By Stephen Foster on June 12, 2012
So it’s the eagerly-awaited gunfight at the Four Seasons Hotel in Dublin tomorrow, hardly Dodge City but the leafy Ballsbridge suburb in the Irish capital has probably also seen a few disagreements in its time. And at 12pm WPP founder and CEO Sir Martin Sorrell will confront his revolting shareholders at WPP’s AGM, unless chairman [...]
Posted in Agencies, Finance, News | Tagged agm, Bob Dudley, BP, dublin, four seasons hotel, John O'Keefe, Phil Lader, shareholder revolt, Sir Martin Sorrell, WPP, £13m pay deal
By Stephen Foster on January 21, 2011
The Gunn Report is one of those clever, almost simplistic ideas. Just tot up the number of awards agencies have won and you get the top agency or agency network in the world. And, once again, the top performing agency network is Omnicom’s BBDO headed by Brit Andrew Robertson. Here’s Agency Spy’s report. We’re getting [...]
Posted in Agencies, Clients, Creative, News | Tagged agency spy, Andrew Robertson, bbdo, ddb london, Gillette, gunn report, John O'Keefe, omnicom, procter & gamble, publicis groupe, Roger Federer, Sir Martin Sorrell, Thierry Henry, Tiger Woods, top agency, WPP
By Angie Dean on November 29, 2010
The Epica awards were founded 24 years ago by former adman Andrew Rawlins to award the best work in Europe. It’s since expanded to include more of Middle East and Africa but remains a very good guide to the best creative work. This year Y&R scored strongly, a testament perhaps to the impact made by [...]
Posted in Agencies, Creative, News | Tagged Andrew Rawlins, epica awards, John O'Keefe, omnicom, Stuart Smith, WPP, y&r
By Stephen Foster on September 2, 2010
Advertising is bouncing back with a vengeance from the depths of the recession as big corporates (clients) realise that there’s market share out there to be grabbed and they’d better do it before some young upstart (like Reckitt-Benckiser) takes their business away from them. So WPP, Publicis, Aegis and Havas have all recently reported good [...]
Posted in Agencies, Clients, Creative, News | Tagged Craig Davis, havas, John O'Keefe, omnicom, publicis groupe, Sir Martin Sorrell, WPP
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