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Adam & Eve/DDB confounds the sceptics with a pretty good new ad for John Lewis

Adam & Eve/DDB confounds the sceptics with a pretty good new ad for John Lewis

By Staff on September 14, 2012

John Lewis is best-known for its Christmas extravaganzas via Adam & Eve but it does an ad half-way through the year as well and this one from Adam & Eve/DDB (or whatever it’s called now) had a load of banana skins waiting for it. Not least the impression at large that Omnicom had paid a [...]

Posted in Agencies, Clients, Creative, News | Tagged adam & eve, ddb london, inxs, John Lewis, Michael Hutchence, Paloma Faith

Old-style DDB London takes the creative honours with VW up! launch ad

Old-style DDB London takes the creative honours with VW up! launch ad

By Stephen Foster on August 13, 2012

The new Volkswagen up! town car may have been lumbered with one of the daftest names even the car industry can invent (maybe it plays better in German) but the ads from Adam & Eve DDB (or is it just Adam & Eve, more nomenclature gone mad, thought agencies were good at branding) shows all [...]

Posted in Agencies, Clients, Creative, News | Tagged adam & eve, ddb london, olympics closing ceremony, town car, vw up!

Y&R New York's Graeme Hall joins the creative exodus to (180) Amsterdam

Y&R New York’s Graeme Hall joins the creative exodus to (180) Amsterdam

By Stephen Foster on July 11, 2012

It must be something in the water (or possibly a roll-up) but lots of the world’s creative luminaries seem to be heading for Amsterdam. Y&R New York’s Graeme Hall (left) is the latest, going off to join 180 Amsterdam as a creative director. At Y&R he was creative director on Virgin Atlantic and also worked [...]

Posted in Agencies, Clients, Creative, News | Tagged 180 amsterdam, ddb london, Graeme Hall, Michael Allen, virgin atlantic

Harvey Nichols and DDB tell critics to piss off

Harvey Nichols and DDB tell critics to piss off

By Stephen Foster on June 20, 2012

Harvey Nichols and its agency DDB London have come out fighting after a volley of criticism of its summer sale ad featuring a (retouched) model wetting herself in anticipation of the shopping fest to come. The upscale store group, a favourite venue of both fashionistas and footballers wives, says its sale smashed all previous records [...]

Posted in Agencies, Clients, Creative, News | Tagged chloe, critics, ddb london, George Parker, harvey nichols, Paul Billingsley, Stella McCartney, summer sale ad, wetting campaign

More showers in the rain-sodden UK - this time from DDB for Harvey Nichols

More showers in the rain-sodden UK – this time from DDB for Harvey Nichols

By Angie Dean on June 11, 2012

We all love the the sales of course but sometimes the nature of the excitement is hard to describe. So we’ll leave it to DDB London to describe the thinking behind its new campaign (already described as ‘disgusting’ on Twitter) for the sale at posh Knightsbridge store Harvey Nichols. Today DDB UK unveils its new [...]

Posted in Agencies, Clients, Creative, News | Tagged ddb london, harvey nicholls, posh knightsbridge store, print campaign, soggy summer, summer sale

While we're still waiting for 2012's big deal WPP snaps up French data firm

While we’re still waiting for 2012′s big deal WPP snaps up French data firm

By Stephen Foster on May 29, 2012

WPP is to buy a majority stake in French digital data and campaign technology marketing group Predictys. Founded in 2007 and headquartered in Grenoble, Predictys has a co-operative database which includes information from 140m opted-in consumers sourced from about 25 partners. Most of its clients are affiliation networks that use it as a third-party provider [...]

Posted in Agencies, Clients, Finance, News, PR, Research | Tagged adam & eve, agm, chime communications, comparethemarket, coors, data, ddb london, easyJet, france, grenoble, grey, Hugh Baillie, JWT, kantar, kbm, Lord Bell, ogilvy, omnicom, pay package, Piers Pottinger, predictys, rkcr/y&r, Sir Martin Sorrell, vccp, WPP

What a busy week: Facebook IPO fiasco, Adam & Eve goes for mind-boggling £60m, Jeremy Hunt on way out and why aren't we on Google News?

What a busy week: Facebook IPO fiasco, Adam & Eve goes for mind-boggling £60m, Jeremy Hunt on way out and why aren’t we on Google News?

By Stephen Foster on May 25, 2012

OK, let’s take it from the top: Facebook’s IPO was a fiasco as there was clearly information available about the company’s struggle to reach ad revenue targets that were made available to some investors (the big boys) and not the millions of others who bought into the massively over-priced IPO. This is just Wall Street [...]

Posted in Agencies, Clients, Finance, Media, News, Politics | Tagged adam & eve, amv/bbdo, blatherskite, bskyb, David Cameron, ddb london, facebook, google analytics, google news, ipo, Jeremy Hunt, John Lewis, leveson inquiry, media ethics, moreaboutadvertising, multiples, news corporation, omnicom, Rupert Murdoch, social media, stock price, Vince Cable, wall street, west country farmed rabbit, £60m deal

Leo Burnett snaps up £50m Co-op account

Leo Burnett snaps up £50m Co-op account

By Staff on May 25, 2012

Retail’s the story of the moment for UK ad agencies with Tesco’s £110m pitch lumbering into gear, the John Lewis account powering Adam & Eve into a £60m deal with Omnicom’s DDB London and now the Co-op switching its £50m supermarket account from long-serving TBWA Manchester to Leo Burnett. Not so long ago the notion [...]

Posted in Agencies, Clients, Creative, News | Tagged adam & eve, bbh, chi & partners, co-op, ddb london, John Lewis, leo burnett, Mark Lund, McDonalds, now, supermarkets, tbwa manchester, Waitrose, £50m account

DDB London shows its class with new 'see film differently' campaign for VW

DDB London shows its class with new ‘see film differently’ campaign for VW

By Angie Dean on May 24, 2012

DDB London has just been taken over (in management terms) by hot London indie Adam & Eve in a £60m deal. It’s to be hoped the new managers manage to hang on to at least some of DDB’s creatives (they claim it will be a £270m agency with £50m of income so paying them shouldn’t [...]

Posted in Agencies, Clients, Creative, Finance, News | Tagged adam & eve, are you talking to me, Daniel Seager, ddb london, Ivan Zacharias, jaws, Matt Lee, Pete Heyes, Robert De Niro, see film differently, silence of the lambs, Steve Hall, stink, taxi driver, volkswagen, £60m deal

Is Adam & Eve into DDB just about the money or will it create another Omnicom super agency in London?

Is Adam & Eve into DDB just about the money or will it create another Omnicom super agency in London?

By Stuart Smith on May 24, 2012

Should we feel sad or glad for them? Viewed one way, Adam & Eve has just paid itself an awful lot of money to acquire a decent car account, Volkswagen. Looked at in another, what is arguably the UK’s most creative independent hotshot has sold itself short by doing a deal with an American multinational [...]

Posted in Agencies, Clients, Creative, Finance, News | Tagged adam & eve, amv/bbdo, Ben Priest, David Golding, ddb london, halifax, harvey nichols, James Murphy, John Lewis, John Wren, omnicom, rkcr/y&r, Stephen Woodford, Tom Roberts, tribal ddb, virgin media, volkswagen, £60m deal

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