There’s lots of debate about how creative businesses get paid for their work. Those of us who have been around for a while will know this isn’t a new debate. A quick history lesson is helpful. Throughout most of the ...
Read More »Can 101 recapture past Tango ad ‘glories?’
Fallon breakaway 101 has won Tango, one of the UK’s signature ad accounts. 101, whose line-up includes Phil Rumbol, the Cadbury marketer behind Fallon’s famous ‘Gorilla’ ad, beat Adam&Eve/DDB, Creature and VCCP to the Brivic-owned soft drink brand. The account ...
Read More »BBH and HHCL fight ancient adland Tango battle
As battles go this is going back a long way but, time was, when BBH (Bartle Bogle Hegarty) was being challenged by upstart Howell Henry Chaldecott Lury for the ‘hottest agency in London’ tag. But HHCL crashed and burned (shortly ...
Read More »The times are against agency start-ups but here’s how you win: first find a brave client..
Talking to people in the advertising world, there seems to be a feeling that start-ups face a far greater uphill struggle now than in the past. There is a conspiracy of factors that make the jump to independence a bigger ...
Read More »Rupert Howell set to be CEO of the People if Sue Douglas consortium raises £10m sale price
Rupert Howell (left), a founder of the HHCL agency, boss of McCann in London and former client sales supremo at ITV, is set to be the CEO of the People tabloid newspaper if Journalist Sue Douglas’s consortium succeeds in raising ...
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