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Karmarama boss Nicola Mendelsohn joins Facebook as new head of Europe

Karmarama boss Nicola Mendelsohn joins Facebook as new head of Europe

By Stephen Foster on May 8, 2013

Karmarama boss and former IPA president Nicola Mendelsohn (left) has never been exactly backward at coming forward and now she’s joined the group of high-flying women (including COO Sheryl Sandberg and marketing boss Carolyn Everson) near the top of Mark Zuckerberg’s Facebook empire by being appointed as the social network’s new head of Europe, the [...]

Posted in Agencies, Clients, Media, News | Tagged b&q, Carolyn Everson, europe head, facebook, ipa president, karmarama, Mark Zuckerberg, Nicola Mendelsohn, Sheryl Sandberg

WPP's Sorrell places his bets on new media - and it's Google's YouTube not Facebook or Twitter

WPP’s Sorrell places his bets on new media – and it’s Google’s YouTube not Facebook or Twitter

By Stuart Smith on April 29, 2013

The most interesting thing about WPP Group’s first quarter financial results were not the numbers, but its chief executive’s obiter dicta. The numbers themselves were a curate’s egg. They beat the revenue forecast, bizarrely enough they delighted in Britain, but they disappointed in the United States. Which is just about the only part of the [...]

Posted in Agencies, Analysis, Clients, Finance, Media, News | Tagged facebook, google, Maurice Levy, publicis groupe, Sir Martin Sorrell, starcom mediavest, twitter, WPP, Youtube

Will W+K's La Vita E Bella woo the Chinese for Fiat?

Will W+K’s La Vita E Bella woo the Chinese for Fiat?

By Staff on April 17, 2013

Missed this one first time round; it’s a campaign for Fiat (aka Chrysler) from Wieden+Kennedy Portland explaining the quirky, if somewhat unreliable, Italian motor manufacturer’s appeal to and synergy with the Chinese. W+K Portland certainly can’t be accused of ducking big issues; witness its debut campaign for Facebook verging on Douglas Adams territory and also [...]

Posted in Agencies, Clients, Creative, News | Tagged cars, China, chrysler, facebook, fiat, italy, la vita e bella, moms campaign, portland, procter & gamble, wieden+kennedy

Facebook's new Home TV campaign is a blooper

Facebook’s new Home TV campaign is a blooper

By Stephen Foster on April 8, 2013

I really don’t get this ad for Facebook Home; from Wieden+Kennedy presumably. A guy gets on a plane, accesses FB Home and the characters on his Facebook page (who look like Ronald McDonald’s creepier cousins) take over the plane. Well, fine. Then he’s told to turn the bloody thing off; turns it back on again [...]

Posted in Agencies, Clients, Creative, Media, News | Tagged anti-social, facebook, facebook home, phone app, tv campaign, wieden+kennedy, Youtube

From now on ads should be no longer than five seconds says former enfant terrible Trevor Beattie

From now on ads should be no longer than five seconds says former enfant terrible Trevor Beattie

By Stephen Foster on March 18, 2013

Trevor Beattie, the founder of Beattie McGuinness Bungay, did a turn at the Advertising Week Europe conference today at which he announced that 30, 60 and any other second ad above five was a waste of time and space – in the era of Twitter and Facebook. This at a time when ads, if anything, [...]

Posted in Agencies, Clients, Creative, Media, News, Politics | Tagged advertising week europe, bmb, cheil, facebook, five-second ads, Labour, speech, tbwa, Tony Blair, Trevor Beattie, twitter

Julie Langley: why the Facebook deal to buy adserving company Atlas is important

Julie Langley: why the Facebook deal to buy adserving company Atlas is important

By Staff on February 28, 2013

Facebook is buying adserving business Atlas from Microsoft. Atlas enables advertisers to place ads on websites and track their effectiveness, competing with Google’s DoubleClick. Microsoft picked up Atlas when it acquired aQuantive in 2007. Julie Langley, managing director, technology and digital media practice, Results International explains what Atlas means for Facebook: “It’s important because by [...]

Posted in Finance, Media, News, Research | Tagged ads, adserving, atlas, doubleclick, facebook, google, Julie Langley, Microsoft, results international

George Parker: Why Suicide Girls is what social networking sites should be all about - nudes and all

George Parker: Why Suicide Girls is what social networking sites should be all about – nudes and all

By George Parker on February 22, 2013

George Parker describes a social networking site he approves of – the rather memorable SuicideGirls. Seven years ago, when Facebook was barely three years old and Twitter was not yet launched, I interviewed ‘Missy Suicide,’ the co-founder with Sean Suhl, of the SuicideGirls website, at a conference in Los Angeles. I thought then, and still [...]

Posted in Analysis, Creative, Media, News | Tagged facebook, George Parker, Missy, playboy, social media, social networking, soft porn, suicidegirls, twitter

Why hackers are winning the battle against brands

Why hackers are winning the battle against brands

By Staff on February 20, 2013

Two of the unintended consequences of the digital age are the fact that social media companies know everything about you (something we increasingly accept as the way of the world, gloomily) and the other is that such tech companies’ systems seem to be increasingly easy to hack into. The latest victim is Apple, for decades [...]

Posted in Agencies, Clients, Media, News, Politics | Tagged anonymous, apple, burger king, cadillac, chinese army, facebook, hacktivists, jeep, Jon Miller, lbi, McDonalds, twitter

New Google Adwords system will make mobile advertising easier - and more expensive

New Google Adwords system will make mobile advertising easier – and more expensive

By Staff on February 7, 2013

Google is upgrading its online advertising service Adwords to make it easier for marketers to reach users on different devices. This is said to be the biggest change in Adwords since its inception. The revamped AdWords service, called ‘Enhanced Campaigns (left),’ will allow companies to manage bids for ads running at different locations and times. [...]

Posted in Finance, Media, News | Tagged ad prices, desktops, ehanced campaigns, facebook, google, mobile ads, smartphones

Two fingers to social media from defiant Ryanair

Two fingers to social media from defiant Ryanair

By Stuart Smith on February 4, 2013

I was amused to read that the incoming head of comms at Ryanair (forgive the oxymoron) has “deliberately” ruled out a social media strategy. New boy Robin Kiely (left) tells us – apparently without irony – that such an initiative “would not be helpful” to Ryanair as “we would have so many people looking for [...]

Posted in Clients, News, PR | Tagged complaints, customer care, facebook, pilots, PR, Robin Kiely, ryanair, twitter

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