Last year WPP’s Sir Martin Sorrell objected to the votes cast in the Cannes Lions media category; claiming that his company’s efforts had been conspired against by, er, conspirators – chiefly Omnicom it seems. Last year’s media jury was chaired ...
Read More »Dentsu boss Tim Andree sets out new China strategy
China and Japan aren’t always the best of pals (that’s enough serious political analysis for now) and Japanese marcoms giant Dentsu has therefore found it difficult to expand in its neighbour’s huge market. The traditional Dentsu model, providing absolutely everything ...
Read More »Marketers and agency fees in the firing line as Procter & Gamble wields the axe
Consumer goods giant Procter & Gamble is cutting nearly 6,000 non-manufacturing jobs with ‘overlapping’ marketers set to take more than their fair share (if fair is what it is). So far roughly 1,000 marketers have been shown the door. And ...
Read More »Worrying times for DDB and Leo Burnett as McDonald’s rings the changes
The mighty McDonald’s, which seemed to have ridden out the recession as rivals Burger King and Pizza Hut struggled, has a nasty case of indigestion, posting its first monthly sales decline in nine years. First one to fall on her ...
Read More »Deutsch LA lures David Kim from Venables Bell
Deutsch LA has poached Venables Bell creative director David Kim (left) as an EVP and group digital creative director on flagship account Volkswagen. “David is a brilliant digital designer and concepter with a truly varied background and we are so ...
Read More »Budweiser in, Heineken out at AKQA in the US
Anheuser-Busch InBev has named AKQA as its US digital agency for Budweiser, Bud Light and Stella Artrois, replacing Heineken at the WPP-own company. Heineken is in the process of moving its digital work to above-the-line agency Wieden+Kennedy. In US terms ...
Read More »Do new Omnicom figures show that the big marcoms companies boomlet is running out of boom?
The big marcoms companies have rather enjoyed the sagging global economy over the past couple of years, managing to increase revenue and earnings by rather more than most other sectors, apart from freaky performances like Apple’s (Apple is almost a ...
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