By Stephen Foster on December 10, 2012
This is interesting for all sorts of reasons (most of which we’ve tried to cram into the headline). So have the Big Apple-ites captured the (often rancid) flavour of British football support? Maybe they have. And they weren’t to know that the Manchester derby match at the weekend would turn into a thoroughly rancid affair [...]
Posted in Agencies, Clients, Creative, News | Tagged espn, football, hooligans, manchester city, manchester derby, manchester united, Rio Ferdinand, sky, wieden+kennedy new york
By Staff on September 4, 2012
Buccaneering Irish bookie Paddy Power has launched in Italy, scene of an ongoing football match-fixing scandal. Why overpaid footballers should need the money is a mystery to the rest of us, but there you are. So who better than Jesus to cleanse the temple, sorry the dressing room (this is the English version). Power has [...]
Posted in Agencies, Clients, Creative, News | Tagged crispin porter+bogusky, football, ireland, italy, jesus ad, match-fixing scandal, Michael O'Leary, Paddy Power, ryanair
By Angie Dean on March 28, 2012
Well we’re only worried about them pulling a hamstring or something. You can imagine the client briefing meeting at Pepsi: “yes, we know we’ve been doing the same thing for years and so has Adidas and so has Nike but these guys are on our payroll so you’ve got to use them.” So CLM BBDO [...]
Posted in Agencies, Clients, Creative, News | Tagged adidas, clm bbdo, David Beckham, Didier Drogba, Fernando Torres, football, Frank Lampard, jack Wilshere, Jose Aguero, kick in the mix, Lionel Messi, nike, pepsi crowd surfing ad
By Stephen Foster on February 7, 2012
New(ish) agency Johnny Fearless, started by Neil Hughston from Grey and Paul Domenet and David Howard from Saatchi & Saatchi a year ago, has joined the racism controversy currently gripping English football with the launch of 2sox1goal, an effort to persuade young footballers to wear one white sock and one black to show their opposition [...]
Posted in Agencies, Media, News | Tagged 2sox1goal, abide with me, anti-racism campaign, Anton Ferdinand, cup final, David Howard, england football captain, facebook, football, johnny fearless, JohnTerry, joint effort studios, Luis Suarez, Neil Hughston, new agency, Paul Domenet, smoke & mirrors, Youtube
By Stephen Foster on January 16, 2012
Google’s latest social media foray Google+ has already done a good job of annoying competitors Facebook and Twitter, both complaining that the way it is incorporated in Google search results acts to their disadvantage. But the new service still needs to put more bums on seats, users who want to ‘hang out’ on the service. [...]
Posted in Clients, News, PR | Tagged David Beckham, facebook, football, google, hang outs, la galaxy, Landon Donovan, paris st germain, Thierry Henry, twitter
By Stephen Foster on December 13, 2011
Real Madrid’s Special One must be the first football manager to inspire a children’s cartoon series and the merchandise to go with it (you can’t imagine anyone wanting the Sir Alex Ferguson version can you)? Sports Stars Media is aiming to float on London’s AIM stock exchange with the intention of raising £1.75m to fund [...]
Posted in Media, News | Tagged aim float, barcelona, cartoon, chelsea, comby's island, football, internazionale, Jose Mourinho, Jose Mourinho and the special ones, merchandising, porto, real madrid, Ruben Dias, sports stars media
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