By Staff on March 6, 2013
Peter Scott’s UK marcoms contender Engine Group has been quiet of late as it struggles to find the right agency acquisition in the US but it’s also setting its eyes on Asia, where marcoms companies are making an increasing amount of their money. Scott has chosen Asian industry veteran David Liu to spearhead Engine’s growth [...]
Posted in Agencies, Clients, Finance, News, Politics | Tagged aegis, China, David Liu, engine group, Kitty Bu, Peter Scott, thoughtful china, wcrs
By Stephen Foster on January 31, 2013
Why do some start-up agencies make it while others fall on their noses? Is it genius, grabbiing the zeitgeist or just luck? My friend Paul Simons would say it’s about good planning and the right line-up. The success of his agency Simons Palmer Denton Clemmow & Johnson (yes, there were a lot of them) would [...]
Posted in Agencies, Clients, News | Tagged agency start-ups, bartle bogle hegarty, bbh, Carl Johnson, charles saatchi, enter, hurrell & dawson, lego, Paul Simons, Robin Wight, rutherford, scott, simons palmer, tbwa, wcrs, wight collins
By Stuart Smith on November 20, 2012
It says something for Martin Clunes that we will miss him co-fronting those Churchill insurance commercials. The actor, goofier and more touchy-feely in real life than his dour Doc Martin persona suggests, nevertheless has a strong competitive streak in him which has proved his undoing. After a belting performance in a BMW 6 Series during [...]
Posted in Agencies, Clients, Creative, News | Tagged andrex, animatronic dog, chimps, churchill, driving ban, insurance, labrador puppy, Martin Clunes, pg tips, wcrs
By Stephen Foster on November 19, 2012
Poor old Martin Clunes has been banned from driving for reaching 12 penalty points and so the actor, an agreeable cove, has been dropped from the Churchill Insurance ads in which he (sometimes) drives around the country with that bloody annoying model dog Churchill. I suppose Churchill (the insurance company currently owned by RBS) and [...]
Posted in Agencies, Clients, Creative, News | Tagged churchill insurance, dog, driving ban, Martin Clunes, tv campaign, Vic Reeves, wcrs
By Stephen Foster on August 14, 2012
Here’s the new WCRS ad for Churchill insurance featuring actor Martin Clunes and that annoying bloody animatronic dog. It’s less irritating than its predecessors because Clunes, who we all used to like for his role in Men Behaving Badly and some women seem to like for his later incarnation in Doc Martin, only appears near [...]
Posted in Agencies, Clients, Creative, News | Tagged churchill insurance, doc martin, Martin Clunes, men behaving badly, wcrs
By Stephen Foster on August 14, 2012
2011 was the year that Peter Scott’s Engine Group, owner of ad agency WCRS and PR firm MHP, showed signs of running out of gas but Scott says that trading has improved in 2012 and 35 per cent shareholder HIG Capital has promised £30m towards more acquisitions. Chairman and CEO Scott (left) says he is [...]
Posted in Agencies, Clients, Creative, Finance, News | Tagged akqa, engine group, havas, hig capital, jam, Peter Scott, wcrs
By Stephen Foster on June 28, 2012
Yan Elliott and Luke Williamson, former creative directors at WCRS, and Sam Brookes, former managing director of Wieden+Kennedy Platform, have announced the launch of their new venture, Fabula. Based on a canal barge in London’s fashionable Hoxton, round the corner from Google’s ‘Silicon Roundabout’ on Old Street, Fabula is a creative studio with the avowed [...]
Posted in Agencies, Clients, Creative, News | Tagged fabula, London, Luke Williamson, Sam Brookes, start-up, wcrs, wieden+kennedy, Yan Elliott
By Stephen Foster on June 25, 2012
Engine Group CFO Peter Harris has been replaced by Ashley Martin, the third big change in recent months at Peter Scott’s marcoms company Engine Group, owner of UK agency WCRS. Harris only took over from predecessor Ian Day two years ago. The move follows hard on the heels of veteran US adman Martin Puris stepping [...]
Posted in Agencies, Finance, News | Tagged Ashley Martin, engine group, hig capital, Peter Harris, Peter Scott, wcrs
By Angie Dean on May 28, 2012
Is it the economy? Are we all feeling doomed and somehow post-Apocalyptic? Or are UK agencies just copying John Lewis’s trademark tearjerkers? Here’s WCRs entering the emotional lists with the first TV ad from storage firm Safestore – ‘For the Things You Love,’ in this case a teddy bear. At least this trend is providing [...]
Posted in Agencies, Clients, Creative | Tagged emotion, for the things you love, heartstrings, John Lewis, safestore, storage company, teddy bear, wcrs
By Staff on May 7, 2012
Six agencies appear to have made the cut for the first presentations for the £110m Tesco UK account: McCann, SapientNitro, VCCP, WCRS and WPP-owned Grey and JWT. The list may be added to but many people’s favourite Publicis seems to have been ruled out because sister agency Saatchi & Saatchi handles Asda (a long-time Publicis [...]
Posted in Agencies, Clients, News | Tagged Asda, dixons, Dudley Moore, Frank Lowe, JWT, Lowe Howard-Spink, m&s saatchi, mccann, oystercatchers, Paul Hammersley, Paul Weinberger, publicis, saatchi & saatchi, sapientnitro, Tesco, the red brick road, vccp, wcrs
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