By Stephen Foster on May 7, 2012
Y&R global CEO David Sable (pictured) sends me this message about the controversy over the Y&R Argentina ad for the Argentine government featuring one of its Olympic athletes making an unscheduled training trip to Port Stanley, capital of the British-owned Falklands Islands or Argentina’s Malvinas, depending on your point of view. In the ad the [...]
Posted in Agencies, Clients, News, Politics | Tagged apology, argentina, argentina government ad, David Sable, falkland islands, falklands war, malvinas, Margaret Thatcher, Martin Mercado, olympics, Ronald Reagan, south atlantic, war memorial, world cup, WPP, y&r
By Stephen Foster on May 7, 2012
The controversial London Olympics ad by Y&R Argentina claiming the UK-owned Falkland Islands are actually the Argentine Malvinas (the cause of a shooting war between the two countries 30 year ago) is still running on Argentine TV (and all over the internet) despite demands from an increasingly panic-stricken WPP (Y&R’s owner) to pull it. The [...]
Posted in Agencies, Clients, Creative, Media, News, Politics | Tagged argentine government, creative director, emblematic agency, falkland islands, london olympics, malivinas ad, Martin Mercado, Sir Martin Sorrell, WPP, y&r, y&r argentina
By James Charlton on June 2, 2011
David Bernstein is no stranger to controversy. He was non-executive chairman of French Connection during its “f.c.u.k” ad campaign in 1997, created by the mercurial Trevor Beattie at TBWA and banned from time to time by the Advertising Standards Authority. It was ultimately successful for the clothing label. Bernstein has also a held a number [...]
Posted in Media, News, Politics | Tagged argentina, british press, corruption, David Bernstein, Dennis Skinner, falkland islands, fifa, football association, Helen Mirren, Julio Grondona, manchester city, Sepp Blatter, Sun, Telegraph, The Queen
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