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A New York ad war has broken out between ambitious Toronto-based MDC, owner of Kirshenbaum Bond and McCann-Erickson, former home to Kirschenbaum Bond’s new president-ceo Lori Senecal (who’s now got her name on the door too). Lawyers have been called ...
Read More »Springer & Jacoby closes – how long can a hot shop stay hot?
Germany’s most famous agency Springer & Jacoby has gone bust after failing to recover from the loss of the giant Mercedes account in July 2006. For a number of years the agency, credited with being the most creative in Germany, ...
Read More »Poser for agencies as Clegg wins first UK TV debate
The chance to compete on equal terms with Labour and the Tories always looked like too good an opportunity for the Liberal Democrats to miss and Liberal leader Nick Clegg took full advantage in the first of the UK’s three ...
Read More »50 years since CDP was born – was this the world’s best agency?
There are lots of other contenders of course, Boase Massimi Pollitt in the UK, DDB in New York, maybe there are supporters of Crispin Porter Bogusky in the US and even Campaign Palace in Sydney. But Collett Dickenson Pearce, now ...
Read More »Now US business goes Apple app crazy
At long last Apple is cracking the corporate market, instanced by booming sales of iPhones (27 per cent of the US market in February) and the new iPad. Buyers are apparently being wooed by the ever-growing number of Apple apps ...
Read More »TV boom times are back – for a few months at least
According to respected research firm Enders Analysis they are anyway. Enders forecasts that the UK TV market will be up by around 20 per cent in April and May this year compared to last, following tiny increases at the start ...
Read More »PR agencies in a spin over Vodafone
A little online barney between two UK PR agencies has caused some amusement among the nation’s spinners this morning. Apparently Vodafone’s recently appointed agency, Paratus, (slightly toffy name, Latin for ‘prepared’ we believe) sent out an erroneous release to bloggers ...
Read More »Kelner named as Independent editor but Geordie Greig’s in charge
Simon Kelner has been named as the new editor of the Independent, taking over from Roger Alton who’s been on death row almost since taking over the job. Kelner was editor for a decade until 2008 when he was promoted ...
Read More »An election or a class in student economics?
Voters in the UK General Election might be forgiven for scratching their heads and then going back to sleep as they contemplate the opening rounds of the campaign, largely a discussion about public sector ‘savings’ and whether or not a ...
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