Tag Archives: John Hegarty

It’s the end of the silly season and this year’s awards have been decided months ago. The big winner was Dumb Ways to Die. Given the number of internet hits this spot has had, it is a popular choice and ...

Isobar in London isn’t the biggest agency in the world although it is an important part of the Dentsu/Aegis-owned Isobar network which has 36 offices around the world and over 3,000 staff. Neither it is a conventional agency network; it ...

Metro Trains has won as almost as many Grand Prix as the number of dumb ways to die illustrated in its animated spot by McCann. The biggest winner at Cannes this year, it has picked up the Grand Prix in ...

Cannes Lions celebrates its 60th this year (the week of June 16-22) and it has (as it boasts) produced a stellar list of jury presdents – Dan Wieden, Dave Droga, John Hegarty and Shelly Lazarus among them. Here they are ...

What a nice client Unilever must be: just when BBH was reeling from swingeing cutbacks in its New York office the consumer goods giant has given it the global Dove Men+Care account, to be handled out of London and New ...

Bartle Bogle Hegarty is cutting about a third of its staff in New York, the end result of a process which has seen lots of top managers depart and, more to the point, some big clients. Latest to be tipped ...

The other shoe has dropped. Not only has Publicis Groupe bought up Neogama BBH (see my post yesterday), it has also taken the opportunity to acquire the 51 per cent stake in BBH it did not already own. As will ...

Cannes has been stuffed to bursting this year, with no hotel rooms free, often no space in the packed-out seminars, no room in restaurants and barely a spare inch to walk down on La Croisette at night. The veterans hark ...

So what was so special about 1982, the year Wieden+Kennedy opened its doors in Portland, Oregon and messrs Bartle, Bogle and Hegarty departed TBWA in London to start BBH? Actually it wasn’t so different to what we have now: then ...