Tag Archives: barclays

M&C Saatchi is nothing if not resilient: it may be under siege from deputy chairman Vin Murria and her tech investment vehicle, but it keeps picking up business. The agency’s M&C Sports & Entertainment has supplanted Iris on Barclays’ sports ...

Barclays is supporting women’s football in its role as the first title sponsor of the Women’s Super League (WSL) and it’s gone to town with this TV campaign from Iris showing a would-be female footballer excluded from the not-always-beautiful game ...

Agencies will tell you that retaining a big account in a pitch is a bigger achievement – and more satisfying – than landing a newbie. BBH is feeling pretty pleased with itself after retaining the £30m or so Barclays account ...

Barclays is reviewing its £60m creative account after 17 years at BBH. The bank, currently under siege from a dissatisfied investor and with a trial of its former CEO John Varley and others underway, moved its Barclaycard business into Droga5 ...

It never rains but it pours – on WPP at the moment anyway – and now Gideon Spannier reports in Campaign that Barclays is poised to move its £60m media account to Omnicom from WPP’s Maxus. Maxus is being merged ...

Alan Shearer isn’t biggest fan of owner Mike Ashley’s Newcastle United these days – not an uncommon position it seems – but he’s been prevailed upon to revisit his home town club for Barclays’ ‘Spirit of the Game’ promotion. This ...

Well it might be, according to a story in Campaign. Apparently Barclays has hired search outfit Oystercatchers to conduct an “an internally focused management consultancy-type project” to review all its 200-odd global agencies as part of a company-wide efficiency drive. ...

Blimey, not sure I can take all this humility and lovey-doveyness from British banks; at least you knew where you were when the bastards were stealing your money. As ever, though, there’s a cunning plan and this emotion-laden ‘Thankyou’ ad ...

Here’s a touching tale from Barclaycard and BBH, which is not really what you expect from a credit card. So we have the forlorn Chris and the winsome Jessica, separated by the lure of Barclaycard’s ‘Freedom Rewards’ money-off offers. Oh ...