By Angie Dean on February 10, 2011
There’s no holding Canada-based MDC Partners and the ambitious marcoms groups has followed its purchase of a minority stake in LA’s 72andSunny with a deal to buy 60 per cent of controversial integrated agency Anomaly, based in New York and London. Anomaly, which authored Super Bowl ads for Budweiser and Motorola this year, was formed [...]
Posted in Agencies, Clients, Creative, Finance, News | Tagged 72andsunny, anomaly, Budweiser, cannes, Carl Johnson, diesel, mdc partners, Miles Nadal, motorola, outdoor grand prix, simons palmer clemmow & johnson, Sony
By Stephen Foster on February 3, 2011
But you never can tell these days. VW is inviting agencies, including some in the UK, to pitch for a place on its roster, mainly though not apparently exclusively occupied by Omnicom’s DDB. We’re assuming that it’s only reviewing the VW brand, not the zillions of others it owns including Audi and Skoda, handled by [...]
Posted in Agencies, Clients, Creative, News | Tagged agency review, audi, bartle bogle hegarty, beetle, blue motion, das auto, ddb, deutsch, fallon, general motors, lemon, opel, reliable, Skoda, Sony, Stephen Woodford, vauxhall, volkswagen, vw, wolfsburg
By Stephen Foster on January 24, 2011
It’s wonderful what a big win at Cannes can bring and two of last year’s winners Del Campo Nazca Saatchi & Saatchi in Buenos Aires and Portland’s very own Wieden & Kennedy have scooped Ad Age’s 2010 awards for international agency of the year and US agency of the year. Del Campo’s ‘teletransporter’ ad for [...]
Posted in Agencies, Clients, Creative, News | Tagged Ad Age, andes beer, buenos aires, Dan Wieden, del campo nazca saatchi & saatchi, del campo saatchi, international agency of the year, LeBron James, nike, old spice, P&G, Pablo del Campo, portland, procter & gamble, Sony, teletransporter, the man your man could smell like, Tiger Woods, us agency of the year, wieden & kennedy
By Stephen Foster on January 11, 2011
The Consumer Electronics Show currently grinding on in Las Vegas also saw the final round pitches for a new global branding campaign for Chinese computer maker Lenovo in which Saatchi & Saatchi beat incumbent Ogilvy & Mather and hot hotshop Crispin Porter + Bogusky. O&M has handled Lenovo since it bought IBM’s personal computer business [...]
Posted in Agencies, Clients, News | Tagged China, consumer electronics show, crispin porter bogusky, las vegas, lenovo, O&M, publicis groupe, saatchi & saatchi, Sony
By Angie Dean on October 19, 2010
X Factor and Britain’s Got Talent inventor and host Simon Cowell and his partners Sony and Fremantle Media have signed a three-year deal worth a reported £100m to keep the top-rating talent shows on ITV. This will be a considerable relief to ITV as the two shows regularly attract audiences of 15 million plus and [...]
Posted in Media, News | Tagged britain's got talent, fremantle media, Piers Morgan, Simon Cowell, Sir Philip Green, Sony, X-Factor
By Angie Dean on October 5, 2010
Eagerly-awaited Google TV, a web-meets-TV offering, is due to launch later this month and before then Sony will launch a combined TV and Blu-ray player powered by the Google system and box maker Logitech will bring out its version of the set-top gadget that powers it all. Big US TV networks NBC Universal, Times Warner [...]
Posted in Clients, Media, News | Tagged apple, google tv, intel, logitech, Microsoft, samsung, Sony, Toshiba
By Angie Dean on September 3, 2010
Berlin’s IFA Show is the place to be this week and Samsung and Toshiba have just announced that they’re both to launch tablet devices against Apple’s iPad, with Toshiba’s Folio 100 set to hit the UK in October at just £329. Folio 100 is a whopper with a bigger screen than the iPad and slightly [...]
Posted in Clients, News | Tagged apple ipad, ifa show, samsung, Sir Howard Stringer, Sony, Steve Jobs, tablet computers, Toshiba
By Angie Dean on September 2, 2010
Apple boss Steve Jobs says his new user network Ping isn’t a challenger to Facebook because Facebook is about life, Ping is about (sharing) music. But why just music? He’s also introducing 99 cent film rentals to Apple TV, the one Apple product that has resolutely failed to take off, even he refers to it [...]
Posted in Clients, Media, News | Tagged android, apple, apple tv, google, ping, Sony, Steve Jobs
By Stephen Foster on September 1, 2010
Sony is to announce a new internet-based music and video subscription service to run across all its devices including Playstations, Vaio computers, Blu-ray video players, Walkmans, Bravia TVs and Sony Ericsson mobiles. Millions of Sony consumers already access the internet to download movies via Playstations and the new network, to be announced at the IFA [...]
Posted in Clients, Media, News | Tagged android, apple, google, Howard Stringer, playstations, Sony, subscription services
By Stephen Foster on June 11, 2010
It was certainly a short and, it would seem, not especially sweet relationship anyway as trendy integrated agency Anomaly has resigned Diesel after just nine months, shortly after producing its much-hyped ‘Be Stupid’ global campaign for the Italian fashion brand. Anomaly, whose guiding light is former Simons Palmer Clenmow and Johnson founder Carl Johnson, prides [...]
Posted in Agencies, Clients, News | Tagged anomaly, Carl Johnson, diesel, fallon, Johnny Vulkan, Sony
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