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By Stephen Foster on April 22, 2013
I suppose poor old DLKW Lowe was bound to get it in the neck from Morrisons – the UK supermarket group has been struggling to keep pace with discounters Asda, Aldi and Lidl and now Tesco has entered that frame as Phil Clarke throws the kitchen sink at reviving its market share. Neither does Morrisons [...]
Posted in Agencies, Clients, Creative, Finance, News | Tagged dlkw lowe, halifax, IPG, itv multi-millionaires, m&c saatchi, Morrisons, Tesco, £70m account review
By Stephen Foster on March 19, 2013
If you accept the company’s own spin on its 2012 numbers it had a stonking year, with revenue rising about 11 per cent to £169m (17 per cent in the UK) and pre-tax profit before accounting charges rising ten per cent to £16m. But the key item above is ‘accounting charges’ or impairments and these [...]
Posted in Agencies, Finance, News | Tagged 2012 results, Charles & Maurice Saatchi, earn-outs, m&c saatchi, martin-sorrell, saatchi & saatchi
By Stephen Foster on January 28, 2013
The UK government is apparently considering running an ad campaign to dissuade Bulgarians and Romanians from flooding into Britain when the rules change soon. Lots of references to warm beer, cold and wet weather and an economy run by George Osborne will doubtless be considered for the brief. So which agency should get the job? [...]
Posted in Agencies, Clients, Creative, Finance, News, Politics | Tagged 72andsunny, Ad Age, ad campaign, agency of the year, baghdad, bulgarian and romanian immigrants, charles saatchi, m&c saatchi, Maurice Saatchi, sansung, Tory Party, uk government
By Angie Dean on November 12, 2012
Dixon Retail’s Currys and PC World are still plugging away on the UK’s high streets despite lots of people saying they’d be nixed by online sales and the likes of John Lewis, which is currently prospering by selling bucketloads of iPad Minis. M&C Saatchi, and before that Saatchi & Saatchi, has been on the advertising [...]
Posted in Agencies, Clients, Creative, News | Tagged apple, christmas ad, Currys, dixons retail, genius campaign, m&c saatchi, pc world
By Stephen Foster on October 15, 2012
HP Sauce (Houses of Parliament sauce as it used to be) is one of the hardy perennials of British life, as is its agency M&C Saatchi. And this new campaign, the brand’s first TV effort for five years, is very M&C Saatchi. Why? Well it’s Maurice Saatchi’s celebrated (by him anyway) ‘Brutal Simplicity of Thought.’ [...]
Posted in Agencies, Clients, Creative, News | Tagged hp sauce, m&c saatchi, Maurice Saatchi, Paul Arden, sauce of manliness
By Stephen Foster on October 2, 2012
Most of us are aware of the famous ‘Labour Isn’t Working’ poster by Saatchi & Saatchi for the Conservative Party in 1979, even if not many people saw it (I think they only made one). Client and agency shot themselves in the foot too by using members of Enfield Young Conservatives for the poster, not [...]
Posted in Agencies, Clients, Creative, News, Politics | Tagged conservatives, Labour, labour isn't learning, labour isn't working, m&c saatchi, Maurice Saatchi, posters, saatchis
By Staff on June 6, 2012
Finally Australian airline Qantas has made its mind up about something. After a marathon 10-month global ad review waylaid by catastrophic industrial action and a last-minute organisational upheaval, the airline’s got a creative winner. And it is: much-garlanded indie agency Droga5. Droga5 managed to beat off competition from Publicis Mojo on the last section of [...]
Posted in Agencies, Clients, Creative, News | Tagged Ad Age Agency A-List, Amnesia Razorfish, David Droga, droga5, etihad airways, m&c saatchi, publicis, publicis mojo, Qantas, Rolls Royce, virgin australia, zenithoptimedia
By Stephen Foster on May 31, 2012
Publicis Groupe CEO Maurice Levy told his company’s AGM that he was confident that Publicis Groupe would continue to outperform the market in the second half of 2012 despite the financial carnage in the Eurozone (with Spain now heading for the knacker’s yard) and clients trimming budgets accordingly. He also produced this interesting take on [...]
Posted in Agencies, Finance, Media, News | Tagged ayyer, bcom3, bloomberg, dentsu, digitas, founder, havas, Interpublic, leo burnett, m&c saatchi, macmanus, Marcel Bleustein-Blanchet, Maurice Levy, omnicom, publicis groupe, razorfish, saatchi & saatchi, shareholder returns, starcom, vivaki, WPP
By Stephen Foster on April 30, 2012
But they don’t do they? Or at least not posh ads from posh agencies. They do in the US, as you can see from a quick run-through of Super Bowl ads and the current spate of ‘real life’ mini-documentaries for the likes of Chrysler. But we’re not just talking about real people, actors will do [...]
Posted in Agencies, Clients, Creative, News | Tagged Alexander Armstrong, amv/bbdo, animation, awards, celebs, Chris Addison, chrysler, David Tennant, del campo nazca, direct line, edf energy, m&c saatchi, mini-documentaries, people, ribena, Sir Richard Branson, super bowl
By Stephen Foster on April 11, 2012
Paul Weinberger (pictured) is chairman of Tesco agency The Red Brick Road and the creative who’s nursed Tesco along for the past 20 years, first at Lowe Howard-Spink, then Lowe & Partners and then at breakaway The Red Brick Road. When Tesco followed Sir Frank Lowe and Weinberger to start-up TRBR seven years Weinberger is [...]
Posted in Agencies, Clients, News | Tagged account review, amv/bbdo, Asda, Karen Buchanan, Lowe Howard-Spink, m&c saatchi, news corporation, oystercatchers, Paul Weinberger, Peter Cowie, Philip Clarke, publicis, ruby, Sainsburys, Sir Frank Lowe, Sir Martin Sorrell, Sir Terry Leahy, Tesco, the red brick road, voadafone, WPP
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