Stuart Smith

Stuart Smith is one of the most incisive and knowledgeable commentators on global marketing. He was a long-time editor of Marketing Week during the period when it was the UK's leading marketing, media and advertising specialist publication. Visit Stuart Smith Blog.

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Stuart SmithDecember 31, 2021
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From the MAA Archive: Publicis Groupe and Omnicom in $35bn merger

Actually they weren’t but that was what Omnicom’s John Wren and Publicis boss Maurice Levy intended in 2013, described here…
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Stuart SmithNovember 25, 2014
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Epica Grand Prix goes to BBDO’s Beeps

You win some, you lose some. And “Jesus” – more correctly known as Forsman & Bodenfors’ “The Good Guys for…
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Stuart SmithNovember 17, 2014
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First cut from this year’s creative crop of Epica entrants

Selfishly speaking, there are three good things about the Epica Awards. First, they are the only ones that allow specialist…
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Stuart SmithOctober 30, 2014
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Wieden+Kennedy launches Honda’s mean machine with a drive on the wild side

Here’s a cute online launch film for the Honda Civic Type R from Wieden & Kennedy. It breaks today. “Cute”…
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Stuart SmithAugust 16, 2013
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PubliCom merger’s unanswered questions – who’s really in charge, client reaction and WPP’s response

Nearly three weeks on from the seismic news that Publicis Groupe and Omnicom are to merge and still no end…
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Stuart SmithJuly 31, 2013
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Artist’s playful riff on Charles Saatchi’s Playful Tiff

Charles Saatchi and Nigella Lawson have just been granted a decree nisi in the High Court, near finalising their divorce.…
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Stuart SmithJuly 4, 2013
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Cannes Media Lions awards dispute between WPP’s Sorrell and Omnicom’s de Nardis is also personal

WPP chief Sir Martin Sorrell has rightly been basking in the reflected glory of the Cannes sunshine. Three successive years,…
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Stuart SmithMay 29, 2013
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Starcom’s Laura Desmond is a well-paid supporter of online video challenger Tremor

You can gauge the ebullience of equity markets these days from the number of obscure digital media companies with dodgy…
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Finance

Stuart SmithMay 15, 2013
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Centaur Media’s £50m bold bet on digital business Econsultancy backfires disastrously

It’s a dry, spare document. But beneath the dense, printed undergrowth of Centaur Media’s Interim Management Statement 7464E – out…
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