By Stephen Foster on December 7, 2012
*Honda in the US is reviewing its $800m account, which will have reverberations all over the place as it tries to find an agency that gives it the whoomph to challenge Toyota. And Ford and GM and Chrysler… RPA has done an amazing job for Honda but it’s decided to go big. BBDO? Is Andrew [...]
Posted in Agencies, Clients, Creative, Media, News | Tagged Andrew Robertson, clark huot, fetch, honda, JC Decaux, lenovo, Liz Ross Martyn, Rod Strother, rpa, we are social
By Staff on November 27, 2012
Samsung UK is taking over JC Decaux’s new Cromwell Road Digital Gateway in the run up to Christmas with an outdoor campaign created by Cheil UK. The campaign, which has been planned and booked by Rapport (formerly IPM), will use the digital outdoor space to showcase Samsung’s range of mobile products in the approach to [...]
Posted in Agencies, Clients, Creative, Media, News | Tagged cheil uk, cromwell road, digital gateway, gs 3, JC Decaux, note, samsung
By Staff on May 17, 2012
The management team of Ocean Outdoor, backed by LDC Capital (part of Lloyds Banking Group), has bought the company from its early stage investors, Smedvig Capital and others, for an undisclosed sum. This means that Ocean Outdoor will stay independent and be able to expand its holding of super premium large format digital and banner [...]
Posted in Finance, Media, News | Tagged cbs outdoor, Clear Channel, company sale, Damian Cox, Daniel Sasaki, JC Decaux, ldc, lloyds development capital, ocean outdoor, smedvig capital, Tim Bleakley, Tom Goddard
By Staff on May 4, 2012
More strife has emerged in the ever-interesting UK outdoor industry with Alastair Lines of Canary Wharf Media accusing industry trade body the Outdoor Media Centre of overplaying the benefit new digital sites are bringing to the wider industry, neglecting the promotion of traditional outdoor formats (still the vast majority) and including what he calls the [...]
Posted in Agencies, Clients, Finance, Media, News, Research | Tagged active, aegis, Alastair Lines, asus, barter companies, canary wharf media, cbs outdoor, Clear Channel, ipm, JC Decaux, Mike Baker, miroma, office of fair trading, omc, omnicom, outdoor media centre, postar research system, q1 outdoor revenue, uk outdoor market, vast commissions, WPP
By Staff on March 27, 2012
The imminent London Olympics were supposed to produce a boom time for the whole media sector: from the mighty WPP which anticipated heavy client spending down to the UK’s poster contractors and agencies (one of which, Kinetic, is owned by WPP). All those anticipated visitors would surely persuade advertisers to uncork their wallets. They still [...]
Posted in Agencies, Clients, Finance, Media, News, Politics | Tagged global radio, imax cinema, JC Decaux, kinetic, locog, london olympics, moscow, Network Rail, ocean outdoor, out of home, posters, Rance Crain, russia, smedvig capital, stratford, utv media, visitors, waterloo, westfield shopping mall, WPP, £1m poster sites
By Staff on February 24, 2012
French out of home giant JC Decaux is leading the bidding for the UK’s Ocean Outdoor and is expected to wrap up a £50m deal next week. Ocean Outdoor was founded by Damian Cox in 2005 and has the UK’s best stock of ‘spectacular’ poster sites, both digital and paper, including the UK’s biggest, the [...]
Posted in Finance, Media, News | Tagged Clear Channel, Damian Cox, digital posters, imax cinema, JC Decaux, London, manchester, ocean outdoor, olympics, rothschilds, street furniture, £50m deal
By Stephen Foster on August 26, 2011
Back in 2006 (two years before the recession struck in the UK and elsewhere) CBS outdoor signed an eight and a half year deal with London Underground to instal digital screens in flagship Tube stations like Oxford Circus. In return CBS guaranteed London Underground operating company Transport for London (TFL) about £70m a year from [...]
Posted in Finance, Media, News | Tagged 2012 olympics, carlton cinema advertising, cbs outdoor, digital screens, JC Decaux, london underground, maiden outdoor, Mark Chippendale, Mike Moran, oxford circus, pearl & dean, revenue guarantees, transport for london, tube advertising contract
By Stephen Foster on June 30, 2011
CBS Outdoor, the one-time Viacom company that is now going it alone with a ‘for sale’ sign on the door, has dispensed with the services of UK managing director Mike Moran and commercial director Mark Chippendale. Jason Cotterell, who negotiated the company’s (so far) successful deal with Westfield, is taking over. CBS Outdoor has lost [...]
Posted in Media, News | Tagged cbs outdoor, Clear Channel, digital, Jason Cotterell, JC Decaux, kinetic, london underground, Mark Chippendale, Mike Moran, outdoor advertising, oxford circus, posters, posterscope, tube posters, viacom
By Staff on June 15, 2011
UK outdoor executive Kevin Shute has always been one of the mavericks of the industry and now he’s built on his connections with Ricoh in Japan to build the UK’s first outdoor advertising tower powered solely by renewable energy. The Ricoh tower, which is powered by 96 solar panels and five wind turbine engines, is [...]
Posted in Media, News | Tagged chiswick, Clear Channel, heathrow airport, JC Decaux, Kevin Shute, London, m4, rainmaker, renewable energy first, ricoh, ricoh tower, van wagner
By Staff on May 24, 2011
Near Field Communication (NFC) is the next big thing in mobiles (we have just learned) and it’s being deployed for the forthcoming UK launch of new Fox film X-Men First Class starring January Jones and James McEvoy. Aegis-owned poster specialist Posterscope is partnering with Nokia, 02, mobile payments firm Proxama and poster contractor JC Decaux [...]
Posted in Creative, Media, News | Tagged 02, film launch, fox, hyperspace, James Davies, James McEvoy, January Jones, JC Decaux, near field communication, nfc, nokia, posterscope, proxama, x-men first class
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