By Staff on January 17, 2013
Daniel J. Edelman (left), who founded what is now the world’s largest PR firm back in 1952, has died aged 92. Edelman (as it now is) remains a private company, run by son Richard with various other family members in senior roles. Its clients include Microsoft, GE and Walmart. Edelman senior began his career as [...]
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By Stephen Foster on November 21, 2012
I’ve no idea how much has been spent on what we used to call corporate public relations over the last decade but it must run into many billions of whatever currency you choose. Since PR firms had the bright wheeze of calling their offer ‘reputation management’ (and you wouldn’t want to be without that would [...]
Posted in Agencies, Analysis, Clients, Media, News, Politics, PR | Tagged Andy Coulson, autonomy, edelman, hewlett-packard, news corporation, omnicom, PR, Rebekah Brooks, reputation management, spinners, WPP
By Stephen Foster on May 17, 2012
WPP’s Ogilvy and Mindshare are the top creative and media agencies in India respectively, according to newspaper The Economic Times’s Brand Equity survey. Ogilvy has occupied the top creative slot in the survey since 2005 with WPP sibling JWT coming second three years in a row. Interpublic’s Lowe Lintas came third this year with Omnicom’s [...]
Posted in Agencies, Clients, Creative, Media, News | Tagged Arun Nanda, brand equity survey, clio awards, economic times, edelman, havas media, hungama digital media entertainment, Interpublic, JWT, lifetime achievement award, lowe lintas, mindshare, mudra, network of year, ogilvy, omnicom, Piyush Pandey, rediffusion, Sir Martin Sorrell, webchutney
By Stephen Foster on November 4, 2011
WPP may own 26.7 per cent of Arun Nanda’s agency Rediffusion-Y&R but the veteran Indian adman is having a high old time tweaking the tail of the world’s biggest marcoms company – and its equally combative boss Sir Martin Sorrell. Earlier this week it announced that it was partnering with indie PR giant Edelman to [...]
Posted in Agencies, Clients, Finance, Media, News, PR | Tagged airtel, Ajit Balakrishnan, Arun Nanda, colgate-palmolive, edelman, everest brand solutions, havas, Hill & Knowlton, India, mec, media services, mediacom, mindshare, mpg, pr giant, rediffusion-y&r, tata, tme, WPP
By Stephen Foster on November 1, 2011
Indian ad agency Rediffusion may trade under the full moniker of Rediffusion-Y&R and be 26.7 per cent owned by WPP (Dentsu has 13.3 per cent) but founder and boss Arun Nanda and WPP Sir Martin Sorrell most definitely do not get on. WPP has been trying to increase its stake for years now and Nanda [...]
Posted in Agencies, Clients, Finance, News, PR | Tagged airtel, Ajit Balakrishnan, Arun Nanda, bates 141, colgate-palmolive, edelman, hill&knowlton, Interpublic, jaguar land rover, jwt india, omnicom, pr account, rediffusion, rediffusion-y&r, rediffusion/edelman, tata group, WPP
By Stephen Foster on September 6, 2011
PR specialist The Holmes Report has calculated that global PR fees in 2010 were at least $8.8bn, up eight per cent on 2010. This is a marked improvement on 2009 in which fees fell by 7.5 per cent and, according to Holmes, indicates an industry employing nearly 60,000 people earning fees of about $148,000 each. [...]
Posted in Finance, News, PR | Tagged chime, edelman, fleishman-hillard, global pr fees, holmes report, Interpublic, omnicom, Paul Holmes, pr compnaies, PR Week, publicis groupe, Richard Edelman, weber shandwick, WPP
By Stephen Foster on August 17, 2011
One of the constant strands in Sir Martin Sorrell’s long reign at WPP (26 years so far) is his insistence that agency assets do not go up and down in the lift, or they don’t at his agencies anyway. So ‘gardening leave’ clauses in WPP contracts (non-intervention, non-compete requirements) are rigidly enforced. The latest execs [...]
Posted in Agencies, Clients, News, PR | Tagged adam & eve, Anna Macintosh, edelman, hill & knowlton australia, legal actions, Michjelle Hutton, oystercatchers, PR, Sir Martin Sorrell, WPP
By Stephen Foster on July 18, 2011
Met Police assistant commissioner John Yates, the senior policeman who investigated the News of the World phone hacking scandal and declared the matter closed despite being supposedly the cleverest person at Scotland Yard, has followed his boss Sir Paul Stephenson into early retirement as the fallout from the scandal continues to spread. Stephenson’s decision to [...]
Posted in Media, News, Politics, PR | Tagged Andy Coulson, Boris Johnson, Cameron crisis, David Cameron, edelman, elizabeth murdoch, James Murdoch, John Yates, london mayor, Matthew Freud, Neil Wallis, news corporation, News International, parliamentary committee, Rebekah Wade, resignations, Rupert Murdoch, Sir Paul Stephenson
By Stephen Foster on July 15, 2011
You don’t get to be Rupert Murdoch by rolling over before a bunch of UK MPs who have (belatedly it must be said) decided that it’s time to cut you and your media empire down to size. Well actually on this occasion Rupert Murdoch and his son James have; agreeing to appear before a Parliamentary [...]
Posted in Media, News, Politics, PR | Tagged BP, congressman peter kind, edelman, elizabeth murdoch, fbi investigation, freud communications, harbottle & lewis, house homeland security committee, James Murdoch, law firm, long island, Matthew Freud, New York, parliamentary committee, phone hacking scandal, pr firms, Rebecca Brooks, Richard Edelman, Rupert Murdoch, shine, Tony Hayward, Wall Street Journal
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