Egard Watches is a relative newbie in the timepiece game (2012) but it’s become surprisingly famous by taking a pop at Gillette’s now-notorious “toxic masculinity” ad. This purported to present a new view of men, suitable for the #MeToo era. ...
Read More »New Gillette UK campaign hits an identity crisis
Shaving is a tedious and, if you use Gillette products, expensive business. The P&G-owned brand is under pressure from cheaper online alternatives so it’s decided to modernise its “the best a man get get” pitch in a new campaign from ...
Read More »It’s Bond, Bond and more Bond…but does shaving with Gillette really bring out the 007 in you?
Has there ever been more pre-release hoopla for a film than the new James Bond effort, SPECTRE, due to premiere next Monday? Good for them I suppose, I don’t expect they’ve paid for all this stuff, but won’t we all ...
Read More »Grey London trims up P&G’s Gillette
Grey London’s quite a lively agency these days – as is Grey New York – and its latest effort is ‘100 years of hair’ for P&G’s Gillette. Very good, although I suspect it won’t seduce customers who wonder why Gillette ...
Read More »BBDO shows Gillette what it might be missing as it moves to new agency Grey
Funny how agencies often seem to produce their best work on an account during the protracted period between losing it and it actually moving to a new agency. Maybe they’re no longer frightened of the client – there’s no point ...
Read More »Now Dollar Shave Club’s Michael Dubin launches One Wipe Charlies – butt wipes for men
Everybody’s favourite (and funniest) client, Michael Dubin of Dollar Shave Club, is back with a new video for a new product – One Wipe Charlies, ‘butt wipes for men.’ As Michael says, you don’t have time to hang around with ...
Read More »WPP chuffed with Omnicom travails, BBH puts its hopes in Lafferty and BBC’s Today goes girl hunting
***A happy man tonight will be Sir Martin Sorrell, boss of WPP. He’s seen Omnicom slashing jobs at BBDO, after Interpublic’s McCann the world’s biggest agency network, following the loss of $300m Gillette to WPP’s Grey. More than that, he’ll ...
Read More »Omnicom slashes jobs at BBDO and Goodby in the wake of big account losses
Omnicom agencies BBDO and Goodby Silverstein have been wielding the axe according to Ad Age, with around ten per cent of BBDO’s staff – hundreds of people – being laid off in the wake of the loss of $300m Gillette ...
Read More »Grey reinforces status as cutting edge of WPP agency line-up with global Gillette gain
WPP-owned Grey has been the coming force among the world’s big traditional agencies for some time now; in particular its New York operation headed by creative Tor Myrhen. The agency has just won Procter & Gamble’s global Gillette account from ...
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