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 November 14, 2012
Not much is going right for Toyota at the moment, it’s just had to recall 2.7m cars in the UK because of a problem with the steering wheel. You’d expect them to check this rather important bit of kit first wouldn’t you? Makes you wonder why they don’t just give you the parts and get [...]
Posted in Clients, Creative, Media, News | Tagged ad ban, advertising standards authority, asa, grand theft auto, gt86, L'Oreal, product recall, toyota
By Staff on October 26, 2012
TED is a non-profit organisation devoted to ‘ideas worth spreading’ and recently it’s started to choose a list of ‘ads worth spreading’ in the worlds of technology, entertainment and design. All the ads are here. The idea is to promote ads which engage consumers rather than batter them into submission, “the ads you choose to [...]
Posted in Agencies, Clients, Creative, News, Research | Tagged ads worth spreading, Aimee Mullins, Chris Anderson, ideas worth spreading, L'Oreal, r/ga new york, ted
By Stuart Smith on October 25, 2012
No surprise that the Advertising Standards Authority has banned another beauty ad – this time Black Swan Actress Natalie Portman modelling Christian Dior’s mascara, on account of her eyelashes being airbrushed to artificial perfection. Much more interesting is the fact that the complainant is not some earnest advocate of “real beauty” and, er, truth in [...]
Posted in Clients, Creative, News, PR | Tagged ad ban, asa, Cheryl Cole, dior, L'Oreal, Natalie Portman ad, Rachel weisz
By Stephen Foster on March 19, 2012
2012 is beginning to look like the year of musical chairs in adland: Michael Allen (pictured), chairman of 180 in Los Angeles is taking over as CEO of the mini-network started in Amsterdam in 1998 while another top LA executive, McCann president Cathy Saidiner, who was responsible for McCann’s now departed Nestle business in LA, [...]
Posted in Agencies, Clients, News | Tagged 180, Alex Melvin, amsterdam, Brett Gosper, Cathy Saidiner, Chris Mendola, exxon, general motors, Guy Hayward, Interpublic, L'Oreal, los angeles, lufhansa, mccann worldgroup, mccann-erickson, Michael Allen, nescafe, Nestle, Nick Brien
By Stephen Foster on February 1, 2012
The UK’s Advertising Standards Authority has banned a McCann Erickson ad for L’Oreal’s Revitalift Repair anti-ageing cream as the picture of L’Oreal ‘brand ambassador’ and Oscar-winning actress Rachel Weisz was ‘digitally enhanced.’ Actually it’s had more retouching than the average collapsing Old Master painting (montage of the real Rachel and L’Oreal’s version from The Telegraph). [...]
Posted in Agencies, Clients, Media, News | Tagged ad ban, advertising standards authority, asa, Daniel Craig, football association, james bond star, L'Oreal, mccann-erickson, Rachel weisz, revitalift repair anti-ageing cream
By Angie Dean on January 10, 2012
Canada’s Environmental Defence, the environmental organization which led the campaign for the ban on Bisphenol A (BPA) in baby bottles, is now trying to alert Canadians to the many cancer-causing, hormone-disrupting and allergy-inducing substances contained in the personal care products they use every day. The campaign urges the federal government to ban harmful ingredients in [...]
Posted in Agencies, Clients, Creative, News, Politics, PR | Tagged Aleysa Young, baby bottles, bisphenol a, cosmetics campaign, environmental defence, L'Oreal, open, partner films, Rick Smith, try to look pretty without poisoning yourself
By Stephen Foster on September 27, 2011
Of the many humiliations awaiting ambitious young shavers trying to succeed in UK television one of the most notable was being selected as the ‘news bunny,’ former Sun editor Kelvin McKenzie’s way of spicing up the news bulletins on his ghastly TV station Live TV, owned by Sun rival Mirror Group. The bunny was a [...]
Posted in Agencies, Clients, Creative, Media, News | Tagged Chris Evans, crossroads, Darren Lamb, dove, head of digital content, Kelvin McKenzie, L'Oreal, live tv, men expert, Mercedes, Mirror, news bunny, richard & Judy, Russell Bates, Sainsburys, Sun, vccp
By Angie Dean on September 20, 2011
Creativity is king at the moment and Publicis Worldwide, the world’s number three agency network, has been a bit short of it recently. So the Publicis Groupe-owned giant has lured Belgian Eric Vervroegen from Omnicom’s Goodby Silverstein & Partners in San Francisco to be its new international creative director. Before joining Goodby as a creative [...]
Posted in Agencies, Clients, Creative, News | Tagged Arthur Sadoun, bbh, cannes, Craig Davis, Eric Vervroegen, goodby silverstein & partners, Hal Riney, international creative board, Jean-Yves Naouri, Kevin Roddy, L'Oreal, mother, Nestle, Oliver Altmann, omnicom, publicis groupe, publicis mojo, publicis worldwide, Renault, tbwa paris, wieden+kennedy
By Stephen Foster on July 6, 2011
And that’s just one of them, he seems to have been enduring an ongoing crisis with McCann Worldgroup boss Nick Brien too (one of the recipients of McCann strategy boss Lee Daley’s letter). Here are two excerpts, taken from Ad Age. “This period at McCann has certainly been a very interesting time and the momentous [...]
Posted in Agencies, Clients, News | Tagged Ad Age, gm/opel, L'Oreal, Lee Daley, manchester united, mccan worldgroup, Nestle, Nick Brien, resignation letter, saatchi & saatchi, Sir Alex Ferguson, Sir Martin Sorrell, strategy boss
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