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By Stephen Foster on June 18, 2013
I don’t know what all those executives from Unilever, Procter & Gamble, serried car companies and the financial world are making of this year’s Cannes Lions adfest – maybe that they could save the money and launch an NGO instead. Today four Grand Prix were issued: Ogilvy won two; Media for Dela, a brand from [...]
Posted in Agencies, Clients, Creative, News | Tagged grand prix, Media, mobile, ogilvy amsterdam, ogilvy paris, poster artefacts, procter & gamble, unilever
By Jerry Judge on June 10, 2013
P&G and Mondelez are adjusting their payment cycle. And it’s all my fault. From now on if you are a Mondelez agency you will do your work and wait four months to be paid. If you want a laugh, read the tortured language of the Mondelez CFO on the subject: “Although our same delicious globally [...]
Posted in Agencies, Analysis, Clients, Finance, News | Tagged cost-cutting, Jerry Judge, mondelez, payment terms, procter & gamble, quarterly results, the ferless group, wall street
By Stephen Foster on June 6, 2013
The issue of client payment terms for agencies rumbles on with some agencies, according to Campaign, demanding that the UK government intervene. We might politely remind these optimistic souls that governments of all hues have been loudly proclaiming their commitment to fair payment to and treatment of SMEs, as they like to call them, for [...]
Posted in Agencies, Analysis, Clients, Creative, Finance, Media, News | Tagged creative agencies, Debbie Morrison, government procurement service, ipa, isba, mondelez international, payment terms, procter & gamble, uk government
By Staff on June 5, 2013
Everybody’s favourite (and funniest) client, Michael Dubin of Dollar Shave Club, is back with a new video for a new product – One Wipe Charlies, ‘butt wipes for men.’ As Michael says, you don’t have time to hang around with ordinary products, you’re an executive now. And not a bear in the woods. Probably best [...]
Posted in Clients, Creative, Finance, News | Tagged butt wipes for men, dollar shave club, Gillette, Michael Dubin, one wipe charlies, procter & gamble, video
By Stephen Foster on June 3, 2013
On the face of it, advertisers can do what they like over payment terms for agencies and other suppliers – work with us on our terms or don’t is the usual (unspoken) message. Which is presumably why Mondelez International thinks it can extend its payment terms to 120 days and Procter & Gamble (among others) [...]
Posted in Agencies, Analysis, Clients, Creative, Finance, News | Tagged droga5, mondelez international, payment terms, prcurement departments, procter & gamble, Sir Martin Sorrell, taxi, wieden+kennedy, WPP
By Stephen Foster on May 31, 2013
WPP boss Sir Martin Sorrell ‘gives good conference’ (as they don’t say very often) and he was at it again last week, providing an intriguing soundbite for a talk-fest ‘Beyond Advertising’ at his giant media agency MediaCom. This is what he said, according to The Drum (they were there, I was somewhere else – as [...]
Posted in Agencies, Analysis, Clients, Creative, Finance, Media, News | Tagged creatives, joule, Mark Silber, math men, media execs, mondelez, Nick Brien, open letter, payment terms, procter & gamble, Sir Martin Sorrell
By Stephen Foster on May 31, 2013
Never did like the look of Mondelez, the new version of the old Kraft snacks business. First it welched on its promises about keeping Cadbury based in the UK when it bought the business for £12bn and now, after a few months of independence, it’s proposing to extend agency payment terms (and presumably those to [...]
Posted in Agencies, Clients, Finance | Tagged AG Laffley, avaricious, Bob McDonald, cadbury, credit, mondelez, payment terms, procter & gamble
By Stephen Foster on May 23, 2013
It’s proving to be a pretty good year for California’s 72andSunny; top of Ad Age’s A-List and now the winner of the Grand Effie in the Effie Awards for most effective this and that. 72andS won with Activision Blizzard’s third instalment of its Call of Duty Modern Warfare franchise, effectively a trailer for the game [...]
Posted in Agencies, Clients, Creative, News | Tagged 72andsunny, activision blizzard, callof duty, computer game, grand effie, mdc, mizuno, ogilvy, omnicom, procter & gamble, spruce goose, wieden+kennedy
By Stephen Foster on May 15, 2013
Procter & Gamble and Wieden+Kennedy are still floundering around, as far as I can see, in the attempt to come up with a convincing post-Isaiah Mustafa Old Spice campaign. Here’s the latest featuring the spectacularly irritating former NFL player Terry Crews. Pace my friend Giles Keeble’s comments about ad categories; doing a spin on a [...]
Posted in Agencies, Clients, Creative, News | Tagged cheesy ad, isaiah mustafa, new TV campaign, old spice, procter & gamble, Terry Crews
By Stephen Foster on May 10, 2013
Wieden+Kennedy Portland seems to have inherited the mantle of the late, great film director John Ford: re-inventing American myths for contemporary Americans. In Ford’s case it was Monument Valley and John Wayne; for W+K it’s Eminem and Clint Eastwood for Chrysler, the ‘rust belt’ for Levi’s, the whole universe for Facebook and ‘Moms,’ a pretty [...]
Posted in Agencies, Clients, Creative, News | Tagged Eunice Shriver, hyannis port, John Ford, John Wayne, Kennedys, moms campaign, Pam Shriver, paralympics, procter & gamble, special olympics, wieden+kennedy portland
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