Tag Archives: Gustavo Martinez

WPP has produced its Q1 2016 numbers and they’re much as expected with decent revenue growth and an increase in net sales – its version of organic growth – of 3.2 per cent, in line with last year. Billings were ...

Here’s that tape in l’affaire Martinez, now admitted into court with other faces obscured. Hmm. Communications boss Erin Johnson’s case against former JWT CEO Gustavo Martinez, the agency and WPP doesn’t just rest on this. But Martinez comes across as ...

More interesting stuff about that video – the one in l’affaire Martinez. Plaintiff Erin Johnson’s lawyers have written to the judge in the case opposing WPP/JWT’s proposal that the video of Gustavo Martinez (below) addressing a JWT meeting should only ...

The head tennis between lawyers for WPP/JWT and JWT communications boss Erin Johnson (left) who’s suing the agency in l’affaire Martinez has taken another (rather predictable) twist. WPP’s lawyers now say they’re happy for the video including some of the ...

JWT and owner WPP seem to be getting themselves into a right old tangle in l’affaire Martinez, now arguing via their lawyers that the video which allegedly includes footage of former CEO Gustavo Martinez making offensive remarks should not be ...

Whatever would we do without Sir Martin Sorrell and Maurice Levy? The two septuagenarians just love a playground punch-up or three and they’re still at it following the recent 4A’s conference at which Levy said l’affaire Martinez was an isolated ...

The Viceroy Hotel in Miami seems to have been a lively old place on Monday and Tuesday May 18-19 this year, the fulcrum of l’affaire Martinez that led to the resignation of JWT global CEO Gustavo Martinez (below). An affidavit ...

The furore about sexism in the ad industry held centre stage at last week’s 4A’s conference in the US (probably to the relief of media agency agency execs who feared it would be all about rebates) and first intop the ...

Sexism is one of the issues of the moment, in adland and elsewhere, with l’affaire Martinez in New York and various surveys and the like showing that women still don’t get their fair share of top jobs (although Martinez’ successor ...