What are we to make of Maurice Levy’s musings about his and Publicis Groupe’s future? Levy hosted a confab in London (significant in itself as PG is really an Anglo-Saxon company these days) at which he promised two things. The first was that he would have stepped down by 2018 (by which time he will [...]
When, in 1963, as a snot nosed 23 year old, I disembarked at pier 96 from the Queen Mary (the one that’s now a conference center in Long Beach), my sole objective was to get a job on Madison Avenue, drink, smoke and screw my brains out, and so become what would be known many [...]
Investors prefer companies to be boring when it comes to announcing quarterly results and the marcoms gang looks unlikely to disappoint them. Omnicom has followed Publicis Groupe in announcing more or less ‘as you were’ figures for the first quarter of 2013; as you were in the sense of little or no overall growth compared [...]
Did you ever wonder what all those WPP media agencies (Mindshare, MediaCom, MEC, Maxus and no doubt many others still to be invented) actually do, when GroupM is supposed to be running the roost? Well one thing they do is ‘entertainment’ and Mindshare Entertainment has produced this ad/online film for one its clients, Royal Caribbean [...]
Whoever said advertising was a young person’s business? The conventional wisdom is that at 40, most ad executives would be advised to investigate a second career. And at 50, they’ll be positively clapped out and have “post-economic” freedom foisted upon them whether they like it or not. Superficially, membership statistics for the Institute of Practitioners [...]
Ogilvy UK has been marooned in the financial fastness of Canary Wharf for the best part of 20 years – not one of WPP CEO Sir Martin Sorrell’s better decisions. Now though the agency has settled on 2015 to escape from its lease and is looking at sites nearer to adland’s Soho homeland – but [...]
Last year WPP’s Sir Martin Sorrell objected to the votes cast in the Cannes Lions media category; claiming that his company’s efforts had been conspired against by, er, conspirators – chiefly Omnicom it seems. Last year’s media jury was chaired by OMD boss Mainardo de Nardis and Manning Gottlieb OMD won the Grand Prix for [...]
***The JWT India storm about Ford ads that’s resulted in the departure of top creative Bobby Pawar just shows how corrupt the whole awards thing is (and much else, of course). There’s clearly a huge scam going on with faux awards entries, cheerfully paid for by the client (in most instances). Essentially, it’s run an [...]
This one goes from bad to worse for JWT India, Ford agency Blue Hive or Team WPP (take your pick) and owner WPP. The ads, for Ford’s Figo it appears, that we thought were the result of a ‘rogue’ (although quite clever creative or creatives) were actually entered for the Goafest ad awards by JWT [...]
Enthusiasm is a dangerous thing and someone at JWT India has put their (and the company’s) foot in it by sending some some apparently unauthorised ads for Ford, featuring bound and gagged people in the boot of a car, off to Ads of the World. This has caused a predictable storm in India, where the [...]
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