It worked with George Davies when Marks & Spencer signed him up to create the Per Una fashion brand and now new broom at M&S Marc Bolland is trying to work some more of the old magic by signing veteran ...
Read More »AOL starts global Huffington Post rollout in the UK
At first we’re just going to get a home page but then the UK will become the first own-branded overseas edition of the Huffington Post, the news and comment aggregator website started by Arianna Huffington (formerly Stassinopolous) and recently bought ...
Read More »Liz Taylor’s contribution to advertising and marketing
Unfortunately there wasn’t much of it (far less so than there would be these days for the most famous film actress in the world). But in a long relationship with perfume maker Elizabeth Arden Liz Taylor did endorse Passion and ...
Read More »Indefatigable Toyota plans two days of record breaking for Prius
Toyota hasn’t had the happiest of times recently with recalls and now production interruptions following the earthquake in Japan. But the world’s biggest car company has responded with a series of determinedly upbeat campaigns from the ever-ingenious Saatchi & Saatchi ...
Read More »Lord Bell hits back at critics of PR companies’ involvement with Middle East regimes
The famously affable and debonair Lord Bell (Tim Bell as he was in his advertising days) has clearly been stung by criticisms of his company Bell Pottinger’s involvement with the Bahrain government and has written to trade publication PR Week ...
Read More »Booming M&C Saatchi sets sights on world domination (again)
The nothing is impossible boys seem to be back, M&C Saatchi has just reported profits of £7.76m on a 21 per cent increase in worldwide revenue to £125m and is spending some of it on buying the EMCG agency in ...
Read More »Hotshop Droga5 gets dramatically bigger as it raids Y&R and BBH in New York for top creative hires
Does Dave Droga, founder of hotshop Droga5, have a big account in his pocket that he’s not telling us about? The New York agency has just rehired Kevin Brady, this time as a group creative director, after just one year ...
Read More »Razorfish Sheraton win is good news for Publicis Groupe’s digital strategy
Sheraton Hotels and Resorts has appointed Publicis Groupe-owned Razorfish as its lead agency, working with PG sibling Kaplan Thaler Group. Sheraton spends around $24m in the US. Razorfish, which PG bought from Microsoft for $500m in 2009, has handled Sheraton’s ...
Read More »May sales dip means it’s time for ITV’s new management to start performing
ITV ad sales in May are predicted to fall back eight per cent in May after an increase in April, meaning that it’s time for ITV’s new management of CEO Adam Crozier and commercial boss Fru Hazlitt to roll their ...
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