Post PubliCom merger ripples are still being felt all over the place and my spies in the Far East are busy speculating – over the clink of their properly made gin and tonics in the Raffles Hotel – that a ...
Read More »Omnicom, Google, Steve Ballmer, Bill Gates needed back at the ranch and David Jones for WPP
***Omnicom and Interpublic have followed Publicis Groupe into the lists with their half-year numbers: Interpublic (given its legacy issues) seems OK, Omnicom growing by about two per cent may be deemed slightly worrying. Omnicom may be falling behind in the ...
Read More »Havas: Vincent Bollore to step down as chairman with son Yannick named as successor
Havas chairman Vincent Bollore is planning to promote elder son Yannick (left) to replace him when he steps down later this year. He has also promoted younger son Cyrille to be his deputy at family-owned Bollore Group, which holds the ...
Read More »Most brands are pants says new Havas survey but the best ones, like IKEA, help you and your friends
Only a fifth of all the brands out there make a meaningful difference to our lives according to new research from Havas – and most people would happily do without 70 per cent of them (over 90 per cent of ...
Read More »Why the future looks good for old admen – if you don’t get turned out to grass aged 50
Whoever said advertising was a young person’s business? The conventional wisdom is that at 40, most ad executives would be advised to investigate a second career. And at 50, they’ll be positively clapped out and have “post-economic” freedom foisted upon ...
Read More »Now Arnold Worldwide joins the scam ad gang with unauthorised McDonald’s poster
Scam ads are turning into an epidemic – or maybe we’re just noticing them after the JWT India Ford Figo fiasco. Now agency Arnold Worldwide is in the mire over a thoroughly weird mental health type ad for McDonald’s that ...
Read More »BETC London wins global Bacardi account
BETC London has had a strong start in life as the first outpost of Paris-based BETC with good work for (by definition) new clients Cow & Gate and Diet Coke and now it’s landed the global Bacardi account. Bacardi tends ...
Read More »2012’s big trend: giant companies like Levi’s and Starbucks running scared of consumer boycotts
We’re in the middle of our ads of the year extravaganza (Paul Simons and Giles Keeble in the bag, Jerry Judge, George Parker, Stuart Smith and me still to come) but there’s no doubt what the movement of the year ...
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