WPP may have imposed a hiring freeze but it doesn’t seem to have affected Grey New York. The WPP-owned agency has hired four new ECDs (executive creative directors) in a rather startling reversal of industry trends. The four are Jeff ...
Read More »More gender problems hit JWT London
Campaign’s Jeremy Lee tells an extraordinary tale of a group of “white straight British male creatives” who are accusing JWT London of discrimination when they were made redundant after complaining about remarks made by female creative director Jo Wallace, to ...
Read More »JWT London introduces new partner structure
Much shuffling of the deck chairs in London’s adland this week (just because you shuffle the deck chairs it doesn’t mean the ship is sinking necessarily). JWT London has a new management structure aimed at “developing collaborative processes for its ...
Read More »JWT puts part-time soldiers into a noisy front line
Dunno who’s in charge of UK armed services recruitment these days but it looks as though Brigadier ‘Buffy’ Missthepointcompletely has been put out to grass. A couple of weeks ago we had a decent Royal Navy ad from WCRS and ...
Read More »Does JWT’s new HSBC Advance campaign bridge the gap between big company image and reality?
We hesitate to make predictions – although that doesn’t stop us – but one certainty is that 2015 will see yet more ads from the world’s biggest companies telling us in gory emotional detail how and why (occasionally) they have ...
Read More »Canon and JWT offer Glazer-style view of urban deer
Canon has unveiled another spot in its ‘Come and See’ campaign by celebrated film director Jonathan Glazer and JWT London, this time featuring the surprising antics of some urban deer. What else is out there in suburbia – bears and ...
Read More »Debenhams and JWT confounded by Christmas
Who’d be a British retailer in 2014. As the unseasonal sun beats down on London we have Debenhams (not a bad shop at all) out of the Christmas traps with this effort from JWT, ‘Found It.’ There’s a bit of ...
Read More »JWT and Jonathan Glazer kick everyone’s ass for Canon
This is fun: Canon is running a campaign, ‘Come and See,’ by JWT London majoring on Canon’s role in visual ‘storytelling’ (without which no campaign is complete these days). Directed and produced by Jonathan Glazer, it shows the Gluoco del ...
Read More »Is HSBC talking to itself in new JWT campaign?
Banks, banks…what are we going to do with them? Among the many infractions they’ve been pulled up for recently is bank staff being incentivised to sell customers something, anything, whether they need it or not. And being penalised if they ...
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