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Dare hits its stride with Stephen Hawking's black hole for Gio Compario

Dare hits its stride with Stephen Hawking’s black hole for Gio Compario

By Staff on January 2, 2013

UK agency Dare got off to a rocky start with its new Comparethemarket.com client, enlisting blandest-of-the-bland sports presenter Sue Barker and a rather worrying big gun to try to nix ‘former’ ad presenter Gio Compario. Noisy tenor Gio remains the focus of the ads but this time Dare has signed super-scintist Stephen Hawking and his [...]

Posted in Agencies, Clients, Creative, News | Tagged Confused.com, dare, Gio Compario, gocompare.com, meerkats, moneysupermarket.com, Stephen Hawking, tv campaign

Gocompare and new agency Dare kill off Gio Compario - but who are they advertising to?

Gocompare and new agency Dare kill off Gio Compario – but who are they advertising to?

By Angie Dean on July 4, 2012

Price comparison website Gocompare.com has moved its account from indie creative team Chris Wilkins and Sian Vickers to Dare (which used to handle rival operation Moneysupermarket.com, now at Mother). And it’s decided to kill off its signature tenor Gio Compario (in truth some Welsh bloke), otherwise why change agencies? So this is its new ad, [...]

Posted in Agencies, Clients, Creative, News | Tagged Chris Wilkins, comparethemarket.com, dare, Gio Compario, gocompare.com, moneysupermarket.com, mother, Sian Vickers, Sue Barker, vccp, wimbledon

Gocompare.com's new agency Dare isn't quite what it was as creative boss Brooke-Taylor quits

Gocompare.com’s new agency Dare isn’t quite what it was as creative boss Brooke-Taylor quits

By Stuart Smith on February 27, 2012

At virtually the same moment trendy digital agency Dare triumphantly announced it had won the £28m Gocompare.com price comparison account, it also had to make an embarrassing disclosure. It had just lost Danny Brooke-Taylor (pictured), the executive creative director who, probably more than anyone else at the agency, had laid the groundwork for this signature [...]

Posted in Agencies, Clients, Creative, Finance, News | Tagged adam & eve, Andy Nairn, bbh, cossette, Danny Brooke-Taylor, dare, edc, fallon, Flo Heiss, Gio Compario, gocompare.com, Helen Calcraft, john Prescott, Mark Collier, mcbd, merger, Michael Pring, moneysupermarket.com, mother, Omid Djalili

Gocompare picks Moneysupermarket's old agency Dare to take on Gio Compario challenge

Gocompare picks Moneysupermarket’s old agency Dare to take on Gio Compario challenge

By Stephen Foster on February 23, 2012

It’s a bit of a merry-go-round in the world of price comparison websites and now Gocompare.com (and its infamous tenor Gio Compario) has appointed Dare to handle its £28m creative account. Dare handled rival Moneysupermarket.com until it lost the account to Mother last March. This means the end of the road (for now) for husband-and-wife [...]

Posted in Agencies, Clients, Creative, News | Tagged Chris Wilkins, dare, Gio Compario, gocompare.com, Graham Rose, moneysupermarket.com, mother, noisy tenor, Richard Bazley, sheila's wheels, Sian Vickers

Gocompare goes posh with new Richard Bazley classic animation ad

Gocompare goes posh with new Richard Bazley classic animation ad

By Staff on February 21, 2012

Gocompare.com is sticking with noisy tenor Gio Compario (for now, it’s reported to be reviewing its creative account) but its latest effort has enlisted celebrated animation director Richard Bazley, three little pigs and a big bad wolf. The film uses traditional hand-drawn 2D animation and took ten weeks to complete. The film was produced by [...]

Posted in Agencies, Clients, Creative, News | Tagged 2d animation, amazing spectacles, Chris and Sian Wilkins, Disney, Eoin Clark, Gio Compario, gocompare.com, Richard Bazley

Gocompare reviews noisy ads as Moneysupermarket cranks up the volume with Mother

Gocompare reviews noisy ads as Moneysupermarket cranks up the volume with Mother

By Stephen Foster on January 12, 2012

Price comparison website Gocompare.com is reviewing its £28m creative account according to Campaign, something we predicted it might do back in September when it moved its media account to Carat. Not before time either as the amount of nasty, invasive noise generated by these sites is becoming intolerable; it’s not just Gocompare’s bellowing tenor Gio [...]

Posted in Agencies, Clients, Creative, News | Tagged carat, Chris Wilkins, comparethemarket.com, creative ad review, Gio Compario, gocompare.com, media review, meerkats, moneysupermarket.com, mother, noisy ads, Sian Vickers

It's another musical trend from BBH, 19th Century operetta for the Audi A6 Avant

It’s another musical trend from BBH, 19th Century operetta for the Audi A6 Avant

By Stephen Foster on September 30, 2011

Surely creatives Paul Yull and Adi Birkinshaw at Bartle Bogle Hegarty haven’t been watching too many Gio Compario ads? The agency which has brought us no end of cutting edge modernista music over the years (and profited mightily from some of it through owning the rights) has turned to the delights of waltzmeister Johann Strauss [...]

Posted in Agencies, Clients, Creative, News | Tagged Adi Birkinshaw, audi a6 avant, bartle bogle hegarty, bbh, Gio Compario, hummingbird, Johan Strauss ll, music, new campaign, open road open sky, operetta, Paul Yull, the gypsy baron, tv advertising, waltzmeister

Mother chooses a David Attenborough-style hero for Moneysupermarket debut

Mother chooses a David Attenborough-style hero for Moneysupermarket debut

By Stephen Foster on September 19, 2011

Agency Mother had quite a hard act to to follow when it won the moneysupermarket.com price comparison website in March (Dare’s last ad was a winner featuring John Prescott) but you can’t go wrong with gorillas these days, as Cadbury and Fallon discovered a few years ago. The agency’s debut for its new client is [...]

Posted in Agencies, Clients, Creative, News | Tagged ad debut, comparethemarket.com, dare, David Attenborough, Gio Compario, Graham Rose, john Prescott, moneysupermarket.com, mother, new commercials

Will Gocompare's £28m media review finally turn down the volume on annoying tenor Gio Compario?

Will Gocompare’s £28m media review finally turn down the volume on annoying tenor Gio Compario?

By Stephen Foster on September 8, 2011

Well we can only take so much. Price comparison site Gocompare.com’s campaign featuring bellowing tenor Gio Compario (actually a Welshman) has no doubt done wonders for the brand awareness and profits of the Esure-backed website but Gio is surely in danger of outstaying his welcome. Now the company is reviewing its media buying arrangements with [...]

Posted in Agencies, Clients, Creative, Media, News | Tagged campaign, Chris Ingram, Chris Wilkins, cia, direct line, esure, Gio Compario, gocompare.com, insurance, mec, media review, Michael Winner, Peter Wood, price comparison website, sheila's wheels, Sian Vickers, welsh tenor, WPP

DDB Tribal and Mob take 3D route for Deutsche Telekom

DDB Tribal and Mob take 3D route for Deutsche Telekom

By Staff on April 8, 2011

It’s rather a terrifying prospect isn’t it, a barrage of 3D ads? Imagine a 3D Gio Compario for Gocompare.com not just bellowing at you but all around you. Anyway Tribal DDB and production company Mob have enlisted Hollywood director Paul WS Anderson to make this film for Deutsche Telekom’s Entertain TV business. It’s the first [...]

Posted in Agencies, Clients, Creative, News | Tagged 3d, deutsche telekom, Gio Compario, gocompare.com, mob, Paul WS Anderson, tribal ddb

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