By Staff on May 21, 2013
Fallon UK and parent agency Saatchi & Saatchi seem to be getting their mojo back; as in this newish ad for Cadbury’s Crispello (what on earth is that? Do we need another snack?). This campaign has polarised opinion somewhat; some find it winningly cheeky, others deeply annoying (it’s got a Pringle-sweatered dad in it). But [...]
Posted in Agencies, Clients, Creative, News | Tagged britain's cheekiest stories, cadbury, crispello, fallon, mondelez, saatchi
By Stephen Foster on March 12, 2013
Not that much has been going right for Interpublic (IPG) on the agency front recently but General Motors is riding to the company’s rescue. Interim CMO Alan Batey has been busy unravelling former CMO Joel Ewanick’s many controversial decisions since Joel was turfed last year and now luxury brand Cadillac is reported to be headed [...]
Posted in Agencies, Clients, Creative, News | Tagged account move, Alan Batey, cadillac, campbell ewald, chevrolet, commonwealth, fallon, general motors, Interpublic, IPG, Joel Ewanick, publicis groupe
By Paul Simons on February 25, 2013
The influences that began to shape my thinking started in university days with TV programmes such as Monty Python. New ideas were slowly creeping out and the migration to advertising didn’t take long. It was a period when the creative juices were like the sap rising in spring across various pursuits such as music, photography, [...]
Posted in Agencies, Clients, Creative, News | Tagged bbh, bmp, bouncing balls, cadburys, desert island ads, fallon, gorilla, JWT, Paul Simons, simons palmer, smash martians, Sony
By Staff on November 20, 2012
Not if you live in the UK it’s not (you’ve got to find it first). But the baking streets of Buenos Aires are a different matter of course and air conditioning firm BGH and agency Del Campo Nazca Saatchi & Saatchi have abandoned their usual pantomime humour for this bleakly comic exploration of heat, directed [...]
Posted in Agencies, Clients, Creative, News | Tagged bgh, buenos aires, del campo nazca saatchi & saatchi, fallon, Juan Cabral, summer hater, tv campaign
By Stephen Foster on November 8, 2012
There are stories all over the place about the new John Lewis Christmas commercial, set to be unveiled in Saturday’s X-Factor on the UK’s ITV. Even the mighty Mail Online website has written reams about it, without a view of the commercial. This is, as they say, a hostage to fortune. If the ad is [...]
Posted in Agencies, Clients, Creative, News | Tagged adam&eve/ddb, cadburys, christmas ad, Craig Inglis, fallon, gorilla ad, John Lewis
By Stephen Foster on September 27, 2012
Kraft is reported to be reviewing its Toblerone account, presumably as part of the restructuring which will see its snacks business (mainly confectionery) hived off into new company Mondelez next year. Its current agency is WPP’s Ogilvy and before that it was Y&R, also now owned by WPP. It’s fair to say that Toblerone’s advertising [...]
Posted in Agencies, Clients, Creative, News | Tagged cadbury, crispin porter, droga5, fallon, Irene Rosenfeld, Kraft, milka, mondelez, ogilvy, saatchi & saatchi, toblerone, wieden+kennedy
By Stephen Foster on August 3, 2012
Can’t decide whether I like this or not. It’s a clever idea from Fallon to get the stars of the new The Sweeney movie, Ray Winstone and Ben Drew (aka Plan B) to star in the new Orange cinema commercial (maybe they’ve always done this in the current campaign, dunno). Maybe I have my doubts [...]
Posted in Agencies, Clients, Creative, News | Tagged Ben Drew, bet 365.com, fallon, john thaw, orange ad, Ray Winstone, the sweeney
By Paul Simons on July 27, 2012
When I saw the news Tesco had appointed Wieden & Kennedy to handle their £110m ad account my first reaction was ‘interesting and surprising decision’. The smart money would have been on Tesco hiring one of the big players and not an agency renowned for its outstanding creative output – Honda, Nike, etc. The reason [...]
Posted in Agencies, Clients, Creative, Media | Tagged absolut, Asda, BT, cadbury, citibank, fallon, gorilla ad, honda, Land Rover, news corp, nike, Playstation, RBS, simons palmer, Sony, tag, Tesco, the news of the world, the sun, wieden & kennedy, Zone
By Stephen Foster on July 20, 2012
Wieden+Kennedy London has won Tesco’s circa £110m account, presumably because of its record in producing brilliant ads. Now what are they going to do? Every little helps, as they used to say, so here’s a potted review of some great ads handled by great agencies on behalf of great clients over the past decade or [...]
Posted in Agencies, Clients, Creative, News | Tagged cadbury, Dudley Moore, fallon, french chickens, honda, Lowe Howard-Spink, sony Bravia, Tesco, wieden+kennedy london
By Staff on July 13, 2012
Jeff Kling, who resigned as ECD of Wieden+Kennedy Amsterdam in August 2010, has re-merged as CCO of Fallon Minneapolis, the HQ of the Publicis Groupe-owned network. Kling has been freelancing since he left W+K. Kling says:”The whole organization really impressed me – super quality people who had their lights on. What I found really refreshing [...]
Posted in Agencies, Clients, Creative, News | Tagged fallon, Jeff Kling, kaplan thaler group, publicis, publicis groupe, wieden+kennedy
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