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By Stuart Smith on April 29, 2013
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 [...]
Posted in Agencies, Analysis, Clients, Creative, News, PR | Tagged Chris Macdonald, general motors, Harris Diamond, Interpublic, mccann, mccann worldgroup, New York, Nick Brien, Stuart Smith, Thom Gruhler
By Stephen Foster on December 18, 2012
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. [...]
Posted in Agencies, Clients, Creative, News | Tagged Harris Diamond, Interpublic, Joyce King Thomas, Linus Karlsson, mastercard, mccann worldgroup, mccann xbc, Nick Brien
By Stephen Foster on November 16, 2012
This is McCann London’s last effort for big UK DIY retailer B&Q (not an advertiser who’s often succeeded in getting the creative juices running). The business, worth a supposed £40m a year according to Campaign, has just shipped out to lively local agency Karmarama. McCann declined to repitch. I was sent this before the news [...]
Posted in Agencies, Clients, Creative, News | Tagged b&q, christmas ad, Graham Nash, Harris Diamond, karmarama, Linus Karlsson, mccann, Nick Brien
By Stephen Foster on November 16, 2012
What you’d do to be Jerry Buhlmann. The former BBJ founder has seen one-time colleague Nick Brien (the other B, nobody seems to know who J was) bounced from the job of CEO of McCann this week (with a $4m pay-off) while Jerry is lording it over Carat which has won the bulk of Kraft’s [...]
Posted in Agencies, Clients, Finance, Media, News | Tagged aegis, bbj, carat, dentsu, france, Jerry Buhlmann, Kraft, mccann, mindshare, Nick Brien, starcom, WPP
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
Who, you may say? While it’s no surprise that Nick Brien has been turfed as CEO of McCann after a string of account losses, it is a surprise that he’s been replaced by Harris Diamond (left), a PR man from New York. Diamond, a lawyer by training, headed Interpublic’s CMG unit which includes PR and [...]
Posted in Agencies, Clients, Finance, News, Politics, PR | Tagged cmg, Harris Diamond, Interpublic, lobbying, Maurice Levy, mccann, Michael Roth, Nick Brien, PR, publicis groupe
By Stephen Foster on November 7, 2012
The rumour mill says he is, on account of his supposedly less than fulsome references to either in recent analyst calls. Back in March my colleague Stuart Smith reported that Nick Brien, head of McCann Worldgroup, would be on his bike following a ruckus with big client L’Oreal which declined McCann’s invitation to be lumped [...]
Posted in Agencies, Clients, Finance, News | Tagged draftfcb, Interpublic, IPG, Laurence Boschetto, mccann, Michael Roth, Nick Brien, oreos, sc johnson, super bowl ad
By Stephen Foster on August 16, 2012
Adjusting to life within a big holding company (especially if it’s called WPP) is not always easy, but British media buying types seem to take it in their stride. Rob Norman (pictured), recently the boss of North America at GroupM (WPP’s media holding company within a holding company) has now been named chief digital officer, [...]
Posted in Agencies, Finance, Media, News | Tagged Chris Ingram, Dominic Proctor, groupm, Kelly Clark, maxus, Nick Brien, Rob Norman, Sir Martin Sorrell, Vikram Sakhuja, WPP
By Staff on August 6, 2012
Everybody else in marcoms land may be opening their wallets (or taking a look and then putting it back in their pockets in the case of Publicis Groupe with Interpublic) but Havas boss David Jones has decided that hiring rather than buying people is the thing to do. Now he’s hired former McCann exec Robert [...]
Posted in Agencies, Clients, Finance, News | Tagged Andrew Benett, arnold, david jones, havas, mccann, Nick Brien, Robert LePlae, tbwa/chiat day
By Stephen Foster on August 3, 2012
My friend George Parker thinks McCann Worldgroup boss Nick Brien is angling for a job at Facebook. If he is he’s better get a move on and forget all that gardening leave nonsense because post-IPO Facebook really is beginning to resemble a road crash and needs all the help it can get. Slowing growth and [...]
Posted in Agencies, Clients, Finance, Media, News | Tagged facebook, George Parker, Mark Zuckerberg, Nick Brien, Paul Simons, share slide
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