By Staff on May 4, 2012
More strife has emerged in the ever-interesting UK outdoor industry with Alastair Lines of Canary Wharf Media accusing industry trade body the Outdoor Media Centre of overplaying the benefit new digital sites are bringing to the wider industry, neglecting the promotion of traditional outdoor formats (still the vast majority) and including what he calls the [...]
Posted in Agencies, Clients, Finance, Media, News, Research | Tagged active, aegis, Alastair Lines, asus, barter companies, canary wharf media, cbs outdoor, Clear Channel, ipm, JC Decaux, Mike Baker, miroma, office of fair trading, omc, omnicom, outdoor media centre, postar research system, q1 outdoor revenue, uk outdoor market, vast commissions, WPP
By Staff on May 4, 2012
Chrysler is laying on the emotion with ‘Imported From Detroit’ while we wait to see what Joel Ewanick’s new Goodby Silverstein/McCann Commonwealth construct will come up with for General Motors’ Chevrolet. With Ford, from WPP’s JWT-based ‘Team Detroit,’ it’s technology, technology all the way. But no overt Ford branding so far in this campaign ‘Go [...]
Posted in Agencies, Clients, Creative, News | Tagged chevrolet, chrysler, commonwealth agency, ecoboost engines, ford, general motors, go further campaign, imported from detroit, Joel Ewanick, team detroit, technology, WPP, Youtube
By Stephen Foster on May 3, 2012
Lord Bell’s Chime Comunications marcoms company has endured a torrid few months with various shareholders, including 20 per cent holder WPP, opposing his lordship’s plan to buy out the Bell Pottinger PR business and rumblings of discontent over the company’s decision to buy Simon Gulliford’s marketing consultancy for the best part of £2m. These matters [...]
Posted in Agencies, Clients, Creative, Finance, News, PR | Tagged agm, buyout plans, consultancy deal, easyJet, Lord Bell, mulller, Piers Pottinger, Simon Gulliford, tbwa, us department of defense, vccp, WPP, wunderful stuff
By Paul Simons on May 2, 2012
The latest news that Miller Coors has consolidated its $200m business in to ‘Team WPP’ throws up a number of questions that are likely to be talked about in the HQs of the global networks. The key one I would guess is: “Will more global clients follow suit?” The obvious question for me is, if [...]
Posted in Agencies, Clients, Creative, Finance, News | Tagged agency review, chicago office, coors, IBM, Lou Gerstner, ogilvy & mather, one brand one voice, Paul Simons, Sir Martin Sorrell, team wpp, turf wars, WPP
By Stephen Foster on May 1, 2012
Miller Coors, the North American beer venture between SAB Miller and Molson Coors, has sacked long-time Coors agency Interpublic-owned DraftFCB and succumbed to the temptations of an offer from WPP to combine the talents of JWT, Ogilvy, Y&R and Grey. The account is worth about $200m. Publicis Groupe’s Saatchi & Saatchi has held on to [...]
Posted in Agencies, Clients, News | Tagged Andy England, chevrolet, commonwealth agency, coors brands, draft fcb, ford, Interpublic, Joel Ewanick, miller coors, miller lite, molson coors, news coprporation, Pepsi, saatchi & saatchi, sab miller, sc johnson, Sir Martin Sorrell, team wpp, Vodafone, WPP
By Staff on May 1, 2012
The big marcoms groups have been defying gravity recently with their financial results, all of them growing way ahead of growth rates in Western economies where most of their business is still based. So the various big bosses have been doing well with WPP’s Sir Martin Sorrell awarded a £13m ($20m) pot (although some of [...]
Posted in Agencies, Finance, News | Tagged Interpublic, Jack Klues, Jean-Yves Naouri, John Wren, kevin roberts, Maurice Levy, mccann worldgroup, Michael Roth, Nick Brien, omnicom, pay rises, publicis groupe, saatchi & saatchi, Sir Martin Sorrell, vivaki, WPP
By Stephen Foster on May 1, 2012
WPP CEO Sir Martin Sorrell’s base pay last rose from £1,m to £1.3m (relatively modest by current CEO standards, as he says) but his pay and benefits package rose from £4.23m to £6.77m including a payment from WPP’s short term bonus scheme. On top of this he received nearly £5.6m of shares under the company’s [...]
Posted in Agencies, Finance, Media, News, Research | Tagged bonuses, brandedge, digital, infosys, John Wren, kantar, Maurice Levy, research, Sir Martin Sorrell, succession planning, tns, WPP, £1.3m base pay, £13m package
By Stephen Foster on April 30, 2012
And pretty gruesome ‘Live for Now,’ sounds, focussing on ‘pop culture,’ as opposed to what’s in the can. According to Pepsi US marketing boss Simon Lowden:”When we look at what Pepsi really stands for, we’ve been an entertainment platform for as far back as anyone can remember. But there have been times in the last [...]
Posted in Agencies, Clients, Creative, Finance, News | Tagged bbdo, Dell, enfatico, entertainment platform, first global campaign, goodby silverstein, grey, Interpublic, live for now, mccann, news corporation, Nicki Minaj, omnicom, Pepsi, PepsiCo, pop culture, rkcr/y&r, Simon Lowden, tbwa chiat day, team pepsi formula, Vodafone, WPP
By Staff on April 27, 2012
Marcoms giant WPP grew its like-for-like revenue four per cent in the first quarter of 2011, slightly ahead of budget and roughly in line with recent figures from biggest rivals Omnicom and Publicis Groupe. Latin America was the fastest-growing region with the double-dip recession UK doing surprisingly well at three per cent. Pleasingly for boss [...]
Posted in Agencies, Clients, Finance, Media, News, Research | Tagged aegis, carat, first quarter results, ipsos, isobar, Jerry Buhlmann, kantar, Sir Martin Sorrell, synovate, tns custom, vizeum, WPP
By Stephen Foster on April 24, 2012
The Brits and the French spent much of the 18th century vying for control of India (the Brits won, of course) and the two old adversaries seem to be busily engaged in another contest to the death on the sub-continent, this time in all things digital with respective national marcoms flagships WPP and Publicis Groupe [...]
Posted in Agencies, Clients, Finance, Media, News, Research | Tagged aig, brandedge, digital marketing, digitas, hsbc, India, indigo, infosys, kantar, leo burnett, mysupermarket, publicis groupe, razorfish, rosetta marketing group, Sir Martin Sorrell, tata, thomas cook, Vikas Tandon, vivaki, WPP
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