What does it take to be a successful boss of McCann in the UK? Essentially, as captain of the ship, you repel boarders and maintain the agency’s status as the second-biggest in the UK (way behind Omnicom’s AMV/BBDO) even though you go through annual agonies about the creative work being shit and nobody liking you [...]
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 [...]
Leo Burnett’s Arc division (one of those funny bits in agencies that keeps a lower profile than its big brother but which probably makes more money) is running a bound-to-be controversial campaign for online English tuition service The Tutor Crowd. Taking as its inspiration the frequent spelling mistakes in the graffiti plastered around London and [...]
Last year TBWA Manchester lost the £50m Co-op account to Leo Burnett and now its big brother in London has gone some way towards replacing the loss by winning German-owned discount supermarket chain Lidl. Lidl is reported to have been swayed by the success ‘rival’ Aldi has enjoyed with its ‘like brands’ campaign through McCann [...]
These are my choices for ad/campaign of the year, agency of the year and person of the year. Tomorrow (or maybe the next day) we’ll try to reach a consensus about the ultimate top dogs of 2012. So to ads: BBH’s Three Little Pigs for the Guardian was undoubtedly the tour de force of the [...]
Here’s a rather clever campaign from BBH and enterprising digital poster network Outdoor Plus – a poster for Audi’s Quattro four wheel drive system that pops up when the temperature in and around London drops to a certain level (which it certainly has this week). This one’s at Aldgate, on the edge of the City [...]
Geoff Gower, managing partner-creative of London-based digital and direct agency ais, says that the best online ‘campaigns’ are more than that: instead of asking how can we promote ourselves they should start from how can we help? Bugger, still haven’t sorted out the agency Christmas card. This is what it feels like to be a [...]
BETC Paris is one of the hottest (as well as the biggest) agencies in France and owner Havas seems determined to make it a world brand. BETC’s new London outpost, headed by CEO Matthew Charlton and ECD Neil Dawson has a key role to play in the process and the agency has just hired four [...]
One of the points about having a network is that you pick up business without having to put yourself out too much and Wieden+Kennedy London has just won Brown-Forman’s Southern Comfort in the UK following a solid debut on the business from W+K New York. This in itself is noteworthy as W+K New Yoirk has [...]
The extraordinary London Olympics and Paralympics have finally drawn to a close and, if anything, the Paralympics have outdone their big brother. Never more so than in last night’s closing ceremony that featured, among others, Rihanna (giving her insurers heart failure as she zoomed about the arena in a swing) and Coldplay. Coldplay, who can [...]
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