Having, a while back, complimented Chris Macdonald on the improved quality of his tailoring, it would be churlish not to congratulate London’s sharpest suit on landing the hot seat at McCann New York, where he will soon become president. Macdonald (left), who combines the position of McCann London group chairman with agency chief executive, is [...]
Former McCann New York CCO Joyce King Thomas (pictured) is rejoining the troubled agency to head a new group, effectively a ‘Team Mastercard,’ for one of the Interpublic-owned agency’s biggest remaining accounts. King Thomas left the agency two years ago in a clear-out of the old guard instigated by former McCann Worldgroup CEO Nick Brien. [...]
McCann Worldgroup is taking on the independent production giants like Williams Lea-owned Tag with a big production arm of its own, Craft. Interpublic-owned Craft says it is happy to work with other agencies and creative companies but has no plans to work with other agencies’ clients direct. Craft is to be headed by McCann production [...]
The big marcoms groups have been defying gravity recently with their financial results, all of them growing way ahead of growth rates in Western economies where most of their business is still based. So the various big bosses have been doing well with WPP’s Sir Martin Sorrell awarded a £13m ($20m) pot (although some of [...]
General Motors marketing boss Joel Ewanick has taken a leaf out of the books of rivals Hyundai and Jaguar/Land Rover by giving his flagship Chevrolet account to a new agency, Commonwealth, formed from US incumbent Goodby Silverstein and McCann Worldgroup, which handles Chevy in other parts of the world. Ewanick, who’s never one to avoid [...]
Here’s McCann Worldgroup’s debut ad for Sony Mobile’s Xperia smartphone, its first product since buying out its former mobile partner Ericsson AB. It doesn’t feature kids in the ad, as we suspected it would, except in the voiceover and the idea, how the things work as imagined by eight year-old Jake Ryan. So is it [...]
Things haven’t been great at McCann Worldgroup recently with series of big account losses (Nescafe, Exxon) and top exec departures. But now McCann has bagged Sony Mobile globally and the new company (Sony recently bought out its phones partner Ericsson AB for about $1.5bn) is promising to batter the likes of Apple’s iPhone and Samsung’s [...]
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, [...]
Word reaches me that Nick Brien (pictured), chief executive officer of Interpublic Group’s troubled leviathan McCann Worldgroup, will be stepping down very shortly. Possibly within a few weeks. The size of Brien’s no doubt handsome severance package is likely to remain a mystery, the reason for his departure less so. McCann has, in recent years, [...]
McCann Erickson London chairman and CCO Linus Karlsson (same job in New York) has advanced his hoped-for creative revolution at the Interpublic-owned network by hiring Rob Doubal and Lolly Thomson from Wieden+Kennedy London as executive creative directors (pictured by Campaign, with beards). AT W+K the two were creative directors working on Nestea and the huge [...]
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