By Stephen Foster on May 2, 2013
RKCR/Y&R in London has hired Mick Mahoney from Havas Worldwide (formerly Euro RSCG) as its new executive creative director. Mahoney (pictured centre) replaces Toby Talbot who left to return to New Zealand. Mahoney is an industry veteran, having worked at CDP, Lowe Howard-Spink (where he won a Grand Prix for Stella Artois), Simons Palmer and [...]
Posted in Agencies, Clients, Creative, News | Tagged Euro RSCG, executive creative director, havas worldwide, Mark Roalfe, Mick Mahoney, rkcr/y&r, WPP
By Stephen Foster on September 24, 2012
I think we’ve been here before – but this time it’s official. Marcoms network Havas is renaming Euro RSG Havas Creative and its various media agencies (chiefly MPG) Havas Media. Second agency network Arnold Worldwide (which could surely do with a new name) remains as is. But, to muddy the waters slightly, there’s also the [...]
Posted in Agencies, Creative, Media, News | Tagged arnold worldwide, david jones, Euro RSCG, havas creative, havas digital, havas media, mpg
By Stephen Foster on September 10, 2012
Next time the cabin staff show you the safety equipment pay attention at the back! Some such thought seems to have been in the mind of Durex Poland and its agency (Euro RSCG? Havas Polska?) for this possibly crowd-sourced film. We know birth control is supposed to be a serious issue but condoms are funny [...]
Posted in Agencies, Clients, Creative, News | Tagged airline film, condoms, durex, Euro RSCG, havas, poland
By Stuart Smith on July 25, 2012
It would be nice to think that Johnson & Johnson’s newly announced review of its £1.7bn annual advertising spend was driven by a need for greater creative consistency. But it isn’t. Money’s the thing – saving it that is. J&J may be one of the world’s biggest brands, but it’s also a company in trouble. [...]
Posted in Agencies, Clients, Creative, Finance | Tagged advertising account review, akqa, bbdo, ddb, dentsu, deutsch, Euro RSCG, havas, Interpublic, johnson & johnson, JWT, Lowe, mdc, Michael Roth, Michael Sneed, omnicom, publicis groupe, r/ga, razorfish, the martin agency, WPP
By Stephen Foster on July 10, 2012
The National Gallery in London’s eagerly-awaited Titian exhibition opens later this week (“the best paintings in the world” – Lucian Freud) and sponsor Credit Suisse has enlisted Euro RSCG to make a film promoting it. It’s called Metamorhosis after Ovid’s poem which features (among other episodes) the cautionary tale of Diana, the chaste goddess of [...]
Posted in News | Tagged credit suisse, diana and actaeon, Euro RSCG, Gerry Moira, metamorphosis, national gallery, titian
By Angie Dean on July 5, 2012
Life isn’t fair, even when they’re handing out names. Of the two Pitt brothers, the elder got Doug and the younger Brad – and the rest is history. So here’s here’s Doug getting his moment in the spotlight courtesy of Virgin Mobile Australia and agency Euro RSCG. Not sure how many times you could watch [...]
Posted in Agencies, Clients, Creative, News | Tagged Brad Pitt, Doug Pitt, Euro RSCG, virgin mobile australia
By Stephen Foster on April 27, 2012
UK-based awards fest D&AD is 50 this year and has produced the following film showing some past winners, all crammed into less than two minutes. They’re not all ads. D&AD is evidently a pretty dozy organisation as it didn’t send us its first list of winners announced earlier this week but here are two, the [...]
Posted in Agencies, Clients, Creative, News | Tagged 50 years, awards, betc paris, canal+, d&ad, Euro RSCG, vo5
By Staff on April 3, 2012
Havas may never be the world’s biggest marcoms group but it’s busily presenting its new Havas Worldwide agency (formerly known as Euro RSCG) as the biggest single agency around by grouping all its other multifarious units with it. Which still won’t make it the biggest single agency of course but it will certainly look like [...]
Posted in Agencies, Finance, News | Tagged arnold worldwide, david jones, Euro RSCG, havas, havas digital, havas media, hudson street new yotk, le madone tower paris, mpg, new hq, share buyback, tribecca
By Stephen Foster on March 27, 2012
Havas is to spend €253m ($336m) buying back 12 per cent of its shares, a move that will boost majority owner Vincent Bollore’s shareholding from 32.84 per cent to 37.32 per cent. The buy-back is at €4.90 share, a healthy 21 per cent premium to the current price and values Havas at around €2bn. Havas [...]
Posted in Agencies, Clients, Finance, News | Tagged acquisitions, aegis, akqa, carat, david jones, dentsu, Euro RSCG, havas, horizon media, Interpublic, mother, omnicom, publicis groupe, share buy-back, Vincent Bollore, vizeum, wieden+kennedy, WPP
By Stephen Foster on March 2, 2012
This Havas restructuring is all getting a bit confusing but David Jones has written to tell me that MPG (or Media Planning Group) is staying as is, the important brand name change is that Euro RSCG is scheduled for la guillotine, to be known henceforth as Havas Worldwide. This is what Dave (pictured) says: “The [...]
Posted in Agencies, Clients, Finance, Media, News | Tagged 2011 results, david jones, digital, Euro RSCG, havas, havas worldwide, Media, mpg, WPP
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