Tag Archives: inferno

Interpublic-owned DraftFCB has bought London creative agency Inferno for a reported £11m up front to pep up its flagging UK operation. Actually DraftFCB has been flagging all over the place, most notably on its home territory of Chicago, where it ...

Kingston Smith has produced its annual survey of UK agencies’ financial performance (including PR agencies), which shows that the industry in the UK grew by 3.5 per cent to reach an income of £1.3bn although operating profits were down a ...

What a joy, Beckhams all over the place. Actually this ad may be called ‘Meet the Beckhams’ but it’s only David – Victoria is doubtless far too posh for Sky Sports. But it’s a neat way of showing that, with ...

This is a tricky brief: the NSPCC reckons there’s a need post-Jimmy Savile to educate parents on how to talk to/instruct their children that ‘privates are private.’ And, presumably, avoid dodgy-looking B-List celebs working for the BBC. The BBC’s John ...

** Moneysupermarket.com is getting a bit twitchy at Mother, we hear. The ‘Epic’ campaign has never been one of our faves; but Mother is a formidable agency. So why not just sit down and come up with something good? **Nokia, ...

One-time world mobile phone leader Nokia has a lot of catching up to do after abandoning its Symbian smartphone technology in favour of a deal with Microsoft and its new Windows ‘Mango’ rival to iPhone and Android. It also abandoned, ...

Wieden+Kennedy’s protracted parting with Nokia has been a messy affair; reports (denied by W+K) that the mobile phone part of the business was going to Saatchi & Saatchi and then the smartphone account going to marketing agency Inferno which led ...

Once all-conquering companies come and go and they do so quicker these days. One-time world mobile leader Nokia looks set to be the latest. Nokia failed to notice, or respond to, the smartphone phenomenon and has been skewered by Apple ...