Saatchi & Saatchi London is continuing its good work encouraging new talent by hosting the New Creators’ Showcase: Music Edition at its Chancery Lane, London, pub The Pregnant Man, named after the famous ad. The Showcase kicks off with singer ...
Read More »Whatever happened to: 1968’s top UK agencies
Came across this list in a piece in Campaign about Boase Massimi Pollitt, now adam&eveDDB. So, you might want to ask, where are they now and who, if anyone, owns them? London adland was about to change pretty dramatically in ...
Read More »It’s the PR triumph of the year – The Taste’s Nigella Lawson is our new national treasure
Oscar Wilde is alleged to have said “There is only one thing worse than being talked about and that’s not being talked about”. This would appear to be very true in the case of Nigella Lawson. After the incident outside ...
Read More »Will the real Charles Saatchi please stand up?
Those of us who knew Charles Saatchi (or Charlie before he became important) in a previous life to a greater or lesser degree (lesser, in my case) must be completely mystified by the latest turn of events – Charlie on ...
Read More »Withings strips off in a good cause – but which one?
Here you go: this is very brave. Not on the part of the 100 or so people taking part who get their kit off (these days it’s harder to persuade people to keep it on) but on the part of ...
Read More »Moray MacLennan: how M&C Saatchi International is building a new kind of marcoms empire
Moray MacLennan is CEO of M&C Saatchi Worldwide, the international arm of the UK agency formed in 1996 when Charles (no longer a partner) and Maurice Saatchi were defenestrated from Saatchi & Saatchi, then the biggest agency in the world, ...
Read More »George Parker: the truth about advertising – actually Howard Gossage got there already
Anyone with enough fortitude to endure my ramblings (This is the nineteenth bloody episode of “Confessions of a Mad Man” for crying out loud) will know that I love to quote famous dead people, particularly famous dead ad people. And, ...
Read More »Artist’s playful riff on Charles Saatchi’s Playful Tiff
Charles Saatchi and Nigella Lawson have just been granted a decree nisi in the High Court, near finalising their divorce. We thought to mark the occasion with an item that puts former adman Charlieboy in his rightful context: as a ...
Read More »Dove takes ‘real beauty’ to China in controversial unborn girls campaign from Ogilvy Shanghai
A few years ago WPP-owned Ogilvy sprung a big surprise by hiring M&C Saatchi creative director Graham Fink, a veteran of the London agency scene (although he manages not to look like one), and transplanting him to China. Have they ...
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