By Staff on March 20, 2012
Microsoft has fired two senior Bing marketing executives, Eric Hadley and Sean Carver, for allegedly misusing company funds. Microsoft says:”We can confirm that as the result of an investigation, Eric Hadley and Sean Carver’s employment with Microsoft has been terminated for violation of company policies related to mismanagement of company assets and vendor procurement.” Hadley [...]
Posted in Agencies, Clients, Finance, News | Tagged bing, crispin porter+bogusky, dismissals, Eric Hadley, fbi, fraud charges, JWT, mccann-erickson, mcgarrybowen, Microsoft, Nick Brien, posterscope, Sean Carver, sec, Thom Gruhler, universal, verizon, windowes phone, wunderman
By Stuart Smith on March 4, 2012
Can bad guys play a redemptive, positive role-model in advertising? I touched on this in my (seemingly popular) post on SS colonel Otto Skorzeny, who has been hailed by British adman Dave Trott as a creative thinker. Now, bizarrely, the two anti-heroes of 1987 film Wall Street have, quite separately, been recruited into public service [...]
Posted in Agencies, Clients, Creative, News | Tagged celebrities, Charlie Sheen, chrysler/fiat, Dave Trott, fbi, fiat abarth, gordon gecko, greed is good, Hollywood, junk bonds, Michael Douglas, Otto Skorzeny, ponzi schemes, role models, Stuart Smith, wall street
By Staff on November 4, 2011
Media buyer Aegis is flying high at the moment, reporting third quarter organic revenues up 11 per cent, but the company is facing a potentially embarrassing court trial of two former executives in the US that may cast some light on the opaque business of out of home media deals. Former president Todd Hansen (pictured) [...]
Posted in Agencies, Finance, Media, News | Tagged aegis, bad debt, bonuses, court charge, fbi, five-year fraud, James Buckley, kinetic, neuva rumasa, out of home, performance targets, posterscope us, spain, Todd Hansen, WPP, write-offs
By Stephen Foster on June 23, 2011
Suspected Boston gangster James ‘Whitey’ Bulger, 81, has been on the run for 16 years but just days after the FBI launched a TV campaign featuring his 60-year old girlfriend Catherine Greig, the old rascal has been arrested in an apartment block in Santa Monica, California. Bulger is an interesting character for lots of reasons. [...]
Posted in Clients, Media, News | Tagged advertising, Catherine Greig, fbi, feds, Jack Nicholson, James Whitey Bulger, John Connolly Jnr, Martin Scorsese, massachusetts, new england mafia, santa monica, the departed, tv campaign, William Bulger, winter hill gang
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