Holding company MDC Partners may be in a permanent state of seeming crisis but Anomaly, the agency founded by the UK’s Carl Johnson, seems to sail serenely on, oblivious to the burning timbers and falling masonry. Now CEO Johnson is ...
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I haven’t had a real rant for a long time. And I have the luxury of (blind) faith and age to insulate me from opinions other than my partners, our people and our clients. So I relished the opportunity to ...
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Ad Age has a piece today on Robert Senior, the new global CEO of Saatchi & Saatchi. Senior (left) takes over from Kevin Roberts next January. Which prompted the thought: how come so many alumni of TBWA in the UK ...
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Anomaly Amsterdam has won Carrera eyewear following a four-way pitch. Carrera, originally an Austrian brand known for ski googles but now owned by Italy’s Safilo Group, is one of the giants of the global eyewear trade but, hitherto, not a ...
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Viewers in Canada get to see the Super Bowl too and, according to CBC, they’re just as interested in the ads as the game (hardly surprising as it was a one-sided rout of the Denver Broncos by the Seattle Seahawks). ...
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25 years ago today five of us announced the start of a new advertising agency with a front page splash in Campaign magazine. We all met up for lunch that day trying to figure what would happen next. We had ...
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Why do some start-up agencies make it while others fall on their noses? Is it genius, grabbiing the zeitgeist or just luck? My friend Paul Simons would say it’s about good planning and the right line-up. The success of his ...
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