Maybe we are all being nicer to each other in lockdown. BBH is now sharing what it calls an “immersive experience” with founder and long-time creative director Sir John Hegarty, previously available to staff. “Hegarty On…” offers a face-to-face meeting ...
Read More »Karen Martin moves up to top CEO role at BBH
BBH looks to have completed its new management line-up in London with the elevation of Karen Martin (below) to CEO from managing director and Simon Gregory and Will Lion to joint CSOs. Polly McMorrow has been promoted to MD. They ...
Read More »Vespa strikes brighter Covid-19 note with winning poster campaign from BBH
Italy has suffered more than most from Covid-19 (a European field where Britain, alas, leads) but one of its quintessential brands is doing its best to cheer us up. Vespa is running an engaging new ’50s-style global poster campaign through ...
Read More »Tesco beards Twitterati with Ramadan ‘Food Love Story’
It’s Ramadan in the UK so Tesco is promoting its halal meats with this lively effort from BBH (presumably) as part of its ‘Food Love Stories’ campaign. Predictably it’s provoked a Twitter storm, in large part from people who disapprove ...
Read More »BBH takes a hit in US as owner Publicis retrenches
Publicis Groupe-owned BBH has instituted a round of lay-offs, with a 20 per cent cull of its New York and LA offices. No word from HQ about London yet but it’s hardly likely to escape. London-based group CEO Neil Munn ...
Read More »BBH’s new CCO is Clemenger BBDO star Stephen de Wolf
BBH London has raided Australia for the successor to CCO Ian Heartfield, off to join James Murphy and David Golding’s new start-up due in May. Clemenger BBDO’s Stephen de Wolf (below) is picking up the gauntlet of what is still ...
Read More »M&C cuts its cloth after NatWest loss, BBH keeps Audi
Troubled M&C Saatchi is reported to have offered all its staff voluntary redundancy as it investigates accounting errors that may cost it up to £6.4m. It’s also coming to terms with the loss of the NatWest account to the The&Partnership, ...
Read More »72andSunny Amsterdam picks up Audi’s ‘Vorsprung’ baton
‘Vorsprung durch Technik’ means advancement through technology – and it’s served Audi pretty well since BBH founder John Hegarty came across it touring an Audi factory in 1982. That, of course, was the era of such things – BMW had ...
Read More »Grey poaches two from BBH as new broom Rossi tries to rebuild creative credentials
Grey London, doubtless smarting from the loss of long-standing client Lucozade to adam&eveDDB and the departure of high profile CCO Vicki Maguire to Havas, has hired two new creative directors – Matt Moreland and Chris Clarke from BBH (below). Which, ...
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