By Stephen Foster on May 9, 2013
Food porn, dont’cha miss it? Back in the 90s, or thereabouts, Marks & Spencer was famous for its orgasmic food ads and now Sainsbury’s and trusty agency AMV/BBDO appears to be rehearsing the genre in this new campaign. Well it’s for muesli for Christ’s sake. Anyway it’s very nicely done. Sainsbury’s lost its ‘brand ambassador’ [...]
Posted in Agencies, Clients, Creative, News | Tagged amv/bbdo, food porn, Jamie Oliver, marks & spencer, new TV campaign, Sainsburys, y&r
By Staff on February 28, 2013
TED is a non-profit conference outfit run by the Sapling Foundation that promotes ‘Ideas Worth Spreading.’ And once a year it choose ten ‘Ads Worth Spreading.’ Most of this year’s crop we’ve featured already (they’re all here) but here’s one we haven’t, called ‘Annie’ from Dell and agency Y&R. Don’t try this at home might [...]
Posted in Agencies, Clients, Creative, News | Tagged ads worth spreading, annie, Dell, sapling foundation, ted, y&r
By Stephen Foster on May 24, 2012
John Lewis agency Adam & Eve, bought for £60m by Omnicom yesterday, seems to have executed a reverse takeover of flagging DDB London as the Adam & Eve-ites have emerged firmly on top in the merged agency’s management. The three A&E founders James Murphy (pictured), David Golding and Ben Priest becomes CEO, CSO and executive [...]
Posted in Agencies, Clients, Creative, Finance, News | Tagged adam & eve, Ben Priest, David Golding, ddb london, integrated agency, john Banks, John Wren, merger, omincom, rainey Kelly, reverse takeover, rkcr/y&r, Rupert Howell, Stephen Woodford, Tom Roberts, virgin media, WPP, y&r, £60m
By Staff on May 8, 2012
Sir Martin Sorrell has been taking time out from trying to sort a diplomatic incident ‘twixt Argentina and the UK provoked by the latter’s Y&R ‘Malvinas’ commercial, to address the US Association of National Advertisers Financial Management Conference in sunny Florida. In it he no doubt pleased his audience of procurement executives and others by [...]
Posted in Agencies, Clients, Finance, News, Politics | Tagged argentina, association of national advertisers financial management coference, bank of america, coors, Dell, enfatico, JWT, malvinas ad, O&M, Sir Martin Sorrell, team wpp, uk, working horizontally, WPP, y&r
By Stephen Foster on May 7, 2012
Y&R global CEO David Sable (pictured) sends me this message about the controversy over the Y&R Argentina ad for the Argentine government featuring one of its Olympic athletes making an unscheduled training trip to Port Stanley, capital of the British-owned Falklands Islands or Argentina’s Malvinas, depending on your point of view. In the ad the [...]
Posted in Agencies, Clients, News, Politics | Tagged apology, argentina, argentina government ad, David Sable, falkland islands, falklands war, malvinas, Margaret Thatcher, Martin Mercado, olympics, Ronald Reagan, south atlantic, war memorial, world cup, WPP, y&r
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 March 29, 2012
Some agency brands cut it on the worldwide stage, others don’t. Arguably Interpublic’s DraftFCB doesn’t (it still sounds like a horse designed by a committee), Dentsu (also the name of its Japanese holding company parent) certainly doesn’t. But back in 2008 Dentsu had the good sense to buy McGarrybowen, the agency set up in 2002 [...]
Posted in Agencies, News | Tagged dentsu, draftfcb, Gordon Bowen, Interpublic, John McGarry, John McGarry lll, madison avenue, mcgarrybowen, new role, New York, special executive adviser, Stewart Owen, Tim Andree, tokubetsu komon, WPP, y&r
By Angie Dean on February 29, 2012
Fika is the Swedish word for coffee break apparently and it’s the theme of this new ad, featuring naughty-but-nice spokesman Johan, for Gevalia coffee from brand owner Kraft and current agency of the moment Taxi New York (a month ago it was Droga5 but things happen quickly at the once sleepy food and snacks company [...]
Posted in Agencies, Clients, Creative, News | Tagged amsterdam, fika coffee break, gevalia coffee, Jane Hope, Kraft, Paul Lavoie, revlon, starbucks, taxi new york, toronto, vw, y&r, young & rubicam
By Stephen Foster on February 23, 2012
‘It’s Time for a Tiger’ has been the line for Asia Pacific Breweries’ Tiger beer ever since the 1930s (author Anthony Burgess even used it as the title of one of his books) and now Tiger is reviewing its global ad account, currently handled by Y&R and indie agency Iris with DDB also having a [...]
Posted in Agencies, Clients, Creative, News | Tagged Anthony Burgess, asia pacific breweries, ddb, Fraser and Neave, heineken, iris, it's time for a tiger, singapore, tiger beer, trading house, wieden+kennnedy, y&r
By Stephen Foster on February 16, 2012
Out of the frying pan into the fire you might say for Hamish McLennan who resigned as boss of WPP-owned Y&R last year and has now taken a new role, developing ‘global brand partnerships,’ for crisis-stricken News Corporation. McLennan, an Aussie, will be executive vice president, office of the chairman (wow!) and report to Rupert [...]
Posted in Agencies, Clients, Media, News | Tagged brand partnerships, Chase Carey, Hamish McLennan, James Murdoch, news corporation, News International, phone hacking, Rupert Murdoch, Sir Martin Sorrell, WPP, y&r
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