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Adweek reports that troubled FMCG giant Johnson & Johnson (it’s facing a barrage of health-related lawsuits among other issues) is slashing its ad budget after setting up a new structure involving bespoke units from Omnicom and WPP. J&J used to ...

Who’d have thought it – the winner so far in the current round of media and (some) creative reviews looks like Interpublic, a few years back firmly ensconced in Wall Street’s sick bay. IPG’s UM, via its dedicated unit J3, ...

*Johnson & Johnson is moving its US media buying business back to J3, a J&J-dedicated unit of Interpublic’s UM that currently handles planning. The business moves from Omnicom’s OMD which won J&J’s mostly healthcare global media a year ago. Which ...

When you think of Soho, London, what comes to mind? Some of civilisation’s oldest professions: such as advertising and, er, creative production services. Of course it does. And just to dispel any possible misunderstanding, BETC London have stamped an unforgettable ...

Head creative Lee Clow (of Apple fame) may have just become the latest ‘Lion of St Mark’ as far as the Cannes Lions are concerned but I do sometimes wonder about TBWA\Chiat Day. Back in March the agency produced a ...

Interpublic CEO Michael Roth might have turned the company around in financial terms but his big agency brands (headed by McCann, DraftFCB and Lowe) are struggling big time. Now Johnson & Johnson, which spends about $2.7bn globally including $2bn in ...

Moving an ad account these days is quite a performance, chiefly because you have the procurement department in there (often running the pitch when their job is to save money) and agency matchmakers, one of whose roles in life is ...

It would be nice to think that Johnson & Johnson’s newly announced review of its £1.7bn annual advertising spend was driven by a need for greater creative consistency. But it isn’t. Money’s the thing – saving it that is. J&J ...

Interpublic’s Lowe & Partners has completed its deal to boost its Australian operations by buying 51 per cent of 303, formerly Australia’s biggest independent agency. The agency will be known as 303Lowe (don’t you wish word spaces would come back?) ...