By Angie Dean on May 24, 2012
DDB London has just been taken over (in management terms) by hot London indie Adam & Eve in a £60m deal. It’s to be hoped the new managers manage to hang on to at least some of DDB’s creatives (they claim it will be a £270m agency with £50m of income so paying them shouldn’t [...]
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By Stephen Foster on October 18, 2011
One of the more interesting agency transformations of recent times is going on at DDB London, the UK outpost of one of the great creative agency networks and, before that, the legendary UK hotshop Boase Massimi Pollitt. BMP’s Stanley Pollitt was one of the founders of what used to be known as account planning as [...]
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By Stephen Foster on September 16, 2011
And able to choose their own currency, GBPs have the edge over dollars and euros at the moment. Agency finance directors probably wish there was a football-style transfer window in operation for creatives as what WPP’s Sir Martin Sorrell recently described as a ‘nuclear arms race’ in creative salaries takes hold. This is probably a [...]
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