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 ...
Read More »Of white males, Jo Wallace and that Mail Online report
Some groups in UK adland are protesting vociferously about coverage of Jo Wallace, a leading player in the JWT sex discrimination case. Specifically an article on Mail Online. Complaints have been made to IPSO, the rather toothless replacement for the ...
Read More »JWT male quintet win sex discrimination case – why doesn’t owner WPP quit while it’s behind?
Former JWT creative director Chas Bayfield and his colleague Dave Jenner who have successfully taken JWT to an employment tribunal for sex discrimination deserve a medal. As it happens, Jenner is thought to have left the industry while Bayfield is ...
Read More »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 ...
Read More »Former JWT boss Toby Hoare finds key new role at merged Wunderman Thomson
Bet Toby Hoare never thought his last big job in advertising (assuming this is) would be as vice chairman of something called Wunderman Thomson – but it is. Hoare (below) is a former boss of Cordiant’s Bates group (once owned ...
Read More »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 ...
Read More »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 ...
Read More »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. ...
Read More »WPP finance boss Richardson outlines changes to come – are agencies now part of the gig economy?
WPP’s outgoing CFO Paul Richardson (below) has been giving delegates at a conference in Barcelona a peek under the bonnet of the stuttering holding company limo. First off he’s confirmed that WPP plans to sell up to 80 per cent ...
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