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 ...
Read More »Ogilvy New York debuts post-Cannes Lions ‘thank you’ film for buoyant Coca-Cola
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 ...
Read More »Now Coke’s Grand Prix winner from China is dragged into the scam ads debate
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 Now Leo Burnett has withdrawn two winning radio ads for Tata from the same Goafest ad awards and similar cases seem to be emerging ...
Read More »George Lois, Lee Clow, Lou Reed and various Coke execs head Cannes speaker line-up
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 ...
Read More »Coca-Cola wins Cannes creative marketer of the year gong after 46 years of trying
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 ...
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