By Staff on January 23, 2012
Stricken Canadian mobile company Research in Motion (RIM) which makes BlackBerry has dumped its two joint chairmen and CEOs Mike Lazaridis and Jim Balsillie and replaced them with COO Thorsten Heins (pictured) who joined from Siemens in 2007. Heins’ job is doubtless to get some of Blackberry’s long-promised new products off the production line but [...]
Posted in Clients, Finance, News | Tagged Amazon, amv/bbdo, android, apple, BlackBerry, canada, chief marketing officer, corporate market, emails, global ad agency, Jim Balsillie, Microsoft, Mike Lazaridis, new operating system, omnicom, playbook tablet, research in motion, samsung, Thorsten Heins
By Stephen Foster on January 19, 2012
Manchester is Britain’s second advertising city but, in truth, not as much as it used to be. As the biggest city in the north west of the country it was once at the heart of an industrial powerhouse and enjoyed the ad accounts to go with it, in particular thriving retail and direct marketing sectors. [...]
Posted in Agencies, Clients, News | Tagged banking, bowden dyble & hayes, britannia building society, co-op, food, insurance, John Lewis, lloyds branches deal, manchester agencies, muller, omnicom, royds manchester, somerfield, tbwa london, tbwa manchester, undertaking
By Stephen Foster on January 2, 2012
At the fag end of 2010 we awarded our Person of the Year gong to Irene Rosenfeld of Kraft. You might not like her much but she gets things done (like buying Cadbury) and in 2011 was also probably the most significant person in advertising and marketing by announcing that Kraft was to be split [...]
Posted in Agencies, Clients, Creative, Finance, News, Research | Tagged Andrew Robertson, bartle bogle hegarty, bbdo, carat, david jones, dentsu, Elizabeth Badinter, general motors media, Iren Rosenfeld, Jerry Buhlmann, Maurice Levy, mcgarrybowen, Nick Brien, omnicom, person of the year, publicis groupe, Sir Martin Sorrell, wieden+kenndey
By Staff on December 19, 2011
WPP’s creative agencies, especially Ogilvy & Mather, are having a good run in the US at the moment but on the media front, particularly at MEC, it’s not quite so good. MEC, which recently replaced North America CEO Lee Doyle with Marla Kaplowitz (left), has now lost $100m Toys ‘R US to Omnicom’s OMD and [...]
Posted in Agencies, Clients, Media, News | Tagged activision, groupm, kinetic, Lee Doyle, Marla Kaplowitz, maxus, mec, media agencies, mediacom, mindshare, novartis, ogilvy & mather, omd, omnicom, optimedia, phd, pizza hut, publicis groupe, sony ericsson, toys 'r us, WPP
By Stephen Foster on December 15, 2011
It’s that time of year when publications hand out awards (we may even succumb to the temptation ourselves) and it’s hardly a surprise that Campaign has chosen Bartle Bogle Hegarty as its agency of the year (for what seems like ever you would probably have made money betting on BBH each year in January). Anyway [...]
Posted in Agencies, Clients, Creative, Media, News | Tagged akqa, audi, barnardo's, bartle bogle hegarty, bbdo, bbh, blink, campaign agencies of the year, groupm, guardian, maxus, ogilvyone, omnicom, phd, Sir Martin Sorrell, stella artois, Waitrose, wieden+kennedy, wonderbra, WPP
By Stephen Foster on December 14, 2011
Something seems to be stirring under the bonnet of the stately Ogilvy & Mather limousine (‘At sixty miles an hour the loudest…) as the WPP-owned agency has added to its triumph in sharing the $1bn SC Johnson account with Omnicom’s BBDO by pinching $500m Philips from Omnicom’s DDB, the incumbent since 2003. If this is [...]
Posted in Agencies, Clients, Creative, News | Tagged bbdo, bud light, ddb, Gerry Human, global ad account, Graham Fink, leo burnett, mcgarrybowen, Miles Young, ogilvy & mather, omnicom, philips, sc johnson, Shelly Lazarus, Steve Simpson, tbwa, WPP
By Stephen Foster on December 13, 2011
Media agencies working for Unilever are going to have a rather busier Christmas than they anticipated as the packaged goods giant has decided on another media review just two years after it consolidated North America and Europe into WPP’s Mindshare and the rest into Omnicom’s PHD. Both incumbents will pitch along with a few lucky [...]
Posted in Agencies, Clients, Media, News | Tagged carat, general motors, global media review, groupm, Keith Weed, Laura Klauberg, Louis Di Como, minshare, omnicom, phd, procter & gamble, publicis groupe, unilever, WPP
By Angie Dean on December 8, 2011
Publicis Groupe may be waiting anxiously to find out if it’s about to lose a huge slice of General Motors’ $3bn media account but, if it is, it’s just received a hefty slice of compensation with the award of wireless telecom giant Sprint’s $1bn account to Digitas and Leo Burnett. Digitas is to be the [...]
Posted in Agencies, Clients, Creative, Media, News | Tagged at&t mobility, Bill Malloy, chicago, digitas, Euro RSCG, general motors, goodby silverstein & partners, leo burnett, omnicom, publicis groupe, sprint, sprint nextel, verizon wireless
By Staff on November 29, 2011
The great American consumer has been riding to the rescue of the Us economy (and maybe other countries as well), turning out to the shopping malls in droves on post-Thanksgiving ‘Black Friday’ and giving their credit cards another bashing online on ‘Cyber Monday.’ Here BBDO Worldwide CEO Andrew Robertson gives his take on how to [...]
Posted in Agencies, Clients, Creative, Media, News | Tagged Andrew Robertson, bbdo, black friday, cyber monday, omnicom, us consumers
By Staff on November 25, 2011
After years of lobbying India is finally going to relax its rules on foreign retailers, allowing overseas supermarket giants like Wal-Mart, Carrefour and Tesco to own up to 51 per cent of operations in India and ‘single-brand’ retailers (supermarkets are known as ‘multi-brand retailers) to own 100 per cent of their Indian outlets. The Indian [...]
Posted in Agencies, Clients, Finance, News, Politics, PR | Tagged Arun Nanda, carrefour, India, Interpublic, mudra, omnicom, ownership, rediffusion, retail market, retailers, Sir Martin Sorrell, supermarkets, Tesco, walmart, WPP
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