Tag Archives: Frank Lowe

It’s amazing how brands get watered down in adland. Interpublic is now merging the Lowe network with middle-ranking US agency Mullen to create Mullen Lowe. Which as an international agency network will have no purchase whatsoever. Affable and capable Lowe ...

The Fantastic Mr Fox, you may recall, is a Roald Dahl story about a fox, a much-decried species in the English countryside, who triumphs over his adversaries (boorish humans) through a mixture of cunning, wit and charm. And, it has ...

I’ve just finished reading Fred Goldberg’s recently published book… The Insanity of Advertising. Hopefully anyone who knows anything about the ad biz will know of Fred and be familiar with his long and illustrious career at Y&R, New York, Chiat ...

Maybe CCO Linus Karlsson is having a beneficial effect on McCann. Here’s a new ad for Zurich Insurance from McCann Worldgroup that actually manages to give insurance a human dimension; which is what it’s for, after all. But why isn’t ...

In this excerpt from Confessions of a Mad Man our hero returns to the UK from the US to find a rapidly-changing agency scene populated by a new breed of agency determined to change all known rules. Although the greater ...

I see from the FT that Al Cluer, who made a career out of persuading previously snooty showbiz celebrities to appear in ads has died at 72. Cluer (pictured centre left with director Hugh Hudson and photographer Terry O’Neill) is ...

Of all the agencies in London that don’t do ‘safe’ Mother and Wieden+Kennedy are probably the two stand-outs. Mother didn’t pitch for Tesco’s £110m account (probably because it has Boots) but Wieden+Kennedy (which didn’t seem at all like a Tesco ...

Six agencies appear to have made the cut for the first presentations for the £110m Tesco UK account: McCann, SapientNitro, VCCP, WCRS and WPP-owned Grey and JWT. The list may be added to but many people’s favourite Publicis seems to ...

It’s always dangerous (indeed almost unheard of) to write off the mighty Tesco, the UK’s biggest retailer, but in the UK anyway the company does not seem to be able to pull the marketing levers with the same precision it ...