Tag Archives: Amir Kassaei

There’s a fierce rivalry between WPP and Omnicom (as you may have noticed) and the most visible stage for it in recent years has been the battle for creative awards, most notably at the Cannes International Festival of Creativity. Recently ...

Last year WPP’s Sir Martin Sorrell objected to the votes cast in the Cannes Lions media category; claiming that his company’s efforts had been conspired against by, er, conspirators – chiefly Omnicom it seems. Last year’s media jury was chaired ...

China has lots of old people (and lots of people all ages of course) so it’s a reasonable if unconventional tactic to target these senior citizens or ‘senior rebels’ as this new ad from DDB Guon China for Volkswagen sets ...

When you’re stranded just north of Antarctica even watching the London Olympics on telly can be a bit of a trial, requiring lots of nocturnal interruptions. But the nearly always excellent McDonald’s (when it comes to ads anyway) and DDB ...

We’re used to having companies depicted as animals but Brand Toys renders them as toys (as it would). And the researchers there have been applying their grey cells to ad agencies at the Cannes International Festival of Creativity. They all ...

One way or another the ‘C’ word defined this year’s Cannes International Festival of Creativity. Naively, I came away from the ad industry’s annual Rivièra fest thinking C stood for Chipotle and Creative Artists Agency (CAA), the duo that pulled ...

We’re not going to list the number of Lions every agency or agency group won at Cannes (you’ll be relieved to know) but it is interesting that DDB Worldwide, the third best-performing network at the festival after Ogilvy and BBDO, ...

DDB creative chief Amir Kassaei (left) is not one to pull his punches: he’s already accused other holding companies (for which read WPP, the winner of the most-awarded holding company gong this year and last) of vote rigging and now ...

Dear oh dear, the Cannes International Festival of Creativity’s decision to introduce a ‘Holding Company,’ award, for the agency group winning the most Lions, was always bound to end in tears and now it has. The award was introduced last ...