite work and the biggest influences on their careers. 1/ Nordic countries are gaining a fearsome reputation for [...]
Posted in Agencies, Clients, Creative, News | Tagged Adam Kerj, ariel fashion shoot, awards, Bill Bernbach, cannes gold lions, David Abbott, digital, dnb nor bank, farfar, forsman & bodenfors, golden egg awards, great works, Henrik Jul, Henrik Tvilling, hyper island, Martin Werner, Matias Palm-Jensen, nokia, paradiset ddb, pay with a tweet, Peter Wibroe, saab, saatchi & saatchi, saatchi & saatchi denmark, saatchi & saatchi sweden, social media, twitter, world's biggest signpost
By Stephen Foster on June 21, 2011
It’s early days of course but three Grand Prix have been awarded at Cannes so far – one to Australia, two to Romania – and the UK has barely troubled the scorers in any category. So far DDB London has picked up a bronze lion for Budweiser in promo/activation (won by BV McCann for Romania’s [...]
Posted in Agencies, Clients, Creative, News | Tagged abbott mead vickers, advertising, cannes lions, Clients, collett dickenson pearce, David Abbott, direct, global accounts, grand prix, John O'Keeffe, long copy, planners, PR, press ads, promo/activation, shortlists, suits, uk, uk poor cannes performance, WPP
By Stephen Foster on March 3, 2011
The mighty engine that is AMV/BBDO has once again topped Campaign’s Nielsen-supplied billings figures (can’t give you the full list, you’ll have to buy a copy), on £388m way ahead of McCanns at number two on £275m and RKCR/Y&R a few hundred thousand behind. So what’s AMV’s secret? One it has a good owner in [...]
Posted in Agencies, News | Tagged abbott mead vickers, Adrian Vickers, amv/bbdo, campaign, David Abbott, McCanns, nielsen, Peter Mead, rkcr/y&r
By Stephen Foster on February 7, 2011
Yellow Pages is now Yell (gone digital naturally) and it’s taken the brave step of remaking one its classic old commercials, from Abbott Mead Vickers in 1983. Remakes are always a danger of course, although they happen more in films or telly series than commercials. The new ad is by Rapier, which was brave to [...]
Posted in Agencies, Clients, Creative, News | Tagged abbott mead vickers, amv, David Abbott, Day V Lately, JR Hartley, rapier, yell, yellow pages
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
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