Tag Archives: JWT

From the WPP Archive: under fire WPP settles Johnson/Martinez case at JWT

The messy Johnson/Martinez affair at JWT signalled the end for the venerable agency as a separate entity (WPP merged it with Wunderman with Wunderman in the driving seat.) It also pre-dated, just, Sir Martin Sorrell’s ousting at the company he ...

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Tribunal finds against WPP’s JWT in (white male) discrimination case

Is it any better to discriminate against “straight white men” than people of other genders and ethnicities? Positive discrimination may be one way of levelling a playing field but not, surely, when it means people losing their jobs. But that’s ...

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HSBC and JWT issue Brexit year clarion call

HSBC (Hong Kong and Shanghai Banking Corporation as was) is doing its cheerleading bit for embattled Brits in this Brexit year by reminding citizens of the UK’s major towns what we’re supposed to stand for. A continuation of its ‘Together ...

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Ex-JWT global creative chief Eastwood joins McCann Health

Matt Eastwood (below), the global CCO that JWT dispensed with in its last nightmare year of independent existence, has surfaced as global CCO of McCann Health, a growing part of the Interpublic empire. McCann Worldgroup global creative chairman Rob Reilly ...

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Jimmy Nelson and JWT set out to save a disappearing world

Photographer Jimmy Nelson’s eponymous foundation seeks to preserve indigenous peoples and cultures and JWT Amsterdam and India (guess they’re still called that) have combined to lend a hand. The quick-cutting can be oppressive but all is revealed at the end. ...

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