Tag Archives: JWT

Is something up at JWT? Everyone is expecting a big announcement from new WPP CEO Mark Read soon and, among the favoured candidates is a merger of one of WPP’s creative networks with a digital one, either Wunderman or VML. ...

Are brands rediscovering the joys of TV in this tricky year for digital ads? Nestle’s Aero hasn’t been on UK TV for six years but it’s bouncing back with this perky number from JWT London, featuring the “Bubblophone” (as in ...

Shell has finally announced the results of its agency review resulting in the creation of an “agency of the future” no less. On the face of it it looks pretty good for longstanding partner WPP with group companies VCCP, VCCP ...

We don’t often pull a story but ‘Slimmer pickings for WPP as Shell completes ad review’ has hit the dumper as it probably wasn’t all true. Serves us right for picking up stories from elsewhere (credited, if that’s the right ...

Some good news at last for WPP and its embattled agency JWT. JWT has won the global Grolsch account, the first time Asahi-owned Grolsch has had one agency on the case. It may not be the biggest account in adland ...

JWT has joined the ranks of New York agencies cutting staff according to Agency Spy, hardly surprising given the plague of locusts it’s undergone over the past couple of years. About 20 people have gone following a management reshuffle which ...

The international elephant tusk business is illegal but you can still trade ivory in many places, ostensibly because a lot of it’s pretty old. Stop Ivory wants to make trading ivory illegal everywhere and JWT London has produced a pretty ...

After two years JWT and owner WPP have settled the sexual harassment case brought by chief communications officer Erin Johnson against former JWT global boss Gustavo Martinez. JWT says it has “reached an amicable settlement agreement with Erin Johnson, chief ...

WPP’s Grey New York is launching a “reduced workweek program” allowing staff to work a four day week in return for 85 per cent of their five day salary. Grey says this will give “employees flexibility and more free time ...