M&C Saatchi in London is going through a painful time with the loss of Dixons to AMV, worth around £50m in media terms, and Direct Line reviewing its huge account. Not a great start to 2014 for the boys and ...
Read More »Looks like it’s goodbye Draft, welcome FCB at IPG
What’s in an agency name? Used to be a load of initials of course, at one time there was a London agency called Beverley Fowler Maslin Oxlade & Starkey (lots of initials, obviously) and then, I think, they added Jenns ...
Read More »Direct Line and EE line up Christmas reviews
This one’s a hardy perennial: big client calls review over Christmas. According to Campaign Direct Line is reviewing its £46m account with M&C Saatchi, which the agency has held since 2005. You’d think that with eight years to think about ...
Read More »UK government’s new ad agency ‘procurement’ system is a nightmare designed by a committee
The follies of the UK’s coalition government know no bounds and now this collection of muppets – who promised a ‘bonfire of the quangos’ when it came into power in 2010 – has produced a procurement system for agencies that ...
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