By Stephen Foster on December 14, 2011
It’s been something of an annus mirabilis for Wieden+Kennedy London as the recently high-flying agency has seen the departures of biggest account Nokia (with attendant ten per cent redundancies) and the Guardian, one flagship account, Honda, cut back in the wake of the tsunami in Japan and another, Nike, award its plum Europe assignments to [...]
Posted in Agencies, Clients, Creative, News | Tagged 3, amsterdam, arla foods, beeline, coca-cola, Dan Wieden, guardian, heineken, honda, Ian Tait, Kim Papworth, London, Mark Fitzloff, Neil Christie, new partners, nike, nokia, portland, russia, Tom Blessington, Tony Davidson, wieden+kennedy
By Stephen Foster on December 5, 2011
It’s the time of the year when hacks and others start musing about agency of the year gongs and, in the UK at least, it seems pretty obvious that the winner is going to be Bartle Bogle Hegarty. It has not only produced some outstanding work – for Audi, Yeo Valley, Barnardo’s, Johnnie Walker and [...]
Posted in Agencies, Clients, Creative, News | Tagged agency of the year contender, bartle bogle hegarty, bbh, british airways, ddb london, guardian, johnnie walker, Justin Tindall, Ken Hoggins, Sarah Watson, sol, Trevor Beattie, virgin media, Waitrose, wonderbra
By Staff on November 22, 2011
This is a funny one: Guardian newspaper owner Guardian News & Media is trying hard to expand in the US but, in the process, is trying to sell ContentNext Media, publisher of the PaidContent and mocoNews tech sites, both of which are popular in the US. The Guardian has been recruiting journalists in the US [...]
Posted in Finance, Media, News | Tagged Andrew Miller, AOL, auto trader, contentnextmedia, guardian, guardian media group, guardian website, Mike Arrington, moconews, paidcontent, techcrunch, us
By Stephen Foster on November 17, 2011
Benetton, from time to time a rather contentious jumper manufacturer, has struck another winner (in publicity terms at least) with its new ‘Unhate’ campaign. This features supposedly opposing world leaders enjoying a jolly good snog with each other. And the first to complain has been Pope Benedict XV1 who objected to a concocted image of [...]
Posted in Agencies, Clients, Creative, Media, News, Politics, PR | Tagged 72andsunny, ad ban, ahmed Mohamed el-Tayeb, aids campaign, Angela Merkel, benetton, BenJamin Netanyahu, economist, fabrica, guardian, le monde, Mahmoud Abbas, Pope Benedict XV1, Silvio Berlusconi, unhate campaign
By Stephen Foster on October 20, 2011
The Guardian newspaper is reviewing its ad account, historically one of UK adland’s trophy accounts although the cash-strapped paper is only expected to spend about £2m with the lucky winner. As you’d expect the pitch numbers some of adland’s finest: Bartle Bogle Hegarty (which has seemed like the obvious home for the Guardian for years), [...]
Posted in Agencies, Clients, Creative, News | Tagged bartle bogle hegarty, boase massimi pollitt, cover price, defence secretary, falling circulation, guardian, guardian website, i, Independent, Liam Fox, london evening standard, metro, news of the world, Paul Weiland, phone hacking scandal, points of view ad, rkcr/y&r, wieden+kennedy
By Stephen Foster on September 21, 2011
New Metropolitan Police commissioner Bernard Hogan-Howe (why do double-barrelled names sometimes sound so untrustworthy?) has only been in the job for a week or so but he’s already overseen a humiliating climbdown for the force in its efforts to force the Guardian newspaper to reveal its sources for its investigation in the phone hacking scandal. [...]
Posted in Media, News, Politics | Tagged Amelia Hill, Bernard Hogan-Howe, director of public prosecutions, guardian, Keir Starmer, Milly Dowler, new met police commissioner, news of the world, Nick Davies, official secrets act, phone hacking
By Stephen Foster on September 19, 2011
Coalition government attorney general Dominic Grieve, himself a lawyer, says that he, in conjunction with the Crown Prosecution Service, will have to approve any Metropolitan Police prosecution of the Guardian for being in receipt of leaks pertaining to the News of the World phone hacking affair. The Met is proposing to charge the Guardian under [...]
Posted in Media, News, Politics | Tagged Amelia Hill, Bernard Hogan-Howe, cps, crown prosecution service, Damian Green, Dominic Grieve, guardian, met police, Milly Dowler, Nick Davies, official secrets act, phone hacking scandal
By James Charlton on August 12, 2011
The UK culture secretary Jeremy Hunt has released a map of 65 potential new ‘hyper-local’ television stations that could operate in the UK. The Government expects that most big cities, as well as towns such as Haverfordwest, Barnstaple and Poole, could viably host local TV. Local television has been a long-term Conservative Party goal, but [...]
Posted in Media, News, Politics | Tagged 000 budgets, barnstaple, channel m, culture secretary, guardian, Jeremy Hunt, limited content, manchester, Mark Dodson, measurement, poole, uk local tv, £500
By Stephen Foster on August 8, 2011
A week ago we asked where the money was coming from to help the loss-making Guardian newspaper and online group survive the next few years as it tries to find a workable print model and finally earn some profits from its successful (in reader numbers anyway) Guardian Online website. And the answer is: Auto Trader, [...]
Posted in Finance, Media, News | Tagged Alan Rusbridger, Andrew Miller, apax partners, auto trader, emap, guardian, guardian online, John Madejski, losses, observer, reading fc
By Stephen Foster on August 2, 2011
Without the UK’s Guardian newspaper we would probably never have learned the full story about phone hacking at Rupert Murdoch’s News of the World (although the New York Times has also done some fine work). In the UK anyway the rest of Fleet Street showed no inclination whatsoever to follow up the original jailing of [...]
Posted in Finance, Media, News | Tagged Alexander Lebedev, Andrew Miller, auto trader, emap, Gordon Taylor, guardian, guardian media group, i, Independent, losses, Max Clifford, news of the world, observer, phone hacking scandal, Rupert Murdoch, scott trust, website
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