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By Stephen Foster on May 7, 2012
Y&R global CEO David Sable (pictured) sends me this message about the controversy over the Y&R Argentina ad for the Argentine government featuring one of its Olympic athletes making an unscheduled training trip to Port Stanley, capital of the British-owned Falklands Islands or Argentina’s Malvinas, depending on your point of view. In the ad the [...]
Posted in Agencies, Clients, News, Politics | Tagged apology, argentina, argentina government ad, David Sable, falkland islands, falklands war, malvinas, Margaret Thatcher, Martin Mercado, olympics, Ronald Reagan, south atlantic, war memorial, world cup, WPP, y&r
By Stephen Foster on October 13, 2011
Well that’s the way it looks anyway as WPP has taken an option to move Young & Rubicam into 3 Columbus Circle, a big refurbed office block off 8th Avenue and near Central Park. This would mean Y&R departing its 285 Madison Avenue HQ, the agency’s home since its foundation in 1923. If it goes [...]
Posted in Agencies, Clients, Finance, News | Tagged 3 columbus circle, accenture, central park, chicago, David Sable, Ed Ney, Hamish McLennan, madison avenue, New York, office depot, office tower, sears, Sir Martin Sorrell, WPP, y&r, y&r brands, young & rubicam
By Stephen Foster on October 7, 2011
What we used to call advertising agencies (and mostly still do) have always had naming problems. There’s a perennial fear that advertising is old hat, that the future is something else and the name of the ‘agency’ had better reflect this. So, at various times, we’ve had ‘through the line’ agencies (ones which do advertising [...]
Posted in Agencies, Creative, News | Tagged advertising week, advertisng, boase massimi pollitt, David Sable, ddb london, direct marketing, doyle dane bernbach, huffington post, names, New York, the weekly ramble, tribal, WPP, wunderman, Y&R ceo, young & rubicam
By Stephen Foster on June 12, 2011
The turbulence continues at Young & Rubicam with long-term client Accenture, the business services giant that was formerly Andersen Consulting, switching its $70m account to TBWA Worldwide. Accenture has also awarded its global production business to Tag. The switch is just the latest to hit WPP-owned Y&R (whose Chicago office recently lost the $360m Sears [...]
Posted in Agencies, Clients, Creative, News | Tagged accenture, David Sable, droga5, Hamish McLennan, Ian Reichenthal, Kevin Brady, mio, Peter Stringham, revlon, Scott Vitrone, sears, Sir Martin Sorrell, tag, taxi, vw, wieden+kennedy, WPP, wunderman, y&r, young & rubicam
By Stephen Foster on March 26, 2011
Office Depot isn’t a particularly big account but it’s one of a series to depart WPP-owned Young & Rubicam in recent times. And the New York agency has recently lost a number of key people including global CEO Hamish McLennan, who’s gone back to homeland Australia, and creatives, joint CCOs Scott Vitrone and Ian Reichenthal [...]
Posted in Agencies, Clients, News | Tagged David Sable, Hamish McLennan, Ian Reichenthal, office depot, Peter Stringham, Scott Vitrone, Sir Martin Sorrell, WPP, y&r, young & rubicam
By Stephen Foster on February 9, 2011
Well you have to ask, Y&R Advertising CEO Hamish McLennan (pictured) is on his way, following hard in the footsteps of other WPP operating company panjamdrums Paul Taaffe at Hill & Knowlton and Doug Checkeris at Mediacom in the US. McLennan is to be replaced by Wunderman boss David Sable, direct marketer Wunderman is also [...]
Posted in Agencies, News | Tagged cohn & wolfe, David Sable, Doug Checkeris, Hamish McLennan, Hill & Knowlton, Paul Taaffe, Peter Stringham, sudler & hennessey, wunderman, y&r, young & rubicam
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