Actually it’s called The & Partnership, which must be one of the daftest names ever given to an agency, and is an extension of Johnny Hornby’s CHI, 49 per cent owned by WPP. CHI is supposed to be running the ...
Read More »CHI in the frame to relaunch Vertu luxury phones
Vertu mobile phones are a pretty strange idea. Made by Nokia, the British-based company is now privately owned and still with us even though its phones sell for about £3,000 and sharply upwards. But the owners have obviously decided they ...
Read More »Does Bessie Lee’s promotion to CEO WPP China signal important changes at the marcoms giant?
Bessie Lee sounds like a blues singer but she’s not, she’s head of WPP’s mighty media organisation GroupM in China. And now Lee (pictured), who began her career with WPP 23 years ago in Taiwan, has been promoted – to ...
Read More »My pick of 2012: Samsung Galaxy, 18 Feet & Rising and Johnny Hornby
These are my choices for ad/campaign of the year, agency of the year and person of the year. Samsung Galaxy S111 The launch campaign for the new Galaxy handset in the US was the work of 72 & Sunny in ...
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