Agencies

It’s an important day in the country’s calendar and there’s also a General Election. So let’s get on with our final choices of the outstanding denizens of adland. Network of the Year There are three candidates for Network of the ...

WPP CEO Mark Read (and, no doubt, his dealmaking COO Andrew Scott) haven’t broken up for the Christmas holidays yet, they’ve just unloaded contentious data acquisition Triad Retail Media to Walmart-owned Sam’s Club. Last month it emerged that WPP, which ...

US Agency of the Year: Wieden + Kennedy While its competitors spend time and energy getting worked up about new agency models and the speed of change, Wieden+Kennedy coolly continues to build on its core proposition by concentrating on making ...

Chilly’s makes reusable bottles for keeping drinks cold and it’s running its first campaign with Uncommon Creative Studio, a Christmas effort inviting the world to “gift responsibly.” Uncommon co-founder Nils Leonard says: “Gift Responsibly. Buy stuff that doesn’t kill the ...

There’s an interesting battle developing between David Jones’ You & Mr Jones and Sir Martin Sorrell’s S4Capital, both offering new-style solutions to the world’s big marketers. You & Mr Jones, which calls itself the world’s first BrandTech group (it’s even ...

The troubles at Golden Square have moved into a new phase as Maurice Saatchi, 73, steps down from the board of M&C Saatchi along with the agency group’s three non-executive directors. M&C Saatchi is insisting that it will continue to ...

The M&C Saatchi share price is up this morning, raising the troubled agency’s market valuation to £90m from the £70m it fell to last week after M&C revealed a whopper £11.6m provision for accounting errors. This, the boys in dark ...

Bacofoil has appointed Cogent as its integrated creative agency without a pitch. Bacofoil’s products range from non-stick aluminium foil and non-stick baking paper to Zipper storage bags. Bacofoil says its ambition is to “own the kitchen drawer.” Bacofoil UK and ...

Eric Salama, long-time CEO of WPP’s Kantar research operation which is now 60 per cent owned by Bain Capital, is stepping down after 17 years. The sale to Bain completed last week. WPP keeps the balance. Salama (below) is staying ...