Chris Chapman (below) has joined adam&eveDDB as the agency’s first creative director of design, reporting to CCO Richard Brim. Chapman joins from Droga5 after stints at London agencies including Wieden+Kennedy, Grey, where he worked on award-winning Volvo and Saatchi & ...
Read More »US agencies lead Covid layoffs – now it’s DDB
Covid-19 is “no respecter of individuals” UK cabinet secretary Michael Gove said when PM Boris Johnson was hospitalised, neatly deflecting a questioner who wondered why lots of people in 10 Downing Street had got it. That certainly seems to be ...
Read More »DDB’s Wendy Clark quits for surprise switch to Dentsu
The ad business still has the capacity to surprise now and then and here’s one: Wendy Clark is quitting as boss of Omnicom’s DDB to be global CEO of Dentsu Aegis Network, Jerry Buhlmann’s old job. She’ll report to executive ...
Read More »Dockers measures up for a fight in winner from DDB
Dockers, on behalf of its shirts, is telling us you “don’t need a suit to change the world,” which view leaves you open to a vicious attack from that neglected suit in the wardrobe. Like the “no suit was injured..” ...
Read More »MillerCoors targets women again with Blue Moon from DDB
Are women to be the salvation of the flagging US beer market? MillerCoors evidently thinks so. Recently we had a young lady winding down with a Coors Light courtesy of Leo Burnett and now it’s DDB Chicago’s turn for craft ...
Read More »DDB CEO Wendy Clark reveals her alter ego: ‘Connie Client’
DDB global CEO Wendy Clark isn’t afraid to put herself out there, and this week she talks openly on the Love This podcast, a series hosted by Beth O’Brien and Joe Carter of Colenso BBDO in New Zealand. Clark, who ...
Read More »DDB goes back to the future to recapture glory days
Omnicom agency DDB is changing its visual identity to mark its 70th birthday, harking back to its distinguished inception as New York’s most creative agency, the NYC equivalent of the UK’s Collett Dickenson Pearce, many of whom were inspired by ...
Read More »Omnicom’s McDonald’s agency We Are Unlimited tries to spread its wings
Adweek’s Agency Spy reports that Omnicom’s We Are Unlimited, the agency formed to wrest McDonald’s creative away from Publicis’ Leo Burnett in the US, is now pursuing other business too. This is believed to follow the end of a two-year ...
Read More »DDB wins most of VW creative worldwide but WPP triumphs against the odds in North America
Volkswagen has concluded its global creative review with a rather odd choice of agencies: WPP, still on the Ford roster globally handling “activation” and media, has been appointed to handle North America creative while DDB looks like the big winner ...
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