By Staff on January 31, 2012
WPP’s ever-expanding gaggle of media companies – Mediacom, Mindshare, MEC, GroupM and Kinetic – have been on the regulators’ radar somewhere for some time (WPP probably wouldn’t be allowed to buy Aegis for example) but Sir Martin Sorrell’s outfit probably never expected a challenge in the north of England. But now the UK’s Office of [...]
Posted in Agencies, Media, News | Tagged aegis, Asda, brilliant media, carat, competition commission, dfs, groupm, mediacom north, mindshare, north of england, office of fair trading, OFT, pre-pack administration, Sir Martin Sorrell, starcom, WPP
By Stephen Foster on January 13, 2011
UK budget airline Easyjet is reviewing its creative account at Publicis following a change of top management while furniture megastore DFS is doing the same to its whopper £92m media account, the eighth-biggest in the UK according to Campaign. And, just to create a trio, price comparison site moneysupermarket.com is reviewing its creative account even [...]
Posted in Agencies, Clients, Creative, Media, News | Tagged Alan Leighton, Asda, brilliant media, Carolyn McCall, Chris Wilkins, comparethemarket, dare, dfs, easyJet, GoCompare, john Prescott, lord kirkham, mars, Maurice Levy, meerkats, moneysupermarket, Omid Djalili, Paul Troy, Peter Duffy, publicis, Richard Baker, Sian Vickers, Simon Gulliford
By Stephen Foster on December 30, 2010
Well it’s a bit embarrassing isn’t it, there ITV goes with its annual tribute to advertisers and agencies and the winning ad, chosen by a panel of 8,000 viewers apparently, is the ‘Harvey the dog’ campaign from The Red Brick Road for ITV’s own marketing body Thinkbox. There must have been a few angst-ridden conversations [...]
Posted in Agencies, Clients, Creative, Media, News | Tagged ad of the year, adam & eve, barclaycard, bbh, Claire Beale, dfs, itv, John Lewis, Johnny Vegas, Keith Lemon, more than a woman, pg tips, robson brown, starcom, the red brick road, thinkbox
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