By Stephen Foster on April 25, 2013
Following in the distinguished footsteps of Sir John Hegarty (2011) and Dan Wieden last year. The ‘Lion of St Mark’ is the Cannes Lions’ equivalent of a lifetime achievement award, named after the famous lion statues in Venice, home to the original ad film festival. Clow, currently chairman of TBWA\Media Arts Lab, is best-known for [...]
Posted in Agencies, Clients, Creative, News | Tagged 1984, apple, cannes lions, chiat day, Lee Clow, lifetime achievement award, lion of st mark, nissan, Steve Jobs, tbwa/media arts lab
By Staff on November 9, 2012
AKQA is opening its 11th office, in Tokyo, hard on the heels of its tenth, in key client Nike’s home base of Portland. AKQA has opened four new offices so far this year. The digital agency, which was bought by WPP for $540m earlier this year, will hit the ground running in Japan with two [...]
Posted in Agencies, Clients, Finance, Media | Tagged Akaz Ahmed, akqa, japan, nike, nissan, Rei Inamoto, Sir Martin Sorrell, Tagu Kato, tokyo, WPP
By Angie Dean on October 3, 2012
Remember Datsun, the Japanese car brand that persuaded many UK consumers in the 1960s that it was OK to buy Japanese products? Well it’s coming back as Nissan and partner Renault target the fast-growing market for very cheap cars (although not in Europe or the US, of course). Nissan-Renault boss Carlos Ghosn chose the Paris [...]
Posted in Clients, News | Tagged Carlos Ghosn, cheap cars, China, datsun, India, nissan, Renault
By Staff on April 5, 2012
You can’t buy Nissan’s EMERG-E yet (these names!) but the new electric concept car is intended to give a boost to the car giant’s upscale Infiniti brand which has so far failed to wow customers. The car, which does 0-60 in a mere four seconds, was unveiled at the Geneva Motor Show. Electric cars in [...]
Posted in Agencies, Clients, Creative, News | Tagged Adam Mandlestram, berlin, blue essence, chevrolet volt, emerg-e electric concept car, Fabian Braun, france, geneva motor show, infiniti, Miles Jeffreys, nissan, passion paris productions, polynoid, tbwa/else
By Stephen Foster on March 12, 2012
UK computer games retailer Game Group (which also operates the Gamestation brand) is in trouble, set to lose £18m this year and trying to sell its 600 UK stores in a last-minute bid to rescue the business. Which means more bad news for TBWA London, which won the supposed £10m account last year at around [...]
Posted in Agencies, Clients, Creative, Finance, News | Tagged acquafresh, apple, bmb, cheil, game group, gamestation, gsk, muller, nissan, omnicom, Ronald Kers, suppliers, tbwa london, Trevor Beattie, uk games retailer, wunderful stuff ad
By Stephen Foster on January 6, 2011
Nobody really seemed to want Saab when then owner General Motors dumped the brand two years ago. To be honest its prospects didn’t look any rosier when it was eventually bought by Dutch speciality cars maker Spyker. After all, if GM, for all its problems, thought the brand was too small to be worth investing [...]
Posted in Clients, News | Tagged China, Eric Besson, general motors, India, industrial espionage, leaf, nissan, Renault, russia, saab, spyker, Vladimir Putin, volt
By Angie Dean on December 20, 2010
General Motors chief marketing officer in the US Joel Ewanick has been promoted to global CMO, surely heralding, if not a reign of terror, surely a frisson or three among its agencies in Europe and elsewhere. Ewanick joined GM in the summer after just a few weeks at Nissan (prior to that he won his [...]
Posted in Agencies, Clients, News | Tagged bartle bogle hegarty, cadillac, chevrolet, general motors, goodby silverstein and partners, hyundai, Joel Ewanick, Maurice Levy, nissan, opel, publicis groupe, vauxhall
By David O'Reilly on June 28, 2010
As the nation mourns, with some disgust, the end of England’s hopes in the World Cup, smart brands who know there’s always plenty of potential for a bit of speedy tactical branding, whatever the result, were quickly out of the traps this morning. Top of the bunch was supermarket group Asda, which tweeted a free [...]
Posted in Clients, Creative, News | Tagged advertising, Asda, kia, nissan, the sun, the times, world cup
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