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Many business to business campaign are dull, dreary things, seemingly designed more to flatter the client than say anything useful. When they essay humour, in a bid to sweeten the corporate pill, the results can be plain embarrassing – look ...

In the ancient world when a leading figure had fallen out of favour they used to destroy all his statues (hers didn’t get them, alas). Much the same has been happening to departed General Motors CMO Joel Ewanick and now ...

‘Chevy Runs Deep’ was the solution to reviving Chevrolet, by far General Motors’ biggest brand, chosen by now-departed global CMO Joel Ewanick and his initial agency choice Goodby Silverstein. Now Alan Batey (left), officially ‘interim’ CMO but showing signs of ...

Well, well, the world’s most famous marketer, General Motors global CMO Joel Ewanick (left), instigator of the Commonwealth agency for Chevrolet and the decision to award all the company’s $3bn global media budget to Carat, has ‘resigned.’ Not that he ...

Or some part of it anyway, as General Motors and Manchester United have scheduled a press conference in Shanghai tomorrow to announce a marketing deal. GM, you may recall, is based in Detroit and Man U is in, well, Manchester ...

When was there ever a CMO like General Motors’ Joel Ewanick? Hard on the heels of dumping Facebook from his advertising schedule in the week of its IPO, Ewanick (pictured) has announced that he’s skipping the 2013 Super Bowl too, ...

General Motors global CMO Joel Ewanick (pictured) has instigated a number of big waves since taking over at the US car giant and he’s just launched another one: pulling all the company’s media spend from Facebook. Facebook, of course, is ...

Chrysler is laying on the emotion with ‘Imported From Detroit’ while we wait to see what Joel Ewanick’s new Goodby Silverstein/McCann Commonwealth construct will come up with for General Motors’ Chevrolet. With Ford, from WPP’s JWT-based ‘Team Detroit,’ it’s technology, ...

They all laughed when WPP’s Sir Martin Sorrell started to put together client-focussed teams from his sprawling empire, to pitch for the world’s biggest clients. The short-lived experiment with WPP’s Enfatico agency for Dell being the cause of the greatest ...