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 Staff on May 3, 2013
Two weeks ago Dave Dye set up London’s newest agency Hello People with former Ogilvy UK managers Hugh Baillie and Rachel Hatton. He previously worked at BMP, AMV/BBDO, Leagas Delaney, Campbell Doyle Dye and DHM winning awards for The Economist, Nike, Volkswagen and Google and Adnams. He is the only person to design two D&AD [...]
Posted in Agencies, Analysis, Clients, Creative, News | Tagged after eight, apple, brutus jeans, Dave Dye, desert island ads, fedex, hello people, Jean-Paul Goude, John Webster, JWT, Muhammad Ali
By Stephen Foster on April 22, 2013
***Grey London has just produced a new global campaign for Lucozade; ‘Powered by Glucose.’ Well it makes the point (and in just thirty seconds too). Owner GlaxoSmithKline is planning to sell its two big consumer brands Lucozade and Ribena apparently; obviously to concentrate on the disagreeable task of inventing, patenting, gaining clearance for, selling at [...]
Posted in Agencies, Clients, Creative, News, Politics | Tagged apple bite, glaxosmithkline, grey london, grey new york, guns campaign, JWT, lucozade, mother, ribena, smirnoff
By Stephen Foster on March 22, 2013
Marcoms giant WPP has four big (or supposedly big) creative agencies in London – JWT, RKCR/Y&R, Grey and Ogilvy – and 49 per cent of the relatively new CHI. But, rather strangely, according to Campaign/Nielsen figures for 2012, JWT, Grey and Ogilvy are languishing in the lower reaches of the top 20 agencies by billings [...]
Posted in Agencies, Analysis, Clients, Creative, Finance, News | Tagged adam&eve/ddb, billings table, Cheryl Giovannoni, grey, JWT, landor, London, ogilvy, omicom, rkcr/y&r, Sir Martin Sorrell, WPP
By Stephen Foster on March 14, 2013
And why should we inquire? Well, according to the new Campaign/Nielsen list of UK agency billings AMV/BBDO remains top dog (no surprise there) but, at £458m is more than one and a half times as big as number two McCann. and the gap is widening: AMV/BBDO increased its billings by 22 per cent in 2012 [...]
Posted in Agencies, Analysis, Clients, Finance, News | Tagged adam&eve/ddb, amv/bbdo, bbdo, campaign'nielsen billings table, Cilla Snowball, David Abbott, JWT, Michael Baulk, omnicom
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 Paul Simons on February 25, 2013
The influences that began to shape my thinking started in university days with TV programmes such as Monty Python. New ideas were slowly creeping out and the migration to advertising didn’t take long. It was a period when the creative juices were like the sap rising in spring across various pursuits such as music, photography, [...]
Posted in Agencies, Clients, Creative, News | Tagged bbh, bmp, bouncing balls, cadburys, desert island ads, fallon, gorilla, JWT, Paul Simons, simons palmer, smash martians, Sony
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
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