By Stephen Foster on March 27, 2013
This one goes from bad to worse for JWT India, Ford agency Blue Hive or Team WPP (take your pick) and owner WPP. The ads, for Ford’s Figo it appears, that we thought were the result of a ‘rogue’ (although quite clever creative or creatives) were actually entered for the Goafest ad awards by JWT [...]
Posted in Agencies, Clients, Creative, News, Politics, PR | Tagged awards entry, blue hive, Bobby Pawar, firings, ford figo, goafest, jwt india, Martin Mercado, rape, Sir Martin Sorrell, Vijay Sinha, WPP, y&r argentina
By Stephen Foster on May 30, 2012
A month ago we asked if anyone still needed Trinity Mirror, publisher of the Daily and Sunday Mirror, the (Sunday) People and a gaggle of regional titles. This was in the wake of Sly Bailey’s removal as CEO when shareholders jibbed at paying her £1.7m a year to run a company whose value had declined [...]
Posted in Finance, Media, News | Tagged daily mirror, daily record, David Grigson, firings, Lloyd Embley, Mark Hollinshead, people, Richard Littlejohn, Richard Wallace, seven day publishiing, Sly Bailey, sunday mirror, Tina Weaver, trinity mirror
By Stephen Foster on March 27, 2012
More details are dribbling out about the high profile firings of Microsoft Bing marketing executives Eric Hadley and Sean Carver. One issue was a first class flight taken by Carver and authorised by Hadley, who shouldn’t have. Hardly a hanging offence surely. Another relates to items the two ordered for their ‘Bing Bar’ in Park [...]
Posted in Agencies, Clients, Finance, News | Tagged $1m fee, adscam/the horror!, bing, bing bar, co collective, Eric Hadley, firings, first class flight, George Parker, Maurice Levy, Microsoft, publicis groupe, razorfish, Robert Redford, Rosemary Ryan, Sean Carver, sundance festival, top marketing executives, Ty Montague
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