BBC director general Tony Hall (aka Lord Hall of Birkenhead, there are some perks in that vale of tears) is stepping down, leaving the job of hanging on to the licence fee in face of a hostile Tory government to ...
Read More »Wonderhood Studios’ Abraham unveils star-studded new agency line-up
Former Channel 4 boss David Abraham (also a founder of the St Luke’s agency) formed Wonderhood Studios in April to offer cross-discipline creativity and content and we’ve been waiting to see who he signed up for his creative agency team. ...
Read More »Former C4 boss David Abraham bounces back with new style agency/producer Wonderhood Studios
Former Channel 4 boss and St Luke’s founder David Abraham is bouncing back on the scene with the year’s most significant start-up, cross-discipline creative outfit Wonderhood Studios. Wonderhood claims it will forge a new production model by “bringing together skills ...
Read More »Showman David Abraham quits Channel 4
Channel 4 CEO David Abraham is stepping down to launch his own “media enterprise” in 2018. Abraham (below), a founder of the St Luke’s ad agency, was a left field choice to succeed marketing man Andy Duncan as C4 boss ...
Read More »C4’s Abraham warns of US TV takeover
Channel 4 CEO David Abraham (left), back in the day a founder of the St Luke’s agency, came out fighting at the Edinburgh Festival the other day; accusing US TV companies of trying to buy UK TV assets to provide ...
Read More »Channel 4’s 4Creative in the winner’s enclosure again with new Royal Ascot ad
In-house agencies never work – do they? Innocean in the US has done some good work for parent Hyundai (although a recent ad featuring an attempted suicide was a horrible howler) while Spark44 has yet to sparkle for Jaguar. Cheil ...
Read More »WPP boss Sir Martin Sorrell did intervene to sort out GroupM/Channel 4 airtime row
As we suspected the airtime row between GroupM, which handles big negotiations for WPP’s media agencies including MediaCom, Mindshare and MEC, and publicly-backed UK broadcaster Channel 4 did escalate to involve the higher ranks of WPP. Which means CEO Sir ...
Read More »GroupM spat with Channel 4 could backfire on WPP as well as hurt publicly-owned broadcaster
WPP’s GroupM, in effect the controller of its various media agencies, is threatening to pull around £200m of ads from UK broadcaster Channel 4 (27 per cent of the total) if the publicly-owned broadcaster won’t agree to revised (lower presumably) ...
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