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By Stuart Smith on April 29, 2013
Having, a while back, complimented Chris Macdonald on the improved quality of his tailoring, it would be churlish not to congratulate London’s sharpest suit on landing the hot seat at McCann New York, where he will soon become president. Macdonald (left), who combines the position of McCann London group chairman with agency chief executive, is [...]
Posted in Agencies, Analysis, Clients, Creative, News, PR | Tagged Chris Macdonald, general motors, Harris Diamond, Interpublic, mccann, mccann worldgroup, New York, Nick Brien, Stuart Smith, Thom Gruhler
By Stuart Smith on April 16, 2013
Whoever said advertising was a young person’s business? The conventional wisdom is that at 40, most ad executives would be advised to investigate a second career. And at 50, they’ll be positively clapped out and have “post-economic” freedom foisted upon them whether they like it or not. Superficially, membership statistics for the Institute of Practitioners [...]
Posted in Agencies, Finance, News | Tagged age, Bob Willott, david jones, havas, holding companies, Interpublic, ipa, John Wren, Maurice Levy, Michael Roth, Sir Martin Sorrell, WPP
By Stephen Foster on March 20, 2013
Last year Publicis Groupe bought international digital agency LBi for $540m and, once the dust had settled, decided to merge it with Digitas, the Boston-based digital operation it bought in 2006 for a rather more eye-watering $1.3bn. Which made you think: why does it need LBi and Digitas if the two agencies do more or [...]
Posted in Agencies, Clients, Finance, News | Tagged Colin Kinsella, digital agencies, digitaslbi, Interpublic, Maurice Levy, publicis groupe, Tony Weisman
By Stephen Foster on March 14, 2013
In the ancient world when a leading figure had fallen out of favour they used to destroy all his statues (hers didn’t get them, alas). Much the same has been happening to departed General Motors CMO Joel Ewanick and now his main construct, a GM in-house agency made up of Omnicom’s Goodby Silverstein and Interpublic’s [...]
Posted in Agencies, Clients, Creative, Finance, News | Tagged commonwealth agency, general motors, goodby silverstein, Interpublic, Joel Ewanick, Linus Karlsson, mccann, omnicom
By Stephen Foster on March 12, 2013
Then there were three? There are four big marcoms holding companies (if you exclude Dentsu which is still 90 per cent Japan as it waits for clearance from China to buy Aegis): WPP, Omnicom, Publicis Groupe and interpublic (IPG). Late last year all the chatter was that Publicis Groupe had made an informal approach for [...]
Posted in Agencies, Finance, News | Tagged Interpublic, IPG, Jim Edwards, Maurice Levy, Michael Roth, omnicom, publicis groupe, takeover, WPP
By Stephen Foster on March 12, 2013
Not that much has been going right for Interpublic (IPG) on the agency front recently but General Motors is riding to the company’s rescue. Interim CMO Alan Batey has been busy unravelling former CMO Joel Ewanick’s many controversial decisions since Joel was turfed last year and now luxury brand Cadillac is reported to be headed [...]
Posted in Agencies, Clients, Creative, News | Tagged account move, Alan Batey, cadillac, campbell ewald, chevrolet, commonwealth, fallon, general motors, Interpublic, IPG, Joel Ewanick, publicis groupe
By Staff on March 6, 2013
Hope Lingerie is exciting the lads – and female customers too presumably – with this saucy internet film, ‘Hope Tales,’ from Giovanni DraftFCB in Sao Paulo. Interpublic-owned DraftFCB is having a few problems at the moment. losing accounts all over the place and not noted for its, er, creativity. Bring in the boys from Brazil!
Posted in Agencies, Clients, Creative, News | Tagged brazil, giovanni draftfcb, hope lingerie, hope tales, Interpublic, sao paulo, saucy internet film
By Stephen Foster on March 1, 2013
WPP more or less matched rivals Publicis Groupe and Havas, beat Interpublic but lagged Omnicom with growth of 2.9 per cent in 2012, according to its full year accounts released today. Billings fell slightly to around £44bn (blamed on the weaker pound) while pre-tax profits increased 3.5 per cent to £1.3bn on revenue of £10.4bn. [...]
Posted in Agencies, Clients, Finance, News, PR, Research | Tagged 2012 results, growth, Interpublic, Jim Houghton, market research, omnicom, PR, publicis groupe, results international, Sir Martin Sorrell, WPP
By Stephen Foster on February 19, 2013
Interpublic (IPG) is believed to be launching Rapport, its successful UK out of home specialist, in America as soon as its current contract with WPP’s Kinetic expires. The move follows hard on the heels on revelations (here) that Eric Newnham’s new out of home agency Talon is being backed by Omnicom Media Group. OMG’s interest [...]
Posted in Agencies, Clients, Finance, Media, News | Tagged aegis, Interpublic, ipm, kinetic, Mike Cooper, out of home, posterscope, rapport, samsung, sky, talon, us, us expansion, WPP
By Stephen Foster on February 12, 2013
Here’s the first taster of Chevrolet’s eagerly-awaited ‘Find New Roads’ campaign – taking over from the unloved ‘Chevy Runs Deep’ and a right old mish-mash it is. This was perhaps inevitable as Chevrolet, by far General Motors’ biggest brand, chose to cobble together tasters of forthcoming individual model campaigns for its ads in the Grammys [...]
Posted in Agencies, Clients, Creative | Tagged chevrolet, chevy runs deep, commonwealth, find new roads, goodby silverstein, grammys, Interpublic, mccann, new range ad, omnicom, tv campaign
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