Tag Archives: advertiser of the year

I see that Nike challenger Under Armour (a pretty big challenger with $3bn sales) has won Ad Age’s Advertiser of the Year gong. Apparently UA’s first attempt to woo women was a bummer, with the first range going straight to ...

Coca-Cola has been mentioned as one of the clients that might object to the PublicCom merger as it has some business with Publicis Groupe agencies while Omnicom toils on behalf of Pepsi. But the Cokeheads are clever these days, using ...

Scam ads look like being the flavour of the year following JWT India’s Ford Figo fiasco. Now Leo Burnett has withdrawn two winning radio ads for Tata from the same Goafest ad awards and similar cases seem to be emerging ...

Cannes Lions has announced its first line-up of speakers for this year’s June adfest and it includes: Lee Clow TBWA), James Heekin (Grey), David Karp (Tumblr), Muhtar Kent (Coca-Cola), George Lois, Jane McGonigal (designer and author apparently), Tim Mellors, Lou ...

Actually I’m not sure that’s true – Coca-Cola won its first lion in 1967 but has the Creative Marketer of the Year award (formerly Advertiser of the Year) been going all that time? But Coke’s award is certainly overdue. And ...

The award (won by Mars this year) doesn’t go to an individual of course but Coca-Cola marketer Jonathan Mildenhall (left) has become the face of the mighty corporation and its excellent advertising. Coke won 30 Lions at this year’s festival ...

Those humorists at Clemenger BBDO Melbourne have struck again. Last time it was for a moving opus for Tetley Tea, this time with ‘Runaway Train’ for new client Mars. Mars has won this year’s Advertiser of the Year gong at ...

Mars has won the best advertiser gong at this year’s Cannes International Festival of Creativity (maybe because it’s there, Mars that is) but Cannes could save itself a lot of bother by just giving it to Volkswagen every year. VW’s ...

JWT’s top creative in China, Lo Sheung Yan, is to be the Cannes International Festival of Creativity’s first Chinese jury president. Yan, who’s known as Mayan by his chums, will lead the Outdoor jury. Last year JWT Shanghai won the ...