By Stephen Foster on March 27, 2013
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 [...]
Posted in Agencies, Clients, Creative, News, Politics, PR | Tagged awards entry, blue hive, Bobby Pawar, firings, ford figo, goafest, jwt india, Martin Mercado, rape, Sir Martin Sorrell, Vijay Sinha, WPP, y&r argentina
By Stephen Foster on June 14, 2012
Here’s a great Latin American ad for Coca-Cola, done without an agency it seems. And who’s the boy behind it, well none other than our old friend Martin Mercado, the creative director of Y&R Argentina who rattled the cages of WPP boss Sir Martin Sorrell, British foreign secretary William Hague and many others with his [...]
Posted in Agencies, Clients, Creative, News, Politics | Tagged coke ad, falklands islands, landia, malvinas, Martin Mercado, olympics, production company, Sir Martin Sorrell, William Hague, WPP, y&r argentina
By Stephen Foster on May 9, 2012
The saga of Y&R Argentina’s ‘Malvinas’ ad for the Argentine government that has so annoyed (among others) the British government, WPP’s Sir Martin Sorrell, hapless and seemingly helpless network managers at Y&R and the International Olympic Committee, has taken a couple of new twists. First the offending Argentine hockey player Fernando Zylberberg (pictured) has dropped [...]
Posted in News | Tagged Fernando Zylberberg, hockey team, london olympics, malvinas ad, Martin Mercado, port stanley, self-made ad, Sir Martin Sorrell, war memorial, WPP, y&r argentina
By Stephen Foster on May 7, 2012
The controversial London Olympics ad by Y&R Argentina claiming the UK-owned Falkland Islands are actually the Argentine Malvinas (the cause of a shooting war between the two countries 30 year ago) is still running on Argentine TV (and all over the internet) despite demands from an increasingly panic-stricken WPP (Y&R’s owner) to pull it. The [...]
Posted in Agencies, Clients, Creative, Media, News, Politics | Tagged argentine government, creative director, emblematic agency, falkland islands, london olympics, malivinas ad, Martin Mercado, Sir Martin Sorrell, WPP, y&r, y&r argentina
By Stephen Foster on May 4, 2012
When we first saw this ad by the Argentina government labouring its grievance over the Falklands/Malvinas we kind of assumed it hadn’t been produced by a big agency network. That way madness (and loss of jobs) lies. But in fact it was produced by Y&R Argentina, which has had the top bods at Y&R and [...]
Posted in Agencies, Clients, News, Politics, PR | Tagged argentina government ad, falklands islands, malvinas, Sir Martin Sorrell, war memorial, WPP, y&r argentina
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