DDB global CEO Wendy Clark has resigned from Time’s Up, an organisation pledged to combat harassment and inequality at work, after admitting that she engaged former Droga5 CCO as a freelance to work on the ongoing VW global pitch. Royer ...
Read More »Senior jobs cull gathers speed in adland
Agency Spy’s Revolving Door feature is spinning at dizzying speed these days as US creative agencies appear to be experiencing a cull of ferocious proportions. Today we have Publicis closing Leo Burnett Chicago’s Greenhouse production unit, CP+B closing its LA ...
Read More »DDB’s We Are Unlimited hits its stride for McDonald’s
We were promised great things when DDB boss Wendy Clark’s new We Are Unlimited operation for McDonald’s in the US hove into view but its first effort was disappointingly anodyne. WAU is supposed to produce lots of data-driven (yawn) content ...
Read More »DDB UK and Germany agencies combine for VW T-Roc debut
Volkswagen says its “making the future real” (whatever that means) with its new T-Roc SUV, what we used to call a crossover but with SUV driving attributes. So there’s a new global campaign, ‘Born Confident,’ from adam&eveDDB and DDB Berlin/Hamburg ...
Read More »St Luke’s’ Richard Denney: why Jeremy Craigen is my ad hero
From when Mike Cozens gave me my first job at Y&R, to working with Robert Campbell and Mark Roalfe at RKCR then joining Tony Grainger and Kate Stanners at Saatchi & Saatchi London, I‘ve been lucky to work with a ...
Read More »Wieden+Kennedy pips DDB to Airbnb global account
Wieden+Kennedy has triumphed in the global pitch for Airbnb, beating DDB in the final round. 72andSunny, R/GA and Anomaly are also thought to have pitched. DDB was the ante-post favourite as US boss Wendy Clark worked with Airbnb marketing supremo ...
Read More »DDB’s Wendy Clark aims to recapture creative glory days with new CCO Ari Weiss
DDB is finally looking interesting after years of playing second fiddle to Omnicom’s biggest network BBDO. Aside from its stand-out UK performer adam&eveDDB (which may be morphing into an international brand, it’s opening in the US to handle Samsung) the ...
Read More »McDonald’s sheds some light on new US agency, creative expectations and pay policy
Piecing together the details of Omnicom’s new DDB-based creative agency for McDonald’s is a diverting entertainment and some clues have emerged from an Adweek panel in New York. McDonald’s CMO Deborah Wahl (below right with DDB’s Wendy Clark) said the ...
Read More »Omnicom’s giant land grab continues with McDonald’s from Publicis/Burnett
There’s no holding Omnicom at the moment: fresh from taking the lead in so-called ‘Mediapalooza’ with its new entity Hearts & Science – new home for AT&T and Procter & Gamble media in the US – it’s now won all ...
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