By Stephen Foster on January 31, 2013
Here’s the list (and commentary) of 2012′s gongtastic winners from The Gunn Report. The Most Awarded Commercials in The World in 2012 Canal+ • The Bear (BETC, Paris) tops the Film table and also takes the prize as the most awarded commercial in the 14 year history of The Gunn Report. 2. BGH Silent Air [...]
Posted in Agencies, Clients, Creative, News | Tagged 2012 creative winners, bbdo, betc paris, canal+, samsonite, the bear, the gunn report, wieden+kennedy portland and new york
By Staff on February 2, 2012
The Gunn Report has finished its computations of the highest-scoring agencies, networks, countries etc on the worldwide awards circuit in 2011. Wieden+Kennedy Amsterdam is the best performing agency for the first time and BBDO the best performing network for the umpteenth. W+K Amsterdam’s ‘Write the future’ for Nike was the top scoring commercial, the US [...]
Posted in Agencies, Clients, Creative, News | Tagged Alejandro Gonzales Inarritu, awards, bbdo, concert hall dortmund, Eric Quennoy, gunn report, Mark Bernath, Mark Tutssel, nike, radical.media, samsonite, us top country, wieden+kennedy amsterdam, write the future
By Staff on December 1, 2011
We all know that China is booming and, along with it, its ad market. So what’s it like to work there for a native Chinese rather than a UK or US import? We asked Fan Ng, executive creative director of Saatchi & Saatchi Shanghai for his perspective. 1/China is set to become the second-biggest advertising [...]
Posted in Agencies, Clients, Creative, News | Tagged ad boom, ariel big stain, China, David Tsui, FanNg, heaven and hell, new directors'showcase, procter & gamble, saatchi & saatchi shanghai, samsonite
By Stephen Foster on November 15, 2011
Carlsberg is the world fourth-largest brewer with a history of famous advertising (‘Probably the best lager…) but uses a hotch-potch of agencies. Its new tagline ‘That calls for a Carlsberg’ has been run out of London integrated agency Fold7 with some notable work from Belgium’s Duval Guillaume Modem. Now JWT Hong Kong has won a [...]
Posted in Agencies, Clients, Creative, News | Tagged advertising, cannes, Carlsberg, commarco, duval gullaume modem, fold7, heineken, jwt hong kong, molson coors, probably the best lager, samsonite, scholz & friends, spikes, wieden+kennedy amsterdam, WPP
By Staff on November 11, 2011
JWT’s top creative in China, Lo Sheung Yan, is to be the Cannes International Festival of Creativity’s first Chinese jury president. Yan, who’s known as Mayan by his chums, will lead the Outdoor jury. Last year JWT Shanghai won the Press Grand Prix for its ‘Heaven and hell’ work for Samsonite. Samsonite also won the [...]
Posted in Agencies, Clients, Creative, News | Tagged advertiser of the year, cannes international festival of creativity, cannes press grand prix, Graham Fink, heaven and hell, jwt china, jwt shanghai, Lo Sheung Yan, Mayan, ogilvy & mather, outdoor jury president, samsonite, spikes award, WPP
By Staff on October 12, 2011
WPP boss Sir Martin Sorrell recently doubled his 2011 acquisition budget to £400m and he’s been busy spending some of it recently, including today’s purchase by WPP agency JWT of A4A, a digital agency founded in 2003 and based in Beijing. The agency employs 80 people and clients include Audi, Lenovo, Mamibuy and Nokia. A4A’s [...]
Posted in Agencies, Clients, Creative, Finance, News | Tagged a4a, acquisition, arcay pr, bates 141 rebrand, beijing, cannes grand prix, China, digital agency, JWT, lanka marketing research bureau, salary increase, samsonite, Sir Martin Sorrell, spikes, tns, WPP, wunderman philippines
By Angie Dean on September 7, 2011
Samsonite and JWT Shanghai won the Press Grand Prix at this year’s Cannes international Festival of Creativity and now Samsonite has picked up advertiser of the year at Asia’s Spikes awards, organised by Cannes and Haymarket. It’s Samsonite’s 100th anniversary so there will have been a few rumbles that this particular gong is rather too [...]
Posted in Agencies, Clients, Creative, News | Tagged 100th anniversary, advertisier of the year, asia, cannes, haymarket, jwt shanghai, press grand prix, samsonite, spikes awards
By Stephen Foster on June 24, 2011
Former JWT worldwide CCO Craig Davis is now back in Australia, as co-chairman and CCO of Publicis Mojo. Craig was only worldwide creative boss at JWT for three years or so but while he was there he comprised a formidable team with JWT CEO Bob Jeffrey. I don’t why he chose to forego the JWT [...]
Posted in Agencies, Clients, Creative, News | Tagged Australia, Bob Jeffrey, cannes lions, Craig Davis, India, jwt shanghai, publicis mojo, samsonite, worldwide creative director jwt, WPP
By Stephen Foster on June 22, 2011
WPP has something to cheer about at last at the Cannes Lions awards with JWT Shanghai in China winning the press Grand Prix with a beautifully crafted ad for Samsonite luggage. It depicts the terrible conditions luggage has to put up with on a plane flight while the passengers are relaxing in comfort (Ryanair doesn’t [...]
Posted in Agencies, Clients, Creative, News | Tagged cannes lions, cyber grand prix, google lab arcade fire, jet shanghai, press grand prix, r/ga pa with a tweet, samsonite, shared, wieden+kennedy Old Spice
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