Analysis
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George Parker: Omnicom – cheaper by the four dozen..
The Omnicom saga continued on its merry way when it issued its fourth quarter and full-year results last Wednesday. Fuelling…
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Is it make or break for WPP?
WPP is facing what may be a make or break week as new CEO Cindy Rose (below) prepares to unveil…
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MAA Ad of the Week: Old Spice from Wieden+Kennedy HQ
In a period when creativity is struggling to get a hearing – and seems noticeably absent in much of what…
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Omar Oakes: An ‘exodus’ in advertising? Something doesn’t add up
My mother, of all people, sent me an alarming story from her favourite newspaper informing the world that “UK ad…
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Omar Oakes: If you make $5bn a year from scam ads, are they a feature or a bug?
It should be a cause of embarrassment for an entire industry that fewer than half of people trust its core…
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IPA Census shows dramatic decline in creative jobs
Creative agencies are in danger of becomking an endangered species as the ad world reorganises under the likes of Omnicom…
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The big winners in a below par Super Bowl ad fest
Who won the Super Bowl ad fest? Why Budweiser of course (it usually does.) They’re all here, courtesy of LBB.…
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MAA Ad of the Week: Anthropic from Mother
It’s a long time since an ad campaign caused as much of a stink as this: Mother’s rather understated Super…
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George Parker: how the ‘Two Bobs’ invaded Britain
After ten profligate and rewarding years in New York I arrived back in England in 1972. In those days, anyone…
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