Creative

WPP CEO Mark Read has (another) big decision to make – who’s going to succeed John Seifert as worldwide CEO and chairman of Ogilvy? And what kind of agency will it be? Seifert (above) has spent a scarcely believable (by ...

“If the client still proves refractory/Show a picture of the factory. Only in the gravest cases/Should you show the client’s faces”……”But if your logo is a horse/Maybe you should show remorse.” The Lloyds Bank advertising, consistently well shot and purely ...

WPP has produced its first quarter figures and, handily, has stated the impact of Covid-19 – in part to show that (in its view) it was heading for a decent quarter until the virus struck, initially in China. So for ...

Despite all the talk — and there’s plenty of that — agencies are still failing horribly at diversity. The latest data, covering 2019, shows that BAME employees make up only 4.7% of c-suite roles, down from 5.5% in 2018. Overall, ...

Quite how meaningful first quarter results are from the big ad holding companies is open to debate: Omnicom follows US rival Interpublic with a broadly flat Q1, impacted by the arrival of Coronavirus in March. Worldwide revenue was down 1.8 ...

Back in the day there was a UK agency Allen Brady & Marsh that, fairly briefly, swept all before it with lots of big accounts: British Rail, some of Whitbread. Front man Peter Marsh was a former actor who found ...

Shnoosee Bailey is managing partner and ECD of HeyHuman. Desert Island Ads Everyone is sort of on their own desert island at the moment, whether that be working in retail, working from home or not working at all. Despite the ...

This is one of my favourite spots of all time, addressing head-on consumer misconceptions about, what was, a publicly ridiculed brand. An enormous state of the art factory, 240 robots, the ten-year anti-corrosion warrantee, an engine that meets European emission ...

Grey UK has appointed Laura Jordan Bambach from Mr President as its new CCO following a pretty long search. Jon Gledstone moves up at Mr President to succeed her. Bambach (left), an Australian, made her name at a number of ...