By Stephen Foster on May 13, 2013
We’re all looking forward to the British and Irish Lions forthcoming rugby tour to Australia (it’s interesting that the Lions is the only time the British and the Irish play together) so sponsor HSBC has made an ad with JWT to celebrate the event. And here it is; featuring Lions legends Willie-John McBride and JPR [...]
Posted in Agencies, Clients, Creative, News | Tagged ad campaign, autralia tour, botany bay, Brian O'Driscoll, british and irish lions, hsbc, JWT, legendary journey, Richard Hill
By Stephen Foster on March 19, 2013
Conventional wisdom says that it’s not worth repitching for an account because it’s bound to go and all you’ll be left with is a big bill. But maybe that’s wrong: LA-based RPA has hung on to most of the $1bn or so US Honda creative account: just as well as it’s had the business since [...]
Posted in Agencies, Clients, Creative, Finance, Media, News | Tagged accout review, acura, crispin porter, honda, hsbc, mullen, rpa, the martin agency, unilever
By Stuart Smith on March 11, 2013
So, what was all that about? HSBC’s group marketing director Chris Clark (left) calls a review of the “£400m” (actually rather less these days) global account late last year. Well, not exactly a review. More a series of private meetings that happen to take in the incumbent agency’s rivals at Omnicom, IPG and Publicis – [...]
Posted in Agencies, Clients, Creative, Finance, News | Tagged ad review, Chris Clark, hsbc, in the future, IPG, JWT, omnicom, publicis groupe, the world's local bank
By Staff on March 8, 2013
WPP agencies Grey and JWT have been appointed ‘lead’ agencies on giant bank HSBC’s £400m global creative account while Publicis Groupe’s Saatchi & Saatchi has won its wealth management business. The business was put up for review last year. JWT was the incumbent although the bank’s last notable advertising was from Lowe with its ‘world’s [...]
Posted in Agencies, Clients, News | Tagged account move, bank of america, grey, hsbc, JWT, Lowe, publicis, saatchi & saatchi, WPP
By Stuart Smith on November 14, 2012
Harris Diamond – who’s he? The new chairman and chief executive of McCann Worldgroup, replacing Nick Brien as of last night – that’s who. Brien’s position has long since looked untenable – to all, that is, except senior Interpublic management. Brien (left) is a dynamic, no-nonsense, deal-cutter, inured to the ways of media-buying, but the [...]
Posted in Agencies, Analysis, Clients, Creative, Finance, Media, News, PR | Tagged AOL, commonwealth, exxon, Frank Mergenthaler, golin harris, goodby silverstein & partners, grey, Gustavo Martinez, Harris Diamond, hsbc, Interpublic, IPG, Joel Ewanick, JWT, L'Oreal, Laurence Boschetto, Luca Lindner, lufthansa, Marion Harper, mccann, mediabrands, Michael Roth, Nestle, Nick Brien, octagon, weber shandwick, WPP
By Stephen Foster on October 23, 2012
It’s two from WPP versus one from Omnicom in the shoot-out for HSBC’s $600m global account (according to Campaign) with incumbent JWT and Grey up against BBDO spearheaded by the UK’s AMV/BBDO. Despite the numerical disadvantage you’d have to make Omnicom and BBDO favourite. AMV/BBDO is the UK’s biggest agency and the proverbial safe pair [...]
Posted in Agencies, Clients, Creative, News | Tagged amv/bbdo, grey, hsbc, JWT, omnicom, Sainsburys, world's local bank, WPP
By Stephen Foster on October 19, 2012
Giant global bank HSBC has announced it’s reviewing its global ad account worth about $1bn at WPP’s JWT and media buyer GroupM while pharma giant Pfizer has said it’s dumping Interpublic and concentrating its work into WPP, Omnicom and Publicis Groupe. But that’s what big clients do. The HSBC deal with WPP came via Peter [...]
Posted in Agencies, Clients, Creative, Finance, Media, News | Tagged hsbc, Interpublic, JWT, Lowe, mccann, Peter Stringham, pfizer, procurement, WPP
By Stephen Foster on April 24, 2012
The Brits and the French spent much of the 18th century vying for control of India (the Brits won, of course) and the two old adversaries seem to be busily engaged in another contest to the death on the sub-continent, this time in all things digital with respective national marcoms flagships WPP and Publicis Groupe [...]
Posted in Agencies, Clients, Finance, Media, News, Research | Tagged aig, brandedge, digital marketing, digitas, hsbc, India, indigo, infosys, kantar, leo burnett, mysupermarket, publicis groupe, razorfish, rosetta marketing group, Sir Martin Sorrell, tata, thomas cook, Vikas Tandon, vivaki, WPP
By Staff on March 12, 2012
Which isn’t very reassuring for chancellor George Osborne and UK taxpayers who are still hoping to recover the near £60bn spent on bailing out RBS and Lloyds Banking Group at the height of the credit crunch in 2009. That’s the conclusion UK brand agency Clear draws from its new Brand Desire Study 2012 anyway. Clear [...]
Posted in Clients, Finance, News, PR, Research | Tagged apple, barclays, brand agency, brand desire study 2012, clear, desirable brands, first direct, google, hsbc, James Osmond, lloyds banking group, Lloyds TSB, nat west, paypal, RBS, Sainsburys, Tesco, uk high street banks
By Stuart Smith on December 7, 2011
Chris Barraclough, writing in Marketing magazine, is right. While the marketing community obsesses about Marks & Spencer lingerie ads, Size Zero models, Twitter trending and the monetisation of Facebook, it is almost entirely oblivious to some criminality of Dickensian proportions besmirching its name. Criminality? We’re talking big banks here, and yet another ‘mis-selling’ scandal, although [...]
Posted in Clients, Finance, News, Politics, PR | Tagged bank of scotland, barclays, Chris Barraclough, commission, help the aged, hsbc, investment bond, marketing magazine, marks & spencer, mis-selling, nhfa, nursing home fees agency, Royal British Legion, Stuart Smith, twitter, £40m fine
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